I can't believe nobody posted this graphic yet...
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 ...
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call "The Twilight Zone".
For your discernment.
Who knew aliens were registered dems? Huh.
President Chirac is currently assembling a delegation of ministers to offer surrender terms to the comet.
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LOL!
So, not a good day to go to Carolina Beach, I'd expect.
I assume that the crop circle was a big dot with three rings, and that the comet chose to take a pass on Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot?
That's where I stopped reading...
Why not? He did.
I can't believe nobody posted this graphic yet...
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.
There have been several reports of falling chunks of ice and many reports of strange lights in the sky especially in the upper midwest. Could this be the advance pieces of this comet? We are doomed, but that is off-topic. There is a meteor shower going on now, Lyrids or something like that. Could be some debris from that.
That estimate is based on both observations and the assumption that the break up was caused by thermal stress, not an impact. But if it was caused by and impact:
"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.
This is very uncertain; indeed, forecasters consider it unlikely. But an expanding cloud of dust from the 1995 break-up of the comet could brush past Earth in May 2006 producing a display of meteors.
"We believe the cloud is expanding too slowly to reach Earth only eleven years after the break-up," said astronomer Paul Wiegert at the University of Western Ontario. "but it all depends on what caused the comet to fly apart—and that we don't know.
"The most likely explanation is thermal stress, with the icy nucleus cracking like an ice cube dropped into hot soup: the comet broke apart as it approached the Sun after a long sojourn the frigid outer solar system," he explains. "If this is truly what happened, then the debris cloud should be expanding slowly, and there will be no strong meteor shower."
On the other hand, what if "the comet was shattered by a hit from a small interplanetary boulder?" A violent collision could produce faster-moving debris that would reach Earth in 2006.
Wiegert expects to see nothing, but he encourages sky watchers to be alert. It wouldn't be the first time a dying comet produced a meteor shower:
"One outstanding example is comet Biela, which was seen to split in 1846, and had completely broken apart by 1872," he says. "At least three very intense meteor showers (3000-15000 meteors per hour) were produced by this dying comet in 1872, 1885 and 1892."
Assuming a thermal breakup for 73P, Wiegert and colleagues have calculated the most likely trajectory of its dust cloud. Their results: dust should reach Earth in 2022, "producing a minor meteor shower--nothing spectacular. However," he adds, "the ongoing splitting of the comet means new meteoroids are being sent in new directions, so a future strong meteor shower from 73P remains a real possibility."
The watch begins on May 12th.
From Space.COM
So, if the break up was the result of a collision then the debris cloud could have expanded far enough to have pieces impact Earth this May. Due to the nature of the comet and the likelyhood that anything substantial would have been detected during the intense recent observations of 73P it is likely that we're only talking about, at most, a dust cloud. But "3,000 to 15,000 meteors per hour!" The prospect of a meteor storm of those proportions is awesome! The Lyrid meteor shower, which "peaked" this morning, generally produces only 5 to 20 meteors per hour.
But there is just a chance, a tiny tiny chance, that there's a big chunk that nobody's noticed...
Of course, I wouldn't ascribe it to space aliens. Nope. Somehow George Bush reached out in 1995, maybe while learning to use the hurrican machine, and set a fragment of comet 73P on a collision course. But of course, he's aimed it at Tehran. Talk about plausible deniability!
Hey, maybe the comet fragment will hit Iran and save us the trouble of lobbing a nuke!
"scientists are at a loss to explain these freak showers of tiny ice cubes"
Added to my small but growing collection of Munch parodies.
Thank god the fragments are smaller than Ted Kennedy or we would be in the crapper. One is headed for Tehran no doubt.
No worries here. We're 40 miles inland and 400' above sea level. We can just get our kayaks out when the water settles.
According to this guy, these aliens would also have to know the future, because Bush wasn't president in 1995 when they fragmented the comet. Hey, but maybe when we hit the nuke sites in Iran, we can say it wasn't us, it was that darned comet thingy.
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