Posted on 01/06/2002 7:20:43 PM PST by blam
SURFS UP!
Gravametrics from planets viewed as the source for elliptical decay.
Encke is considered by some to have been a super comet..that spiralled in and was shorn in pieces.Our Earth History a testimony to Encke's power.
Dr's Victor Klube and Napier submit that we will be hit again while transiting accross the Taurid meteor stream. The Stream is likend unto crushed gravel that is delivered for drive ways..lots of consistantly small uniform sizes... with a varied amount of larger rock included. It is the larger pieces of Encke's train that fail to burn up in our atmosphere that have been doing the damage... Tunguska events to Barringer.
An interesting side note...there are positional horizon markings at Stonehenge..some feel this was also part of the design..a way of monitoring the seasons..and the Taurid meteor stream .. that the ancients feared greatly.
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. My post wasn't alarmist -- these space rocks are interesting. A small number of them have significantly affected life on Earth, but these are very rare.
By the way, it's the rarity of these large impacts that is the reason to sleep soundly. (I think you're underestimating the harm that would ensue if we got unlucky and a large asteroid did hit.)
Hurtling is now an Olympic event.
The recent dates are aslo facinating. Evidence for the Bibical Deluge of Noah perhaps.
I see speeds of 60,000-120,000 MPH often quoted.
January 07 2002 at 02:50PM
Paris - An asteroid big enough to wipe out a major country gave the Earth a close shave on Monday, passing less than twice the distance of the Moon from our planet, astronomers reported.
The space rock, designated 2001 YB5, measures between 220 and 490 metres and at its closest point, at 0737 GMT, was about 600 000km from the Earth, according to varying estimates on US and European specialist websites.
2001 YB5 was spotted in early December by a Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (Neat) survey telescope on Mount Palomar in California, Nasa said on its Near-Earth Object (NEO) Programme website.
Although there was no danger of collision from the asteroid, experts said the distance was a whisker in cosmic terms.
'Potentially hazardous'
"Such an object would literally wipe out a medium-sized country and lead to a global economic meltdown, unless we were extremely fortunate and it hit somewhere remote," Benny Peiser, an asteroid expert at Liverpool John Moores University, told AFP by phone.
Only one other identified asteroid, a rock called 1999 AN10, will come closer, making a flyby on August 7 2027.
An object 220 to 490m across would release energy equivalent to hundreds of atomic bombs if it whacked into the Earth.
A large object, believed to be up to 10km long, smashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago, triggering a firestorm and a dust cloud that wiped out the dinosaurs, scientists believe.
In 1908, an asteroid or comet about 60m long exploded over Siberia with the force of 600 times the Hiroshima bomb, reducing a 40km wide patch of forest to matchwood.
2001 YB5 has been categorised by Neat as a "potentially hazardous" asteroid.
Although it poses no danger at all to the Earth at the moment, that could theoretically change in the future if its orbit around the Sun is deflected by the gravitational pull of a nearby planet.
Its trajectory crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury, NEAT said. - Sapa-AFP
Fascinating reading!
I put one of your references on the GGG list and guess this should go there also since it ties in earlier events .
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It's hard to believe they made such a mistake...According to the team from Sussex University, however, these calculations missed out a crucial effect: the loss of mass by the ageing Sun as it expands and its gravity weakens.
What a bunch of dummies. I've been sweating over this ever since I learned the Earth would be swallowed up by the sun. Now it's not true. This is outrageous. I'm outraged! Puff.
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