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April 2015 Celestial Events & Space Research News
April 2015 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until April 1st
The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date
It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT
April 2015 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..
Astronomy Today Sky Guide – April 2015
BBC The Sky at Night – April 2015
Meteorite Times Magazine – April 2015 – usually up online the middle of the month
Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools
Which stars were you REALLY born under? – Find your ASTRONOMICAL STAR SIGN
The Cassini Solstice Mission – Latest News & Current Location
At the start of April 2015 the Sunspot Number is 53
“Discovery of extraterrestrial component carrier phases in Archean spherule layers”
“Impact origin for the Hummeln structure (Sweden) … “
“Nanoscale records of ancient shock deformation: Rock Elm impact crater”
April 01 2015 – 12:59 UT –
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth)
April 01 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1569 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2014 QD364 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
Asteroid 2015 FW117 flyby – miss distance 3.6 LD, size = 124 metres
“StarStuff PodCast: Ghostly dark matter rewrites the rules” – audio
“For the second time in two weeks, a Forbush Decrease is underway”
April 02 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 02 – April 09”
“Hubble finds ghosts of quasars past [heic1507]”
“How Jupiter survived to become king of planets”
April 03 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1570 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Comet 86P/Wild –
Perihelion (2.264 AU)
“Total Eclipse of the Moon” – TOMORROW Saturday April 04 2015
April 04 2015 – 12:06 UT –
The Full Pink Moon
April 04 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Total Lunar Eclipse
Visible: western North America, the Pacific, east Asia, Australia and New Zealand
Animated Eclipse Map – from Shadow & Substance
Comet P/2004 R1 (McNaught) –
At Opposition (0.940 AU)
April 05 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Realtime Eclipse Photo Gallery
Asteroid 2011 GK44 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)
“Nova Sagittarii: Naked-Eye Bright Again!”
April 06 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Lunar Eclipse Wasn’t Total After All?!”
“The tortured heart of a twisted galaxy”
“Curiosity sniffs out history of martian atmosphere”
April 07 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1569 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
“Colourful cosmic curtains”
April 08 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury
Passes 0.5 Degrees From
Uranus
“Complex organic molecules discovered in infant star system”
“StarStuff PodCast: Hot model explains how Jupiter survived” – audio
“Nova Sagittarii Stays Unpredictable”
“Sun experiences seasonal changes, new research finds”
April 09 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1572 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 09 – April 16”
“A new view of the Moon’s formation”
April 10 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Celebrate the Night Sky During April”
“Our Sun came late to the Milky Way’s star birth party”
April 11 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Cassini Distant Flyby of Titan, Tethys & Dione
Catalina State Park Star Party Tucson, Arizona, USA
April 12 2015 – 03:44 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
April 12 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 GU flyby – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 9 metres
Yuri’s Night – World Space Party
Asteroid 2005 KA –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
April 13 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1573 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 GE1 flyby – miss distance 3.4 LD, size = 31 metres
Asteroid 2015 GK flyby – miss distance 2.8 LD, size = 30 metres
Comet C/2014 W9 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (0.982 AU)
“Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – activity 31 January – 25 March 2015”
“Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water”
“PC1 – Press Conference 1 – Latest results from the ESA Rosetta mission”
“Blue fingers sculpted on red planet”
“A Ring-Shaped Spyglass to the Early Universe”
April 13-17 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..
The Annual Space Weather Workshop – Boulder, Colorado, USA
April 13-17 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..
IAA Planetary Defence Conference Webcast – ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
April 14 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Rosetta and Philae find comet not magnetised”
“Dawn Maps Ceres in False Color”
April 15 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Colourful cosmic curtains light up the sky”
“AIM’s asteroid lander”
“StarStuff PodCast: Liquid water possible on Mars” – audio
“Dark matter may not be completely dark”
April 16 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1574 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2004 GD –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Asteroid 2015 GA1 flyby – miss distance 2.5 LD, size = 21 metres
Asteroid 2015 GL13 flyby – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 8 metres
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 16 – April 23”
April 17 2015 – 03:53 UT –
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth)
April 17 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“IAA Planetary Defence Conference” – videos
April 18 2015 – 18:57 UT –
New Moon
April 18 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Giant Magellan Telescope the game changer in astronomy”
April 18-19 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..
Northeast Astronomy Forum – Suffern, New York, USA
April 19 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
April 20 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 218P/LINEAR –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.467 AU)
“Intense X-rays sculpt Thor’s neon-hued helmet”
“Mimas basks in Saturnshine”
“Icy tendrils reaching into Saturn ring traced to their source”
April 20-26 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..
Astronomy Week
April 21 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Lyrids Meteor Shower starts tonight
Asteroid 2015 HE1 flyby – miss distance 3.3 LD, size = 17 metres
Asteroid 2015 HD1 flyby – miss distance 0.2 LD, size = 15 metres
“The 2015 Lyrid Meteors Peak Tomorrow Night!”
“Lyrid Meteor Shower in 2015”
“NASA Wants You … to Help Name Stuff on Pluto”
“ALMA reveals intense magnetic field close to supermassive black hole”
“Earth Day Meteor Shower”
April 22 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Lyrids Meteor Shower peaks in the pre-dawn hours tomorrow
Lyrids history from Wikipedia
2015 Lyrids meteor shower
“StarStuff PodCast: Hubble celebrates 25 years of science” – audio
“How to watch the Lyrid meteors”
“Thank you Hubble! 25 years exploring the Universe”
“Stonehenge’s tallest stone ‘points at winter sunrise'”
April 23 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1576 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Realtime Meteor Photo Gallery
Mercury
Passes 1.4 Degrees From
Mars
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 23 – April 30”
“Celestial fireworks celebrate Hubble’s 25th anniversary”
“Runaway Compact Galaxies?”
April 24 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1575 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
“Hubble Telescope’s Silver Anniversary”
“A magnificent filament of magnetism is rotating over the NE limb of the sun”
“April 25th is Spring Astronomy Day”
April 25 2015 – 23:55 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
April 25 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 HQ11 flyby – miss distance 1.3 LD, size = 16 metres
Astronomy Day
“April 25th is Spring Astronomy Day”
“Earth crosses through a fold in the heliospheric current sheet”
April 26 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Ariane 5’s first launch of 2015”
April 27 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 HO116 flyby – miss distance 1.7 LD, size = 31 metres
“Goodbye Messenger! Five things we discovered about Mercury”
“Hot neon lights of Thor’s helmet glow in the dark”
April 28 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Saturn’s sponge-like moon Hyperion”
April 29 2015 – 03:55 UT –
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth)
April 29 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 HD10 flyby – miss distance 1.6 LD, size = 22 metres
Asteroid 2011 EX4 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
“Unboxing Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter flight model”
“StarStuff PodCast: Messenger set to crash onto Mercury” – audio
“Desert Dust Feeds Amazon Forests”
“Tracking Japan’s asteroid impact mission”
“NASA’s New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto”
April 30 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 30 – May 07”
“Nepal earthquake displacement”
“Fire and Ice: A MESSENGER Recap”
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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
May 2015 Celestial Events & Space Research News
May 2015 SkyMaps & Sky Guides NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL May 1st
The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date
It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT
May 2015 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..
Astronomy Today Sky Guide – May 2015
BBC The Sky at Night – May 2015
Meteorite Times Magazine – May 2015 – usually up online the middle of the month
Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools
The Cassini Solstice Mission – Latest News & Current Location
At the start of May 2015 the Sunspot Number is 27
May 01 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere”
May 02 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 HQ171 flyby – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 18 metres
“An Earth-Directed CME erupted today and should reach us May 6th”
May 03 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 04 2015 – 03:42 UT –
The Full Flower Moon
May 04 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Today is Star Wars Day
“Join the virtual classroom: Registration is open for a free online course”
“Treasure trove at the altar of star birth”
“Akari view of the Cygnus region in the Milky Way”
May 05 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
eta-Aquariids Meteor Shower from Halley’s Comet starts tonight
eta-Aquariids Meteor Shower History
“Emerging sunspot AR2339 unleashed an intense X2-class solar flare late today”
May 06 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1576 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
eta-Aquariids (ETA) Meteor Shower Peak 07:00 UT – IMO Details & SkyMap
“StarStuff PodCast: Mystery fog may be the screams of zombie stars” – audio
“A 45% chance of geomagnetic storms when the CME arrives today”
“Our beautiful planet: the blue marble in 2015”
May 07 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Cassini Titan Flyby
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 07 – May 14”
May 08 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1577 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 JC1 flyby – miss distance 3.5 LD, size = 17 metres
eta-Lyrids (ELY) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
May 09 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Cassini Distant Flyby of Aegaeon, Daphnis & Telesto
May 10 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1578 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 JD flyby – miss distance 3.6 LD, size = 35 metres
Cassini Distant Flyby of Polydeuces
May 10-17 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..
Texas Star Party – near Ft. Davis, Texas, USA
May 11 2015 – 10:36 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
May 11 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2012 VU76 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
“ESA at #rp15 Conference – Rosetta and Alexander Gerst”
“Auroras on Mars”
“Mysterious supernova still astounds astronomers”
“Chaos on a watery world”
May 12 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
The May 2015 issue of Meteorite Times is now up online
Asteroid 2011 AX22 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
Asteroid 2013 VO13 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
“NASA Research Reveals Europa’s Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt”
May 13 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1577 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 JR flyby – miss distance 4 LD, size = 24 metres
“StarStuff PodCast: Mercury’s magnetic field is four billion years old” – audio
“Governing the next space race” – audio
“NASA’s New Horizons spots Pluto’s faintest known moons”
“Europa’s red bands may be salt seeping through its icy crust”
“Spotting Andromeda Galaxy’s Giant Halo”
May 14 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 285331 (1999 FN53) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 14 – May 21”
“Left-handed cosmic magnetic field could explain missing antimatter”
“Bumps on road to Mars: ExoMars 2016 vibration testing”
May 15 2015 – 00:23 UT –
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth)
May 15 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1579 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 JF1 flyby – miss distance 0.8 LD, size = 10 metres
“The First Martian Marathon”
“Tracking Japan’s asteroid impact mission”
“New Ultra-Deep Star Catalog Released”
May 16 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Hubble catches a stellar exodus in action”
May 17 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Magnetar near supermassive black hole delivers surprises”
May 18 2015 – 04:13 UT –
New Moon
May 18 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“ESA mourns loss of Director Antonio Fabrizi”
“OSIRIS discovers balancing rock on Comet 67P”
“Star formation and magnetic turbulence in the Orion Molecular Cloud”
“Four decades of tracking European spacecraft”
“A glimpse of our Sun’s future”
May 19 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1581 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
May 20 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“StarStuff PodCast: Philae! Phone home!” – audio
“The Advance of Hubbard Glacier”
May 21 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Four to Didymos: Asteroid Impact Mission spacecraft”
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 21 – May 28”
“Impact crater or supervolcano caldera?”
May 22 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2011 WV4 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
“Saturn’s rings to surge in brightness” – SkyMap for TONIGHT
“Hot Jupiters: Cloudy or Clear?”
“Hubble observes one-of-a-kind star nicknamed ‘Nasty'”
“Apocalypse followed impact of giant asteroid”
May 23 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Saturn –
At Opposition
Asteroid 2013 YG –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
Asteroid 2015 KW121 flyby – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 26 metres
May 24 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 KO122 flyby – miss distance 2.9 LD, size = 17 metres
May 25 2015 – 17:19 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
May 25 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Stellar colours help scientists trace how stars migrate”
May 26 2015 – 22:12 UT –
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth)
May 26 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1584 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
“VMC image collage”
May 27 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury
Passes 1.7 Degrees From
Mars
“StarStuff PodCast: Supernovae origins: both theories are right!” – audio
May 28 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 221P/LINEAR –
At Opposition (0.795 AU)
“Space Station remodelling”
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 28 – June 04”
“Ariane 5’s second launch of 2015”
“Threading the Milky Way”
May 29 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 KW120 flyby – miss distance 1.1 LD, size = 27 metres
May 30 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 34D/Gale Closest Approach To Earth (0.428 AU)
May 31 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Cassini Distant Flyby of Hyperion
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What is Heliophysics |
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Space Weather Radio |
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Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery
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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
June 2015 Celestial Events & Space Research News
June 2015 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..
Astronomy Today Sky Guide – June 2015
BBC The Sky at Night – June 2015
Meteorite Times Magazine – June 2015 – usually up online the middle of the month
Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools
The Cassini Solstice Mission – Latest News & Current Location
At the start of June 2015 the Sunspot Number is 47
June 01 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Stormy Jupiter and its volcanic moon rage against the darkness”
“The effect of the winds of Mars”
“New Horizons: Countdown to Pluto”
June 01-05 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..
Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets (MOP) 2015 Conference – Atlanta, Georgia, USA
French Astronomy Week 2015 – Toulouse, France
June 02 2015 – 16:19 UT –
The Full Strawberry Moon
June 02 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Ultraviolet study reveals surprises in comet coma”
“ESA heading towards removing space debris”
June 03 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Cassini sends final close views of odd moon Hyperion”
“StarStuff PodCast: New Horizons on target for first Pluto encounter” – audio
“Pluto’s Perplexing Moons”
June 04 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) detected a surge in Arietid meteor activity
Asteroid 2005 XL80 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
“Crashing comets may explain mysterious lunar swirls”
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 04 – June 11”
“Hold Worlds in Your Hand”
June 05 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 06 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1587 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Listen to Arietid meteor echoes via radar on SpaceWeather Radio
Venus At Its Greatest Eastern
Elongation (44 Degrees)
Asteroid 2005 YK –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
Asteroid 2015 KA122 flyby – miss distance 3.3 LD, size = 95 metres
June 06-07 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..
Cosmic-Con – Manchester, United Kingdom
June 07 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 221P/LINEAR –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.784 AU)
June 08 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Arietid Daytime Meteor Shower Peak – SkyMap for N. Hemisphere
Arietid Daytime Meteor Shower Peak – SkyMap for S. Hemisphere
Asteroid 2015 LF flyby – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 22 metres
“Stars forming in the Taurus Molecular Cloud”
“Fireworks light up the Sun’s spectacular corona”
June 09 2015 – 15:42 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
June 09 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1589 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
“ESA at the Paris Air & Space Show” – Doors open June 15
“Sentinel-2A sealed from view”
“How do astronauts breathe in space?”
June 10 2015 – 04:39 UT –
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth)
June 10 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1590 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 LH flyby – miss distance 3.7 LD, size = 16 metres
“StarStuff PodCast: Could we find gravitational waves this year?” – audio
“Hypervelocity impact test damage”
“Monstrous star-forming regions seen in ancient galaxy”
June 11 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2015 LF21 flyby – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 28 metres
Asteroid 2012 XB112 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 11 – June 18”
Sadly we have to report that our Web Editor, John, has had an accident on his bicycle. He has injured his right foot and also aggravated his long-term spinal condition. His doctors have told him not to use computers for a few weeks.
He is not a happy bunny at all …
Therefore the various News pages and the Skywatching Calendar will not be updated until he has fully recovered – doctors orders! This will be effective immediately following today’s updates, and we apologise to our regular
visitors and all our research associates for any inconvenience.
Please keep sending in the stories and links as usual.
They will all be archived and eventually John will put them up
on the news pages when things get back to normal – Polly.
June 12 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 293726 (2007 RQ17) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
June 13 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 1999 MN –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
June 13-20 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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25th Annual Grand Canyon Star Party – Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
June 14 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Rosetta’s lander Philae wakes up from hibernation”
June 15 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“DG media briefing at The Paris Air & Space Show” – Streaming starts at 16:00 CEST
“‘Lost in space’ galaxy on edge of lonely abyss”
“Messenger’s iridescent Mercury”
“Planetary Exploration on Earth”
“Philae wake-up triggers intense planning”
[Am trying to keep the calendar updated while John is recovering – Polly]
June 15-19 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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Astrobiology Science Conference 2015 (AbSciCon2015) – Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 16 2015 – 14:05 UT –
New Moon
June 16 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 1566 Icarus –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
Cassini Distant Flyby of Polydeuces, Methone, Pan, Atlas, Janus, Telesto & Titan
Cassini Dione Flyby
“Rosetta briefing Friday, 19 June 2015 – 10:00 CEST” – 08:00 UTC
“Stars look pointy because …”
“ESA spaceplane on display at the Paris Air and Space Show”
“Where Philae phones home”
June 17 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1591 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 MA flyby – miss distance 1.7 LD, size = 22 metres
“Dissolving Titan”
June 18 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mars Spring Equinox
Comet 205P-B/Giacobini At Opposition (0.971 AU)
“Rosetta briefing TOMORROW, 19 June 2015 – 10:00 CEST” – 08:00 UTC
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 18 – June 25”
“Invisible rain: Cloud chamber at Le Bourget”
“Hot lava flows discovered on Venus”
“Auroras sound like an alien party”
June 18-21 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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13th Annual South Dakota Star Party (SDSP) 2015 – Garreston, South Dakota, USA
June 19 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Rosetta briefing TODAY, 19 June 2015 – 10:00 CEST” – 08:00 UTC
“Watch Sentinel-2A launch on 23 June” – The LIVE webstream will begin at 01:30 UTC
“Gold Sun Disc from time of Stonehenge revealed to the public”
“Night-Shining Clouds”
June 20 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1592 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Asteroid 2015 LR21 flyby – miss distance 2.5 LD, size = 23 metres
“The search for gravitational waves”
June 21 2011 – 16:38 UT –
Alban Hefyn –
Summer Solstice
June 21 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2010 LN14 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
June 22 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 22-26 2015 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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European Week of Astronomy & Space Science – La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands
June 23 2015 – 17:01 UT –
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth)
June 23 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Watch Sentinel-2A launch Today” – The LIVE webstream will begin at 01:30 UTC
“Rosetta mission extended”
“On 4 October ESA’s technical centre ESTEC will open its doors to the public”
“Second Sentinel safely in orbit”
June 24 2015 – 11:03 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
June 24 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (22 Degrees)
Sir Fred Hoyle’s 100th Birthday (1915)
“Rosetta space mission extended until September 2016”
“StarStuff PodCast: Early stars captured in historic image” – audio
“Exposed water ice detected on comet’s surface”
“Dying Rosetta mothership could be set to land on comet’s surface”
“AIM mission at Le Bourget”
June 25 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2007 WU3 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
Asteroid 2010 NY65 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
Comet P/2009 WX51 (Catalina) –
Perihelion (0.796 AU)
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 25 – July 02”
“Monster black hole wakes up after 26 years”
June 26 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 27 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
June Boötids (JBO) Meteor Shower Peak 15:00 UT – IMO Details & SkyMap
Asteroid 2013 VY9 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
Asteroid 4581 Asciepius –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.362 AU)
Comet P/2008 S1 (Catalina-McNaught) –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.689 AU)
Comet P/1999 R1 (SOHO) –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.959 AU)
June 28 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 29 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1593 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
“Sentinel-2 delivers first images”
June 30 2015 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
107th Anniversary (1908), Tunguska Explosion Event
Asteroid Day
“Asteroid Day – ESA experts explain the nature and threat of asteroids”
“Helping Europe prepare for asteroid risk”
“Telescopes focus on target of ESA’s asteroid mission”
“Bang goes an asteroid”
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“Alexander Thom:
Cracking The
Stone Age Code”
by
Robin Heath
“Professor Alexander Thom was a foremost scientist and engineer of the last century.
Once Chair of Engineering Science at Brasenose College, Oxford, following an already distinguished career in both the academic and industrial world, during the War, he had been Principal Scientific Officer for the design of the High Speed Wind Tunnel at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and had assisted Sir Barnes Wallace in the design of the famous ‘bouncing bomb’ of Dambuster’s fame.
From 1934, Thom became interested in the megalithic culture that had erected the stone circles, rows and other monuments in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.
He began to accurately survey these sites, and in 1967 published “Megalithic Sites in Britain” (Oxford) where he claimed the builders had been skilled surveyors and astronomers, and had used an identical and accurate unit of length to mark out their constructions throughout Britain, a length he called the Megalithic yard (2.72 feet or 0.829m).
Thom also discovered that they were using a geometry based on right-angled ‘Pythagorean’ triangles, triangles whose sides were whole numbers of this same megalithic yard, or subdivisions or multiples of it.
He also proposed that they were observing both the sun and moon using precision alignments to identified sites or natural features on a distant horizon. He even showed that they could have predicted eclipses.
The book was described by archaeologist Professor Richard Atkinson as ‘a well-constructed time-bomb dropped through the letterbox of archaeology’, and it caused a huge rumpus within the profession.
In effect Thom had demonstrated that there was a huge missing component in our understanding of the Megalithic culture, one that archaeologists had totally missed, and that our model of prehistory was flawed and hopelessly inadequate.”
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“The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World”
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Munya Andrews
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“Emu Dreaming:
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“The 2300 BC Event – Vol. 1:
Archaeology and Geophysics
& The Meteoroid Stream”
by
M. M. Mandelkehr
“The 2300 BC Event takes a new look at an old puzzle: what happened
at this date to cause the various advanced societies on the Earth to simultaneously collapse?
Civilizations in Anatolia and Greece, through Egypt and the Middle East, and eastward to India and Central Asia were at their height. The collapse of these civilizations due to earthquakes and climatic changes has been mirrored by similar interruptions on all continents, in the Arctic, and extending to the Pacific.
The discontinuities have long puzzled archaeologists and historians. New religions and accompanying mythologies appeared at this time in all cultural regions describing bombardment and flooding from the skies.
Strangely, the dominant aspect of the mythologies, however, is the observation and worship of a ring appearing to surround the Earth, oriented to the two Ursa (Bear) constellations.”
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“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 2:
Mythology
The Eyewitness Accounts”
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M. M. Mandelkehr
“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.”
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“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 3:
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The Eyewitness Accounts 2″
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M. M. Mandelkehr
“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.”
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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”
Edited by
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George L. Siscoe
“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.”
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“Heliophysics II:
Space storms and radiation:
causes and effects”
Edited by
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George L. Siscoe
“The Sun is a magnetically variable star and for planets with intrinsic magnetic fields, planets with atmospheres, or planets like Earth with both, there are profound consequences.
This 2010 volume, the second in this series of three heliophysics texts, integrates the many aspects of space storms and the energetic radiation associated with them – from causes on the Sun to effects in planetary environments.
It reviews the physical processes in solar flares and coronal mass ejections, interplanetary shocks, and particle acceleration and transport, and considers many space weather responses in geospace. In addition to its utility as a textbook, it also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in fields from heliophysics to climate science.”
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“This final book in this series of three heliophysics texts, published in 2010, focuses on long-term variability from the Sun’s sunspot cycle and considers the planetary system’s evolution from a climatological perspective.
Topics covered range from the dynamo action of stars and planets to processes in the Earth’s troposphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere and their effects on planetary climate and habitability.
Supplemented by online teaching materials, it can be used as a textbook for courses or as a foundational reference for researchers in fields from astrophysics and plasma physics to planetary and climate science.”
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“Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations”
(British Archaeological
Reports)
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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.”
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“A Little History of
Astro-Archaeology:
Stages in the Transformation
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John Michell
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“Avebury Cosmos:
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of Avebury henge”
by
Nicholas R. Mann
“The ancient Britons were inspired by a profound knowledge of the heavens when they erected the monumental stones of Avebury.
Mann throws light on the motive behind the creation of its awe-inspiring mounds and megaliths by demonstrating that they were aligned to the cycles of the Sun, Moon and stars.
This book will help visitors and readers to see Avebury in a wholly new light – the light of the heavenly bodies that guided its Neolithic builders.”
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“Avebury:
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“Living the Sky:
Cosmos of the American Indian”
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“Chaco Astronomy:
An Ancient American Cosmology”
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Anna Sofaer
“After rumors surfaced about the sun bisecting a petroglyph at Chaco Canyon, people never looked at the site the same again.
The discovery proposed a cosmology at Chaco, and the book looks at the people who lived in the San Juan Basin from 850 AD to 1300, developing an elaborate culture around the cycles of the sun and moon.
Anna Sofaer’s pioneering work on Chaco Canyon, a World Heritage Site, should be required reading for anyone interested in how the prehistoric people of the American Southwest conceptualized their universe and placed themselves within that universe.”
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“A Guide to Prehistoric
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“Dr. J. McKim Malville has outdone himself in this guide to prehistoric astronomy.
Even a reader with little or no background in archaeoastronomy will like this book.
One reason is the tons of good photos and diagrams that can help anyone better appreciate the miraculous order of our solar system and the stars.
It would make a great gift for children between 10 and 16, potentially stimulating them to enter the field of science.”
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“Patterns in the Sky:
An Introduction to Ethnoastronomy”
by
Stephen M. Fabian
“Since the beginning of humankind, people around the world have had a strong interest in the powers and beings perceived in the sky.
This compelling short work helps students fully understand and appreciate the ways in which non-Western indigenous and small-scale societies perceive, conceptualize, and make sure of what they astronomically observe.
With its concise explanations of prominent astronomical phenomena, discussions of relevant crosscultural examples, and instructive suggestions for active field research, Patterns in the Sky is a unique and practical guide for doing ethnoastronomy.
In addition, Fabian offers exercises in observational astronomy with the naked eye so that students can get in touch with the cosmos and natural world around them.”
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“Magicians of the Gods: The forgotten wisdom of earth’s lost civilisation – the sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods”
by
Graham Hancock
“Graham Hancock’s multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth’s lost civilization.
20 years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light…
The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.
Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments.
Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.
At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.
The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth’s crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.
A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.
But there were survivors – known to later cultures by names such as ‘the Sages’, ‘the Magicians’, ‘the Shining Ones’, and ‘the Mystery Teachers of Heaven’.
They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning.
They settled at key locations – Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia.”
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“East Asian Archaeoastronomy: Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea”
by
Xu Zhentao,
Jiang Yaotiao
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David W. Pankenier
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