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Roberet sent in a link to www.space.com/dust-ring-discovered-mercury-orbit.html ... a dust ring has been discovered orbiting Mercury. Or one might put it another way, Mercury regular

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/14/astronomers-discover-83-supermass... ... I reported on this last week but at the link above we have some interesting comments (and some silly ones) - on

The Younger Dryas Boundary Event Hypothesis isn't going to bed any time soon. I'm sure this will to the disappointment of mainstream. James Kennett et

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/12/monster-solar-storm-that-hit-eart... ... scientists have found evidence of a large blast of radiation that struck the Earth in 660BC. Solar proton particles were involved and

At www.thegwpf.com/china-and-the-pause/ ... Chinese scientists say the hiatus in global warming is significant and real - and there are a lot more climate scientists in

William also sent in a couple of other links. At https://phys.org/print470892440.html ... it has been found that asteroids do not break up as easily as

William commented, mainstream doesn't mind catastrophism as long as it happened eons ago. See Elements volume 15:1 (February) which is a special issue devoted to

This post was sent in by Robert and must come under evolution rather than geology as it is speculative and from a Creationist attempt at

At https://phys.org/print471074197.html ... dinosaurs were thriving immediately prior to the asteroid strike that decimated them we are told. This is a big step change by

Robert sent in this link to https://phys.org/print471088133.html ... latest data sent back from Jupiter and Saturn show that these two gas giants have not played

A NASA 'Day in Review' article, 'Galactic Wind Provides Clue to Evolution of Galaxies' (from the jpl news room at www.jpl.nasa.gov ) is reproduced at

At www.bldgblog.com/2007/04/the-heliocentric-pantheon-an-interview-with-wal... ... this pieces was sent in by Brian, a long time SIS member. He is hoping to open discussion with other members of

An Israeli company has created water from plain air and is set to globally expand its business - see www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-company-creating-water-from-plain-air-... ... Watergen draws air from

At http://cosmictusk.com/plants-and-trees-in-hiawatha-crater/ ... we learn that the Hiawatha Crater recently found in NW Greenland, has organic carbon in the glacio fluvial sand seeping from the

The outer solar system is a fairly quiet place we are assured. Not a lot of meteors or craters on the likes of Pluto and

At https://eos.org/features/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-earth-blobs/ ... sent in by William, the subject being the hot mantle below the crust which appears to harbour two blobs the length of

At https://phys.org/print470023462.html ... the Japanese probe Hayabusa 2 has landed on the Ryuga asteroid and is in the process of collecting samples. The material is

At https://phys.org/print470041521.html ... geomagnetic activity in Earth's atmosphere with an origin in the same on the Sun. A plasma stream, the solar wind, is causing

Geological chronology is at the heart of a division in earth sciences - between those that favour an asteroid impact and those that, instead, blame

At https://phys.org/print469790260.html ... high energy x-ray bursts from low energy plasma is the  subject matter of this press release. We are told solar rays should