{"id":3972,"date":"2010-06-11T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/steel-duncan\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T09:05:24","slug":"steel-duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/steel-duncan\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel, Duncan *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Duncan<\/strong> <strong>S<\/strong><strong>teel (1955- )\u00a0<\/strong>is an astrophysicist who has worked in the USA, New <em><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Duncan-Steel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28388\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Duncan-Steel-300x246.png\" alt=\"Duncan Steel\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Duncan-Steel-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Duncan-Steel.png 1017w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Zealand and was a director of Spaceguard Australia<b> <\/b><\/em>until it was closed down by the government in 1996<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steel has been employed by both NASA and the ESA. In 1995 he suggested<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\"><sup>562<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/stonehenge-new\/\">Stonehenge<\/a> I had been constructed as a predictor of the Earth\u2019s intersection with the path of\u00a0a comet and its attendant debris, with a 19-year periodicity<sup>(a)<\/sup>.\u00a0This controversial idea named <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/encke%e2%80%99s-comet\/\">Encke\u2019s Comet<\/a> and the Taurid meteor shower as the principal culprits and dated the first encounters to around 3100 BC. This date coincides with the conclusions of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/furlong-david\/\">David Furlong<\/a><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\"><sup>285<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/niroma-timo\/\">Timo Niroma<\/a> who note cultural and meteorological upheavals at that same time.<\/p>\n<p>A review of Steel&#8217;s book by Lucy McFadden, a visiting scientist at the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland concluded with the following &#8211; <em>&#8220;I can&#8217;t recommend Rogue Asteroids to someone who tires of reading numbers, or to someone who wants a pleasant easy-going read. The facts are grim, the message is important and could well be the most significant scientific result coming from the space programs of all the wprld&#8217;s governments in the latter years of this millennium. It is certainly reason to pause for an existential moment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Steel has his own website<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.archaeologyuk.org\/ba\/ba45\/ba45feat.html (Offline Mar. 2016) see <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2657-n\/\">Archive 2657<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duncansteel.com\/\">https:\/\/www.duncansteel.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> Australian Spaceguard Survey (tpg.com.au) (link broken)\u00a0 See: Australian Spaceguard Survey (tpg.com.au)<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan Steel (1955- )\u00a0is an astrophysicist who has worked in the USA, New Zealand and was a director of Spaceguard Australia until it was closed down by the government in 1996(c). Dr. Steel has been employed by both NASA and the ESA. In 1995 he suggested[562] that Stonehenge I had been constructed as a predictor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2183,2185,831,6946,4530,876,2184],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-furlong","tag-duncan-steel","tag-enckes-comet","tag-lucy-mcfadden","tag-spaceguard-australia","tag-stonehenge","tag-timo-niroma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60607,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/60607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}