of many superstitions and significant historical events.
People from many cultures believe that comets are a harbinger of evil, an omen of...
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In Chile they have their own views about meteors. There exists the belief that the person needs to grab a stone whenever a...
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Meteors were also associated with dragons and other mythical beasts. A falling meteor was also thought to be a magical event.
In fact, in...
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But many of these beliefs were at times ascribed to comets and other celestial bodies, making it sometimes difficult for scientists to figure...
Meteor showers are among the best-known and most commonly witnessed astronomical phenomena. A meteor shower or shooting stars are actually a...
For centuries, the emergence of comets has been linked to upcoming natural cataclysms and disasters, as well as various strokes of bad luck. For...
about 150 meteors per hour will have burned up in Earth's atmosphere. The name Orionids comes from their radiant - the constellation Orion...
debris.
Prof Van der Hoeven said: "The extraordinary thing about this meteor strike is that it appeared to do so little damage. Unlike the...
a reason for them to believe in his divinity. Another comet, they thought, caused the tremendous bloodshed during a battle between Pompey and...
called asteroids.
Asteroids are bodies having dimensions between a few miles to a few hundred miles. The first asteroid ever discovered and the...
the oldest folk belief about salt, since in ages past, only the richest owned salt and whenever they spilt it in the home, great turmoil would...
