Skywatching Calendar January 01 – March 31 2018

The Morien Institute - The events of December 16th to 22nd 1994, when the remnants of a fragmenting comet, P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, bombarded the surface of Jupiter causing fireballs many times the size of our own planet, were an abrupt wake-up call even for those who were aware of them. The historical sciences generally, and archæology in particular, have collectively painted a picture of the past as if our planet stands alone in empty space. Nothing could be further from reality. Our resilient planet exists in a solar system that has experienced a very dynamic history over the past 20 to 30 millennia, and it is only from this wider solar system perspective that the true history of human civilisation will ever be fully understood. The Morien Institute archive therefore contains relevant material from many disciplines.

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This year
The Morien Institute Skywatching Calendar will be much reduced compared to previous years

 


Skywatching Calendars for:


April – June 2018 |
July – September 2018 |
October – December 2018


 



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Safely Viewing Sunspots

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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory



Useful Websites for Skywatchers:



Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series



Space Weather Radio



NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive 1996 to present



António Cidadão’s Practical Advice for Astrophotography & CCD Imaging



Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy Website debunks astro-nonsense



How do I translate Universal Time (UT) into my time?



As of January 17 2018

according to Near-Earth Asteroid (NEO) monitoring groups there were

1882



KNOWN Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

in Earth-crossing orbits


Why Does This Number Go Up, Then Sometimes Go Down?


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The National Near Earth Objects Information Centre

is located in Knighton, Powys, LD7 1LW, Wales, United Kingdom

It is open for Public Tours (suitable for ages 9+), and also for

School Tours (suitable for primary & secondary schools)



They are are easily accessible – See Map and directions



Impact Craters on Earth, our Moon
and the other planets in our Solar System



USAF Archive of Fireball Data Releases



NASA JPL Asteroid Watch



The Longterm Impact Hazard to Earth

 


The 3,600 year-old Nebra Sky Disc



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SpaceWeather Information & Resources


Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm


What is Heliophysics
|

NASA Living With a Star
|

Heliophysics Summer School


NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
|

The Australian Space Weather Agency


Space Weather Radio
|

ESA Space Environment Information System


Space weather influences on atmospheric electricity


Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery


Realtime Comet Photo Gallery


a solar wind image link to the australian spaceweather agency home page


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

 


January 2018 Celestial Events & Space Research News


January 2018 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until January 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

 


January 2018 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..


BBC The Sky at Night – January 2018


Meteorite Times Magazine – January 2018
usually available middle of the month


Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools


At the start of January 2018 the Sunspot Number is 0

 


January 01 2018 – 21:54 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 356,566 km) m

 


January 01 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Mercury


At Its Greatest Western Elongation (23°)
as seen from Earth


Apollo Asteroid 2017 YD Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU)


“The next astronomical revolution”


“Hubble Space Telescope Spots Megamaser Galaxy: UGC 6093”


“Looking Ahead: Space Missions for 2018”


“Black-hole-regulated star formation in massive galaxies”


“Your zodiac guide: The year in (real) stars”

 


January 02 2018 – 02:24 UT


Full Wolf Moon

 


January 02 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 AH encounter – miss distance 0.8 LD, size = 112 metres


Aten Asteroid 2015 RT1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)


“Poor Year for the Quadrantid Meteor Shower”


“Central Black Holes Control Star Formation in Massive Galaxies: Study”


“2018 ESA Mission Preview”
ESA video


“Did the solar system form in a bubble?”


“Blue moon, blood moon to be visible on 31 January”

 


January 03 2016 – 05:35 UT


Earth at Perihelion


(closest to the Sun = 0.983 AU)

 


January 03 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Quadrantids (QUA) Meteor Shower Peak 22:00 UT – IMO Details
but watch earlier


2018 Quadrantid meteor shower


Quadrantids Meteor Shower – SkyMap & History


Quadrantids Meteor Shower


Asteroid 2017 YD7 encounter – miss distance 4.7 LD, size = 12 metres


Apollo Asteroid 2017 UY4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2017 XQ61 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)


“Build a global Earth observatory”


“Mars Flies By Jupiter in a Close Dawn Conjunction”


“Put telescopes on the far side of the Moon”


“Was God Mithras Born on December 25?”


January 04 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia January 04 – January 11”


“The Sun Might Have Formed in a Giant Star’s Bubble”


January 05 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet C/2017 T1 (Heinze)


Closest Approach To Earth (0.223 AU)


“Obese stars are more common than expected”


“More Planets in the Hyades Cluster”


January 06 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Mars + Jupiter conjunction


Aten Asteroid 2015 YG Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)


Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery


“C/2016 R2 Jan 6 Blue Light”


“Hefty Stars Prompt Birth Debate”


January 07 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mars
Passes 0.2° From
Jupiteras seen from Earth


Aten Asteroid 2013 AT72


Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2017 YT3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)

 


January 08 2018 – 22:25 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

 


January 08 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2017 XT61 Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2017 YX4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)


“Ocean and atmosphere interlinked”
ESA video


“Exoplanet science 2.0”


“The Sun in 2017”


January 09 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


January 10 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 2004 FH


Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)


“Exploring alien worlds with lasers”


“Rotation in [C ii]-emitting gas in two galaxies at a redshift of 6.8”


“Quiz: How much do you know about telescopes?”


“A rapid decrease in the rotation rate of comet 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák”


January 11 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 AT2 encounter – miss distance 1.8 LD, size = 10 metres


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia January 11 – January 18”


“Two suns? No, it’s a supernova drawn 6,000 years ago, say scientists”


“Metal-rich Stars Host Closer Planets”


January 12 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet 250P/Larson


Closest Approach To Earth (1.253 AU)


“Huge water ice reserves found on Mars suggest potential for human colonisation”


“Ringed Disks Don’t Always Mean Planets”


“Scientists excited by discovery of ice mountain below the surface of Mars”


“NASA images the most distant galaxy ever resolved”


January 13 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Scientists excited by discovery of ice mountain below the surface of Mars”


January 14 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 AS2 encounter – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 7 metres


Asteroid 2018 AU2 encounter – miss distance 2.7 LD, size = 12 metres


The January 2018 edition of Meteorite Times magazine is now up online

 


January 15 2018 – 02:10 UT


Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 406,461 km) M

 


January 15 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BW encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 9 metres


Aten Asteroid 2007 WM3


Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)


“Applications now open for the Space Debris Training Course”


“Galaxies Show Order in Chaotic Young Universe”


“Simulating turbulence in solar wind plasma”


January 16 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BR1 encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 4 metres


Apollo Asteroid 438017 (2003 YO3) Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)


“A black hole’s ‘double burp’ shows its behavior over time”


“Massive earthquakes no more likely to strike during full moon”


“Columbus: 10 years a lab”

 


January 17 2018 – 02:17 UT

New Moon

 


January 17 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


As of today there are 1882 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA)


Asteroid 2018 AG4 encounter – miss distance 1.4 LD, size = 23 metres


“Massive earthquakes no more likely to strike during full moon”


“Earth from Space: special edition”
ESA video


“Mira Makes January Nights ‘Wonderful'”


“Counting starspots”


January 18 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BD encounter – miss distance 0.1 LD, size = 3 metres


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia January 18 – January 25”


“60-Second Astro News: Black Holes Galore”


“Hypatia stone’s composition leaves researchers questioning where, how it formed”


“Crater Neukum named after Mars Express founder”


January 19 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BC encounter – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 5 metres


Asteroid 2018 BX encounter – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 6 metres


“Hunters Recover Meteorites From Michigan Fireball”


“Mapping the cosmos with Cepheid stars”


“Just Like Earth, Titan Has a ‘Sea Level’ for its Lakes and Seas”


January 20 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2015 NJ3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU


Apollo Asteroid 2017 MT8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)


January 21 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2015 XK351 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)


“The hunt for viruses in space”


January 22 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 306383 (1993 VD)


Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)


Amor Asteroid 2006 AL4


Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)


“Strong disk winds traced throughout outbursts in black-hole X-ray binaries”


“Astrophysicist proposes new definition of a planet”


“Comet storm”


“2018 Sentinel calendar”


January 23 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 AJ encounter – miss distance 4.7 LD, size = 44 metres


“Hot Earths may be stripped-down Jupiters”


“Cassini uncovers a ‘sea level’ on Titan, similar to Earth”


“Water Ice Found Exposed in Martian Cliffs”

 


January 24 2018 – 22:20 UT

First Lunar Quarter

 


January 24 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BN6 encounter – miss distance 0.9 LD, size = 16 metres


Asteroid 2018 BA3 encounter – miss distance 3 LD, size = 21 metres


“A beginner’s guide to the Moon”


“Opportunity will celebrate its 14th year on Mars”


“Make the Most of January’s Total Lunar Eclipse”


January 25 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia January 25 – February 01”


“Space weather effects”


January 26 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BU6 encounter – miss distance 4.8 LD, size = 40 metres


Asteroid 2018 BM5 encounter – miss distance 4.8 LD, size = 12 metres


Aten Asteroid 2011 CD66


Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)


“Global dust storms on Mars may allow atmospheric gas to escape”


“There’s a New Definition for the Term ‘Planet'”


January 27 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BU1 encounter – miss distance 3.1 LD, size = 43 metres


“Cosmic Catastrophes Are Almost Impossible To Prevent But You Shouldn’t Fear Death From Space”


January 28 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Chinese New Year


“Long Dead NASA Spacecraft Wakes Up”


January 29 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet 197P/LINEAR


Perihelion (1.060 AU)


“Obscured Sirius reveals Gaia 1 cluster”


“Martian dust storms may play role in atmosphere loss”


“The ‘Trifecta’ Lunar Eclipse on January 31st”


“The Moon’s disappearing act”

 


January 30 2018 – 09:54 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 358,995 km)

 


January 30 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Tomorrow’s Total Lunar Eclipse global visibility chart


Asteroid 2018 BE6 encounter – miss distance 3.4 LD, size = 45 metres


Asteroid 2018 BQ6 encounter – miss distance 3.6 LD, size = 13 metres


Aten Asteroid 2017 BG136 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)


“Putting everyday computer parts to space radiation test”

 


January 31 2018 – 13:27 UT


Full Snow Moon

 


January 31 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


January 2018 total lunar eclipse
visible over North America, Pacific, Asia, Australia


Today’s Total Lunar Eclipse global visibility chart


Realtime Lunar Eclipse Photo Gallery
hosted by Spaceweather.com


Total lunar eclipse
with visibility charts & diagrams


Aten Asteroid 2003 CA4


Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)


Aten Asteroid 2017 BB30 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)


“‘Super blue blood moon’ to grace Australian skies in special lunar eclipse”

 


You Can Help To Support This Free Information Service

If You Buy Your Books About:

Comets & Cometary Debris,

Asteroids,

Meteors & Meteor Showers

Impact Craters,

Meteorites and

General Astronomy

From These Links Provided By

The Morien Institute

 


SpaceWeather Information & Resources


Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm


What is Heliophysics
|

NASA Living With a Star
|

Heliophysics Summer School


NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
|

The Australian Space Weather Agency


Space Weather Radio
|

ESA Space Environment Information System


Space weather influences on atmospheric electricity


Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery


Realtime Comet Photo Gallery


a solar wind image link to the australian spaceweather agency home page


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

 


February 2018 Celestial Events & Space Research News


February 2018 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until February 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


February 2018 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
……


BBC The Sky at Night – February 2018


Meteorite Times Magazine – February 2018
usually available middle of the month


Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools


At the start of February 2018 the Sunspot Number is 13


February 01 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Realtime Lunar Eclipse Photo Gallery
hosted by Spaceweather.com


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia February 01 – February 08”


“Rainbow aurora”


“Orderly Dwarf Galaxies Challenge Cosmological Wisdom”


February 02 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2002 CB19


Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)


Dwarf Planet Ceres


Closest Approach To Earth (1.602 AU)


“One of the oldest stars in the Milky Way discovered”


“Solar Eclipse Made Bow Waves in Earth’s Atmosphere”


“Where no mission has gone before”


February 03 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“For the First Time, Planets Have Been Discovered in ANOTHER Galaxy!”


“Stellar winds behaving unexpectedly”


“12,800 Yrs Ago Earth Was Struck by a Disintegrating Comet Setting Off Global Firestorms”


February 04 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 276033 (2002 AJ129)


Near-Earth Flyby (0.028 AU)


February 05 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 BP6 encounter – miss distance 3.7 LD, size = 43 metres


“A well-placed cluster puts a distant galaxy under a high-powered lens”


“ESA creates quietest place in space”


“A Closer Look at the Worlds of TRAPPIST-1”


February 06 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 CF2 encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 9 metres


Asteroid 2018 CC encounter – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 17 metres


Asteroid 2018 CM encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 10 metres


Asteroid 2018 CL encounter – miss distance 2.4 LD, size = 28 metres


Comet 311P/PANSTARRS


Closest Approach To Earth (1.122 AU)


“Simulating the Universe: The Next Generation”

 


February 07 2018 – 15:54 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

 


February 07 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 CN encounter – miss distance 1.3 LD, size = 18 metres


Apollo Asteroid 505657 (2014 SR339) Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)


“Close approach of the Moon and Jupiter”


“The Solar System Probably has Thousands of Captured Interstellar Asteroids”


“Asteroid to pass between Earth and Moon on Friday”


“Magnetic cage and rope as the key for solar eruptions”


February 08 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia February 08 – February 15”


“Leaky atmosphere linked to lightweight planet”


“New projects see UK space firms tackle global challenges”


“Hubble’s View of Little Blue Dots”


February 09 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 CN2 encounter – miss distance 0.2 LD, size = 10 metres


Asteroid 2018 CB encounter – miss distance 0.2 LD, size = 23 metres


Apollo Asteroid 2015 BN509 Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)


“New NASA instruments aim to answer atmospheric unknowns”


“Deluge of astronomical data will soon hit South Africa”


“Astronomers report a possible slew of extragalactic exoplanets”


February 10 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 CB encounter – miss distance 0.2 LD, size = 23 metres


Aten Asteroid 2015 FV118 Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)

 


February 11 2018 – 14:16 UT


Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 405,701 km)

 


February 11 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 2014 WQ202 Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 1991 VG


Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2016 WQ3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)


February 12 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 CH2 encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 9 metres


“If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?”


“Bizarre ‘Spider Stones’ Found at Site of Neolithic Sun-Worshipers”


“Diamond ring”


February 13 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2015 SY16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU)


“The Moon’s equatorial bulge hints at Earth’s early conditions”


February 14 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves”


“Space radiation on Earth”


“The origin of pulsating auroras”

 


February 15 2018 – 21:05 UT

New Moon

 


February 15 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 CD3 encounter – miss distance 0.9 LD, size = 7 metres


Asteroid 2018 CU2 encounter – miss distance 2.2 LD, size = 9 metres


“Asteroid Day takes off”


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia February 15 – February 22”


“Partial solar eclipse”


“NASA is taking a piece of Mars back home”


“Swarm details energetic coupling”


February 16 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 162882 (2001 FD58)


Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)


“Chorus Waves Drive the Beat for Pulsating Northern Lights”


“Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua Had a Violent Past”


“Hubble sees Neptune’s mysterious shrinking storm”


February 17 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet 185P/Petriew


Closest Approach To Earth (1.328 AU)


February 18 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2016 CA138 Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)


February 19 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“A super-Earth in Pisces might be one of the most massive ever discovered”


“Saturn’s B ring peaks”


“Secret to Great Pyramid’s Near-Perfect Alignment Possibly Found”


February 20 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 DB encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 11 metres


“Hypervelocity impact testing”


“Dark matter”


February 21 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 DQ encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 5 metres


Apollo Asteroid 2017 VX1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)


Comet C/2017 T1 (Heinze)


Perihelion (0.581 AU)


“ExoMars: Surfing complete”


“Amateur Astronomer Captures Supernova’s First Light”


“Crash investigation”


February 22 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2016 CO246 Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia February 22 – February 28”


“Astronomers discover the most distant supernova ever detected”

 


February 23 2018 – 08:09 UT

First Lunar Quarter

 


February 23 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


“NASA planetary protection officer suggests loosening limits on exploring Mars for life”


“Astronomers Watch Donut Rotate Around Supermassive Black Hole”


February 24 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2017 DR109 encounter – miss distance 3.7 LD, size = 11 metres


Aten Asteroid 2017 DR109 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)


February 25 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 DU encounter – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 8 metres


Asteroid 2018 DR encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 12 metres


February 26 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2016 FU12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2004 CK39


Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2017 DF38 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)


Comet C/2017 S6 (Catalina)


Perihelion (1.543 AU)


“Venus Returns to the Dusk Sky”


“22 years of SOHO”


“Neutron Star Powers Ultraluminous X-rays”


“The wibbly wobbly Moon”

 


February 27 2018 – 14:48 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 363,938 km)

 


February 27 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 DT encounter – miss distance 4.2 LD, size = 13 metres


Apollo Asteroid 2014 EY24


Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)


“The core of the Milky Way unveiled in clearest infrared image yet”


“An Eccentric Planet Skims a Giant Star”


“Water on the Moon might actually be locked in place and widespread”


February 28 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..


Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2015 BF511 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)


“Saturn’s watery moon Enceladus might harbour methane-belching microbes”

 


You Can Help To Support This Free Information Service

If You Buy Your Books About:

Comets & Cometary Debris,

Asteroids,

Meteors & Meteor Showers

Impact Craters,

Meteorites and

General Astronomy

From These Links Provided By

The Morien Institute

 


SpaceWeather Information & Resources


Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm


What is Heliophysics
|

NASA Living With a Star
|

Heliophysics Summer School


NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
|

The Australian Space Weather Agency


Space Weather Radio
|

ESA Space Environment Information System


Space weather influences on atmospheric electricity


Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery


Realtime Comet Photo Gallery


a solar wind image link to the australian spaceweather agency home page


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

 


March 2018 Celestial Events & Space Research News


March 2018 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until March 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


March 2018 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
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BBC The Sky at Night – March 2018


Meteorite Times Magazine – March 2018
usually available middle of the month


Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools


At the start of March 2018 the Sunspot Number is ?


March 01 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 DW1 encounter – miss distance 3.9 LD, size = 15 metres


Comet 73P-T/Schwassmann-Wachmann


Closest Approach To Earth (1.276 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia March 01 – March 08”


“Live Webinar: How to Chase and Photograph Auroras”


“Mars Express views moons set against Saturn’s rings”


“Could a Giant Impact Have Vaporized Earth to Create the Moon?”


“What does it look like near a supermassive black hole?”

 


March 02 2018 – 00:51 UT


Full Worm Moon

 


March 02 2018 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 DV1 encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 7 metres


“If Earth’s driest desert can house dormant life, can Mars, too?”


“Venus: Our mysterious neighbor”


March 03 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Comet from beyond our solar system first thought to be a spaceship”


March 04 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 DC4 encounter – miss distance 3.3 LD, size = 12 metres


Patrick Moore’s 95th Birthday (1923)


“Mysterious Celestial Ball of Fire Detected in Russia’s Urals Skies”


March 05 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mercury
Passes 1.4° From
Venusas seen from Earth


“Donor star breathes life into zombie companion”


“Saturn’s greatest storm”


March 06 2018 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Sentinel-3: a workhorse mission for Copernicus”


“US scientists plot return to the Moon’s surface”


March 07 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2017 VR12 encounter – miss distance 3.8 LD, size = 269 metres


Apollo Asteroid 2017 VR12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)


Aten Asteroid 2003 EM1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)


“Measurement of Jupiter’s asymmetric gravity field”


“New Juno findings amaze scientists studying Jupiter”


“Clusters of cyclones encircling Jupiter’s poles”


March 08 2018 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2015 FM34 Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia March 08 – March 15”

 


March 09 2018 – 11:20 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

 


March 09 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Meeting: Ground Effects of Severe Space Weather Events
RAS, London, UK


March 10 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2015 DK200 Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2003 DY15


Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)


Aten Asteroid 2007 CM26


Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)

 


March 11 2018 – 09:13 UT


Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 404,682 km)

 


March 11 2018 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Daylight Saving – Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour
USA


March 12 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2013 RZ73


Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)


“Single population of red globular clusters around massive compact galaxy NGC 1277”


March 13 2018 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


March 14 2018 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2017 RY15 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU


“Stephen Hawking passes away at 76”


March 15 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Mercury


At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (18°)
as seen from Earth


Comet 125P/Spacewatch


Closest Approach To Earth (1.243 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia March 15 – March 22”


“Mercury: The Swift Planet”


March 16 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


The March 2018 edition of Meteorite Times magazine is now up online


Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan


Closest Approach To Earth (1.025 AU)


“Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking in length, but growing in height”


“Comets and asteroids shower Mars with organics”

 


March 17 2018 – 13:12 UT

New Moon

 


March 17 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 FD2 encounter – miss distance 2.4 LD, size = 16 metres


March 18 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mercury
Passes 3.9° From
Venusas seen from Earth


Asteroid 2018 FE3 encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 13 metres


Asteroid 2018 FE encounter – miss distance 3.9 LD, size = 8 metres


March 19 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Comet 73P-Y/Schwassmann-Wachmann


Closest Approach To Earth (1.558 AU)


Asteroid 2018 FQ3 encounter – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 7 metres


“Physicist Proposes Alternative to Black Holes”


“Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua likely originated in binary star system”


“Crab Nebula in ultraviolet”


“Timing of oceans on Mars from shoreline deformation”

 


March 20 2018 – 16:15 UT


Alban Eilir

Vernal (Spring) Equinox

 


March 20 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Velikovsky’s Venus”


March 21 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 1981 Midas


Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)


Asteroid 2018 ED9 encounter – miss distance 1.6 LD, size = 14 metres


“What Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper Says (And Doesn’t Say)”


“Isotopic evolution of protoplanetary disk and the building blocks of Earth and Moon”


March 22 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 FR3 encounter – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 13 metres


Aten Asteroid 2011 GP44


Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia March 22 – March 29”


“Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua came from binary star system”


“Look Inside the Orion Nebula”


“Explore the cosmos with ESASky”


[John has been very ill for the past two weeks and I have not been able to assist updating the Calendar until now. Please bear with us as we try to catch up

– Polly March 23 2018]


March 23 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 FZ3 encounter – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 11 metres


Asteroid 2018 FF3 encounter – miss distance 1.1 LD, size = 17 metres


Apollo Asteroid 267940 (2004 EM20)


Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU


Comet 73P-T/Schwassmann-Wachmann


Perihelion (0.950 AU)


Comet 363P/Lemmon


Perihelion (1.508 AU)


“Artificial intelligence identifies 6,000 new craters on the Moon”

 


March 24 2018 – 15:35 UT

First Lunar Quarter

 


March 24 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


March 25 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


European Summer Time – Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour
European Union


Aten Asteroid 2017 FZ2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)


“NASA ScienceCast: Earth’s Magnetosphere”

 


March 26 2018 – 17:17 UT


Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 369,104 km)

 


March 26 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


“Chaotic web of filaments in a Milky Way stellar nursery”


“See the Red Planet, Saturn and Moon get close in the dawn sky”
annimated SkyMap


March 27 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2004 EU22


Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)


“Wandering star shook up the prehistoric solar system”


“Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Pancake?”


March 28 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Apollo Asteroid 2016 SR2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2013 QM48


Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)


Aten Asteroid 2003 FY6


Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)


“Proba-1 view of the Great Pyramids”


“A Galaxy Without (Much) Dark Matter”


March 29 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Venus
Passes 0.7° From
Uranusas seen from Earth with a suitable telescope


Asteroid 2018 FB encounter – miss distance 4.9 LD, size = 56 metres


“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia March 29 – April 05”


“First test success for largest Mars mission parachute”


“Chinese space station predicted to crash somewhere on Earth around Easter”


March 30 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Asteroid 2018 FK5 encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 8 metres


“Understanding the Outer Reaches of Earth’s Atmosphere”

 


March 31 2018 – 12:37 UT


Full Pink Moon

 


March 31 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day


Aten Asteroid 2010 GD35


Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)


Apollo Asteroid 2001 FA58


Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)


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“Star Mounds: Legacy of

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“Solar System Maps:

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“The 2300 BC Event – Vol. 1:

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“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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“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:

Mythology

The Eyewitness Accounts 2″


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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.”


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“The Power of Stars:
How Celestial Observations

Have Shaped Civilization”


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Stephen M. Fabian



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“What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been established?

And how have people all around the world and throughout time reacted to the night sky, the sun and moon, in their poetry, mythology, rituals, and temples?

This book explores the influence of the sky on both ancient and modern civilization, by providing a clear overview of the many ways in which humans have used the stars as an ordering principle in their cultures, and which today still inspire us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.

The book explores constellation lore from around the world, celestial alignments of monuments and temples, both from ancient and modern civilizations, and the role the sky has played in the cultures of the Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Native American, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec, and Inca.

Models of the universe from each of these cultures are described clearly, and each culture’s explanation of the stars, planets, and other celestial objects are described.

The roots of astronomy and astrology are presented with original imagery and reproductions of ancient manuscripts that portray the structure of the physical universe as conceived by a diverse array of human cultures over the centuries.

Our own scientific Big Bang cosmology and the origin of stars and elements are discussed in a philosophical context, to explore how we as modern people learn about the Universe, and incorporate the findings of science into our world views.

A concluding chapter provides a summary of modern science’s effort to unlock the celestial secrets from the sky and from past civilizations, and what these answers mean for us today.”


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“Imhotep The African:

Architect of the Cosmos”


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Robert Bauval


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Thomas Brophy



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“In IMHOTEP THE AFRICAN, Egyptologist, Robert Bauval, and astrophysicist, Thomas Brophy, uncover the mystery of Imhotep, ancient Egyptian superstar, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo and Newton all rolled into one.

Based on their research at the Step Pyramid Complex at Saqqara, Bauval and Brophy delve into observational astronomy to ‘decode’ the alignments and other design features of the Step Pyramid Complex, to uncover the true origins and genius of Imhotep.”


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“Megalithic Sites in Britain”


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Alexander Thom



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“Megalithic Lunar Observatories”


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Alexander Thom



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“Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany”


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Alexander Thom




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“Carnac, The Alignments”


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Howard Crowhurst



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“Howard Crowhurst in this book has presented the most brilliant analysis of a megalithic site in the entire history of archaeology.

His elucidations of the geometrical, mathematical, and astronomical principles by which ancient Carnac was constructed prove that megalithic science was astonishingly advanced.

The book gives us unprecedented insight into the minds of the intellectuals of a lost civilisation, which we may at last begin to comprehend as a result of what Crowhurst has found during more than twenty years of living on site.

His book is an epochal achievement.”


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“Astronomy & Measurement in Megalithic Architecture”


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Peter Harris


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Norman Stockdale



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“Alexander Thom:

Cracking The

Stone Age Code”


by


Robin Heath



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“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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“The legends of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades that poets, priests, prophets, shamans, storytellers, artists, singers, and historians have told throughout time are retold in this compilation of the stories that have found their inspiration in nine beautiful stars clustered together in the night sky.

While particular attention in this cross-cultural study is paid to the influence of the Pleiades cluster on the living traditions of indigenous people in North America, Australia, Japan, and the Pacific, much ancient mythology passed down through written and visual sources from ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and South America is also explored.

Appearances of the myths in the modern world are also mentioned, including American presidential elections, Halloween, Atlantis, the Titanic, and Subaru automobiles.

Serious astronomical research complements the variety of mythological explanations for the stars’ existence by providing the modern world’s scientific understanding of them.”


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“Emu Dreaming:
An Introduction to Australian Aboriginal Astronomy”


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Ray Norris


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Cilla Norris



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“Avebury Cosmos:
The Neolithic World
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Nicholas R. Mann



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“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:
Sun, Moon and Earth”

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Maria Wheatley
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“Living the Sky:
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Ray A. Williamson



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“Chaco Astronomy:

An Ancient American Cosmology”


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Anna Sofaer



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“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
Astronomy in the Southwest”

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J. McKim Malville



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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”

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Stephen M. Fabian



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“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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“Before the Pyramids:

Cracking Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery”


by


Christopher Knight


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Alan Butler



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“Were the pyramids of the pharaohs conceived in Britain?

The acclaimed coauthors of Civilization One think so, and they take readers on a gripping excursion into ancient religion and astronomy.

Knight and Butler not only establish the existence of an advanced civilization with astonishing, almost modern knowledge, but they also explain how the oldest Neolithic monuments – the henges of North Yorkshire – were planned, and their amazing connection to the later pyramids of Giza.”


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