http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMLGWjxXr4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdbfYOqK0lU
A plain vanilla Google search on “Comet” “Elenin” yields about 25,700 results (0.53 seconds)
How long until we find her in Nike shoes with a blue sheet over her body?
Here are some “debunkers” for you:
http://www.examiner.com/astronomy-in-aurora-co/comet-elenin-boom-to-bust
http://mara-gamiel.blogspot.com/2011/02/coming-of-comet-elenin.html
Well, it’s all complete garbage, of course. It’s fostered by the usual apocalyptikook nonsense.
Basically it’s the responsibility of the people spouting the nonsense to prove it, not anyone else’s responsibility to disprove it.
Actual astronomers have a lot better things to do than combat the latest kook fad; one problem is if you Google Comet Elanin, almost all you GET are worthless apocalyptikook sites.
There is an actual comet Elenin, but it’s not going to hit the earth, or affect us at all. If we’re lucky, we’ll get a good naked-eye show out of it.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/observingblog/112431829.html
There’s a long history of pseudo-scientific nonsense surrounding comets, from that cult that committed suicide because of Hale-Bopp, to people claiming the whole earth would be poisoned by the tail of Halley’s Comet in 1910-1911.
Those are interesting sites, but not always "Fountains of Truth".
Just consider this: How often have these prophesies of gloom turned out to be correct? Answer: never.
Some of the stuff on those sites turns out to be true, even when reported months in advance of any other news source. There is "high wierdness" about our planet; but, almost never is there any accuracy to predictions. Who knows, maybe there is some truth to the tales of approching celestial troublemakers. I'm looking forward to something coming along and saving us from Washington DC.
Source: Ask An Astrobiologist
Question:
I've recently heard about the discovery of comet Elenin, which is scheduled to come close to earth around October-November 2011 – Is it possible it will be an extinction level event? AND Comet Elenin: How close to earth will it get? And can we expect it to cause any damage? AND I have read that Russian scientists are now predicting that asteroid Apophis will impact the Earth April 13 2036 causing terrible damage. I understand that the Russians are planning a mission to stop the asteroid.
Answer:
Both Comet Elenin and Asteroid Apophis are real, but these concerns about collisions are without foundation. Unfortunately there are a few popular websites that are known for suggesting multiple catastrophes, including popularizing the 2012 hoax. Two that show up in any search for “Comet Elenin” are godlikeproductions and abovetopsecret, both of which predict either a very close pass by Earth or a collision.
If instead you consult dependable websites like wikipedia and skyandtelescope you will find that Comet Elenin will come nowhere near the Earth. At its closest (on 10 September 2011) it will be more than 25 million km from our planet. There is no mystery about the comet’s path, and it is irresponsible to suggest that it is a threat.
In the past few days another silly rumor has appeared on godlikeproductions. They claim that the comet's discoverer, Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin, does not exist, and the name is a code based on ELE = Extinction Level Event. This is not only wrong but crazy. Do they think that if anyone really wanted to keep this comet secret they would use an obvious code like this to tell us that it was likely to hit Earth? Truly weird! Concerning asteroid Apophis, the report of Russian scientist predictions of an impact is false.
Apparently it is a reworking of issues that scientists were discussing 2-3 years ago, when for a time it was thought that there was a very small chance of a collision with Apophis in 2036, but recent improvements in our knowledge of the orbit now exclude the possibility. This story about a Russian prediction has been repeated so often that NASA actually made a public correction in an interview with JPL scientist Don Yeomans, who leads the NASA Near Earth Object Program Office. The lesson here is to know your sources of information. Wikipedia is almost always accurate, and so are the government NASA and NOAA and Geologic Survey websites.
In contrast, there are many conspiracy theory websites that are usually misleading or wrong. Please try to learn the difference so you won’t get upset or worried over nothing.
February 17, 2011
sounds like some of these people took “Lucifer’s Hammer” too seriously.
We may or may not pass through the debris tail of the comet. Plasma cosmologists and electrical engineers simply note that due to electrical differentials between space object and space debris and the earth itself - electrical discharges could occur when such debris enters our atmosphere.
For example, at the time of the Chicago fire, we passed through the debris field of a broken up comet. The Chicago fire is the only one you read about in the history books - there were actually dozens of “spontaneous” fires that occurred all over the region at the time of the Chicago fire...
Elinin is projected to pass as close as .15 AU...which is still hundreds of thousands of miles away - way past the moon’s orbit.
So who knows, bottom line is - we’ll find out in October.
=8-)
a woman talking about her visions of catostrophic earth changes associated with the arrival of this cometThe only way a comet can cause catastrophic Earth changes is if it hits the Earth, and even then it would also have to be large enough to do serious damage. The recent (last couple of years) spate of cyanide-tailed comets were of little risk, because the tails are pretty insubstantial -- but we're seeing them from a distance so they appear nice and thick.
News stories on Elenin are starting to surface on Google.
One that I read today on a science blog, put it’s at perihelion on 9/11/2011...
Of possible interest.
This was uploaded on 7 March, 4 days before Japan earthquake, just saw it today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zMdTvoqcQ