Mega-Comet Said To Approach Earth By End Of Month

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Mega-Comet Said To Approach Earth By End Of Month
Topic Started: Oct 2 2006, 08:08 AM (1,786 Views)
Wil	Oct 2 2006, 08:08 AM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 12,567 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 21, 2005	Saw this posted on Zion's Cry with no source given: A Russian scientist-astronomer claims a mega-comet will approach the earth near the end of October. A scientist discovered the object in August. No other astronomer will confirm or deny the approach of a comet or asteroid towards the Earth.



Wil	Oct 8 2006, 12:39 PM Post #2
Administrator Posts: 12,567 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 21, 2005	Pravda doesn't look to be the most legitimate of sites but here's the story: Giant comet may collide with Earth late October Front page / Science / Planet Earth 06.10.2006 Source: According to the Russian astronomer Nikolai Fedorovsky, a giant comet flying at top speed is bound for Earth. Should the comet stay on the collision course, it may hit the planet in late October. The impact will cause devastating tsunamis, earthquakes and avalanches, says Fedorovsky. He saw the killer comet in a telescope two weeks ago. He managed to calculate the comet’s trajectory. We got in touch with Nikolai Fedorovsky: “Just a few people are aware of the fact that comets of various sizes fly past Earth at a very close distance on a regular basis,” says Fedorovsky. “Those comets usually pass by unnoticed. The above circumstance is not a guarantee against disaster by any means. The Tunguska meteorite landed in the wilderness of Siberia. What if the behemoth had plunged into the center of Europe or somewhere in the ocean? “I’m not trying to scare anybody, I just want to warn the public,” sums up Fedorovsky. “We should pay attention to this suspicious celestial body. We could obtain more accurate calculations if other astronomers join forces. We could also photograph it if we’re in luck. We will probably partake in one of the greatest events in the history of humankind,” adds he. http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/84913-0/



Endtime	Oct 8 2006, 11:07 PM Post #3
Advanced Member Posts: 839 Group: Advanced Members Member #18 Joined: September 22, 2005	PRAVDA: COMETARY COLLISION W EARTH POSSIBLE IN OCT Posted By: gman <Send E-Mail> Date: Sunday, 8 October 2006, 3:44 p.m. Er, don't sell the farm yet......this is from pravda. Giant comet may collide with Earth late October http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/84913-comet-0 http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/06-...6/84913-comet-0 According to the Russian astronomer Nikolai Fedorovsky, a giant comet flying at top speed is bound for Earth. Should the comet stay on the collision course, it may hit the planet in late October. The impact will cause devastating tsunamis, earthquakes and avalanches, says Fedorovsky. He saw the killer comet in a telescope two weeks ago. He managed to calculate the comet’s trajectory. We got in touch with Nikolai Fedorovsky: “Just a few people are aware of the fact that comets of various sizes fly past Earth at a very close distance on a regular basis,” says Fedorovsky. “Those comets usually pass by unnoticed. The above circumstance is not a guarantee against disaster by any means. The Tunguska meteorite landed in the wilderness of Siberia. What if the behemoth had plunged into the center of Europe or somewhere in the ocean? “I’m not trying to scare anybody, I just want to warn the public,” sums up Fedorovsky. “We should pay attention to this suspicious celestial body. We could obtain more accurate calculations if other astronomers join forces. We could also photograph it if we’re in luck. We will probably partake in one of the greatest events in the history of humankind,” adds he. “We shouldn’t underestimate the threat poised by asteroid and comets,” says Igor Gerasimov, deputy director of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. “More than a thousand meteorite showers cross Earth’s orbit and pose a real threat to life on the planet. We’re watching only nine showers of the above number. Those nine have several dozen objects, which may collide with Earth. The size of the objects varies. Some of them are tiny dust particles while the others have the proportions of gigantic heavenly bodies measuring up to 200 meters in diameter.” The solar system has about two million asteroids measuring more than 50 meters in diameter in. About 4,000 asteroids of the above category have been discovered so far. The number of those under monitoring is even smaller. In fact, many asteroids and other celestial bodies remain unnoticed until they approach Earth. One of such asteroids was discovered in the process of examination of a picture taken by Hubble Space Telescope in 1998. Some of the asteroids come into view shortly after passing past Earth into the Moon’s orbit. About a dozen asteroids approach Earth presently. They measure more than 5 km in diameter. Scientists estimate the above celestial bodies may collide with Earth once every 20 million years. Soon there will be 500 asteroids (over 1 km in diameter) approaching the planet Earth. An asteroid like that may fall Earth once every 100 000 years. A global catastrophe is very probable if the thing really goes down in flames. The possibility of a chance meeting with smaller celestial bodies is much greater. Earth will be covered with the “space burns” (craters measuring hundreds of kilometers across) as a result of such an encounter. Small fragments of asteroids (one-meter pieces, rocks and dust particles) hit the ground all the time. Fortunately, they do not cause any substantial damage. The biggest problem is that celestial bodies show up at a very short notice. Needless to say, they come out of the blue with no exact specifications attached. Therefore, the risk of a sudden collision would be a lot higher of the astronomers stop monitoring potential troublemakers. “The geochemical and paleontological data shows that a celestial body about 170-330 km in diameter collided with Earth in the northern part of the Yukatan Peninsula some 65 million years ago at the turn of Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era,” says Academician Alexei Rozanov, director of the Institute of Paleontology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “The crater called ‘Chiksulub’, 180 kilometers in diameter, is a mark of the impact. The capacity of the blast is estimated at 100 million megatons. A huge amount of dust totaling one million tons was thrown into the atmosphere during the blast. Consequently, a six-month night fell over the planet. More than a half of all existing kinds of animals and plants perished. The global winter that followed may have killed the dinosaurs,” adds Rozanov. “There’ll be more reports about new asteroids spotted in the vicinity of Earth. However, it’s not doomsday or anything of that kind. It’s just a sign of the solar system’s usual life,” says Igor Gerasimov. “A network for uninterrupted monitoring of celestial bodies was set up to protect Earth against the consequences of unwanted visits. Robotic telescopes watch the sky round the clock. Several observatories in different countries including Russia make part of the network,” adds Gerasimov. Let us assume that a potentially dangerous object has been located, and it is heading Earth. What shall we do? There are a number of plans for the occasion. However, the implementation of those plans will require a higher level of technology, not to mention the funds. One of the plans involves the physical destruction of an object (see the 1998 movie Armageddon for further references). Scientists also suggest that an object’s descent trajectory be changed. Part of the object should be covered with chalk to attract more sun beams to the latter. The move is thought to be able to change the speed of the object and the direction it rotates. Predictably enough, the amount of chalk is the biggest stumbling block. According to estimates by American scientists, 250 thousand tons of chalk would be needed to change the orbit of the asteroid dubbed “1950 DA.” Besides, as many as 90 booster of Saturn-5 type would be required for carrying the chalk to the object. Well, it still looks very sci-fi. As for the “Fedorovsky asteroid,” all the above scientists believe the report is either a mistake or exaggeration. “We’ll surely see more reports like that in the future. But we shouldn’t fly into a panic each time we see another doomsday being announced in the press. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that the thing will fail to hit our planet,” says Igor Gerasimov. Trud http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bi...cgi?read=154083



Endtime	Oct 10 2006, 10:48 PM Post #4
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Wil	Oct 17 2006, 06:34 PM Post #5
Administrator Posts: 12,567 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 21, 2005	Of course if a comet was heading our way would they really tell us... 'Killer comet' scare denied Comet Wild 2 from StardustExperts are pouring scorn on reports that a deadly comet will collide with the Earth later this month. The scare spreading on the internet quotes a Russian astronomer, Nikolai Fedorovsky, as saying that the comet will hit us on October 28. Fedorovsky says he spotted the comet in a telescope and calculated its flight path. He predicts that the impact will unleash devastating tsunamis, earthquakes and avalanches. Fedorovsky is quoted as saying: "I’m not trying to scare anybody, I just want to warn the public. We should pay attention to this suspicious celestial body." I turned to a genuine comet and meteor expert, Dr David Asher, of Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland. He told me: "Searching for potentially hazardous asteroids is a serious topic, but this claim of a comet crash is nonsense. There is no danger from any impact. Nasa and other astronomers keep a database of all known objects that come close to the Earth and there is nothing on it that poses any significant threat." Other professional astronomers in Russia agree there is no danger and accused Fedorovsky of being a publicity seeker. There is a moderately bright comet in the sky at the moment, visible with binoculars and called Comet Swan, but it will come nowhere near the Earth. The picture is not of a killer comet. It is an image of the comet Wild 2, taken by the Stardust probe. http://skymania.blogspot.com/2006/10/kille...are-denied.html



Endtime	Oct 20 2006, 04:46 PM Post #6
Advanced Member Posts: 839 Group: Advanced Members Member #18 Joined: September 22, 2005	Could this be the comet heading for earth? [url=[IMG]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/deebeatle/comet.gif[/IMG]]My Webpage[/URL]



loveroftruth	Oct 20 2006, 05:03 PM Post #7
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Lucas	Oct 20 2006, 07:05 PM Post #8
Member Posts: 28 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: October 19, 2006	I'm not so worried, if it hits us it hits us. Our best hope is that it lands in the South Atlanic ocean, at least there it wouldn't be to devistating of a tsunami.



laurel	Oct 20 2006, 09:40 PM Post #9
Advanced Member Posts: 172 Group: Members Member #178 Joined: May 22, 2006	Kinda looks like someone smudged a cd to me. :lol:



Endtime	Oct 27 2006, 08:41 PM Post #10
Advanced Member Posts: 839 Group: Advanced Members Member #18 Joined: September 22, 2005	Today is the 27th, I reckon we find out tomorrow if it hit.



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