– terrestrial archaeology and solar system history – news headlines archive – October 2002 – new discoveries about ancient civilisation under ancient skies –

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October 31 –

“Knowledge databases under attack from indigenous groups” –

SciDev.Net (UK)

October 31 –

“Asteroid 1997 XF11 passes by Earth again this week on Halloween” –

Science@NASA (USA)

October 31 –

“Ancient pottery discovered in city” –

Times of India (India)

October 31 –

“Etna’s plume traced from space” –

New Scientist (UK)

October 31 –

“Tunguska Meteorite Fragments Must Be in a Different Place” –

Pravda (Russia)

October 31 –

“Giant impact hypothesis for Moon’s origin incompatible with evidence” –

CCNet Post #2 (UK)

October 31 –

“Tribes query motives of indigenous knowledge databases” –

Nature (UK)

October 31 –

“Ghosts found in space” –

ESA News (France)

October 30 –

“New quakes, Mt Etna eruption rattle Sicily” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 29 –

“Maitum cave potteries likely 3000 years old” –

Sun Star (Philippines)

October 29 –

“Etna’s fiery tongue lashes buildings” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 29 –

“Studying the difference between cometary and asteroid impact craters” –

CCNet Post #4 (UK)

October 29 –

“Success for Rosetta’s transatlantic link” –

ESA News (France)

October 28 –

“Forces of Nature: Evidence for millennial-scale storm disasters” –

CCNet Post #3 (UK)

October 28 –

“Comet chaser sets sights on asteroid” –

UPI (USA)

October 28 –

“Ancient wave devastated Seattle area” –

Nature (UK)

October 28 –

“The Horror of the Deep Blue Sea: Ancient Giant Megalodon Shark” –

Pravda (Russia)

October 28 –

“Researchers plot course of ancient American tsunami” –

Ananova (UK)

October 27 –

“Ancient caves vandalised by ‘Romeos'” –

Times of India (India)

October 27 –

“Waiting for Leonids” –

Astronomy.com (USA)

October 27 –

“Ancient Culture Still alive in SW Corner of China” –

People’s Daily (China)

October 27 –

“Ancient pagoda rebuilt in East China” –

Times of India (India)

October 26 –

“New secrets revealed over King Cheops” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

October 26 –

“The shipwrecks of Astypalaia give up their treasure troves” –

Kathimerini (Greece)

October 25 –

“Show on Azeri cultural heritage opens” –

Baku Today (Azerbaijan)

October 24 –

“Prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ found” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 24 –

“Asteroid Tsunami” –

ABC Catalyst (Australia)

October 24 –

“Replica Swedish Ship to Retrace Historic China Voyage” –

People’s Daily (China)

October 23 –

“Martian rock ‘does contain life'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 23 –

“Experts to talk about space weather” –

ESA News (France)

October 22 –

“Ancient DNA defence ‘still at work'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 22 –

“Earth’s Newly Discovered Companion” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 22 –

“Scholars: Oldest evidence of Jesus?” –

CNN (USA)

October 22 –

“Holocene catstrophic events recorded in lakes” –

CCNet Post #9 (UK)

October 22 –

“Artefact ‘may be evidence of Jesus'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 21 –

“Comet’s Features Look a Lot Like Some on Earth” –

Space.com (USA)

October 21 –

“Mythical History Under Review” –

China.org (China)

October 21 –

“Earth’s little brother found” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 21 –

“NASA researchers probe Mundrabilla meteorite” –

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

October 21 –

“International meeting on space and world” –

ESA News (France)

October 21 –

“Leonid Storm 2002” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 21 –

“Unique Chinese Fossils Help Rewrite Book of Life” –

People’s Daily (China)

October 18 –

“Chute test for Mars lander” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 18 –

“NASA researchers seek astrobiology insights from Leonids” –

NASA/NAI (USA)

October 18 –

“Kilimanjaro’s ice ‘archive'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 18 –

“NASA eyes lasers to divert asteroids” –

UPI (USA)

October 17 –

“Nuclear Reactors Existed on Earth Two Billion Years Ago” –

Pravda (Russia)

October 17 –

“Ancient snow cap of Kilimanjaro is almost gone” –

Ananova (UK)

October 17 –

“Quakes hit Hawke’s Bay” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 17 –

“Scientific expedition on its way to Siberian impact site” –

CCNet Post #2 (UK)

October 17 –

“Europe opens a window onto a violent Universe” –

ESA News (France)

October 17 –

“Scientific Expedition on its way to Siberian Impact Site” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 17 –

“Egypt celebrates ‘rebirth’ of Alexandria Library” –

Dawn (Pakistan)

October 17 –

“Stardust will fly by Asteroid Annefrank next month” –

CCNet Post #6 (UK)

October 16 –

“Giant bird spotted in Alaska” –

Ananova (UK)

October 16 –

“Post-Little Ice Age Histories of Four Icelandic Glaciers” –

CO2 Science Magazine (USA)

October 16 –

“Qing Dynasty Pottery Excavated in North China Province” –

People’s Daily (China)

October 16 –

“Row clouds ancient library project” –

CNN (USA)

October 15 –

“Has Asteroid Hermes Returned?” –

NASA/Solar System (USA)

October 14 –

“Archeology: Damnation of Crystal Skulls” –

Pravda (Russia)

October 14 –

“Japanese help revive Azeri artifacts” –

Baku Today (Azerbaijan)

October 13 –

“U.S. Satellites See Russian Impact” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 12 –

“Pyramids built of limestone, not concrete blocks” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

October 12 –

“Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Bridge between ancient & modern civilizations” –

Kathimerini (Greece)

October 12 –

“Was the world wrong about ‘earliest man’?” –

Dawn (Pakistan)

October 11 –

“Liftoff for Aurora: Europe’s first steps to Mars, the Moon and beyond” –

ESA News (France)

October 11 –

“Scientists unveil mummified dinosaur find” –

Ananova (UK)

October 11 –

“Mummies around world” –

The News (Pakistan)

October 11 –

“Prehistoric skull sparks controversy” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 11 –

“Exploding star takes astronomers by surprise” –

ESA News (France)

October 11 –

“Manned Mars mission ‘will happen'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 10 –

“New Telescope Array for NEO Searches” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 10 –

“Giant mass spotted in space’s frozen reaches” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 10 –

“Debate rejoined over skull of ‘oldest pre-human ancestor'” –

Ananova (UK)

October 10 –

“Unique underwater museum in Alexandria” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

October 10 –

“How Often Tunguska?” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 10 –

“Challenges of landing on alien worlds” –

ESA News (France)

October 10 –

“The Dinosaur story is one of thwarted fame” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 09 –

“Meteor Storm Forecast” –

Science@NASA (USA)

October 09 –

“Possible Impact in Siberia” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 09 –

“Ancient skull more ape than human?” –

CNN (USA)

October 09 –

“Medieval Warm Period in Asia” –

CO2 Science Magazine (USA)

October 09 –

“Radio Probes the Kuiper Belt” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 08 –

“Two UK Fireballs?” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 08 –

“Police return sunken treasure” –

BBC News Online (UK)

October 08 –

“Over 1000 new ‘geoglyphs’ discovered on Peruvian Nasca desert” –

NatGeo News (USA)

October 08 –

“New ‘World’ Discovered” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 07 –

“Joan bones up on our dinosaurs” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 06 –

“Fireball seen over the UK” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 06 –

“Gold star chart points way to German ‘Stonehenge'” –

Daily Telegraph (UK)

October 05 –

“Ancient River Control Works Discovered in Shanghai” –

People’s Daily (China)

October 04 –

“Antarctica: Where the Ice Flows in Reverse” –

Pravda (Russia)

October 04 –

“Italy to loan Greece ‘lost’ antiquity” –

CNN (USA)

October 04 –

“A New Russian Meteorite?” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 04 –

“Parthenon fragment to return from Italy on long-term loan” –

Kathimerini (Greece)

October 03 –

“Asteroid 121 Hermione’s Companion” –

NEO Information Centre (UK)

October 03 –

“Feathered dinosaur fossils: Creation versus Evolution” –

ABC Catalyst (Australia)

October 02 –

“800-year-old Tomb Unearthed in Central-south China” –

People’s Daily (China)

October 01 –

“Ground of Thessaloniki continues to reveal treasures of glorious past” –

Kathimerini (Greece)

October 2002 –

“Great Sites: Windmill Hill” –

British Archaeology (UK)

October 2002 –

“Traditional knowledge of biodiversity in Asia-Pacific” –

Grain (Spain)