Posted on 03/19/2013 7:28:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.
That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.
An asteroid estimated to be have been about 55 feet in diameter exploded on February 15 over Chelyabinsk, Russia, generating shock waves that shattered windows and damaged buildings. More than 1,500 people were injured.
Later that day, a larger, unrelated asteroid discovered last year passed about 17,200 miles from Earth, closer than the network of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.
The events "serve as evidence that we live in an active solar system with potentially hazardous objects passing through our neighborhood with surprising frequency," said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat.
"We were fortunate that the events of last month were simply an interesting coincidence rather than a catastrophe," said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who called the hearing to learn what is being done and how much money is needed to better protect the planet.
NASA has found and is tracking about 95 percent of the largest objects flying near Earth, those that are .62 miles or larger in diameter.
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Nope, none of my family or friends would be caught dead in NYC or SF.
Supposedly he is the last one.
The new pope chose “Francis,” referring to St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis of Assisi’s birth name was “Giovanni Francesco di PIETRO Bernardone. St. Francis’ original name included Peter.
Both of Pope Francis’ parents are from Turin, Italy which makes his heritage Italian/Roman.
So you could call him Francis the Italian, Peter the Italian, Francis the Roman, Peter the Roman (Petrus Romanus).
If you look at this in context of the Mahdi (Islamic Messiah) from the Shia Muzzie perspective you will find that this guy is supposed to make war against the Jews and the Christians when he shows up.
http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch05_comparing_the_biblical_antichrist.htm
Keep those two in perspective when you find out that a twelfth century rabbi predicts the coming of the Messiah in or about 2017 with all of his predictions leading up to it being very accurate.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/12th-century-rabbi-predicted-israels-future/
You put all of this together along with the world economy getting ready for a complete collapse and either something major is going down pretty soon or we are just hitting another bump in the road of history.
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