Places

Coober Pedy – Opal capital of the world

Introduction Coming down to earth, this month’s blog takes a look at the fascinating town of Coober Pedy in South Australia. This town, located in northern South Australia, is some 846 km or 526 miles north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The town is often referred to as the “opal capital of the world”…

A VISITOR FROM OUTER SPACE

Oumuamua. What was the large strangely shaped object that recently visited our solar system from outer space? On October 19, 2017, interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua—a Hawaiian term that translates to scout—was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey. Astronomers first spotted the object as it passed through the inner solar system on a slingshot trajectory around the sun…

THE KAIKOURA LIGHTS MYSTERY

Introduction On a New Years Day in 1979 strange lights were spotted by six people on a plane off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island. These have been catalogued as the Kaikoura Lights Mystery. Skeptics said it was Venus, it was squid boats, it was radar returns from a field of cabbages. Or just…

Hollow Moon and Spaceship Moon

Introduction As much of the action of upcoming novel Alien Whispers: Conflict and Communion, https://mybook.to/AWCC, takes place on the moon, I thought this month that we could look at some rather extreme theories on what the moon actually is. H.G. Wells’ 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon appears to be the first publication…