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Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles.
About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface.
Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage to the area.
Only once every few million years, an object large enough to threaten Earth's civilization comes along. Impact craters on Earth, the moon and other planetary bodies are evidence of these occurrences.
Space rocks smaller than about 25 meters (about 82 feet) will most likely burn up as they enter the Earth's atmosphere and cause little or no damage.
If a rocky meteoroid larger than 25 meters but smaller than one kilometer ( a little more than 1/2 mile) were to hit Earth, it would likely cause local damage to the impact area.
We believe anything larger than one to two kilometers (one kilometer is a little more than one-half mile) could have worldwide effects. At 5.4 kilometers in diameter, the largest known potentially hazardous asteroid is Toutatis.
By comparison, asteroids that populate the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and pose no threat to Earth, can be as big as 940 kilometers (about 583 miles) across.
Great Night! Saw 3-4 decent substorms.
Love to hear any ideas of WTF that is in the picture! Space Junk? Meteor?
Could it be this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4179_Toutatis
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Rosmerta (the goddess of abundance and fertility) and Toutatis (also known as Teutates), from Reims.
At the museum in the old Benedictine monastery, connected with the abbey of Saint-Remi, which is now a museum.
In the lower half, a line of warriors bearing spears and shields, accompanied by carnyx players march to the left. On the left side, a large figure - the god Teutates ? - is immersing a man in a cauldron. In the upper half, facing away from the cauldron are warriors on horseback. This has been interpreted as an initiation scene, the god elevating normal warriors to knights.
By Belenos! That is Toutatis.
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A superb creation of a huge statue to decorate the Toutatis parc attraction area. So many very nice details, surrounded by even more gaulic weapon shields. It's an excellent example of todays design and construction skills to create this kind of art.
Photo May 2023, Parc Astérix (April 30, 1989) after 34 years in time.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Parc Asterix
Parc Astérix (Est. 1989) - a theme amusement park based on the comic book series "Asterix" by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. France's best-selling comic abroad with more than 370 million copies sold worldwide in 111 languages.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Astérix.
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Age and Origin
The Gundestrup Cauldron was probably made between 150 BC and the birth of Christ. The figures are boldly embossed and decorated with carefully punched patterns. This sophisticated technique flourished in the centuries before the birth of Christ among the Thracians, who lived in the area that is now Bulgaria and Romania. In style too the cauldron looks like Thracian silver work. However, several of the objects depicted are Celtic - the helmets and the Celtic war trumpet (carnyx). It is most likely that the cauldron was made where Celtic and Thracian peoples lived close together, probably in southwestern Romania or northwestern Bulgaria. We do not know how this magnificent work reached Denmark.
The images
On the outer plates of the Gundestrup Cauldron various goes and goddeses are shown. Some are associated with life, fertility and beauty, others with death and destruction. The insides plates show more complicated scenes, including a procession of warriors, a bull sacrifice and a god with antlers surrounded by lions, deep and gryphons. Perhaps this god was viewed as a ruler over the forces of nature and the wild animals.
Caen was a settlement already in Roman times, but prospered, when William the Conqueror (aka "William the Bastard") built a castle here.
When William married Matilda of Flanders (~ 1051) a papal ban was issued at the Council of Reims on the grounds of consanguinity. In 1059 Pope Nicholas awarded dispensation, after William and Matilda agreed to found two monasteries as penance.
William founded the Abbey of Saint-Etienne (aka "Abbaye aux Hommes"), Matilda founded with here husband´s support the Abbey Sainte-Trinité (aka "Abbaye aux Dames"). The erection of both abbeys started in Caen around 1060.
The community of nuns was suppressed by the French Revolution. In 1823 the local authorities transferred the ancient Hôtel-Dieu to the former cloister for use as a hospital, and the canonesses regular established themselves there. The canonesses continued to operate until 1908 when the facility was transferred into a nursing home.
The former abbey church Sainte-Trinité now serves the parish.
Here are three capitals from the nave of Sainte-Trinité.
Of course, there are not only beards and mustaches (see previous upload) on the nave´s capitals. There are many rams too. If the bearded faces can be interpreted as "trophies" (after the Battle of Hastings), the rams may be connected to the pagan celtic mythology, standing for the God Toutatis/Teutates.
The history of pre-Christian Europe is mostly lost and what little is known is fragmentary at best. Many preserved bodies have been found in bogs and moors all across Europe. The bodies are often preserved in a remarkable state, in fine detail down to the stubble on a person's face, due to low oxygen and the action of tannins in the bogs.
IN many cases these victims victims appear to have died horrific deaths consisting of multiple modes of killing - stabbing, beating, strangulation, torture, and so on. Some where apparently staked to their bog grave with willow stakes driven through the neck and joints before they were killed.
The victims were men, women, teens and children. Some had physical deformities, some had hard working lives and others seem to been from wealth and privilege.
Roman authors were unclear about the role of human sacrifice. Some wrote that the killings were ritual, to propitiate underworld gods, while others suggested it was execution for crime or violation of societal taboos. It is not known whether these people were forced to their deaths or whether they went willingly. Ancient Europeans often buried high-value weapons and objects in swamps, pools, rivers, springs and other places, thought to lead to the underworld, so it is a good guess that these victims are the most valuable sacrifices made to the gods. Perhaps to ensure a good growing season, good weather, protection from enemies...?
Many bog bodies show multiple modes of death - stabbing, strangulation and clubbing for example. Lucan described sacrifices made to the trio of deities Taranis, Esus, and Toutis in which the victim was burned, strangled and hung, one wound for each deity. One must be cautious in interpreting Roman writings since their aim was often to highlight the savageness of the barbarians to justify conquering them. So perhaps we are getting only the most sensational stories. Romans, too, as outsiders may have been ignorant of what they were actually seeing. Their disgust at human sacrifice is odd since they, and most societies on earth performed human sacrifice for the same reasons - good harvests, good lambing season, luck in battle, humiliation of enemies, etc...
Life to those people was uncertain and death came randomly in many ways - disease, starvation, war.... Without knowledge of science these societies created mythologies to try to put in order the otherwise random nature of life. The harshness of life is, I believe, echoed in their deities which seem to be generally fearsome, nefarious and terrible.Even earth mothers from which they were born are often also deities with dual natures and can take life just the same.
Finally I'm not sure we can ever really get into the heads of these ancient people. It fascinates me to no end. I look at their monuments and realize that it was an relevant and meaningful as monothesitic religious iconography is to us. Although the details of their mythologies are lost, these practices were very important to them - It lasted for thousands of years. I don't imagine they killed for the sake of killing but rather this was a task to be done and was likely carried out in a frenzied haze of of alcohol and hallucinogens. Perhaps it was in response to a dry spring or excessive flooding or a cold summer?
The totems, dress, and the whole scene is purely from my head. I try to create a scene based on known facts and then trying to imagine what they thought when making those artifacts, and then extend it further to create things and situations that might have existed. Just like modern archeology I don't know if the moon means anything, the time of day, the bells on the antlers, the wreath, etc... or whether the bells are to help them find their way back to the village and it just happens to a waning moon.
In the lower half, a line of warriors bearing spears and shields, accompanied by carnyx players march to the left. On the left side, a large figure - the god Teutates ? - is immersing a man in a cauldron. In the upper half, facing away from the cauldron are warriors on horseback. This has been interpreted as an initiation scene, the god elevating normal warriors to knights.
By Belenos! That is Toutatis.
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A superb creation of a huge statue to decorate the Toutatis parc attraction area. So many very nice details, surrounded by even more gaulic weapon shields. It's an excellent example of todays design and construction skills to create this kind of art.
Photo May 2023, Parc Astérix (April 30, 1989) after 34 years in time.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #statue #attraction #decoration at #Toutatis #LaGaule #ParcAsterix in #Plailly #France
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Parc Asterix
Parc Astérix (Est. 1989) - a theme amusement park based on the comic book series "Asterix" by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. France's best-selling comic abroad with more than 370 million copies sold worldwide in 111 languages.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Astérix.
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Toutatis was a god of ancient Gaul, in a chaotic 4-year-long orbit, passing near Earth.
It was named for its possible threat of crashing to Earth. We’re safe from it for at least the next six centuries.
4.5 × 2.4 × 1.9 km in size
December 13, 2012, 8:07:35 PM
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Toutatis 120X1 Reducer2 Cr x2 - no processing
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This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov. 29, 1996. Toutatis currently approaches Earth once every four years, and on Nov. 29th, 1996 was 5.2 million kilometers (3.3 million miles) away.
Image Credit: NASA
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Stone art decorations.
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Very nice designed rocks with stone carved designs at the Toutatis attraction. It's an excellent example of todays design and construction skills to create this kind of art.
Photo May 2023, Parc Astérix (April 30, 1989) after 34 years in time.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Parc Asterix
Parc Astérix (Est. 1989) - a theme amusement park based on the comic book series "Asterix" by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. France's best-selling comic abroad with more than 370 million copies sold worldwide in 111 languages.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Astérix.
Published at - Flickr
Cut Cover CD Slipcase for Girl Sweat / By Toutatis / Year of Birds with artwork lined up with cut outs and insert printed on natural card, run of 50.
For more information check out www.acdsleeve.com
Cut Cover CD Slipcase for Girl Sweat / By Toutatis / Year of Birds with artwork lined up with cut outs and insert printed on natural card, run of 50.
For more information check out www.acdsleeve.com
By Belenos! That is Toutatis.
.
A superb creation of a huge statue to decorate the Toutatis parc attraction area. So many very nice details, surrounded by even more gaulic weapon shields. It's an excellent example of todays design and construction skills to create this kind of art.
Photo May 2023, Parc Astérix (April 30, 1989) after 34 years in time.
---
Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #statue #attraction #decoration at #Toutatis #LaGaule #ParcAsterix in #Plailly #France
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Parc Asterix
Parc Astérix (Est. 1989) - a theme amusement park based on the comic book series "Asterix" by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. France's best-selling comic abroad with more than 370 million copies sold worldwide in 111 languages.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Astérix.
Published at - Flickr
Lucky picture of an Iridium flare from satellite Iridium 76 caught on August 07.2013.
Here is how it started:
What is this?
On August 07 2013 I set up my wide field camera for the "early" Perseids and was chasing for Satellite trails. As I was watching carefully this flash (On the picture here) caught my eye. First just after the flash, this "Unidentified Flashing Object" disappeared all of a sudden. Hoping to see if it has a trajectory, I saw it again emerging from nothing and moving in a kind of a line flashed again and disappeared again.
I was intrigued...
It reappeared many times again folllowing , more or less a strait line and disappeared once again in a flash.
After following it for a while, lets say 2 minutes, I decided to ran for my camera and manualy target the "next" predicted path where it would reappear. The most crazy thing with this picture is that it is
an exposure of 6 secondes. This object should have left a trail. But no! This was the moment just before it would disappear with a flash effect.
I caught it at the nik of time.
Do someone know what this could be??!!???
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Picture specs:
Canon 550D
50mm / f/1.4
Exp: 6 sec. / ISO 400