In the News

At www.decodingtheheavens.com/blog/post/2010/09/08/Halley-and-the-ancient-Greeks/ (see also BBC News September 10th) ... in 466BC a large meteortie, described as the size of a wagon load, fell in northern Greece.

SIS member Dr Peter Paget has provided this link to a video slide show of the sky - at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11213528  

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908132214.htm a new paper in Nature seems to indicate that New Zealand was not affected by the Younger Dryas cooling event. Antarctic ice cores

It seems that some European scholars have recognised there might be a connection between a comet or meteor and the end of the Late Bronze

At www.technology.review.com/blog/arxiv/25699/ Sept 1st ... 'The extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials' is the title but the shortish piece on the blog does

At www.physorg.com/print202991457.html Sept 6th ... there is a report that says Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an

At www.physorg.com/print202971192.html Sept 6th ... for a second time evidence has been found the magnetic poles have flipped over in a very rapid manner. Geologists

Also on the New Chronology Yahoo Group forum in August has been a discussion of tawannas, a title used by Hittite queens, and the spread

At http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewChronology/message/29214 ... there are a lot of emails to wade through on this lively and very active Yahoo Group (requires a membership to read

At www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100903fire.htm the Greeks and Romans had a variety of theories on what might power the Sun and surprisingly, the notion they had in the

At www.physorg.com/print202639164.html there is a story on a relic coral reef 600km off SE Australia - 20 times bigger than the modern coral reef nearby.

Again, at www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/mass-extinction-dynamics/ this story is a repeat - but worth repeating. A reappraisal of the fossil record, it is thought, reveals that global mass

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-286&cid=release_2010-286 we have a report that seems to suggest that NASAs Viking Mars Lander mission in 1976 may actually have examined soil that contained

At www.physorg.com/print202733904.html a report on a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that was prompted by physicists who struggled to understand

At www.physorg.com/print202724011.html there is another ESA report - this time on the role of the Amazon and the Orinoco in the Ocean Circulation system in the

At www.physorg.com/print202577650.html there is a report from ESA (the European Space Agency) that the Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is a

At www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR20100903023 ... the Washington Post, September 3rd, has a post on the Amazon rainforest - in this instance the section that is in Peru,

At http://troyatbergama.blogspot.com we have a development on the ideas of John Lascelles and news of a two volume book shortly to be published by a

At www.theartnewspaper.com September 2nd ... BP aims to drill some exploratory oil wells off the Libyan coast and this has alarmed French archaeologists who are

This story from NASA (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ September 2nd) has popped up all over the blogosphere, with various angles to the headlines. NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope