People understand the history or have seen the movie "Titanic" to know that 100 years ago the ship struck an iceberg and eventually sank all the crew.
But when the Titanic sank, killing 1517 people on 15 April 1912, the researchers are still wondering why Captain Edward Smith ignored the warnings about the presence of icebergs in the shipping area.
Though Smith is the most experienced captain in the "White Star Line" and several times had sailed the North Atlantic sea lanes.
At that time he was assigned to conduct the inaugural voyage of the Titanic because he is the best sailor, knowledgeable and cautious.
Donald Olson, a physicist at Texas State University who became the forensic team of astronomers who conducted the study for months, had a new explanation of the existence of the iceberg in Titanic cruise lines.
"The connection was able to explain how the lunar iceberg in many remarkable path through which the Titanic," said Olson told Jym Forsyth of Reuters news agency.
According to him, the type that was hit by an iceberg Titanic Greenland are generally trapped in the shallow waters of Labrador and Newfoundland, and can not continue moving south until they melt enough for the tide to float back or release them.
So how do so many icebergs can float very far to the south in the shipping lanes in the south Foundland night?
Tim Olson speculation oceanographers investigating the late Fergus Wood that the movement of the moon toward the Earth is unusual in January 1912 may result in a high tide so that icebergs move farther than usual to separate from Greenland and float up to the cruise lines.
Olson said the event "a lifetime" occurred on January 4, 1912, when the moon and sun line up in such a way that their mutual gravitational pull.
At the same time, the movement of the moon toward the Earth at the time it reaches the nearest position for 1,400 years and are in that position within six minutes of the full moon.
On top of that, the movement of the Earth reaches the closest point to the sun in one year just happened the day before.
"This configuration maximizes power in the ocean tide moon earth. It's incredible," said Olson.
Olson's research shows that to reach the shipping lanes in mid-April, the mountains of ice that hit the Titanic must have been the fault of Greenland in January 1912.
High tide due to a strange combination of astronomical events, he said, was enough to dispel the mountains of ice and give them sufficient capacity to float up to the shipping line in April.
Olson's team had previously tried to use the tidal patterns to determine exactly when the British occupied the Julius Caesar and prove the legend that inspired Mary Shelley bright full moon through the window while writing a story gothic classic "Frankenstein."
The research team may be able to justify the Titanic Captain Smith, despite two centuries too late, by showing that he had no reason to react casually to report the presence of ice on the cruise line ships.
At that time he had no reason to believe that the mountain of ice in front of him as much and for that, said Olson....
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