Kofels Impact Book
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Around 700 BC an Assyrian scribe in the Royal Palace at Nineveh made a copy of one of the most important documents in the royal collection. Two and a half thousand years later it was found by Henry Layard in the remains of the palace library. It ended up in the British Museum's cuneiform clay tablet collection as catalogue No. K8538 (informally called "the Planisphere"), where it has puzzled scholars for over a hundred and fifty years.
In this monograph Bond and Hempsell provide the first comprehensive translation of the tablet, showing it to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an Aten asteroid over a kilometre in diameter that impacted Köfels in Austria in the early morning of 29th June 3123 BC
Alan Bond was predicted by the Sunday Times Magazine to be one of the "who's who" of the 21st Century. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and in his early career he specialised in the trajectory analysis of launch vehicles and missiles. He is currently Managing Director of Reaction Engines Limited, developing technologies for advanced launch vehicles.
Mark Hempsell has degrees in Physics and in Astronomy and Astronautics. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Astronautics at the University of Bristol, where he researches the role of space in tackling global threats. He is a past president of the British Interplanetary Society and is editor of the Society's Journal.
A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels’ Impact Event
Alan Bond & Mark Hempsell
Alcin Academics
ISBN 1904623646
£12.99