Debris of 'Doomsday' Comet Elenin to Pass by Earth Sunday

Yahoo news ^ | 10/14/2011 | Mike Wall

[Hugin]

The moment long feared by conspiracy theorists is nearly upon us: The "doomsday comet" Elenin will make its closest approach to Earth Sunday (Oct. 16). Or what's left of it will, anyway.

Comet Elenin started breaking up in August after being blasted by a huge solar storm, and a close pass by the sun on Sept. 10 apparently finished it off, astronomers say. So what will cruise within 22 million miles (35.4 million kilometers) of our planet Sunday is likely to be a stream of debris rather than a completely intact comet.

And the leftovers of Elenin won't return for 12,000 years, astronomers say.

[Hugin]

Not sure what a comet has to do with "conspiracy theorists", unless they believe the government knows we are going to die and won't tell us.

In any case relax, we aren't,

[JoeDetweiler]

Broke apart....yeah, I’m really gonna believe that. It was really a giant UFO filled with Earth loving aliens ready to awaken us to a new era of peace, love and socialtastic goodness. And those damn Koch brothers blew it up.

[Trueblackman]

So what you are saying is I should go ahead renew my driver license, start paying my bills again, call my boos and claim the person, who called and cussed him out the other night wasn’t me and stop maxing out my credit cards! Well thank you for ruining a great dream.

[Berlin_Freeper]

What a "Shooting Star" looks like #FromSpace

[annie laurie]

Not sure what a comet has to do with "conspiracy theorists", unless they believe the government knows we are going to die and won't tell us.

Well ... as it happens, we had a bit of hoopla about Elenin right here on FR:

Post #23: I believe Comet Elenin is the Christ returning for his people....We will see this IMHO this Sept 2011

Source given in post 34 of this thread

See also posts 41, 44, 48, 61 in the above thread.

Another thread here

[BigCinBigD]

I want to be known as the first “Elenin Truther” I say the Government shot it down!

[Hugin]

They probably hired these guys to do it.

Rocket City Rednecks

[Hugin]

Cool pic!

[El Gato]

So what will cruise within 22 million miles (35.4 million kilometers) of our planet Sunday is likely to be a stream of debris rather than a completely intact comet.

That could be worse, or at least more interesting. Think a shotgun rather than a rifle. More spread out, but much smaller projectiles.

Don't know if it would be spread out enough to put earth in the "pattern". Because even that part of the solar system that's near the orbit of the earth, is still a damn big and empty place.

[Razzz42]

We’d be better off if it was a direct hit.

[Strategerist]

Not sure what a comet has to do with "conspiracy theorists", unless they believe the government knows we are going to die and won't tell us.

You must have totally missed the gigantic spasm of idiocy from the Apocalyptikooks over this comet.

They're all waiting for a megatsunami from the Canaries now, though.

[=8 mrrabbit 8=]

You must have missed the serious discussion that took place regarding Comet Elenin.

- Possible electrical/plasma activity.
- Near miss as close as .15 AU
- Great opportunity for those with decent telescopes
- Whole or broken-up passby...has happened with several in past decade.

=8-)

[sit-rep]

22 million miles? We”re doomed!!!

[silverleaf]

It’s not dead.... it’s pining for the fjords

Oh dear now what will we talk about over on “Above Top Secret”?