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February 15, 2013

Bolide Shockwave Injures 1000+ in Russia: Black Swan -- or I Told You So?

The Bos! Slow feed but great vids Plugged!: Younger Dryas Impact Event Feb Fireball Season San Fran Cuba and video Japan Miami Brazil 2012 Iowa 1875 and here 1913 Fireball Hush-Up? NASA Urges Vigilance for Weird Fireballs NASA 2012 Press Release “The Fireballs of February” Year of the Snake? Black Swan As readers know, the Tusk is generally uninterested in current events…

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January 26, 2013

Roger That: Ancient Chronicles Inform Modern Science

From The Telegraph: Some experts highlighted an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which refers to a “red crucifix” seen in the night sky, but this occurred in 776 – a year too late – and does not explain why no remnants of the event have since been detected by astronomers. From Roger of Wendover regarding 794 AD: “In the year of our Lord 794, Humbert, archbishop of…

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September 22, 2012

2012 Slow Green Fireball Train in UK: Satellite or Meteor Break-Up?

I hate being dragged into these “modern” reports, since the Tusk specializes about this kind of stuff in the ancient past. But the UK event yesterday was really, really cool and I have posted before on these slow greenish fireballs. Because of the unusually long duration and slow movement, some people have suggested the possibility of a satellite reentry. For various reasons, this is…

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December 5, 2010

Mini Tunguska: The Rio Curuca Impact, Brazil, 1930

The Day the Earth Trembled by John McFarland reposted from the Armagh Observatory here. When the sun began to rise on the morning of 13 August 1930 like any other morning, little did the inhabitants along the banks of the River Curuçá in the Brazilian Amazonas region, near the Peruvian frontier, realise what was about to happen. The women of the community had started washing clothing and the…

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December 2, 2010

Kobres: The Case of Carbonaceous Catastrophes

From: http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/caseof.html Holmes; Are you carbonizing onions or smoking rope in that calabash again? BY GEORGE WATSON LOOK AT THIS! GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! Neutrons out of something the size of a football from a sustainable D to D fusion. Seems it was thought up years ago by old Farnsworth, the fellow who invented television, but the implications were ignored. Now it’s…

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December 2, 2010

Walt Whitman, Gustav Hahn, and the Great Fireball Train of 1913

[BLOCK QUOTES NOT WORKING, FOLKS, OFF SITE MATERIAL BELOW] From The Star at: http://www.thestar.com/article/819730 An obscure painting by the Canadian artist Gustav Hahn (1866-1962) has played a crucial role in unravelling a literary mystery. It’s a story that blends art, poetry, science and history, and involves not only Hahn but also a great American painter from half a century earlier…

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December 2, 2010

BBC: Ball lightning 'may explain UFOs'

Ball lightning ‘may explain UFOs’ By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News Some UFO sightings could be explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, claims Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes. The scientist has made a detailed study of an unusual event in 2006 when large meteors were observed over Brisbane. Their appearance occurred at the same time as a…

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December 2, 2010

Fireball spewing Comet Schwassman-Wachmann returning in 2011

The revelation that Schwassmann-Wachmann (hereafter SW3) left a cosmic calling card during it’s last pass is significant. The comet returns every 5.4 years. The next pass should be around November 2011. Some time around then we could expect another cometary shower. The intensity of the encounter would seem to be a function of the degree of fragmentation of SW3, which has been…

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December 1, 2010

Australian Comet to Fireball paper here

A diagram of the ‘northern’ fireball drawn by graphic designer, David Sawell of Burpengary(about 7 km south of Caboolture) who saw the fireball travelling in a northwest direction. The characterof this fireball seems to be different from the western and southern fireballs. Green Fireballs and Ball Lightning Click here for full paper and other info Hughes, Stephen W. (2010) Green fireballs…

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April 7, 2010

Shrill and Hysterical: NASA official seeks personal apology from citizen Catastrophist

When I worked in politics, we won a primary — and knew we would beforehand — when the opponent became, as was noted in the newspaper, “Shrill and Hysterical.” To us, that meant we were doing something right because the opponent was losing her grip as the evidence of the pending loss mounted. We see much the same dynamic today in the email chatter of Leroy Ellenberger, a…

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Bolide Shockwave Injures 1000+ in Russia: Black Swan -- or I Told You So?

Roger That: Ancient Chronicles Inform Modern Science

2012 Slow Green Fireball Train in UK: Satellite or Meteor Break-Up?

Mini Tunguska: The Rio Curuca Impact, Brazil, 1930

Kobres: The Case of Carbonaceous Catastrophes

Walt Whitman, Gustav Hahn, and the Great Fireball Train of 1913

BBC: Ball lightning 'may explain UFOs'

Fireball spewing Comet Schwassman-Wachmann returning in 2011

Australian Comet to Fireball paper here

Shrill and Hysterical: NASA official seeks personal apology from citizen Catastrophist

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