Celestial / Meteor or Meteorite

309BC

Event #2836: Bright meteor with a tail observed by Babylonians

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2836

Geographical sites:

  • Babylon (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #727082)
    Pleiades_icon Babylon settlement, fort Geocontext: Fostat, Cairo
    Description: An ancient fortified city of the Delta of Egypt, located at Babylon in the area today known as Coptic Cairo.

Citations:

Text #3919

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 231]

BM 40591

Obv.
10 - a meteor which was bright and had a tail […]

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