Manicouagan Impact Structure - Online PDF Files 22SEP2018

Manicouagan Impact Structure - Online PDF Files

Hi,

Below are some online PDF files about the Manicouagan
impact structure area.

Murtaugh, J.G., 1976. Manicouagan impact structure area.
Ministère des richesses naturelles, Direction générale des
mines, Exploration géologique.
http://gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca/documents/EXAMINE/DPV432/DPV432.pdf

Jean-Philippe L. Messier, 2003, Projet de Reserve de la
biosphere Manicouagan - Monts Groulx (Uapashke)
http://www.bape.gouv.qc.ca/sections/mandats/groulx-levasseur/documents/DB10.pdf

Geological maps of the Manicouagan Impact Structure Area
http://gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca/documents/EXAMINE/CGSIGEOM22N/CGSIGEOM22NPLAN_1-16.pdf


Best wishes,

Paul H.

Busy Week in Near Earth Asteroid Traffic 17SEP2018

Busy Week in Near Earth Asteroid Traffic

Several near-Earth asteroids buzz by our neighborhood
in the same week, Eric Mac, Cnet, September 10, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/several-near-earth-asteroids-buzz-by-our-neighborhood-in-the-same-week/


An older article is:

America Isn't Ready to Handle a Catastrophic Asteroid
Impact, New Report Warns by Ryan F. Mandelbaum< Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/america-isnt-ready-to-handle-a-catastrophic-asteroid-im-1827014709


Yours,

Paul H.

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks 17SEP2018

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks

Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to
catch space rocks By Joshua Rapp, Science, Aug. 29, 2018
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/asteroid-miners-could-use-earth-s-atmosphere-catch-space-rocks

I love the caption to the article's illustration.

" Engineers have come up with a plan to purposefully
steer asteroids into Earth’s atmosphere and mine them
for resources in orbit. What could possibly go wrong?"

Yours,

Paul H.

Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan" 10SEP2018

Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan"

The story of the, at first, successful forgery of
Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan" is quite
interesting. Below, there are an interesting lecture
about, which is initially overly academic, and an
open access book to read about the forgery. It is
interesting how the expectation of a "great discovery"
might have led expert to overlook some "red flags"
about its authenticity.

Some articles are:

A Very Rare Book

The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise.
By Nicholas Schmidl, The New Yorker, December 13, 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-book

How a Book Thief Forged a Rare Edition of Galileo’s Scientific
Work, and Almost Pulled it Off in Books | February 11th, 2014
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/how-a-book-thief-forged-a-rare-edition-of-galileos-scientific-work-and-almost-pulled-it-off.html

Unmasking a Galileo Forgery
Albert Van Helden, First Published July 25, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828614537950

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021828614537950



An online lecture mostly about this forgery,

"Fake, Facsimile, Print: The Techniques and Technologies
of Textual Reproduction, 1450 To The Future.
CAS MillerComm 2015 Nick Wilding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqT_73XdaSY


The open-access book is:

A Galileo Forgery: Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius
Horst Bredekamp,Irene Brückle & Paul Needham. Vol. iii of
Galileo’s O, edited by & Horst Bredekamp (Walter de Gruyter,
Berlin, 2014). Pp. 102. ISBN 978-3-11-035464-5.
https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/416084

https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/416084?format=EBOK


Yours,

Paul H.

UNIRIO Students Collecting Photos to Remember Brazil’s Destroyed National Museum 08SEP2018

 UNIRIO Students Collecting Photos to Remember Brazil’s Destroyed National Museum

The students at UNIRIO, the Federal University of

the State of Rio de Janeiro are collecting visitor's

photos of Brazil's Museu Nacional in order to

remember something of what has been lost.

Students Are Collecting Photos to Remember Brazil’s

Destroyed National Museum. After a fire tore through

the institution, visitors’ images have become an

informal archive of its collections.

by  Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura, September 4, 2018

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/students-collecting-photos-of-museu-nacional

Yours,

Paul H.

Brazil National Museum Completely Gutted by Fire 04SEP2018

Brazil National Museum Completely Gutted by Fire
Inferno at Brazil's National Museum causes 'irreparable'
damage and grief By Claudia Dominguez, Flora Charner
and Holly Yan, CNN, September 3, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/02/americas/brazil-national-museum-fire-intl/index.html

Brazil National Museum fire: Key treasures at risk, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45395774

Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45398084


Among the 20 million items presumed lost are a Maxakalisaurus
skeleton, 11,500 year-old Luzia remains, Pompeii fresco, and
countless Pre-Columbian artifacts. The museum contains a
meteorite collection, which includes the Bendegó Meteorite.

Luzia Woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzia_Woman

Bendegó Meteorite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendegó_meteorite

https://meteoritosbrasileiros.webs.com/bendego1.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Platinum Anomalies Found Associated with Volcanic Events 02SEP2018

 Platinum Anomalies Found Associated with Volcanic Events

Platinum anomalies have been associated with high-magnitude

late Holocene volcanic events. Go see:

Platinum is key in ancient volcanic related climate change

University of Cincinnati, July 31, 2018

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180731092053.htm

Tankersley, K.B., Dunning, N.P., Owen, L.A., Huff, W.D.,

Park, J.H., Kim, C., Lentz, D.L. and Sparks-Stokes, D., 2018.

Positive Platinum anomalies at three late Holocene high

magnitude volcanic events in Western Hemisphere

sediments. Scientific reports, 8(1), number. 11298.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29741-8

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326633921_Positive_Platinum_anomalies_at_three_late_Holocene_high_magnitude_volcanic_events_in_Western_Hemisphere_sediments

"Pt anomalies in sediments over a broad geographic area

indicate distinctive time-correlative atmospheric deposition

rates of platinum-rich volcanic ash."

 a related paper:

Soyol-Erdene, T.O., Huh, Y., Hong, S. and Hur, S.D., 2011.

A 50-year record of platinum, iridium, and rhodium in

Antarctic snow: volcanic and anthropogenic sources.

Environmental science & technology, 45(14), pp. 5929-5935.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es2005732

Yours,

Paul H.