Jim Rowe
@jimroweuk.bsky.social
Runner, skywatcher, renewable energy person. Perpetual tourist even when home.
A good paper - very interesting ideas.
WE PUBLISH: INTERSTELLAR VISITORS AND ELUSIVE EXTRASOLAR METEORITES to exemplify how Oort cloud objects gravitationally perturbed by stellar encounters can simulate interstellar visitors:
www.astroscu.unam.mx/rmaa/RMxAC.....
Based in our #Icarus journal paper:⤵️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.astroscu.unam.mx/rmaa/RMxAC.....
Based in our #Icarus journal paper:⤵️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A good paper - very interesting ideas.
Reposted by Jim Rowe
A very cool thread about meteors in ancient astronomy:
Star gazers in ancient Mesopotamia focused on recurring stuff like planetary motion, but sometimes they wrote about meteors.
Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...
Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...
December 5, 2024 at 12:19 PM
A very cool thread about meteors in ancient astronomy:
South Downs sunset tonight
November 22, 2024 at 6:45 PM
South Downs sunset tonight
Who doesn't like a #meteor? This pretty thing was seen from Sussex, Shropshire and beyond just before 1 this morning. Image from Global Meteor Network camera UK0002 in #Eastbourne, and also seen by four #FRIPON cameras.
November 22, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Who doesn't like a #meteor? This pretty thing was seen from Sussex, Shropshire and beyond just before 1 this morning. Image from Global Meteor Network camera UK0002 in #Eastbourne, and also seen by four #FRIPON cameras.
Manchester full moon.
November 16, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Manchester full moon.