Mystery AtlasLennart Meri
Estonian writer, documentary filmmaker, and President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001, best known for his 1976 book Hõbevalge, which argued that the Kaali meteorite impact was preserved as folk memory in the Phaethon myth, the legendary island of Thule, and the Kalevala.
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Lennart Meri authored Hõbevalge Thesis — Developed and published the thesis in his 1976 book Hõbevalge.
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Lennart Meri ruled Estonia — President of Estonia, 1992-2001, the country's first freely elected post-Soviet head of state.
- Kaali Craterimpact estimated c. 1530-1450 BC (Losiak et al. 2016); earlier estimates ranged c. 6400-400 BC
Lennart Meri investigated Kaali Crater — Meri's 1976 book Hõbevalge treated the crater as the starting point for an extended cultural-historical and philological investigation, distinct from the geological fieldwork that established its impact origin.