{"id":878,"date":"2010-03-26T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=878"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:28:57","slug":"nikola-bonev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/nikola-bonev\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonev, Nikolay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Nikolay<\/strong> <strong>B<\/strong><strong>onev<\/strong> <strong>(1898-1979),<\/strong> who formerly held the chair of Astronomy at the University of Sofia, in Bulgaria, favoured an Atlantic location for Atlantis and published a number of papers<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>187<\/sup><\/a><sup>][<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>188<\/sup><\/a><sup>][<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>189<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> in the mid-20th century on the subject. He was inclined to the idea of an asteroid strike or close fly-by as the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Bonev2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26968\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Bonev2.png\" alt=\"Bonev2\" width=\"193\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a>primary cause of the destruction of Atlantis<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b<\/span><\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>. He considered that an asteroid approaching the earth would have caused a tide of enormous magnitude that would have created incredible devastation as it either followed its course as the asteroid either flew pastc, or reacted to a massive sea impact. Bonev specifically favoured the asteroid Ceres as the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Bonev, caused a stir in 1961 when he expressed the view that our Moon had once been an independent planet<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> that had experienced violent volcanic eruptions that were powerful enough to have produced a \u2018recoil\u2019 effect, which nudged it towards our Earth\u2019s orbit and was eventually captured as our satellite. His views had echoes of Hans Hoerbiger\u2019s discredited captured moons theory. At the time, scientists rejected Bonev\u2019s claim as unsubstantiated by evidence, but since then we have discover the ongoing mega-eruptions on Jupiter\u2019s moon, Io, which is slightly larger than our Moon. No effect on Io\u2019s orbit has been recorded.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=2229&amp;dat=19611112&amp;id=VQIzAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=7QAGAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=4738,1928190\">https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=2229&amp;dat=19611112&amp;id=VQIzAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=7QAGAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=4738,1928190<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230201195220\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2659\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230201195220\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2659\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nikolay Bonev (1898-1979), who formerly held the chair of Astronomy at the University of Sofia, in Bulgaria, favoured an Atlantic location for Atlantis and published a number of papers[187][188][189] in the mid-20th century on the subject. He was inclined to the idea of an asteroid strike or close fly-by as the primary cause of [&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":[17,40,2259,3974,518,3574],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asteroid","tag-atlantic","tag-atlantis","tag-ceres","tag-moon","tag-nikola-bonev"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65747,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/65747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}