June 8-9 Dust cloud begins to reach earth and darkening skies
June 18-20 1st impact
June 24-25 2nd impact
June 27-28 3rd impact of the “anomaly”
I haven't noticed a darkening of the skies, however...
Meteors are usuually debris from the tail of comets, at least the predictable meteor showers are.
This debris is usually minute, though it lights up nicely when hitting the atmosphere.
If we are heading in to an asteroid field (this would be much different than a comet) then the size of the debris would be much larger.
This could explain the increase in low level meteors that have been noted since around June 8th. (larger debris would make it to the lower atmophere without burning up)
Heads up!
An old article, but still relevant.
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Armageddon asteroids 'best kept secret'
The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 02/15/03
A scientific adviser to the United States government has suggested that secrecy might be the best option if scientists were ever to discover that a giant asteroid was on course to collide with Earth.
In certain circumstances, nothing could be done to avoid such a collision and ensuing destruction, and it would be best not to tell the public anything, said Geoffrey Sommer, of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
"When a problem arises with high uncertainty, there is an opportunity to spin the problem to avoid global panic. If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all," Dr Sommer told the association yesterday.
"If an extinction-type impact is inevitable, then ignorance for the populace is bliss. As a matter of common sense, if you can't intercept it and you can't move people out of the way in time, there's nothing you can do in terms of reducing the costs of the potential impact," he said.
"Overreaction not just by the public but by policy-makers scurrying around before the thing actually hits because we can't do anything about it anyway ... to a large extent you are better off not adding to your social costs," said Dr Sommer, who is also an adviser on terrorism.
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is conducting a 25-year survey of the sky to find asteroids wider than a kilometre which could have a devastating impact if they collided with Earth.
So far they have determined the orbits of about 60 per cent of these objects and none so far have a trajectory that threatens the world within the next couple of centuries, said David Morrison of Nasa's Ames laboratory in Moffat Field, California.
"There are, however, many things out there that we know nothing about," he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/843541/posts
Thanks much keep us posted.
What was the source for this BAW?