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A Sumerian Observation of the Kofels' Impact Event
Around 700 BC an Assyrian scribe in the Royal Place at Nineveh made a copy of one of the most important documents in the royal collection. Two and a half thousand years later it was found by Henry Layard in the remains of the palace library. It ended up in the British Museum’s cuneiform clay tablet collection as catalogue No. K8538 (also called “the Planisphere”), where it has puzzled scholars for over a hundred and fifty years. In this monograph Bond and Hempsell provide the first comprehensive translation of the tablet, showing it to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an Aten asteroid over a kilometre in diameter that impacted Köfels in Austria in the early morning of 29th June 3123 BC.
128 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2008
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February 17, 2014
Full of confirmation bias.
The authors set out with a hypothesis that Köfels, in Austria, was the site of a major near-Earth object impact. They then ignore or dismiss any evidence to the contrary.
There is no evidence for an impact at Köfels on the 29th June 3123 BC (The date they give). No crater and so no ejecta, no impact glass, no impactor remains, no elements and isotopes associated with meteoroids, etc.
Their attention is drawn to a cuneiform tablet (K8538) in the British Museum. “We had a clear context regarding what the tablet might be about.” The tablet is seventh century BC, but they believe it to be a copy of an earlier one dating from 3123 BC. They decide it shows a Sumerian observation of an impact event at Köfels.
Suspect science here. The authors use the Shoemaker/Levy 9 Jupiter impact as a model for the alleged Köfels impact. Except the SL-9 impact was in a gaseous atmosphere.
Oh and it caused “conflagration of any exposed combustible material, including people” with its Jovian style back plume, yet left no evidence on the ground (except for pottery from Hvar; one fragment represents the asteroid, “at around 150 km altitude” and shows “the supersonic shockwave…marked out by the ionised air, before the object itself becomes luminous due to heating.” Another shows the early mushroom cloud phase of the plume).
I have my own theory. That it was written by a seer, an ancient Nostradamus, and represents an impact between Kofi Atta Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the UN and a young, unidentified male, who barged into him in a crowded lift shaft in the United Nations building in New York on the 17th July 1998. The cuneiform tablet shows the course of this latter individual. I am writing a book about it:
A Sumerian Observation of the Kofi Annan Impact Event.
Two stars for the brazenness of it.
The authors set out with a hypothesis that Köfels, in Austria, was the site of a major near-Earth object impact. They then ignore or dismiss any evidence to the contrary.
There is no evidence for an impact at Köfels on the 29th June 3123 BC (The date they give). No crater and so no ejecta, no impact glass, no impactor remains, no elements and isotopes associated with meteoroids, etc.
Their attention is drawn to a cuneiform tablet (K8538) in the British Museum. “We had a clear context regarding what the tablet might be about.” The tablet is seventh century BC, but they believe it to be a copy of an earlier one dating from 3123 BC. They decide it shows a Sumerian observation of an impact event at Köfels.
Suspect science here. The authors use the Shoemaker/Levy 9 Jupiter impact as a model for the alleged Köfels impact. Except the SL-9 impact was in a gaseous atmosphere.
Oh and it caused “conflagration of any exposed combustible material, including people” with its Jovian style back plume, yet left no evidence on the ground (except for pottery from Hvar; one fragment represents the asteroid, “at around 150 km altitude” and shows “the supersonic shockwave…marked out by the ionised air, before the object itself becomes luminous due to heating.” Another shows the early mushroom cloud phase of the plume).
I have my own theory. That it was written by a seer, an ancient Nostradamus, and represents an impact between Kofi Atta Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the UN and a young, unidentified male, who barged into him in a crowded lift shaft in the United Nations building in New York on the 17th July 1998. The cuneiform tablet shows the course of this latter individual. I am writing a book about it:
A Sumerian Observation of the Kofi Annan Impact Event.
Two stars for the brazenness of it.
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