They're baaack....less than a week after Pres Bush visits Palm Springs and 29 Palms,... a meeting per chance???? tighten those tin foil hats Bat Watchmen
Posted on 04/21/2006 7:54:42 PM PDT by george76
Eric Julien, a former French military air traffic controller and senior airport manager, has completed a study of the comet 73P Schwassmann- Wachmann and declared that a fragment is highly likely to impact the Earth on or around May 25, 2006.
Comet Schwassman-Wachmann follows a five-year orbit that crosses the solar system's ecliptic plane. It has followed its five year orbit intact for centuries; but, in 1995, mysteriously fragmented.
According to Julien, this is the same year that a crop circle appeared showing the inner solar system with the Earth missing from its orbit.
He argues the "Missing Earth" crop circle was a message from higher intelligences warning humanity of the consequences of its destructive nuclear policies.
He concludes the May 25 event is tied in to the Bush administration's policy of preemptive use of nuclear weapons against Iran, and the effect of nuclear weapons on the realms of higher intelligences.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
thank you what do you think? I do not know what to write this is......
(Hey, I'm almost 60, there's not all that much time left to me anyway, and if all my heirs are going to die, who cares if I die owing a LOT of money ....
Early May, we're all going to, well, wherever you want to go, on my credit card! PartAY! (Then of course, May 24 we hit Church and stuff .....)
Which "appropriate scientific channels on the internet" do you recommend for neophyte and future astronomers?
They're baaack....less than a week after Pres Bush visits Palm Springs and 29 Palms,... a meeting per chance???? tighten those tin foil hats Bat Watchmen
Hybrid Comet-Asteroid In Mysterious Break-up
"Something substantial has broken off an icy 50-kilometre object beyond the orbit of Saturn, leaving puzzled astronomers trying to figure out why. Comets have been seen breaking up before, but only after heating when passing close to the Sun or a gravitational disturbance following a close encounter with a planet."
"However, at 1.9 billion kilometres, this object is very far from the Sun. Another mysterious feature is that much more gas and dust is escaping from the breakaway fragment than from the parent body. The disintegration has created a dust cloud more than 100,000 km across and which is several times brighter than the original object was before the event."
See my post #207.
"Is this thread prompted by the comet shards coming by earth in a month or so? Supposedly it will all miss, but some by less. Somebody on the overnight radio said something like three chunks could hit earth, although the rest of the 17 pieces are strung out and would have to miss because of orbital geometry."
See my link in post #207.
""It looks as though some of the fragments are themselves forming their own sub-fragments," says Yeomans, which means the number could multiply further as 73P approaches. No knows how long the "string of pearls" will be when it finally arrives."
Okay, so according to this former airtraffic controller froggie, the big fragments start going by us around the 12th and by the 25th, Lucy In The Sky is gonna horsewhip us with her pearls (more black rocks for the Arabian peninsula?)
This comment borrowed without permission from another poster in an earlier, unrelated, asteroid thread. It made me laugh my butt off, so I thought I'd try it too.
"The disintegration has created a dust cloud more than 100,000 km across and which is several times brighter than the original object was before the event."
Brighter?! Aluminum interplanetary dust bunnies at work? Fire breathing space dragons!
""It looks as though some of the fragments are themselves forming their own sub-fragments," says Yeomans, which means the number could multiply further as 73P approaches. No knows how long the "string of pearls" will be when it finally arrives."
and then posted yourself:
Okay, so according to this former airtraffic controller froggie, the big fragments start going by us around the 12th and by the 25th, Lucy In The Sky is gonna horsewhip us with her pearls (more black rocks for the Arabian peninsula?)
That quote was from the SPACE.COM article and was by Don Yeomans, head of NASA's Near Earth Object Program at JPL. Not the Frenchy ATC guy.
And the speculation on the possibility in my post that we might get hit, though very, very, very small, is drawn by me from astronomer Paul Wiegert at the University of Western Ontario, also in the SPACE.COM article and not the one about the ATC loon, about what caused the mini-comet to break up in the first place. If it was thermal stress then any debris cloud will be millions of miles away this time around. If it was an impact it's possible that the outer edge of the debris cloud might, just might, be big enough to bruch Earth. Now, even if that's the case it's 99.9999% likely to be dust, not anything that can do us damage.
But there is that .0001% chance...
I have a theory dealing with the nature of "stuff" in the universe.
I believe we regularly pass from regions of more "stuff" to regions of less "stuff," and vice versa. When we're in the more "stuff" regions, well, more stuff happens (hits the fan, if you will). We went through a BIG region of more stuff in 1930-1950. We've then been in a region of less stuff for quite some time.
Starting in the late 90s we started leaving the region of less stuff and the stuff is hitting the fan again.
More comets, more storms, more wars, more paranoia. Basically, just more.
Of course, that's just me.
Five words into the first sentence I knew he was a looney.
I wouldn't worry about this fellow; I don't imagine there's much to this story. But what I know about this type of thing isn't worth much, anonymoussierra.
Thank you****Peach****
so........we are going to the beach in August. Should we cancel?
I recall a gigantic meteor shower sometime around 1947-9. Not at all sure of the year. The sky was full of falling stars, very bright tracks. None of this 5 per hour stuff, there were 5 in the sky at once and it went on for hours. Any idea what this was?
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