2024 Author: Adelina Croftoon | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 02:07
In 1347, a comet called the "Black Comet" passed very close to planet Earth, although this comet passed close to Earth, and for many months an unusual sight could be observed in the sky, as soon as the comet disappeared from the firmament, "black death”Started in Europe, Asia and China
Over the next 12 years, it claimed an estimated 75 to 200 million people. 333 years later, The Great Comet of 1680 passed next to the Earth. It was named "Kirch's Comet", it also became one of the brightest objects in the night sky, it was visible even in the daytime. In 1680, the Great Plague mowed people in Vienna. Was this due to its passage?
333 years later, Comet Ison prepares to offer observers a spectacle as it moves closer to planet Earth again. This time, Earth could pass through the tail of Comet Ison, according to experts.
Small telescopes will be able to see it in August this year. And in January 2014, everyone will be able to admire the comet without any adaptations. The moment a comet comes as close to the Sun as possible, it can become as bright in our sky as the Moon on a full moon. If everything goes like this, we will witness the most striking astronomical event of our century.
Comets have long been associated with troubles and diseases. In the old days in Russia, and in medieval Europe, the appearance in the sky of a "tailed star" - a comet - was considered a bad omen. They were associated with all sorts of future misfortunes - epidemics, pestilence, crop failures, wars, even the end of the world.
At the end of 1664, when Edmund Halley was six years old, a comet appeared in the sky, and the next year an epidemic of the bubonic plague broke out in London, killing one in five of its inhabitants. In his Diary of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe, the creator of Robinson Crusoe, pointed out with complete certainty that the comet's slow motion across the firmament foreshadowed.
This was one of the last times when a serious author, and not an insane eccentric, tried to associate comets with pestilences, after which there was a long respite.
Halley and Newton fundamentally undermined any medical significance of comets, explaining the nature of their orbits and witnessing how far they travel from Earth, so that the ability of comets to either prophesy or cause disease was seriously questioned.
In other respects, medicine developed more slowly, but in the 19th century Pasteur and other researchers established that infectious diseases were caused by microorganisms. The pathways of the spread of these pathogenic organisms have also been clarified, for example, through contaminated water (cholera), through fleas (plague) and mosquitoes (malaria).
But recently scientists have put forward an interesting hypothesis. According to her, complex organic substances, viruses and even bacteria can be found on the surface of comets. When a comet flies near our planet, these substances, "blown away" from it by the solar wind, "drop" to the Earth, causing flu epidemics, and even more serious diseases.
As you know, inside comets there is an ice core. Ice cannot form in space. This means that their core appears during the catastrophic destruction of some planets that have a hydrosphere. It is then that alien microorganisms fall on the "tailed stars", and then travel in intergalactic space with them.
Obviously, our ancestors noticed a direct connection between the flight of the "tailed star" near the Earth and the occurrence of epidemics. The mechanism of such a relationship was not clear to them, but this fact itself became widely known, which gave rise to the fear of comets.
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