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CHICAGO FIREBALL:
Sky watchers in Illinois, Michigan,
and Indiana were surprised around local midnight on
March 26th-27th
when a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky and exploded.
"It was a small space rock (perhaps only 1 or 2 meters wide)
with a mass of about 10 metric tons," reports Bill Cook of the
Marshall Space Flight Center. "Some 500 fragments scattered over
a 10-km wide zone in the suburbs south of Chicago." Meteorites
struck houses, cars, roads--but no people.
Scientists are scouring the area now to collect debris for
further study.
On
29 Mar 2003
there were 500
known Potentially
Hazardous Asteroids
Mars Watch
In the coming
months, you will have to keep your eye on
Mars.
The ‘Red Planet’
will travel extremely close to our planet. In late August, Mars
will reach a magnitude of -2.88 and make it’s closest approach
to earth in 30 years.
Keep your
eye on Mars!
Or Anything else you might see......
Nibiru is also a Red Planet with a "halo"........
Has There been a Cover
Up of a Celestial Warning against War in Iraq?
A University based researcher has satellite evidence that an
anomalous celestial phenomenon is a veiled form of communication
warning against a preemptive war in Iraq that lacks broad
international support.
Dr Michael Salla’s analysis of the
satellite imagery suggests that a
celestial warning against such
an attack has occurred, and that the Bush administration has
deliberately kept this from coming to the attention of the
general public.
A Researcher affiliated with American University, Washington
DC., claims he has satellite evidence that an anomalous
celestial phenomenon is a warning against a preemptive war in
Iraq that lacks international support.
Using satellite imagery
of a controversial February 18 encounter between the sun and the
comet NEAT, Dr Michael E. Salla argues that a sequence of images
contain a clear outline of a celestial eye being formed that
overlooks the comet ’s interaction with the sun.
He argues that
the emergence of the anomalous phenomenon simultaneously when
peace demonstrations occurred around the planet signifies a form
of communication by an advanced or non-human intelligence on the
wisdom of a US led preemptive war on Iraq.
He claims there is evidence that the
Bush administration
has deliberately suppressed information concerning this
celestial event in order to keep US public opinion firmly
focused on the need for a preemptive war.
Dr Salla’s analysis of the satellite imagery
suggests that a celestial warning against such an attack has
occurred, and that the Bush administration has deliberately kept
this from the general public and from being taken up by the
national media.
He presents his evidence on Comet NEAT in two papers that are
available online at
http://www.american.edu/salla/index-AU.html
Did NASA Fake Comet NEAT's
Flyby of the Sun?
Compelling
Evidence........Go Here for the Full Story!
http://www.american.edu/salla/Articles/CometNeat.htm
Gulu Future.com
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~gulufuture/future/neat_spark.htm
BIZARRE NASA MESSAGE RE LIVE WEB
IMAGING:
"NOTE: The Washington DC metropolitan area is under a snow
emergency.
If the LASCO team has technical problems with the software that
reformats telemetry into images for the web they may not be able
to
fix it until the emergency is lifted."
Sun Diameter equals: 870,000 MILES
Comet
NEAT / Planet Nibiru Diameter equals: 348,000 MILES
Length NEAT Tail equals: 5,220,000 MILES
Jupiter Diameter equals: 88,782 MILES
TO SAY THIS BABY IS BIG
IS A LITTLE BIT OF AN
UNDERSTATEMENT AS IS ITS TOTAL INVISIBILITY.......
Code Red
Comets are not dirty snow balls but are a
complex plasma interaction
of a rocky nucleus and the solar capacitor
quoting the Hopi legends - the blue comets are the
dangerous ones
(since there is such an active electrical current they literally
light up like a light bulb) - many people are reporting seeing
this
comet in UV and is very bright
We will start to see many objects coming into the solar system
as a
pre-warning to the big one.
These comets will seem to come from all directions as they are
actually in distant orbits around the new large intruding main
body -
There is a serious
increase in the # of solar passing comets.
This could be the beginning of the light show
Where is NASA ? Hunkered down and not talking about the real
issues
What are the real issues????
Solar wind speed is approaching
700
Earth weather
is going
bonkers
Comet Could Brighten Night Skies Next Spring
By
Joe Rao
Special to SPACE.com
posted: 07:00 am ET
16 May 2003
Mark your
calendars for this time next year, when a rare, bright naked-eye
comet might grace the spring evening sky. Then again, maybe not.
Back on
Aug. 28, 2001, the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
announced the discovery of a new comet spotted by Near Earth
Asteroid Tracking team at Palomar Observatory in southern
California. Like several other comets, this one has come to be
called NEAT, the acronym for the discovery program.
The comet should not be confused with another that recently
looped around the Sun and that also bore a NEAT moniker. That
comet NEAT was designated C/2002 V1. The comet NEAT anticipated
for next year has been designated as C/2001 Q4.
The potential
The potential for a bright comet show for the spring of 2004 is
based on an improved orbit that places the new comet NEAT’s
closest point to the Sun, or perihelion, at a distance of 89.4
million miles (143.9 million kilometers) on May 15, 2004.
The comet was nearly a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers)
from the Sun when it was discovered. At that time it was shining
at magnitude 20, or more than 398,000 times dimmer than the
faintest star visible to the unaided eye. Most comets would be
completely invisible at such a tremendous distance, even to the
telescope that found it, so the implication is that Comet NEAT
C/2001 Q4 may be an unusually large and active object.
The comet has brightened noticeably since its discovery, but is
still very faint -- only about magnitude 14, still some 1,600
times fainter than the threshold of naked-eye visibility. It is
located within the faint constellation of Fornax, the Furnace.
It cannot be observed at the present time, since this part of
the sky is only above the horizon during the daytime.
Sizzle of fizzle?
Most new comets are notoriously unpredictable, and there is no
guarantee that comet NEAT won’t fizzle. The big question is
whether this activity is the sign of a truly great comet or just
a temporary flare-up of an ordinary one.
A "new" comet in a parabolic orbit – that is, a comet that has
never passed near the Sun before – may be covered with very
volatile material, such as frozen carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and
carbon monoxide. These ices tend to vaporize far from the Sun,
giving a distant comet a surge in brightness that can raise
unrealistic expectations. Several such flops appeared last
century.
If you are at least 35 years old, you might remember the big
build-up – and subsequent letdown – for comet Kohoutek during
the Christmas season of 1973.
Kohoutek was discovered more than nine months before it was due
to sweep around the Sun. At the time of its discovery in March
1973 it appeared unusually bright for a comet so far out from
the Sun (more than half a billion miles). Some touted it as
potentially the "Comet of the Century." Most astronomers hoped
that if it was so bright and unusual at its discovery, that it
would keep on being bright and unusual as it neared the Sun.
But it merely remained unusual rather than getting very bright.
In fact, except at the time of its perihelion, when astronauts
on board the Skylab Space Station caught a glimpse of it shining
brilliantly next to the Sun, to earthbound observers Kohoutek
hardly appeared very bright at all. Many who looked skyward –
often through light polluted city skies – could barely perceive
the object without binoculars or telescopes.
Comet Cunningham in 1940-41 and Comet Austin in 1990 proved
similarly disappointing.
Not-so-NEAT calculations
On the other hand, a comet that is in an elliptical orbit and
returning to the Sun from the distant past has probably shed its
highly volatile materials, so what we would be seeing is the
true underlying level of its activity. Comet Hale-Bopp, which
brightened the night sky during the late winter and spring of
1997, fell into this class.
Unfortunately, as of this writing, calculations by orbital
experts suggests that Comet NEAT may be traveling in a parabolic
orbit, hinting that it may indeed be a new comet, like Kohoutek.
This however, doesn’t automatically mean that Comet NEAT will
fizzle-out, since not all-new comets become duds. Comet
Arend-Roland is an outstanding exception, a first-timer that put
on a spectacular show in April 1957.
If it indeed stays on its current prescribed path, Comet NEAT
will pass closest to the Earth on May 7, 2004 at a distance of
just under 30 million miles (48.3 million kilometers). It will
appear to rise out of the evening twilight during the first week
of May 2004 and move northward from Canis Major, through Cancer
by midmonth and on into Ursa Major by month’s end.
And another thing …
If the prospects for one bright comet doesn’t excite you, how
about two?
On Oct. 29, 2002, The IAU announced the discovery by the LINEAR
survey of a comet that may also become a bright naked-eye object
in May 2004.
Designated C/2002 T7 (LINEAR), the comet is currently shining at
around 15th magnitude. The latest orbit suggests that it will
come closest to the Sun on April 23, 2004 at a distance of about
57 million miles (91 million kilometers). Comet LINEAR, however,
appears to be on projected May 2004 track that would take it
eastward through the constellations of Pisces, Cetus, Eridanus,
Lepus and Canis Major. This would be too low in the sky and too
close to the Sun, except perhaps for those at far-southerly
latitudes such as Australia, South Africa.
Should either comet evolve into a bright first-magnitude object
as some forecasts suggest, either or both could end up becoming
striking sights one year from now, with NEAT adorning our
evening sky soon after sunset and LINEAR appearing first in the
morning and then later in the evening.
But if either or both turns out to be duds, they will appear as
nothing more than fuzz-balls in small telescopes.
We’ll just have to wait and see. One thing is for sure: the
countdown is on!
Space.Com
Mars Watch
On Aug. 27, 2003, Mars will be less than 34.65 million
miles (55.76 million kilometers) away -- closer to our planet
than it’s been in nearly 60,000 years. The view will be
stupendous. Track Mars’ growing brightness with SPACE.com's
exclusive Mars viewing maps and charts, updated monthly.
Mars in May, 2003: Mars rises in the southeast around 2 a.m.
daylight time on May 1. By the end of the month, it's rising
more than an hour earlier and is close to the meridian -- a line
in the sky connecting south to north while crossing directly
overhead -- at sunrise.
Finding the Red Planet: Mars, the Roman God of War, is getting
easier to spot each month. By mid-April, it should be pretty
easy to find using these maps.
Keep you posted..... |
