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3 pages of results. 1. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , The Cosmic Serpent [1 ], in which they aimed to show that a huge comet had terrified our ancestors, caused global disasters, and been largely forgotten in a general dislocation of Mediterranean history/chronology. The original super-comet gradually degraded, leaving behind such remnants as certain meteor streams (most notably the Southern, Northern and Beta Taurids), some active comets (principally Encke's comet), a number of Apollo asteroids (notably Hephaistos), and the dusty solar halo known as the Zodiacal Light. A variety of impacts in historical times (including the Tunguska event) are attributed to the same cause, all the way back to Noah's Flood. The sequence continues ...
2. Commemoration Of The 2300bc Event [Journals] [SIS Review]
... He has written two unpublished books: the first on cultural and geophysical events occurring at 2300 BC (excerpts of this book have been published by the SIS) and the second book dedicated to the thesis that all the early mythology developed from an encounter of the Earth with a massive meteoroid stream in 2300BC. Introduction The Earth's encounter with the Taurid meteoroid stream in 2300BC was a terrifying experience, involving heavy loss of life. The overwhelming fall of meteoroids occurred at the same time as intense flooding which people were helpless to resist. It was commemorated by people all over the Earth for thousands of years and is even commemorated today, though the meaning has dimmed with time. The ...
3. Cosmic Winter [Articles]
... , micron/submicron dust that then floats down through the atmosphere, undetected. So the message I want to give you is that it's not all zodiacal dust that's making up the material that arrives in the atmosphere. It's actually breaking up from meteoroids. Much of my talk this morning will relate to what I mentioned yesterday-a thing called the Taurid meteor stream, and, again, I want you to know that the Taurid meteoroid stream is not something that we, as it were, learned about fifty or sixty years ago from meteors and we've simply been checking that result ever since. The remarkable thing about the space age is that it has actually revealed more and more things ...
4. Fire From Heaven [Journals] [SIS Review]
... McBeath. Truffles too are thought to be produced from lightning strikes and jelly-like fungal slimes were known as star jelly', or star-slime'. European fungal fruits are most common from later summer to early winter. These coincide, he notes, with prominent meteor showers such as the Perseids and the Leonids. Strangely, he doesn't mention the Taurids, hence it is unclear if the Taurids were as active as Clube and Napier claim in their book [9 ], especially within the last few hundred years. It would be logical for the November Taurids to be involved in some way, as many fungi can be found at this time. All the meteor streams, it should ...
5. The Countdown to a New Celestial Hazard [Journals] [Aeon]
... that disintegrating large comets were mostly responsible for sustaining both the near-Earth asteroid and short-period comet populations and for controlling most aspects of terrestrial catastrophism (climate, orogeny, geomagnetic reversals, plate movements, mass extinction, biological speciation, etc). As a natural corollary of this thesis, a recent very large comet which was probably responsible for the Taurid meteoroid complex, was instanced as the most evident exemplar of the process by which the present near-Earth asteroid population was replenished and through which the Earth (and civilization) was currently experiencing catastrophism on a ten or twenty thousand year timescale. Some of the implications of this thesis have recently been explored in their book The Cosmic Winter. Following ...
6. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... fit both (contradictory) versions (a shifting Egyptian festival (never in June? Cosmic Serpent p. 241) becomes a fixed June event (Cosmic Winter p. 44)). Actually I could have been even more critical on this point. During the 4 or 5 millennia considered by Clube and Napier, the June/Daylight Taurids never radiated from Aries; how could Gildas' mention of battering rams' be an identification? 3) Atkinson... knows... [only] about... current innocuous meteor showers'. Clube &Napier argued that the Taurids are still particularly dangerous or spectacular or special showers - and have been catastrophic well ...
7. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... The unusually large comet which Clube and Napier (1982) postulated as the source of the disruption to the inner Solar System, and which I unwisely criticised (1983) as being not founded in fact, would now appear to have been found in Chiron. The other remains of the large comet can be found in comet Encke, the Taurid meteor stream and some 50-100 Earth-crossing asteroids. Whereas Clube and Napier have indicated in The Cosmic Winter some relatively minor events' which might have been caused by Earth's encounters with the Taurids, the reader is left to deduce that the more significant events' (the Deluge, the Exodus) were caused, in their thesis, by comet ...
8. Independent Confirmation of a Catastrophic Event [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of meteoroids, causing craters which eventually disappeared due to weathering. Iyengar has reasonably speculated in the paper that the falling objects were fragments of an asteroid. As I will discuss a little later, the writing has been dated by him to be acceptably close to my postulated 2300 BC date, so the possibility exists that they may have been Taurid cometary meteoroids. This type of meteoroid is relatively lightweight and fragile, and therefore likely to fragment or burn out in the atmosphere. However, Clube and Napier, as well as other astronomers, feel that the Taurid stream complex could also contain asteroids. The asteroids, having a rocky, stony composition, would be more likely to ...
9. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... identified. Backtracking from the orbits of comet Encke and asteroid Oljato, Clube and Napier found that 9,500 years ago these orbits were nearly identical. They conjectured that a major disintegration at that time of one previous prime body created these two bodies and that subsequent disintegrations former the other comets and asteroids of the Stohl stream (enveloping the Taurid meteors, comet Encke and asteroids of Oljato type). They say that around 3500-3000 BC Oljato's orbit would have lain virtually in Earth's orbital plane, making certain a series of close encounters. They propose that the stream (or at least one of its components) was the protagonist in catastrophes afflicting Earth in the past 5000 or more ...
10. Megalithic Circles and Star Charts [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a technical background in his field, and I have no desire to incur his undying anger and contempt [36]. For a more extensive treatment of the subject, I strongly advise reading his paper. The discussion centres about Comet Encke, a comet that currently exists in the Solar System, and is identified as the parent of the Taurid meteoroid stream that is postulated to have encountered the Earth at 2300 BC. Steel is a strong supporter of Clube and Napier's thesis that giant comets periodically come into the Solar System, and in particular, that a specific comet, proto-Encke, entered the Solar System in the order of ten thousand years ago, and has dominated meteoroid production ...
11. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in an orbit of about 3-1/3 years cutting across the Earth's path and going out nearly as far as Jupiter. Since its discovery, Encke's comet has got steadily fainter and it has been assumed it is turning into an Apollo asteroid. The American astronomer Fred Whipple decided long ago that Encke's comet and the so-called [beta] -Taurid meteor stream, also in a very similar orbit, were the remains of an original comet in an Earth-crossing orbit that broke up around 2100 BC, probably producing a lot of other fragments also. The Taurid meteor stream is certainly fairly young since we know from seismometers on the Moon that there is quite a flux of good-sized boulders as ...
12. Sun 13 July Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... in producing the last major glaciation ~50-10 kyr BP and which subsequently experienced a significant cis-Jovian planetary encounter ~5 kyr BP, the latter reducing its orbital eccentricity whilst at the same time enhancing and broadening its meteoroidal stream. Perceived initially as a central "tree of or life", such a system was to evolve and become the present Taurid Stream. It follows that the remnant of proto- Encke core of the Taurids is then associated with predictable "dark age" catastrophes. These last for several centuries and occur around 2000 - 2500n BC; n = 0, 1, 2... being naturally combined with a less frequent, more random, lower incidence of such ...
13. 2nd SIS Cambridge Conference Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... discussed. 9:45 Bill Napier, Armagh Observatory Cometary Catastrophes, Cosmic Dust and Ecological Disasters in Historical Times: The Astronomical Framework Available data from fireball and comet observations, meteorite impacts, small lunar craters and the current near-Earth environment are assembled to yield a coherent picture of the interface between the Earth and its current interplanetary environment. The Taurid Complex of meteors, meteoroids, asteroids and Comet Encke has probably been a significant and regularly visible celestial hazard from the last Ice Age through to the present day. These data lead to the expectation that history has been punctuated by: (I ) Tunguska-like impacts, singly or as part of fireball swarms; (ii) freezing events ...
14. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of a librating source can compensate the former. He knows all about the nature of current innocuous meteor showers but does not consider their nature immediately after the fragmentation of the parent body, when large chunks abound (Note 30). Thus, he does not appreciate the significance of enhanced fireball activity in a meteor stream, such as the Taurids, compared to the Leonids, which are fireball poor (Note 49). He knows that some geologists believe that vulcanism can produce shocked quartz' (Note 85) but does not understand that the stressed quartz' associated with the relatively low temperature-pressure regime of vulcanism is not the same as the shocked quartz' produced in the high ...
... termed a meteor; and if it is large enough to survive passage through the atmosphere and impact on the surface of the Earth, it is then called a meteorite [27].) Phaethon's orbit coincides almost exactly with that of the Geminid meteor stream, whilst Olijato, which seems to have a faint tail, is associated with the Taurids. Other Apollo asteroids, including Hephaistos, 1982 TA, 1984 KB and 5025 P-L, also have orbits similar to those of the Taurid meteoroids, as does Comet Encke, raising the possibility that all arose from the break-up of a larger cometary body [37,52]. Possible causes of catastrophe on Earth Assuming that the present ...
16. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... not identified exclusively with planet Venus, as many seem to think, the cometary aspects of Inanna/Ishtar (if they are valid as cometary) need not be projected on to planet Venus but may well have originated with a real comet, such as proto-Encke, as discussed by Clube and Napier in their elucidation of the role of the Taurid Complex on the development of civilisation and religion all through the Holocene. Proto-Encke would have been a brilliant morning and evening object every c. 3.25 years at perihelion and, therefore, readily associated with whatever deity was associated with Venus, another prominent morning and evening object. (NB The cuneiform symbols of Inanna that resemble a ...
17. Chiron: Giant Comet, Agent of Catastrophe? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... but Hahn and Bailey's simulations are even more compatible with the Cosmic Serpent/Winter hypothesis. For: "If Chiron (or some other large comet) has previously circulated in a short-period orbit, however, it may be possible to argue [references here to Clube and Napier's papers] that P/Encke and the associated bodies in the Taurid meteor stream complex were produced by ejection of material from the giant comet's outer layers. Ejection of P/Encke (or its progenitor) from Chiron during an earlier short-period phase of evolution may provide an explanation for the otherwise extreme nature of the forces that have to be invoked to explain P/Encke's present orbit." This is ...
18. Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... view that remained among some scholars as late as the post-WWII period but how did Lockyer reach a date so extraordinarily near to the real date of the final construction of Stonehenge? This is because the monument is aligned to the NE and sunrise in June but it doesn't mean it was built to forecast Midsummer Day, an irrelevance. The June Taurids were probably the offending phenomenon which the ancients were watching for. Lockyer became barmy in a scientific sense, obsessed with the balmy nature of spring festivals and summer gatherings on hills and by stones. However, he was still on the right track it seems to me, as the festival of first fruits in early August, as an ...
19. Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... thousands of summits are tumbling down .. . Fierce winds charged with pointed pebbles are blowing, crushing mighty trees. In villages and towns trees, ordinary and sacred, are falling down, crushed by mighty winds and struck by lightning." This is, without doubt, a mythological record of an intense meteor storm from the still active Taurid stream which presently peaks around the first of November and appears to radiate from near the Pleiades star cluster. The un-airworthy bird associated with this meteor bombardment could have been comet Encke which until recently was thought to be the sole source for the Taurid meteors. However, the discovery of other large contributors which are now dark but were once ...
20. The Cosmic Serpent by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [Kronos]
... read it. It's hard to make Comparisons; for intellectual pleasure and excitement it beats anything I have read since Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden. But really it is in a class of ifs own, and deserves to be a huge best seller.] *Leaving the present comet Encke, the Apollo asteroid Hephaistos, and the daytime Taurid meteor stream in Earth-crossing orbit. The orbits of these bodies are very similar. Whipple has shown that some Taurids may have been ejected 4,700 years ago from comet Encke. Hephaistos was only discovered in 1978 and more recently another large asteroid, 1982TA, whose orbit compares closely with that of Hephaistos and Encke was discovered. - ...
21. CANEPA: BOOK REVIEW [Journals] [Aeon]
... essentially unchanged for billions of years and those who opt for cosmic changes in the System within the memory of man, one could perhaps find it in the theoretical scenario proposed by Victor Clube and Bill Napier. Their theory propounds the occurrence of cataclysmic events, caused by extraterrestrial phenomena, within historical times. More specifically, they theorize that the Taurid meteor stream may be the remnants of a giant comet which terrorized ancient man. This giant comet, in turn, would have been generated when the distant Oort cloud was disturbed through one of its periodic galactic disturbances. The Origin of Comets was written by Clube and Napier in collaboration with M.A . Bailey. The book commences ...
22. The Bedrock of Myth [Articles]
... from what we now associate with the sky. [Alternatively, this imagery also seems compatible, in many ways, with what would be seen were Earth to acquire temporarily, and perhaps at more than one epoch, a number of nearly vertical, i.e ., highly inclined, rings of meteoritic debris from interaction with the then-youthful Taurid meteor stream, as Moe Mandelkehr has modelled and proposes in his manuscript The Answered Riddle: A Thesis on the Meaning of Myth, which is a major adjunct to the pioneering work of Clube and Napier and co-workers. The Taurid stream is the presumptive source owing to the ancient prominence of the Pleiades which is near the radiant of the ...
23. The Causal Source for the Climatic Changes at 2300 BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... at 2345BC, indicating a possible volcanic event. This could also indicate a meteoroid event. I strongly favour a meteoroid event as the cause of the triggering of the Arctic. I support the work of Clube and Napier on the appearance of a giant comet in the Solar System tens of thousands of years ago, with Comet Encke and the Taurid meteoroid stream being its progeny. Voluminous evidence exists on the appearance of religions, mythologies and specific deities at 2300BC graphically associated with an encounter of the Earth with a densely packed meteoroid stream. Commemorations of the event almost always include the appearance of the Taurid stream from the direction of the Pleiades constellation and the association of the event with ...
24. Recent book and article on Catastrophism [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... edu Date: 16 Jul 1996 09:16:28 GMT The following new book and recent article may be of interest to those interested in neo-catastrophism. Fire on Earth by John and Mary Gribbin discusses the hazards posed by near earth-crossing objects. Includes sections on the great extinctions, the Tunguska incident, and Clube and Napier's work on the Taurid complex. 264 pages bibliographical references, July 1996. $23.95 (US), ISBN. 0-312-14335-4, Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York. "Cosmic Dancers on History's Stage? The Permanent Revolution in the Earth Sciences" by Mike Davis appears in the May/June issue of New Left Review. Davis ...
25. Exodus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... BC might coincide with the break-up of a comet known to the Akkadians as the goddess Ishtar, or alternatively, the comet of Clube and Napier [9 ], a disintegrating comet that came to form two pieces, the twins (Manasseh and Ephraim = the sons of the bull, Joseph). Eventually they disintegrated and became the two Taurid meteor streams, the basic story of the Gilgamesh Epic - two immortal friends who achieved the dubious honour of mortality (gods that died or disappeared). The Exodus story is associated with a brass serpent, an effigy of a comet, a pillar of cloud and fire and the worship of a Golden Calf. In Old Kingdom Egypt ...
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