Unless that star is going to come as close as Jupiter is, it’s effect will be negligible.
If it’s a dwarf star, then it could be hard to see, but really massive. Or it might be a really small dwarf star?
I don’t know. I googled around, and I can’t really find any intelligent discussions about it. Although one paranoid site suggested that that’s why FEMA is buying up so much food.
Not enough to go on, and I confess that I haven’t the patience to sit through one of those lengthy videos.
but he left after the fireworks.
How about a marine biologist?
Physics minor here. No way this is true. The gravity of any massive object would be visibly and measurably disrupting the orbits of a whole lot of local stuff in the solar system that we watch every day. For people who want to worry about something, Obama is destroying the country right here, right now. No waiting.
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A comet and a star, dwarf or otherwise, are two totally different kinds of objects which have no comparisons in mass, composition, or physical properties.
The Elenin object is essentially a cometary pile of rock, ices, and frozen gasses about 2 miles in diameter or the size of a small mountain on the Earth. It originates in the Oort cloud out on the edges of our Solar System, where countless objects of this and far larger sizes up to dwarf planets at least are in orbit around the Sun. Every so often these cometary and/or asteroidal objects are gravitationally perturbed out of their distant orbits by collisions with like objects and/or the slight gravitational influences of nearby stars.
A dwarf star or any other star is a very different kind of object measuring hundreds of thousands to millions of miles in diameter. It has enough matter and mass to achieve thermonuclear fusion at its center and emit light. Our sun is a medium sized star located about 93 million miles away from the Earth with a diameter of more than 800,000 miles and 109 times the approximate 7,600 mile diameter of the Earth. the Sun is 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. Even a dwarf star would have a mass which is a fraction of the Sun's mass or many times the mass of the Sun, in the case of a post-supernova dwarf star remnant. The nearest other stars are in a multiple star system of three stars. Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri orbit each other, while Proxima Centauri orbits the other two stars in their solar system. Proxima Centauri is a distance of about 4.2 light years from the Earth, Sun, and rest of our Solar system. That is a distance of about 24.7 trillion miles.
The efforts to describe Elenin as a star of any size is a laughable hoax.
Best estimate now is that it's a couple of miles in diameter with a mass one tenth that of Haley's comet. Its closest approach to Earth will be about 20 - 25 million miles. So, we can relax; it's a long-period comet and it might have enough volatiles on the surface to put on a little show for us to enjoy as it passes by.
Dwarf Star?Someone on another thread was very concerned about this comet (Comet Elenin), as well.
Here are a couple of items I posted to her:
From Sydney Stargazers: Leonid Elenin – Elenin Is No Dwarf Star. Another interesting article on Elenin from their site: Some Quick Notes on Comet Elenin.
Here is a nicely-done summary on Comet Elenin, put together by an amateur astronomer in Adelaide, Australia: Comet Elenin: the FAQ for the worried.
Hope this helps a bit :)
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The Paper - Astronomical alignments as the cause of ~M6+ seismicity
I have a degree in Physics, was curious, and this now has my full attention.
Looks like Mensur Omerbashich of the European Royal Society Physics dept is taking this “comet” into account for the “robustness” of the greater earthquakes over the last few years, including alignments between Elenin-Earth-Sun within 3 days of the 2/27/2010 Chilean and 3/11/2011 Japanese great earthquakes. His paper constantly refers to C2010/X1 as “the Elenin”. If this was just a comet, I wouldn’t expect any effects, as it would have a very small mass to Earth and Sun relatively. A really curious fact about this “comet” is that the perihilion date (closest to the Sun) of this comet Elenin is 9/11/2011 ... ELENIN ... NINe ELEven... how could that reasonably also be the discoverers LAST NAME? And there is more, MUCH more out there about this... (and a lot of silliness mixed in, as well)... download the paper pdf file and READ IT. The next alignement is Sun-Elenin-Earth on 9/26/2011 with Elenin approximately HALFWAY between us and the Sun. Yikes!
Astronomical alignments as the cause of ~M6+ seismicity
Mensur Omerbashich
http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2036
(Submitted on 11 Apr 2011 (v1), last revised 4 Jul 2011 (this version, v3))
Abstract: I here demonstrate empirically my georesonator concept in which tidally induced magnification of Earth masses’ resonance causes seismicity. To that end, I show that all strong (~M6+) earthquakes of 2010 occurred during the Earth’s long (t>3 day) astronomical alignments within our solar system. I then show that the same holds true for all very strong (~M8+) earthquakes of the decade of 2000s. Finally, the strongest (M8.6+) earthquakes of the past century are shown to have occurred during the Earth’s multiple long alignments, whereas half of the high-strongest (M9+) ones occurred during the Full Moon. I used the comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin), as it has been adding to robustness in terms of very strong seismicity since 2007 (in terms of strongest seismicity: since 1965). The Elenin will continue intensifying the Earth’s very strong seismicity until August-October, 2011. Approximate forecast of earthquakes based on my discoveries is feasible. This demonstration proves my hyperresonator concept, arrived at earlier as a mathematical-physical solution to the most general extension of the georesonator concept possible.