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An article in the Observatory 125 (2005) pages 319-122, 'Earth in the Cosmic Shooting Gallery' by DJ Asher, Mark Bailey, V Emil'yanenkar abd Bill Napier

Not sure what category to file this post under but Ancient History will do as not many of them come up. The subject is actually

The title sounds a bit like a Dwardu Cardona book but this story is at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/the-primordial-star-at-the-edge-of... ... this subject, has I think, already been posted

Chiefio has been dipping his fingers around Sirius - is it a binary star? Go to http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/siriusly-pondering/ ... I like the bit where he says,

George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/comet-ison-solar-flares-and-the-775-ad-eichler-event/ ... says he has just learnt about the discovery of Comet Ison which has been exciting astronomers over the last couple

Leading on from the previous posting this story comes from www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/-december-27-2004-the-day-planet-e... ... which sounds a bit over the top - and probably is. You may

At http://phys.org/print275845800.html ... cosmic rays are thought to originate in massive stars somewhere out in the universe, tiny particles that rain incessantly down from space.

At http://phys.org/print275843816.html ... NASAs Pioneer Venus orbiter, as long ago as 1978, suggested the ionosphere of Venus had a magnetised state with a large horizontal

At the German site of www.spiegel.de/international/world/buried-christian-empire-in-yemen-cast... ... some fascinating archaeology in Yemen sheds some light on the little known period between the end of the

I noticed this at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20795347 ... In a look back at 2012 archaeology we read that the beer loving Vikings that settled on Greenland in

At www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Temple_vessels_Bi...    ... finds, said to date from the Early Monarchy, have been excavated from Tel Motza, not far from Jerusalem. They are thought

Having avoided the Mayan calendar doomsaying it is now worth taking a look at what it all might mean - and Bob Johnson has done

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/age-of-worlds-oldes... ... we find that the Early Neolithic in central Europe was not just about farming or husbandry but also involved sophisticated carpentry. The

Erik Verlinde, professor of Theoretical Physics, and dabbler in String Theory, in a recent book, On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton,

At http://phys.org/print275575752.html ... we learn that climate see saws are not just a feature of the most recent Ice Age but were happening in earlier

Chiefio has turned his mind to genes and has a spiffing post on Native Americans and European roots, all nicely speculative but interesting never the

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/swarms-of-tiny-galaxies-found-burs... ... the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered lots of small galaxies that are teeming with star formation - or so the interpretation goes.

West Stow is an archaeological dig that was developed by English Heritage into a visitor centre and re-enactment of what the village is thought to

Wal Thornhill, in a reply to an email, states, there is no such thing as plate tectonics, the magnetic poles move. An external torque might

Polar Bears, or 'poley' bears as one commenter insists on calling them, was a feature of CAGW exposed by Christopher Booker in one of his