Amber , that pretty yellow mineral that comes from resin/ sap from ancient trees that solidifies as a fossil, hold interesting evidence of ancient life.
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1796778.htm?ancient
Saturday, December 2, 2006
Ancient Roman device was an ancient clock like device
Amazing read
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/scientists-unravel-mystery-of-ancient/20061201182609990013?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/scientists-unravel-mystery-of-ancient/20061201182609990013?ncid=NWS00010000000001
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
rest of story A star fell on Sylacauga 1954
Reading about meteors and meteorites when I was younger, I knew about this story as it was one of the only ones if not the only one that at that time about a human being being struck by a meteorite. But I did not know the rest of the story.
Read below about the interesting rest of the story
Dr.Eric
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Picture of The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the Dec. 13, 1954, issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about the Sylacauga meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the table, Jacobs points to the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it was struck by the rock.
A star fell on Sylacauga
'54 meteorite struck home,
woman, changed lives
By M.J. Ellington
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061130/meteorite.shtml
Read below about the interesting rest of the story
Dr.Eric
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Picture of The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the Dec. 13, 1954, issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about the Sylacauga meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the table, Jacobs points to the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it was struck by the rock.
A star fell on Sylacauga
'54 meteorite struck home,
woman, changed lives
By M.J. Ellington
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