Colman’s Source Library

Started 25 October 2023 – Based on some previous work. Updated 25 September 2025

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Source Library – Page Menu

Sol_Earth Organisations – Ireland – United Nations – Europe – Africa – North America – Asia – South America – Australia and Oceania – Antarctica

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Sol Earth Databases Renewable Energy Earth

Notice: 04 Dec 2024 – Space Information is moving to;

Space – Space Weather – Sol System – Sol – Mercury – Venus

Earth – Space Stations – Spacecraft – Satellites – Luna (Earth’s Moon) –

Mars – Jupiter – Saturn – Neptune – Uranus – Pluto – Asteroid Belts – Stars (Constellations) – Exoplanets – Spacer Organisations

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Sol–Earth Colman’s Extreme Hazards Library

Sol–Earth Colman’s Extreme Hazards Library

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Sol – Earth Organisations

Ireland

A little section on Natural hazards might be nice? Snakes and Ladders? Quakes and Floods? And if there’s a local hurricane or volcano, insects and animals etc.? They might look out the *^^*ing window? Example 07 Nov 2023 Mexico? Hurricane Otis, information nice, Popocatépetl, volcano can be seen from Mexico city? Oh, that’s a surprise?

Now, here’s the real surprise.

Disease – Covid-19 Pandemic IRL_T02020_FEB Wikipedia article Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland Covid-19 “On 27 March (2020), the first stay-at-home order banned all non-essential travel and contact with others. People were made to keep apart in public, and those most at risk were told to cocoon. The Oireachtas passed an emergency act giving the state far-reaching powers to control the virus’s spread, and the Gardaí given powers to enforce the lockdown.” “During 2020 and 2021, the country had one of the world’s lowest excess death rates, which is an overall indicator of the pandemic’s impact, at an estimated 12.5 deaths per 100,000 population.”

Colman’s Note: Watch “Grabbers (2012)” iMDb again, excellent movie. Wiki article seen 03 SEP 2024

Ert_IRL_T02024_FEB_Disease_Measles First confirmed measles fatality in (of) 2024 By NiGP “The death of an adult with confirmed measles has taken place in a hospital in the Dublin and Midlands Health Region. This is the first confirmed measles case notified in Ireland in 2024.”

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/health-services/children-s-health/vaccinations-for-children/ “Your child will usually be offered the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine when they are 12 months old, followed by a second dose when they are aged 4-5 years old in junior infants.”

IRL – Ireland – Colman’s Web Library

Wikipedia – List of Volcanoes in the Republic of Ireland Ireland has no active volcanoes. Volcanic activity in the country occurred primarily between 480–430 mya (million years ago), during the Ordovician geological age.

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United Nations

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Europe

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Africa

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North America

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Asia

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South America

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Australia and Oceania

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Antarctica

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Sol Earth Databases

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Renewable Energy Earth

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Disease

Sol–Earth Extreme Hazards Library Disease

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Nuclear Energy

USA – ORAU – ☢ Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity – Radiation Basics – ORAU manages the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

SOURCES AND EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation UNSCEAR 2008 Report 683 pages Note: Annex D. Health effects due to radiation from the Chernobyl accident

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Earthquake

Sol–Earth Colman’s Extreme Hazards Library Earthquake – Tsunami

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Tsunami

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Volcano

Sol–Earth Colman’s Extreme Hazards Library Volcano – Tsunami

Sol–Earth Colman’s Volcanoes Lists and Glossary webpage

Global Volcanism Project Smithsonian Institute List of all Volcano Sources by Country

Lists of Earth Volcanoes and Eruptions

List of LARGE Volcanic Eruptions – Wikipedia

List of World Volcanoes Volcanoes of the World | John Seach VolcanoLive.com

Lists of Volcanoes – Wikipedia

Volcanic Explosive Index (VEI) – (USGS Glossary definition and diagram)

Deaths – Vulcanologists Journal of Applied Volcanology Table 7 Incidents in which volcanologists or field scientists died – Smithsonian Institute

Lists of Extra-terrestrial Volcanoes and Eruptions

Wikipedia – List of extraterrestrial volcanoes

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Weather

Sol–Earth Colman’s Extreme Hazards Library
Weather – Severe Weather – Drought – Severe Rain

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Space

Sol–Earth Colman’s Extreme Hazards Library
Asteroid Impact (small 1-3) Asteroid impact (LARGE 4-5) Solar Flare

ESA / Applications / Observing the Earth / Copernicus / Sentinel-1

https://www.instagram.com/esa_earth/

European Space Agency – Web TV – Seriously a nice logo for the tv viewers?

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Space Weather

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Sol – Earth’s Solar system

https://sarahmaths.com/blogs/beginner-astrophotography/beginner-astrophotography-equipment

Lumen Learning Astronomy course It’s about a 12 year old reading level, say after Harry Potter and before Lord of the Rings.

_{Eh, this is quite complicated for a six year old? Oh, you couldn’t read then, they have mobile phones now.}

Wikipedia – Sol system – Earth’s Solar system – Earth “Mostly Harmless” Douglas Adams

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Sol – Earth’s Sun

USA National Solar Observatory – Wikipedia

Solar Storms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm

“The first scientific observation of the effects of a geomagnetic storm occurred early in the 19th century: from May 1806 until June 1807, Alexander von Humboldt recorded the bearing of a magnetic compass in Berlin. On 21 December 1806, he noticed that his compass had become erratic during a bright auroral event.” Colman’s comment: A large Solar Storm is an event large enough to change the Earth’s magnetic field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Category: Geomagnetic_storms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_solar_storms

MilkyWay_Sol_T01859_SEP_01 Solar Storm Carrington Event

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240815-miyake-events-the-giant-solar-superstorms-that-could-rock-earth

A solar storm the size of the Carrington Event could knock out the backbone of the Internet Astronomy.com 10 May 2024

USA_SkyJinks.GOV What was the Carrington Event? “A few days later, on September 1, English astronomer Richard C. Carrington is studying a group of sunspots (through dark filters that protect his eyes, of course). Around 11:00 AM, he sees a sudden flash of intense white light from the area of the sunspots. Seventeen hours later, the night sky in North America and as far south as Panama in Central America lights up like daytime. It is another wave of even brighter Auroras. People read newspapers by the light. Gold miners in the Rocky Mountains wake up and make coffee, bacon and eggs at 1:00 AM, thinking the Sun has risen on a cloudy morning.

We’re overdue a once-a-century solar storm. If a Carrington Event struck today, it would be catastrophic BBC Sky at Night Published: July 3, 2024 at 9:14 am

The Carrington Event: History’s greatest solar storm By Andrew May, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated June 24, 2022

What if the Carrington Event, the largest solar storm ever recorded, happened today LiveScience.com last updated March 26, 2024

Carrington Events – Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Volume 59, 2021

Carrington Event still provides warning of Sun’s potential 161 years later NASA Space Flight written by Chris Gebhardt August 28, 2020

HelioPhysics Postdoc – Phd in AstroPhysics – Dr Charlotte Waterfall Instagram space_waterfallc

T02024_OCT_11 Aurora Borealis – Unusual for Ireland Solar storm Charlotte’s Insta – IRL_Photos Insta LadBible Aurora Australis AUS_Tasmania Insta auroraaustralistas 12 Oct their time

Accuweather A severe geomagnetic storm could cause colorful auroras over Northern California and Alabama 10 Oct, 2024 3:16 PM IST | Updated 11 Oct, 2024 4:32 PM IST

RTE News ‘Wonderful treat’ as Northern Lights visible in skies across Ireland Updated / Friday, 11 Oct 2024 15:30

MilkyWay_Sol_T01973 Solar Storm GLE 55/73

• Instagram SpaceWaterfallc
• Particle Radiation Environment in the Heliosphere: Status, limitations and recommendations

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☿ Mercury

NASA Instagram Mercury seen from MESSENGER spacecraft

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♀ Venus

Nasa Instagram Venus seen from Mariner 10

Space UK Gov Instagram Venus Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Venus Missions

USA – NASA – Pioneer Venus 1

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♁ Earth

Available Solar Radiation – https://www.hukseflux.com/library/measuring-sunlight-what-instrument-to-use

T02024_09_25 Asteroid 2024 PT5
The science behind the ‘mini moon’ entering Earth’s orbit BBC video

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Earth’s Moon – Ert_Luna

The Lunar Society – Soho House was a regular venue for the meeting for the leading eighteenth century intellectuals of the Lunar Society. Possible reason for Jules Verne etc. ?

Luna seen from the ISS photo “The Last Quarter Moon is pictured above the Earth’s horizon as the International Space Station orbited 273 miles over the Indian Ocean in between Australia and Antarctica.”

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Earth Space Stations

Wikipedia List of space stations

USSR – MIR

Wikipedia

USA – Skylab

USSR – Salyut series – Salyut 1 – Salyut 3 – Salyut 4 – Salyut 5 – Salyut 7

Earth – Spacers – Astronauts – Cosmonauts – Taikonauts – Moonwalkers – Rocketeers

First Irishgurl (‘duine chromecheann’) in space :

First Irishguy (‘duine chromecheann’) in space:

Colman’s Space Vocabulary as Gaeilge

(An cead duine chromecheann – First spacer)
(le fithis dreige – LEO) (ar an ard fithis – HEO)
(ar an spásuair fithis – Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, GEO)
(thart Luna – round the Moon) (fithis trasna Luna – Lunar orbit) (ar Luna – on the Earth’s Moon)
(Lunasiúlóir – Moonwalker) (Lunastiúrthóir – MoonCommander)
(go Mars – to Mars) (ar Mars – on Mars)
(Marsiúlóir – Marswalker) (Marstiúrthóir – MarsCommander)

First American Female in Space – Sally K. Ride Australian Space Agency Instagram
“The stars don’t look bigger, but they are brighter.”

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Earth – Spacecraft

“An Cead Cnapín Eireanneach le fithis dreige thar ár bplainéad.”
The first Irish lumpín in LEO.
“Buail an cnap os cionn na talún.” Get the lump off the ground.
“Lasadh na tinte, beigh deochaint anocht.” Light the fires, there’ll be drinktalk tonight.

T02024_SEP_15 SpaceX Polaris Dawn Splashdown Instagram

Solar Sail Ships

Big rockets

Space Shuttles

USA Air and Space museum Instagram Space Shuttle “Enterprise” Space Shuttle “Discovery”

USA Air and Space museum Instagram USSR – Buran “Snowstorm” shuttle “Sputnik”

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Earth – Satellites

European Space Agency – Euclid Space Telescope

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid

T02024_OCT_19 SciTechDaily Euclid “Dark Universe” Telescope Unveils Stunning 208-Gigapixel Window Into the Cosmos By European Space Agency (ESA)

European Space Agency – Copernicus Sentinel Constellation

ESA T02024_09_05 Sentinel-2C joins the Copernicus family in orbit at 05:02 CEST, ESA received the all-important signal indicating that the satellite was safely in orbit. Sol_Ert_T02024_SEP_05_0502B

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♂ Mars

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NASA Instagram Saturn seen from Cassini spacecraft

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Nebulas

“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula The Crab Nebula The Cone Nebula NASA Instagram

Westerlund 2 Witch Head Nebula NASA Instagram

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AUS https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/*/Main+Asteroid+Belt

USA_NASA_Science Tracking Evolution in the Asteroid Belt

USA_HubbleSite Illustration of Asteroid Belts

USA_Perdue Visiting our Solar System https://engineering.purdue.edu/vossmod/asteroid.php

USA_CalTech CoolCosmos What is the asteroid belt?

OrbiterWiki.com https://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt

Science Direct Asteroid Belts The Origin of the Solar System John E. Chambers, Alex N. Halliday, in Encyclopedia of the Solar System (Second Edition), 2007

Fandom.com NASA Asteroid belts

Astronomy.com The asteroid belt: Wreckage of a destroyed planet or something else?

EarthSky.org The asteroid belt contains solar system remnants

How stuff works How Asteroid Belts Work

Space.com Asteroid belt: Facts & formation

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Asteroids

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/facts/

Asteroid 99942 Apophis – Close Approach Predicted – April 2029

ESA On 13 April 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass less than 32 000 km from Earth’s surface.

NASA Asteroid 99942 Apophis is a Near-Earth Object (NEO) estimated to be about 1,100 feet (335 meters) across.

Wikipedia 99942 Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN₄) is a Near-Earth Asteroid and a potentially hazardous object, 450 meters (1,480 ft) by 170 meters (560 ft) in size, that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability 2.7% that it would hit Earth on Friday, 13 April 2029. (seen T02024NOV09)

ThePlanetarySociety Asteroid Apophis: Will It Hit Earth? Your Questions Answered.

Forbes Will ‘Apophis’ Hit Earth In 2029? We’ll Know In 2027, Scientist Says

Space.com Collisions could increase chance of ‘God of Destruction’ asteroid Apophis hitting Earth published September 16, 2024

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Exoplanets

Wikipedia – Exoplanets

Wikipedia – POL_T01946 Aleksander Wolszczan – Lead author of the paper which “30 years ago, unveiled the first planets to be confirmed outside our solar system.” “As a seven-year-old he already learned the basics of astronomy. He observed the night sky using a small telescope he constructed himself.” https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/cosmic-milestone-nasa-confirms-5000-exoplanets/

Colman’s comment: If I had one question to ask the man, well, actually it’d be two questions, how did you start looking for the exoplanets and was your kid or grandkid playing Sid Meier’s Civilization IV where you sent the spacecraft to Alpha Centauri or the later Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri game? And next we’ll look at the history of Terraforming and why Aliens, the only true Alien sequel was so influential.

Why is there a space between L98-59 and the d in the Exoplanet designation L98-59 d? Oh, to allow you to search your database for all the stuff on that star and the search includes all the stuff on the exoplanets too. Cool. Colman

CAN_Space_Agency Instagram Here are some Famous ExoPlanets 03 Sep 2024

Exoplanet L98-59 d

Exoplanet K2-18 d

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Spacer Organisations

Going to ask a silly question here, that a Canadian flag?

Why is 08 September, Star Trek day? Well in some places, it’s 9_8 …. Wait until it’s T34567_8_09_1000_A? Celebration time…. Come On! Colman T02024_SEP_10

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