(meteorobs) 472 A.D. Constantinople

[KCStarguy at aol.com]

This is what I found earlier this year.

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy at aol.com), 
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In a message dated 3/13/2004 10:41:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, KCStarguy 
writes:



<<   Well it seems like it was a volcanic event that might have been a 
coincidentally occurring meteoric event. The fact that it is 472 seems more like a 
Vesuvius related event but that is why the second sun part is intriguing.
   >>


Greetings!

One individual who researches such potentially coincidental events 
may be able to assist you in finding some additional information
regarding the 472 A.D. Constantinople event that is in question.

That would be Dr. Andrei Ol'khovatov, Moscow, Russia at
olkhov at mail.ru

Best wishes!
Christine

Subj:      Re: (meteorobs) Constantinople, A.D. 472 (thread)     
Date:      3/13/2004 10:41:51 AM Eastern Standard Time     
From:      KCStarguy     
To:      CHRISTINECissy     
     


Helly again 

Well it seems like it was a volcanic event that might have been a 
coincidentally occurring meteoric event. The fact that it is 472 seems more like a 
Vesuvius related event but that is why the second sun part is intriguing.
Lately I have been reading about the volcanic erupting with Thera near Crete 
and a possible connection to the biblical egyptian effects for the Old 
testament. 
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy at aol.com), 
Olathe, KS. USA
FGU astronomy consultant, Harvard U.-
Member, ASKC (Astronomical Society of Kansas City), Comet Observers Award 
Moderator, Astronomical League. 
(http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/obsclub.html) (http://members.aol.com/kcstarguy/blacksun/cometaward.htm); State of 
Kansas- Solar System Ambassador - JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab);
7 total solar eclipses and counting

<< 

Greetings!

The information in bold-face, is taken from this link:

http://www.fact-index.com/m/mo/mount_vesuvius.html 


In 472, it threw out so great a quantity of ashes, that they overspread all 
Europe, and filled even Constantinople with alarm. 

So if all Europe was overspread in that particular instance, in addition
to Constantinople, then how come in that reference in "Rain of Iron and Ice,"
(Dr. John S. Lewis, Addison-Wesley Publishing, December 1995, Page 1)
there is only mention of how that particular observation impacted 
Constantinople?

Was there more than one instance of volcanic activity of Mount Vesuvius in 
472 A.D. ?

Or was one incidence attributed to Mount Vesuvius and the other depicted
on page one, in Dr. Lewis' book, an astronomical event?

Secondly, if the incidence that I cited, from "Rain of Iron and Ice," 
page one, were truly volcanic in origin, then how do you explain the sighting 
of
a "second sun?"  

According to the above link, the year 1036 is the first eruption in which 
there was any ejection of lava. 

Can all of what was experienced on that day in Constantinople
472 A.D., as described in Dr. John S. Lewis' account of that event,
be attributed to a volcanic eruption?

Food for thought.

Clear skies,
Christine >>
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