Is this thread prompted by the comet shards coming by earth in a month or so? Supposedly it will all miss, but some by less. Somebody on the overnight radio said something like three chunks could hit earth, although the rest of the 17 pieces are strung out and would have to miss because of orbital geometry.
No. I've been telling everyone I'm stocking up for the hurricane season, war with Iran and Bird Flu. I'm ready for the May 25th impact too though.
I posted a link to an article about this (#194) on the thread
Former Military Air Traffic Controller Claims Comet Collision with Earth on May 25, 2006
I'm not buying that loons theory (it's space aliens sending the comet to punish Bush), but I found speculation on Space.COM that there could, just could, be debris from this new one close enough to cause a spectacular meteor shower in mid May. That article specifically mentions Comet Biela, the same one as in this article on King Arthur. It says that Biela caused successive meteor storms of "3,000 to 15,000 meteors per hour" in "1872, 1885 and 1892." The annual Lyrid meteor shower, which coincidentally peaked this morning, averages 5 to 20 meteors per hour.