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July 01 2013 –
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July 01-02 2013
Meeting: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Australian Centre for Astrobiology
“Australian Astrobiology Meeting”
July 01-05 2013
Conference: Banach Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Banach Centre Conferences
“School of Gravitational Waves 2013”
July 02 2013 –
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July 03 2013 –
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July 04 2013 –
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Comet 17P/Holmes –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.914 AU)
Comet 46P/Wirtanen –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.002 AU)
July 05 2013 – 15:00 UT –
Earth at Aphelion
(furthest from the Sun)
July 05 2013 –
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Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup –
Perihelion (1.086 AU)
Comet 271P/van Houten-Lemmon –
Perihelion (4.250 AU)
July 06 2013 –
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Comet 246P/NEAT –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.007 AU)
July 07 2013 –
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July 08 2013 – 07:14 UT –
New Moon
July 08 2013 –
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Asteroid 99942 Apophis –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.244 AU)
July 08-12 2013
Annual Meeting: Logomo Centre, Turku, Finland
EWASS 2013
“European Week of Astronomy and Space Science”
July 09 2013 –
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Comet 46P/Wirtanen –
Perihelion (1.052 AU)
Comet P/2012 G1 (PANSTARRS) –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.550 AU)
Comet 270P/Gehrels –
Perihelion (3.601 AU)
July 10 2013 –
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Cassini, Titan Flyby
July 10-14 2013
Star Party, Welllsville, Pennsylvania, USA
“Mason-Dixon Star Party”
July 11 2013 –
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July 12 2013 –
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July 12-19 2013
Summer School: The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
UCAR Heliophysics Summer School 2013
“Heliophysics of the Planetary System”
July 13 2013 –
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Asteroid 2012 LA11 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
July 14 2013 –
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July 15 2013 –
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Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.208 AU)
Comet 174P/Echeclus –
Closest Approach To Earth (5.558 AU)
Asteroid 2010 AF30 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)
July 16 2013 – 03:18 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
July 16 2013 –
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July 16-24 2013
Summer School: School House of Alpbach, Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
Summer School Alpbach 2013
“Space Weather: Science, Missions and Systems”
July 17 2013 –
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Asteroid 2001 PJ9 flyby – miss distance 29.2 LD, size = 1.1 Kilometres
Asteroid 2010 AF3 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Asteroid 153349 (2001 PJ9) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
Comet 170P/Christensen –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.659 AU)
July 18 2013 –
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Asteroid 2012 AM10 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
Asteroid 2011 KP16 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
July 19 2013 –
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July 20 2013 –
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
July 21 2013 –
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Moon Occults Pluto
Comet C/2012 V1 (PANSTARRS) –
Perihelion (2.091 AU)
July 22 2013 – 18:15 UT –
The Full Buck Moon
July 22 2013 –
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Mars passes 0.8 degrees from
Jupiter
Asteroid 2007 XY9 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
July 22-26 2013
Conference: Wolfendale Lecture Theatre, Calman Centre
Durham University, Durham, UK
“Ripples in the Cosmos”
July 23 2013 –
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Comet 84P/Giclas –
Perihelion (1.840 AU)
Comet 178P/Hug-Bell –
Perihelion (1.934 AU)
Comet P/2012 B1 (PANSTARRS) –
Perihelion (3.825 AU)
July 24 2013 –
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July 25 2013 –
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July 26 2013 –
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Asteroid 2006 BL8 flyby – miss distance 9.3 LD, size = 48 metres
Asteroid 2006 BL8 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
Cassini, Titan Flyby
July 27 2013 –
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Comet 191P/McNaught –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
Comet C/2012 K8 (Lemmon) –
Closest Approach To Earth (6.265 AU)
July 28 2013 –
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Comet 125P/Spacewatch –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.200 AU)
Comet 184P/Lovas –
Perihelion (1.394 AU)
July 29 2013 – 17:43 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
July 29 2013 –
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Southern Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Asteroid 2003 DZ15 flyby – miss distance 7.6 LD, size = 153 metres
Asteroid 2003 DZ15 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
July 30 2013 –
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Mercury at its greatest Western
Elongation (20 Degrees)
July 31 2013 –
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Mars Spring Equinox
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August 01 2013 –
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Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
Comet C/2012 C1 (McNaught) –
Closest Approach To Earth (4.558 AU)
August 02 2013 –
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Comet C/2012 S3 (PANSTARRS) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.338 AU)
Comet P/2006 K2 (McNaught) –
Perihelion (2.097 AU)
August 03 2013 –
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August 04 2013 –
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August 05 2013 –
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Comet C/2012 V1 (PANSTARRS) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.164 AU)
Comet 98P/Takamizawa –
Perihelion (1.673 AU)
Comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
Comet P/2011 JB15 (Spacewatch-Boattini) –
Closest Approach To Earth (4.544 AU)
Comet C/2010 S1 (LINEAR) –
Closest Approach To Earth (5.205 AU)
August 05-08 2013
Conference: Ontario, Sudbury, Canada
Lunar and Planetary Institute LMI V
“The Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution”
August 06 2013 – 21:51 UT –
New Moon
August 06 2013 –
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Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours = 107
Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
August 07 2013 –
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August 08 2013 –
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Asteroid 2009 CP5 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
August 09 2013 –
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Asteroid 2005 WK4 flyby – miss distance 8.1 LD, size = 420 metres
Asteroid 277475 (2005 WK4) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU)
August 10 2013 –
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August 11 2013 –
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August 12 2013 –
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Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
Comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.735 AU)
August 13 2013 –
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August 14 2013 – 10:56 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
August 14 2013 –
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August 15 2013 –
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Comet 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.030 AU)
August 16 2013 –
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Comet C/2012 V2 (LINEAR) –
Perihelion (1.455 AU)
Asteroid 2008 ON10 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
August 17 2013 –
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Moon Occults Pluto
August 18 2013 –
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August 19 2013 –
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August 20 2013 –
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August 21 2013 – 01:45 UT –
The Full Sturgeon Moon
August 21 2013 –
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August 22 2013 –
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August 23 2013 –
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Comet 79P/du Toit-Hartley –
Perihelion (1.124 AU)
Asteroid 137126 (1999 CF9) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
August 24 2013 –
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Asteroid 52760 (1998 ML14) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
August 25 2013 –
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Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Asteroid 232691 (2004 AR1) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
August 26 2013 –
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Comet P/1997 T3 (Lagerkvist-Carsenty) –
Closest Approach To Earth (4.164 AU)
August 26-30 2013
Conference: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Institute Astronomical Observatory
“Meteoroids 2013”
August 27 2013 –
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Neptune –
At Opposition
August 28 2013 – 09:35 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
August 28 2013 –
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Asteroid 2007 CN26 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
August 29 2013 –
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Comet P/2005 RV25 (LONEOS-Christensen) –
Closest Approach To Earth (3.404 AU)
August 30 2013 –
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Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.772 AU)
Comet 79P/du Toit-Hartley –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.914 AU)
Asteroid 2008 PW4 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
August 31 2013 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Comet 102P/Shoemaker –
Perihelion (1.968 AU)
Comet C/2012 S3 (PANSTARRS) –
Perihelion (2.308 AU)
Comet 95P/Chiron –
Closest Approach To Earth (16.605 AU)
Asteroid 2010 CD55 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)
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September 2013 Celestial Events & Space Research News
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September 01 2013 –
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Comet 266P/Christensen –
Perihelion (2.327 AU)
September 02 2013 –
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September 03 2013 –
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Comet 197P/LINEAR –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.393 AU)
September 04 2013 –
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
September 05 2013 – 11:36 UT –
New Moon
September 05 2013 –
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September 06 2013 –
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September 07 2013 –
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September 08 2013 –
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Moon Occults Venus
Asteroid 2010 CF19 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
September 09 2013 –
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September 09-12 2013
Conference: Athens, Greece
“The 11th Hellenic Astronomical Conference”
September 10 2013 –
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September 11 2013 –
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Comet C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski) –
Closest Approach To Earth (8.843 AU)
September 12 2013 – 17:08 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
September 12 2013 –
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Cassini, Titan Flyby
September 13 2013 –
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September 14 2013 –
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September 15 2013 –
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Comet C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) –
Closest Approach To Earth (3.396 AU)
Asteroid 2008 HB38 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
Asteroid 2008 KZ5 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
September 16 2013 –
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Asteroid 2001 SQ263 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
September 17 2013 –
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September 18 2013 –
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Comet 121P/Shoemaker-Holt –
Perihelion (3.747 AU)
September 19 2013 – 11:13 UT –
The Full Harvest Moon
September 19 2013 –
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Comet C/2012 V2 (LINEAR) –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.078 AU)
September 20 2013 –
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Venus passes 3.7 degrees from
Saturn
September 21 2013 –
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Comet 102P/Shoemaker –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.027 AU)
September 22 2013 – 14:49 UT –
Alban Elfed –
Autumnal Equinox
September 22 2013 –
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Comet 257P/Catalina –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.315 AU)
September 23 2013 –
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September 24 2013 –
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Comet 154P/Brewington –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.886 AU)
Asteroid 152664 (1998 FW4) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
September 25 2013 –
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Comet 110P/Hartley –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.493 AU)
September 26 2013 –
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September 27 2013 – 03:56 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
September 27 2013 –
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September 28 2013 –
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Asteroid 2012 TS –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
Asteroid 2003 SW130 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
September 29 2013 –
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September 30 2013 –
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Asteroid 2002 NV16 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
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“Some time around 2300 BC the Eath encountered a dense clustering of space debris, the early Southern & Northern Taurid meteoroid stream. The result was an intense fall of meteoroids, some of them sufficiently large to cause surface destruction.
Simultaneous with the meteoroid fall was a huge downpouring of water which caused flash flooding. Extensive destruction and loss of life resulted. An astonishing aspect of the event was the formation of a ring surrounding the Earth, reflecting sunlight during the day, hiding some stars at night, and moving around the sky through a 24-hour period.
Following the ‘main event’, there were crustal movements which shifted the location of water sources, and caused earthquakes which destroyed settlements. Abrupt severe climate changes occurred.”
“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 3:
Mythology
The Eyewitness Accounts 2″
by
M. M. Mandelkehr
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“The Northern/Southern Taurid meteoroid stream is identified as the specific meteoroid stream that the Earth encountered at 2300 BC.
The Earth’s encounter with a dense cluster of large objects would produce atmospheric phenomena very different from the pleasant and interesting night displays of meteor trails that are within our own experience.
The rain of objects would have generated extraordinary visual and auditory effects combined with ground vibrations; and under extreme conditions would bring about severe surface destruction and loss of life.
The overall event was associated by the people with powerful deities and formed the basis for major religions. The mythologies and traditions are, in large part, the residues of those religions.”
“Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations”
(British Archaeological
Reports)
by
Benny J. Peiser
Trevor Palmer
Mark E. Bailey
(Editors)
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Research in the field of neo-catastrophism and impact cratering has quickened its pace since the early 1980s. Scholars such as Victor Clube, Bill Napier, Mark Bailey, Sir Fred Hoyle and Duncan Steel claim that a more ‘active’ sky might have caused major cultural changes of Bronze Age civilizations, belief systems and religious rituals.”
“Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth
and Folklore”
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“A Little History of
Astro-Archaeology:
Stages in the Transformation
of a Heresy”
by
John Michell
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“Stonehenge today is a battlefield, not only for police and festivalgoers at midsummer but also for rival camps of archaeologists, astronomers, and other researchers into the mysteries of prehistoric religion and science. Controversy flared up in 1963, when Gerald Hawkins made early use of the computer to identify Stonehenge as an observatory for the sun and moon and an instrument for predicting eclipses. Further studies of megalithic sites by Alexander Thom proved that many of them were also related to the seasonal positions of the heavenly bodies.
The study of astro-archaeology has now expanded worldwide, bringing new revelations about the mystical sciences of antiquity. This “little history” summarizes the issues involved in astro-archaeology, and illustrates its principal sites and personalities. Included are recent findings of British scientists, whose records of anomalous levels of natural energies at stone circles are in accordance with the magical reputations of such places in local folklore.”
“Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy:
From Giza to Easter Island”
by
Giulio Magli
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“This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Giulio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth, to bring down the power of the stars to where they could see it, worship it and use it?
The connecting thread is astronomy: Giulio Magli uses astronomy as a key to understanding our ancestors’ way of thinking. It is a challenge he likes to call ‘predicting the past’ – archaeology as a science is able to make predictions, like any other science, and to check them.
All of the astronomical achievements of the past are considered as a whole, in a comprehensive way that shows the depth and breadth of the thought behind them. In the past, the motives of the ancients – and particularly their scientific thought – have often been misconstrued, maligned or even dismissed.
In an ironic, provocative style, Professor Magli shows the limitations of orthodox archaeology in the face of astronomically-based artefacts and tries to understand what led the ancients to construct magnificent buildings such as the city of Teotihuacan in the Mexico Valley, the Ceremonial Centre of Chaco Canyon in the USA, the Avebury stone circle in Great Britain or the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky.
A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “natureâ€, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes.”
“Canada’s Stonehenge: Astounding Archaeological Discoveries in Canada, England, and Wales”
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Gordon Freeman
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“The discovery of a 5000-year-old Sun Temple and an ancient “time machine” – Stone Age calendar – in Canada led scientist Gordon Freeman to ground-breaking discoveries in Stonehenge. During fieldwork and research from 1986 to 2006, Freeman found striking similarities between the surface geometry of the two sites.
These similarities push back the boundaries of written history and have far-reaching implications for North American and European history.
Passion and science blend in this remarkable, readable book, as Freeman takes us along on his patient and exciting discovery of a 5000-year-old Temple in the plains of Alberta. What he finds at the Majorville Medicine Wheel in turn informs his convincing account of Stonehenge archaeoastronomy”
“Under Ancient Skies:
Ancient Astronomy and
Terrestrial Catastrophism”
by
Paul Dunbavin
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“In all of the world’s myths and religions we find traditions of a Great Flood. There are stories too of a Golden Age: the antediluvian paradise that it destroyed. Might these be real memories of the ancient world? And how can we analyse the subject scientifically? The key to unlock these ancient myths lies in astronomy. “Under Ancient Skies” will examine the astronomical evidence for an ancient cataclysm and in the process will explore a number of related anomalies in prehistory, including: Was there a single great flood in human prehistory, or have there been many?
Could the workings of ancient calendars and the records of ancient eclipses give us clues about the Flood and the antediluvian world? Did the Celtic Druids use a calendar based on the orbit of Saturn; and is this the same antediluvian calendar as is described in Plato’s myth of Atlantis? Do Hindu, Chinese and Mayan cosmology myths recall the years after the Flood when our world wobbled on its axis?
Geologists have recently found the crater in Yucatan, where an asteroid impact destroyed the world of the dinosaurs. Scientists and astronomers have stopped dismissing the theory that a comet could have struck the Earth during prehistory – but any suggestion that a comet impact just a few thousand years ago might have caused the Biblical Flood, remains the last taboo. It is time for this barrier too to be washed away. If you read this book and you understand it then be warned – it may scare you!”
“Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos”
by
John David North
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“Stonehenge has fascinated mankind for centuries, enveloping generation after generation in its haunting mystery. But while much has been learned about this ancient monument, the fundamental questions remain: Who built it? What was its purpose? How was it used?
Drawing on more than 15 years of research, John North has at last succeeded where others have failed. He comprehensively examines Stonehenge from all available angles — archeological, astronomical, and spiritual — and considers relevant research from other prehistoric remains in Britain and Northern Europe. He shows, for the first time, that the stones were not so much sighting devices as maps of the heavens and that the design of the monument evolved over thousands of years rather than conforming to a single original blueprint.
Such observations form the basis of deductions about prehistoric life and religion that will profoundly affect our understanding of who we are and where we came from.”
“A Sumerian Observation of the Kofels’ Impact Event”
by
Mark Hempsell
&
Alan Bond
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Around 700 BC an Assyrian scribe in the Royal Place at Nineveh made a copy of one of the most important documents in the royal collection.
Two and a half thousand years later it was found by Henry Layard in the remains of the palace library.
It ended up in the British Museum’s cuneiform clay tablet collection as catalogue No. K8538 (also called “the Planisphereâ€), where it has puzzled scholars for over 150 years.
In this monograph Bond and Hempsell provide the first comprehensive translation of the tablet, showing it to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an Aten asteroid over a kilometre in diameter that impacted Köfels in Austria in the early morning of 29th June 3123 BC.”
“Megaliths, Myths &
Men: An Introduction to
Astro- Archaology”
by
Peter Lancaster Brown
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“Noted British astronomer’s fascinating study of early astronomical knowledge through the interpretation of Stonehenge, Carnac, other megalithic sites. Stone Age sculpture, astronomical computations, radiocarbon dating, many other topics. Over 140 maps, photos, illustrations. “…essential summary of astronomy in the Stone Age”. Bibliography. Index”
“Ancient Astronomers:
Exploring the Ancient World”
by
Anthony F. Aveni,
Jeremy A. Sabloff
(Editor)
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“Anthony Aveni is well known in scholastic circles for his many excellent and ground-breaking publications in the field of archaeoastronomy. This particular volume is geared toward interested laymen and uninitiated scholars who are not yet well grounded in the history of astronomy or ideas of cosmology from an anthropological perspective. The book is graced with numerous and apt illustrations, while the text reads easily with Aveni’s smooth and informative style. Chapters were clearly organized thoughtfully, as information builds upon previous explanations and new concepts or ideas are charted out for the neophytes as needed.”
“Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures”
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Anthony Aveni
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“What was the meaning of Stonehenge? What was the Mayan Code? Why was the elaborate Incan city of Cuzco built? Groundbreaking archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni offers a host of startling new insights and conclusions in this acclaimed study of three of life’s most mesmerizing mysteries.”
Heliophysics
Text Books
“Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets.
Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate.”
“Heliophysics I:
Plasma Physics of the
Local Cosmos”
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Carolus J. Schrijver
&
George L. Siscoe
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“This volume, the first in a series of three heliophysics texts, integrates such diverse topics for the first time as a coherent intellectual discipline.
It emphasizes the physical processes coupling the Sun and Earth, allowing insights into the interaction of the solar wind and radiation with the Earth’s magnetic field, atmosphere and climate system.
It provides a core resource for advanced undergraduates and graduates, and also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in heliophysics, astrophysics, plasma physics, space physics, solar physics, aeronomy, space weather, planetary science and climate science.”
Additional online resources
including lecture presentations
and other teaching materials
will become available towards
the end of 2012 at:
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