In the News

An Iron Meteorite

10 September 2010 Geology
At http://geology.com/records/largest-meteorite/ ... in 1920 a farmer's plough struck a lump of metal in a field near Grootfontein in Namibia. It was an iron meteorite

Scone

9 September 2010 Archaeology
At http://news.scotsman.com/news/39Birth-certificate-of-Scotland39-unearthed.6521243 ... archaeologists excavating at the Moot Hill in the grounds of Scone Palace have been able to use C14 dating methodology from a

Comet Halley in the 5th century BC

9 September 2010 Astronomy
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.

Watch this video clip

9 September 2010 Astronomy
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  

End of Ice Age - New Zealand

8 September 2010 Geology
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

The Trojan War

8 September 2010 Catastrophism
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

Red Rain update

6 September 2010 Biology
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

Titbits of History

6 September 2010 Archaeology
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

A second pole slip ... what next ...

6 September 2010 Electromagnetism
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

The Etruscans, the Hittites, Luwians, and others

4 September 2010 Dating
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

New Chronology and Jonah

4 September 2010 Dating
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

Fire in the Sun

4 September 2010 Electromagnetism
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

A coral reef is evidence of an extremely rapid change in sea levels during the Holocene

3 September 2010 Geology
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.

Mass Extinctions and Evolution

3 September 2010 Biology
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

Life on Mars (?)

3 September 2010 Astronomy
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

Dancing Electrons

3 September 2010 Electromagnetism
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

Water and Ocean Currents

3 September 2010 Geology
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

Water and Stars

3 September 2010 Astronomy
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

Humans in the Amazon Basin

3 September 2010 Archaeology
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,

A couple of sites on a revised chronology

3 September 2010 Dating
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