sexta-feira, 5 de maio de 2017

Did a comet hit the Earth in 10950 BC?



How about mixing some archeology with astronomy?

Before there was paper or the internet to spread the astronomical events, the humans who lived thousands of years ago wrote their observations on the rocks.

There are countless cave paintings relating to celestial events, such as the crab supernova, written and described in rocks by the Chinese people.

The science that integrates archaeological studies with astronomical events, receives the name of archeoastronomy.

Recently, a group of researchers discovered rock-carved evidence that a catastrophic astronomical event occurred on Earth long ago.

Prior to the archaeological evidence, analysis of samples taken in Greenland suggested that a comet had hit the Earth, and this led our planet to experience a 1000-year freeze period.

Other evidence suggests that due to this cooling of our planet, groups of people began to join, migrate and started a well-developed agriculture.

Now a group of researchers have discovered in the so-called Gobekli Tepe, a rock pillar with writings that perfectly align with the comet crash on Earth in 10950 BC.
The pillar contains inscriptions that seem to document the devastating event, probably the collision of a comet or remnants of a comet on Earth that has caused an environmental impact around the globe and the likely loss of life.

The researchers took the inscriptions to a computer where they analyzed the probable relationship of the drawings with constellations, and this worked, revealing strong relationships between the characters found in the pillar and the astronomical symbols that were in the sky in 10950 a.c.
As people took some time to create the symbols on the pillar, this suggests that something very important happened during the same time period that the Greenland ice sheets suggest.

Perhaps it was the shock of a comet with Earth in 10890 BC (Younger Dryas).
The researchers also analyzed that this event may have altered the axis of rotation of the Earth.

It is a very interesting topic, and it is through archeoastronomy that it is possible based on the past to understand a little of the present and who knows even to predict the future.

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