OFF: New 'moon' found around Earth - DO NOT PANIC

[M Holmes]

Michael W Blackman writes:

> > > Are they at all related to the Dogons?  Tribe of African(?)
> > > peoples who were only disovered in the turn of this century
> > > who possessed star maps (simple drawings) of the Cirius
> > > star cluster, in very accurate detail, which we only discovered
> > > thru high powered telescoped many decades later?
> >
> > Sadly this is not quite the true situation.    These rather astute
> > African people were already well aware that strangers were asking around
> > about astronomical observations and star clusters and the like so when
> > questioned they were more than happy to "discover" an appropriate star
> > map for such credulous Westerners.   This explanation didn't surface
> > though until after the TV documentary was made!

This has already been debunked. The half-assed investigators told them
about Sirius B. See the urban legends site for details.

FoFP