What Are The Threats To Earth From Space?

By Philip Browne

Chapter 1. - We know that the Big Bang of 13 billion years ago saw the birth of the sun and many other planets. The Big Bang and historical evidence of the sun from Newgrange to Maeshowe. What powers the Sun?
Chapter 2. - The sun which is 90 million miles away from the earth is our own star. The sun’s corona, eclipse, the sun’s core and makeup. Solar weather. Sunspots, solar maximum and solar minimum.
Chapter 3. - On 15th February 2013, people on their way to work in Chelyabinsk, Russia were to witness an event that happens every fifty to one hundred years. Asteroids, meteorites Chelyabinsk. Chebarkul meteorite. The Yarkovsky Effect. The Tunguska Event, eyewitness testimony. The Yucatan Peninsula meteorite or comet? Comets and their components.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Philip Browne
• Release date: Nov 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493760763

Philip Browne

Philip Browne has a degree in Philosophy and Religion from San Francisco State University. He participated in graduate level studies in Anthropology at New Mexico State University before continuing on in Sociology at University College Dublin. His interest was sparked during the time he spent living in Israel and travelling in the Middle East. He has a life long passion for Religious Studies and world politics. He has also studied meteorology and geology at San Francisco State University.

Book preview

What are the threats to Earth from Space?

By Philip Browne

Published by Philip Browne at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Philip Browne

The complex nature of space and the threats to the earth from the Sun, CME’s, Asteroids, Meteorites, Comets and Space Weather.

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. - We know that the Big Bang of 13 billion years ago saw the birth of the sun and many other planets. The Big Bang and historical evidence of the sun from Newgrange to Maeshowe. What powers the Sun?

Chapter 2. - The sun which is 90 million miles away from the earth is our own star. The sun’s corona, eclipse, the sun’s core and makeup. Solar weather. Sunspots, solar maximum and solar minimum.

Chapter 3. - On 15th February 2013, people on their way to work in Chelyabinsk, Russia were to witness an event that happens every fifty to one hundred years. Asteroids, meteorites Chelyabinsk. Chebarkul meteorite. The Yarkovsky Effect. The Tunguska Event, eyewitness testimony. The Yucatan Peninsula meteorite or comet? Comets and their components.

Chapter 1

We know that the Big Bang of 13 billion years ago saw the birth of the sun and many other planets. It just took an instant for the birth of the universe and the universe has been growing or expanding at the speed of light ever since. There are 100 billion galaxies within the universe and our galaxy is just one of them with over 100 billion stars. The sun is also just one star in the universe with Mercury and Venus being the closest planets to the sun. The sun is so hot that the planets Mercury and Venus have scorched surfaces due to the intense heat.

The big bang (Image: Mehau Kulyk/SPL/Getty Images)

All life on earth owes its existence to the sun. Without the sun the earth would be a barren planet made of rocks and with no life. We know from history that the ancient people worshipped the sun as they knew that the sun’s heat and light was imperative to their existence. Newgrange in Ireland and Maeshowe on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland are testaments to the ancient’s beliefs. These monuments can be called calendars and observatories of the sun. In Orkney