Tag: taurids

The low doorway into the Ocmulgee earth lodge, a “mound with a central chamber.” (Photo © 2004, Gary C. Daniels)

Archaeoastronomy of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge – LostWorlds.Org

Via LostWorlds.org Gary C. Daniels Was the Ocmulgee earth lodge an astronomical observatory and sophisticated scientific apparatus designed to forewarn its designers of impending catastrophe coming from the heavens? Introduction The earth lodge at the Ocmulgee Mounds site in Macon, Georgia is a unique building among Native American archaeological sites in the Southeast. It is a round building completely covered […]

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The 2015 Taurid shower produced many fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors. Here’s another one, captured in 2015 by Jeff Dai in Tibet.

Are asteroids hiding among the Taurids?

By Eddie Irizarry in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | SPACE | October 15, 2018 Via EarthSky.Org And, more to the point, are any asteroids that might be hidden in the Taurid meteor stream potentially hazardous to Earth? It’s the time of year for the long-lasting Taurid meteor shower. If you glimpse any, think about this. Last year, a team of researchers from […]

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Is An Asteroid Coming? NASA’s ‘Planetary Defense Coordination Office’ Budget Suddenly Spikes To $150 Million – Zerohedge

Is An Asteroid Coming? NASA’s ‘Planetary Defense Coordination Office’ Budget Suddenly Spikes To $150 Million – Zerohedge

Via Zerohedge by Tyler Durden Wed, 10/17/2018 – 20:45 It didn’t make many national headlines, but the proposed budget for NASA’s “Planetary Defense Coordination Office” was just increased by 90 million dollars. At a time when our national budget is already stretched to the max, this seems like an odd thing to be spending so much money on. As you […]

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Animation showing asteroids in the solar system between Jan 1, 1999, and Jan 31, 2018 © YouTube / NASA

Blood-curdling video shows near-Earth asteroids spotted by NASA have skyrocketed in 20yrs

Via Rt.com via GIPHY Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets in orbits that come within 121 million miles (195 million km) of the sun, and also within roughly 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit around our star. Data from January 1, 1999 to the end of January 2018 shows the spectacular increase in asteroid discoveries in the Solar System. […]

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The risk is growing that Earth will be hit by an asteroid from a meteor stream known as the Taurids, Czech astronomers said

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-czech-scientists-asteroid-earth.html#jCp

Czech scientists see growing risk of asteroid hitting Earth

Via Phys.org Czech scientists see growing risk of asteroid hitting Earth June 6, 2017 The risk is growing that Earth will be hit by an asteroid from a meteor stream known as the Taurids, Czech astronomers said on Tuesday. The astronomers, from the Czech Academy of Sciences, drew their conclusion after analysing 144 bolides—large meteors that explode in the atmosphere—from […]

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Halloween's Celtic origins mark the beginning of the Celtic New Year.  Photo: Ian Rutherford

The Cosmic Origins of Halloween – Preview

Happy Halloween everyone! Just wanted to share some related articles and videos featuring Randall Carlson explaining how the global phenomenon of the Day of the Dead came to be. The evidence that I am going to present in this and several subsequent articles reveals what I believe to be the greatest underappreciated and unrecognized driving force in human history – […]

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Cosmic Lessons: The Day of the Dead – Part 3

Cosmic Lessons: The Day of the Dead – Part 3

In the two previous articles I have been writing about the connection between the ancient Festival of the Dead, our modern Halloween and certain cosmic events associated with the Pleiades star cluster. Prior to that I contributed a series of articles delving into the extraordinary Tunguska cosmic event of June 30, 1908. In the October, 2015 contribution to this series […]

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