Asteroid 2012 DA14. Historical Event. Passing Within Geosynchronous Ring.

Asteroid to pass close by Earth on Friday

* Nearest approach at 2:24 p.m. EST/1924 GMT on Friday

* No chance of impact, scientists say

* Encounter will cause asteroid's orbit to change

By Irene Klotz

BOSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - A newly discovered asteroid about half the size of a football field will pass nearer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, giving scientists a rare opportunity for close-up observations without launching a probe.

At its closest approach, which will occur at 2:24 p.m. EST/1924 GMT, the asteroid will pass about 17,200 miles (27,520 km) above the planet traveling at 8 miles (13 km) per second, bringing it nearer than the networks of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.

Although Asteroid 2012 DA14 is the largest known object of its size to pass this close, scientists say there is no chance of an impact, this week or in the foreseeable future.

Currently, DA14 matches Earth's year-long orbit around the sun, but after Friday's encounter its flight path will change, said astronomer Donald Yeomans, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

"The close approach will perturb its orbit so that actually instead of having an orbital period of one year, it'll lose a couple of months," Yeomans said. "The Earth is going to put this one in an orbit that is considerably safer," he said.

The non-profit Space Data Association, which tracks satellites for potential collisions, analyzed the asteroid's projected path and determined no spacecraft would be in its way.

"There is no reason to believe that this asteroid poses a threat to any satellites in Earth orbit," Space Data operations manager T.S. Kelso said in a statement.

read more at THIS LINK

FROM NASA
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Graphic depicts the trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14 on Feb 15, 2013. In this view, we are looking down from above Earth's north pole. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Graphic depicts the trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14 during its close approach, as seen edge-on to Earth's equatorial plane. The graphic demonstrates why the asteroid is invisible to northern hemisphere observers until just before close approach: it is approaching from "underneath" our planet. On the other hand, after close approach it will be favorably placed for observers in the northern hemisphere. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 

Q: What is asteroid DA14

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14 is a small near-Earth object – approximately 150 feet (45 meters) in diameter. On Feb. 15, 2013, the asteroid will pass by our planet at a remarkably close distance, but the asteroid’s path is understood well enough that there is no chance of a collision with the Earth.

Q: What date and what time will the asteroid be closest to Earth?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be closest to Earth on Feb. 15 at approximately 19:24 UTC (2:24 p.m. EST/11:24 a.m. PST). This time may change by a minute or two as the asteroid is tracked on its approach and predictions are refined.

At the time of closest approach, the asteroid will be over the eastern Indian Ocean, off Sumatra -- approx. latitude: -6 deg South. / longitude: 97.5 deg East.

Q: How far away will asteroid 2012 DA14 be at time of closest approach?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be only about 17,200 miles (27,700 kilometers) above Earth's surface at the time of closest approach on Feb 15, 2013. This distance is well outside Earth's atmosphere, but it is inside the belt of satellites in geostationary orbit, which is located 22,200 miles (35,800 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. The close-approach distance is only about one-tenth the distance between Earth and moon. Another way to express the distance between asteroid and Earth at time of closest approach is 4.4 Earth radii from Earth’s surface – or about twice the diameter of the Earth.

Q: Could asteroid DA14 impact Earth?

 A: No. The orbit of asteroid 2012 DA14 is well understood – it will not come any closer than 17,150 miles (27,650 kilometers) above Earth's surface during its flyby on Feb 15, 2013.

The asteroid’s orbit around the sun is roughly similar to that of Earth, and it makes relatively close approaches to our planet’s orbit twice per orbit. But, the 2013 flyby is by far the closest the asteroid will approach our planet for many decades. The next notable close approach to Earth will be on February 15, 2046, when the asteroid will pass no closer than 620,000 miles (1,000,000 kilometers) from the center-point of Earth.

While this is the closest possible distance based on observations and calculations as of February 4, 2013, future observations will refine the calculation and may increase the minimum distance of the flyby. As of Feb 9, 2013, the minimum distance is now 1.6 million km or 995,000 miles from the center of Earth. For the most current calculations for this asteroid, visit: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2012%20DA14;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=1;rad=0#cad

Q: What makes 2012 DA14 special?

 A: The flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14 is the closest ever predicted Earth approach for an object this large.

Q: How long will asteroid 2012 DA14 be within the Earth/moon system?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14's will be within the Earth/moon system for about 33 hours. Its orbit will bring it within the Earth/moon system (approach within one lunar distance, 237,000 miles of the Earth) on Feb. 15 at about 0300 UTC (7 p.m. PST on Thursday, Feb. 14). The asteroid will exit the Earth/moon system on Feb. 16 at about 1200 UTC (4 a.m. PST).

Q: Is there a chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 could be eclipsed by Earth?

 A: Because of its trajectory, there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass through Earth’s shadow.

Q: How big is asteroid 2012 DA14?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14 is currently estimated to be about 150 feet (45 meters) across and has an estimated mass of about 130,000 metric tons. If radar observations of this asteroid are successful, we might have a more accurate estimate of the asteroid’s size after its close approach.

Q: How fast will the asteroid be traveling at closest approach?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA 14 is traveling at about 17,450 miles per hour (28,100 kilometers per hour), or 4.8 miles per second (7.82 kilometers per second) relative to Earth.

Q: Who discovered asteroid DA14?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14 was discovered by the La Sagra Sky Survey operated by the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain on Feb. 23, 2012. The asteroid was about 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) distant when it was detected. Their observations were reported to the NASA funded Minor Planet Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for the International Astronomical Union, where all observations from observatories worldwide are combined to maintain the database on all known asteroids and comets in our solar system.

Q: How many asteroids are out there similar in size to asteroid DA14?

 A: Scientists believe there are approximately 500,000 near-Earth asteroids the size of 2012 DA14. Of those, less than one percent have been discovered.

Q: How many times do asteroids the size of DA14 fly this close?

 A: Scientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office in Pasadena, Calif. estimate that an asteroid the size of 2012 DA14 flies this close every 40 years on average and that one will impact Earth, on average, about once in every 1,200 years.

Q: Is there a chance that asteroid DA14 will collide with one or more satellites?

 A: There is very little chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will impact a satellite or spacecraft. Because the asteroid is approaching from below Earth, it will pass between the outer constellation of satellites located in geosynchronous orbit (22,245 miles/35,800 kilometers) and the large concentration of satellites orbiting much closer to Earth. (The International Space Station, for example, orbits at the close-in altitude of 240 miles/386 kilometers.). There are almost no satellites orbiting at the distance at which the asteroid will pass.

Q: What will asteroid DA14’s close pass do to Earth’s rotation/tides/fault lines/etc.

 A: The gravitational influence upon Earth and its inhabitants by the flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14 will be infinitesimally small.

Q: What would happen if DA14 were to impact Earth?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14 will not impact Earth, but if another asteroid of a size similar to that of 2012 DA14 (about 150 feet across) were to impact Earth, it would release approximately 2.5 megatons of energy in the atmosphere and would be expected to cause regional devastation.

A comparison to the impact potential of an asteroid the size of 2012 DA14 could be made to the impact of a near-Earth object that occurred in 1908 in Tuguska, Siberia. Known in the asteroid community as the "Tunguska Event," this impact of an asteroid just slightly smaller than 2012 DA14 (approximately 100 – 130 feet/30-40 meters across) is believed to have flattened about 825 square miles (2200 square kilometers) of forest in and around the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

Q: Can I see the asteroid during its close approach?

 A: Asteroid 2012 DA14 is small, so even though it will make a close flyby of Earth, the asteroid's apparent magnitude is expected to peak at about only 7.4 – too dim to be viewed by the naked eye. To view the asteroid, you will need a good pair of binoculars, or even better, a moderately powered telescope.

During the closest approach, and dependant on local weather, the asteroid will be visible from parts of Europe, Africa and Asia. The asteroid will appear to be moving relatively quickly as it crosses the sky from the south to the north.

Q: What is NASA doing about asteroid 2012 DA14?

 A: As there is no chance of impact, there is nothing that needs to be done about the asteroid. However, the flyby of 2012 DA14 is a great opportunity for science. NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, located in California's Mojave Desert, will observe the asteroid on Feb. 16, 18, 19 and 20. Due to the asteroid's small size, the radar images generated are expected to be no more than a few pixels across. It will also be observed by numerous optical observatories worldwide to attempt to determine its spin rate and composition.

Close Encounter With 101.706 Foot Space Rock Approx. September 28, 2012

Space rock 2012 SY49 "close encounter" with Earth -- September 28, 2012

Miss distant (AU) : 0.0067, Miss distant (LD) : 2.6, H (mag) : 25.7, Relative velocity (km/s) : 15.84, Estimated diameter : 19 m -- 42 m neo.jpl.nasa.gov Orbit diagram_ ssd.jpl.nasa.gov (H) -- Absolute magnitude 1 AU = ~150 million kilometers (neo.jpl.nasa.gov 1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384000 kilometers 34 total observations over interval_ 2012 09 22.26616 -- 2012 09 25.06808 www.minorplanetcenter.net Credit_ NASA/JPL



Source: http://www.firstpost.com/topic/organization/nasa-space-rock-2012-sy49-close-encounter-with-earth-septemb-video-uzBiTqrrTGI-35946-1.html

Another Source: http://spaceweather.com/

THIS OBJECT IS 
101.706 FEET.

THIS OBJECT IS 2.6 LUNAR DISTANCES FROM THE EARTH...... 
618.8000000000001 miles

THE MOON IS 1 LUNAR DISTANCE FROM THE EARTH.......
238,900 miles

25 September 2012

NEO Asteroids Update Again Late SEP2012

NEO Asteroids Update Again Late SEP2012
Near Earth Objects, asteroids (2012 SY49) and (2012 SJ32) , are due to pull by Earth on 28SEP2012 and we can expect a continued increase in meteor activity here on Earth 2-3 days before/after their passing as there will be accompanying debris.  Get outside and watch, have your cameras ready and make a capture or witness a meteor.
Best in your viewing - LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Tokyo, Japan

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers 1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Object Name Close Approach Date CA Distance* (AU) CA Distance* (LD) Estimated Diameter** H (mag) Relative Velocity (km/s) 333578 (2006 KM103)  2012-Sep-25 0.0626 24.4 270 m - 600 m 20.0 8.54 (2012 SM8)  2012-Sep-26 0.0376 14.6 15 m - 33 m 26.3 5.57 334412 (2002 EZ2)  2012-Sep-26 0.1922 74.8 270 m - 600 m 20.0 6.76 (2012 QF42)  2012-Sep-27 0.1095 42.6 130 m - 280 m 21.6 8.67 (2012 SY49)  2012-Sep-28 0.0067 2.6 19 m - 42 m 25.7 15.84 (2012 SJ32)  2012-Sep-28 0.0297 11.6 26 m - 59 m 25.0 8.11 (2009 SB170)  2012-Sep-29 0.1789 69.6 200 m - 440 m 20.7 32.39 (2011 OJ45)  2012-Sep-29 0.1339 52.1 18 m - 39 m 25.9 4.24 (2012 JS11)  2012-Sep-30 0.0712 27.7 260 m - 580 m 20.0 12.60

Table Source: NASA/JPL - http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

source:http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/search/label/2012%20SY49

What Was That In The Sky Over The Western United States?

SIERRA FIREBALL DECODED: 
On Sunday morning, April 22nd, just as the Lyrid meteor shower was dying down, a spectacular fireball exploded over California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. The loud explosion rattled homes from central California to Reno, Nevada, and beyond. According to Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, the source of the blast was a meteoroid about the size of a minivan.

"Elizabeth Silber at Western University has searched for infrasound signals from the explosion," says Cooke. "Infrasound is very low frequency sound which can travel great distances. There were strong signals at 2 stations, enabling a triangulation of the energy source at 37.6N, 120.5W. This is marked by a yellow flag in the map below."

"The energy is estimated at a whopping 3.8 kilotons of TNT, so this was a big event," he continues. "I am not saying there was a 3.8 kiloton explosion on the ground in California. I am saying that the meteor possessed this amount of energy before it broke apart in the atmosphere. [The map] shows the location of the atmospheric breakup, not impact with the ground."

"The fact that sonic booms were heard indicates that this meteor penetrated very low in atmosphere, which implies a speed less than 15 km/s (33,500 mph). Assuming this value for the speed, I get a mass for the meteor of around 70 metric tons. Hazarding a further guess at the density of 3 grams per cubic centimeter (solid rock), I calculate a size of about 3-4 meters, or about the size of a minivan."

"This meteor was probably not a Lyrid; without a trajectory, I cannot rule out a Lyrid origin, but I think it likely that it was a background or sporadic meteor."

News and eyewitness reports: #1, #2, #3, #4.

Photos: 

Fireball with big boom reported in Nevada, California

By Martin Griffith 

Associated Press

RENO, Nev. -- A loud explosion heard across much of Nevada and California on Sunday morning rattled homes and prompted a flood of calls to law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Sierra Nevada, some reporting fireball sightings.

The sound and the light show were likely caused by a meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere, astronomers said.

"It made the shades in my room shake hard enough to slam into the window a couple times," said Nicole Carlsen of the Reno area. "I kept looking for earthquake information, but (there was) nothing. I even checked the front of my house to make sure no one ran into the garage. I wish I had seen the meteor."

Erin Girard-Hudson of Arnold, Calif., told The Union Democrat of Sonora, Calif., that the loud boom that occurred around 8 a.m. made her 2-year-old daughter, Elsie, cry.

"It knocked me off my feet and was shaking the house," she said. "It sounded like it was next door."

No damages or injuries were immediately reported. There were no reports of earthquakes at the time.

Some people reported seeing a brilliant light streak across the sky at the same time. Sightings occurred over roughly a 600-mile line across the two states, including Reno, Elko and North Las Vegas in Nevada, and the San Francisco, Sacramento and Bakersfield areas in California.

Astronomers said they believe the mysterious light was a fireball, which is a very bright meteor. It will take time to determine the path of the fireball and where it broke up, they added.

"From the reports, I have no doubt it was a fireball," said Robert Lunsford of the Geneseo, N.Y.-based American Meteor Society. "It happens all the time, but most are in daytime and are missed. This one was extraordinarily bright in the daylight."

Lunsford said it's "pretty rare" for fireballs to produce a loud explosion. For that to happen, he explained, the meteor must have survived intact until breaking up about five miles above Earth. Most fireballs are visible at 50 miles above Earth.

"If you hear a sonic boom or loud explosion, that's a good indication that some fragments may have reached the ground," Lunsford told The Associated Press. "We'll have to get some people to work on it to pinpoint where it broke up and see if anything can be found on the ground."

Lunsford said more than 20 people in the two states had filed reports with his group by midmorning about seeing the fireball.

"I have been looking at the sky for 30 years, and I have never witnessed something so amazing and puzzling. It is an event that makes you glad to be alive," said Matthew Neal of San Francisco. "The main body was bright green and the head was bright red and white."

Greg Giroux of June Lake, Calif., located along the eastern Sierra just west of Yosemite National Park, also was impressed.

"This was by far the brightest fireball/shooting star I've ever seen, especially since it was in full sunlight," he said. "After the flash, it broke up into pieces, then I lost sight of it as it went behind a mountain."

In Nevada, the light show was seen as far east as Elko, about 300 miles east of Reno, and as far south as the Las Vegas area.

Marcia Standifer of Spring Creek, near Elko, and her husband were out drinking coffee when they saw the fireball at the same time.

"It was a very bright ball of white light, then dimmer to the horizon," she said. "We thought this was very unusual due to the bright daylight and how vivid the object was."

Tracey Cordaro of North Las Vegas said the sighting "took my breath away."

"It was amazing," she said. "It looked as if it was disintegrating rapidly, but was still quite large when it disappeared from my view ... (It was) bright green, visible in the bright sunlight."

Dan Ruby, associate director of the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, said it's unlikely the fireball had anything to do with the current peak of the Lyrid meteor shower.

"People are putting two and two together and saying it has something to do with the meteor shower," he said. "But the fireball was probably coincidental and unrelated to the peak of the meteor shower."

Though the fireball was seen over such a wide area, Ruby said it was likely just "a little bigger than a washing machine."

SOURCE: MERCURYNEWS.COM

UPDATE 8-10-2011 - Fear VS Fact...Comet Elenin: Extinction Level Event Notable Impact November? Is Leonid Elenin even a real person?

UPDATE: 8-10-2011


The above video mentions very clear similarities to the movie DEEP IMPACT.


Take a look at similarities to the movie DEEP IMPACT...


"Deep Impact is a 1998 science-fiction disaster-drama film released ... in the United States on May 8, 1998....The plot describes the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet, which is expected to collide with the Earth and cause a mass extinction...


On May 10, 1998, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovers an unusual object near the stars Mizar and Alcor at a star party. ...learns that the object is a comet, and calculates that it will impact with Earth...


...MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Téa Leoni) investigates... "Ellie". She discovers that Ellie is not a mistress but an acronym: "E.L.E.", for "Extinction-Level Event". ...President of the United States Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) advances the announcement of the grim facts: The comet...is 7 miles (11 km) wide, large enough to destroy all life if it strikes Earth (although how the U.S. government learned of the comet's existence is not specified). The United States and Russia have been secretly constructing in orbit the spacecraft Messiah, which they plan to send on a mission to destroy the comet with nuclear weapons. Life changes drastically worldwide...


...declares martial law, and announces that governments worldwide are building underground shelters. The United States' national refuge is in the limestone caves of Missouri. The US government conducts a lottery to select 800,000 ordinary Americans aged 50 and under to join 200,000 pre-selected scientists, engineers, teachers, artists, soldiers, and officials...


...a cloud of dust that will block out the sun for two years. This in turn will destroy all remaining life aside from that which has been evacuated underground..."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(film)


Discovered by LEO
Object discovered by amateur astronomer
E.L.E. = Extinction Level Event
Martial Law has been discussed regarding disasters and is planned for them
African American President
Underground Bases and Cities currently being built at a breakneck pace.
Recent order of MREs and body bags by FEMA is ginormous

This one is one that I don't actually agree with, however, it does show another side of the opinions on this subject.



REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS A NEWS PIECE A FEW MONTHS AGO ABOUT DUEL SUNS FROM A STAR....DON'T YOU WONDER IF THEY WERE SAYING THAT SO THAT THEY COULD FOLLOW UP WITH IT WHEN ELENIN GETS CLOSER, SAYING THAT IT IS JUST THAT STAR?!




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UPDATE 8-4-2011

Diameter of coma of comet Elenin exceeded 200,000 km

 August 4th, 2011 |  Author: Leonid Elenin

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GFSC / NASA / L. Elenin

A few hours ago I got the first original comet images in FITS format, taken on August 1 (many thanks to Karl Battams, STEREO team member). Several frames was damaged, but the team believes that will solve this problem at the next session. I stacked all images by the comet movement, this has increase the singnal/noise ratio, see the comet with more “details”.

So, the first results. The comet has grown. Now the diameter of it’s outer coma exceeded 200,000 km! Of course, at this time we have only low resolution images, but they still allow us to estimateits current size. I want to remind you that the outer coma, it’s very discharged gas envelope, not the nucleus itself, estimates of the nucleus size has not changed. On the left picture you can see the comet itself, as well as the angular size of the Sun, if it was located at the same distance as comet. Impressive?

 Posted in News |  Tags: C/2010 X1 (Elenin), Comet, Comet Elenin, STEREO, Комета, Комета Еленина |  51 Comments

The first images of the comet Elenin from STEREO-B

 August 3rd, 2011 |  Author: Leonid Elenin

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GSFC / NASA

A few hours ago, the first images of the comet, obtained with the camera HI2-B of spacecraft STEREO-B, was available. Animation is created from the so-called beacon frames, which used for checking the accuracy of pointing and exposures settings . Original, full size frames will be downloaded to the Earth on August 4. At this time, the comet will appear on the images from HI-1B camera, which has higher resolution. The study of comets on the unique images taken with the STEREO spacecraft has just begun!

http://spaceobs.org/en

REMEMBER THIS?...

"ELENIN, according to some researchers stands for Extinction Level Event Notable Impact November — also encoded into the name is Elevin Nine (Nov. 9), and LEONID (a meteor shower that peaks in November)."http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-640370

TELL ME THIS IS JUST A COINCIDENCE...

Nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) Test Introduction 

FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will conduct the first nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) Test on November 9, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. 

FEMA, the FCC, and NOAA’s vision for improving the EAS is incremental, which means testing the readiness and effectiveness of the EAS as it currently exists today is the first step. A more effective and functional EAS requires continual testing to identify necessary improvements so that all levels of the system can better serve our communities and deliver critical information that will save lives and property. 

EAS Participants provide a critical public service to the nation as the resilient backbone of alert and warning when all other means of communication are unavailable. EAS Participants include all broadcasters, satellite and digital radio and television, cable television and wireline video providers who ensure the system is at a constant state of readiness. 

The nationwide EAS Test is not a pass or fail measure, nor will it specifically test Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) compliant equipment (although CAP compliant equipment should pass the Emergency Action Notification [EAN] live-code in the same manner as legacy EAS equipment). 

FEMA and its federal partners understand that improving the EAS is a process that takes time. IPAWS has compiled experiential lessons learned and best practices from the Alaska EAS Tests in 2010 & 2011 as well as through the EAS rebuilding effort and tsunami live-code test in the U.S. Virgin Islands (located in the EAS Tests and Demonstrations section).  Laboratory research is also being conducted at IPAWS. 

IPAWS, in coordination with the FCC, is continually engaging the EAS Community through many activities, including information updates, workshops, roundtables, webinars, and on-site State and local EAS demonstrations to continue a solutions-oriented dialogue. IPAWS has also developed an external idea sharing website, A National Dialogue on the Emergency Alert System to discuss best practices and lessons learned from the EAS Community on a variety of topics that will support discussions during webinar and roundtable events.    

The alert and warning landscape is in an important state of transition; from the current system of radio, television, cable, satellite, and wireline broadcast media-based alerting to a future system that integrates new technologies for a more universal access to alert and warning messages. 

Future testing of the EAS will assess the effectiveness and reliability of other technologies to achieve the ultimate goal of timely alert and warning to American public in the preservation of life and property. http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/eas_info.shtm#0 

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As many of my readers know, Comet Elenin is a probably disaster for Earth.  On or around November 9, 2011 the Earth should cross the threshold of it's debris tail.   

This is an interactive NASA chart that displays the comets trajectory through our solar system: 

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=c%2F2010+X1&orb=1

According to some researchers, ELENIN stands for Extinction Level Event Notable Impact November.  Also encoded into the name is Elevin Nine (Nov. 9) and LEONID (a meteor shower, peaking in November).

While there are the theories above and that Leonid is not a real person, here is an interview with the astronomer...or is he just someone diverting us from the actual acronym?

Rough Translation:
Full interview in Russian language of HTB NTV with the discoverer of comet C/2010 X1 aka ELENIN, astronomer Leonid Elenina. Below there's a translation of the original interview's transcription available in the Russian TV website. I used Google translator and fixed some syntax, but there are still some parts with nonsense phrasing:

"Today, the rumors about the imminent end of the world, which have recently appeared more, fly around the world faster and faster. Thousands of residents of Rome, took everything of value out of their homes and fled from the city, scared by the prophecy of a terrible earthquake. Allegedly 100 years ago, an Italian self-taught astronomer, announced that on 2011, May 11th, the Italian city would be wiped off from the face of Earth.

The source of global hysteria, the first in 20 years, is flying towards Earth - Comet Elenin - told the Russian astronomer. There's massive discussion on the Internet, whether or not, alien spaceships are hiding behind it and approaching of Earth. The governments know this, but keep the information from the public. 

According to another version, the planet faces a collision with the comet. NTV correspondent Sergei Malozemoff, convinced by such popular rumors, has decided to seek answers in the scientific community.

The Panic on the Internet began with a genuine snapshot, released by Argentine astronomers - few people paid attention to the date - April 1st. In the center - a comet with a symbol from 2010 X1 Elenin, and on each side, wrote the scientist, - something very much like two alien spacecraft. There it goes! - The viral end of the world on the 'net.

Roman Chelyuskin, chief editor of the blog service: "This issue continues to gain momentum. For instance, during the first week of May, the number of records of the comet Elenin are 30 times the number of posts that we made in April. "

The name of Comet's discoverer - Russian Leonid Elenina - was immediately transcribed as "Extinction Level Event" and "aliens from the planet Nibiru in November." Even mentioned the name of the hero of the catastrophe blockbuster "Deep Impact", Leo. All signs that there is no Comet Elenin. A secret world government hide the horror that awaits us.

A simple search on the open scientific bases led NTV Group at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Keldysh, where Leonid Yelenin works. NTV correspondent contacted him and was convinced that he is real.

Strong handshake, no signs of hoax. Leonid Yelenin - 29 years, did study at the Moscow Aviation Institute, then worked as a Property Agent, and after the crisis has returned to his beloved science. He shows his college registers to everyone who doesn't believe him. Complains: There's someone else registered under his name in the Facebook.

Interviewer: "How do *letters come*?" (I couldn't figure out what he did mean)
Leonid Yelenin: "Well, in the last week, I came from USA and since then, in Russia they say: "We do not believe you. Show your passport." Then I said: Why do I have to show something to you?" (Confused phrasing here)

That was in December. Leonid has watched the sky on a remote connection through a telescope of his American colleagues in New Mexico, and - lucky! - Said This was a new comet with a 3 kilometers diameter. By international rules it was immediately named after his own name. About the notorious alien ships in the picture, there's a prosaic explanation:

http://postimage.org/image/gf7mde1w/

Leonid Yelenin: "This is actually a star. Just under a certain process of adding a few frames from the velocity of the comet, these stars are pulled in tracks.(???) In principle, any astronomer should know about this. "

Interviewer: "So the bright spot is smeared on night photography(???).
Leonid Yelenin: "Yes, of course. The discovery of a comet was a dream to me, since childhood. Mission accomplished. Of course, I was happy and stuff. But now this (conspiracy) is happening about my comet. For instance, there are these hysteric letters like: "Leonid, tell us the truth. I sold my house and my family and I are leaving for the mountains." The comet is absolutely safe for the Earth. 
It will be held at 34 million kilometers from Earth."

According to calculations Elenin X-1 passes the Earth in October. It will be seen with binoculars or through naked eye. **Then he touched a comet and the orbit of Mercury, if not dissipated** (absolutely confused phrasing), then goes away from the solar system. And we won't it for another 12.000 years. Supporters of doomsday, I am sure it's time to invent some other new theory, said the astronomer."

http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/228648/http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A...http://spaceobs.org/ru/2011/05/11/debunking-rumors-of-comet-elenin-on-one-of-...

Then there is NASA's preparedness video.  It could just be that they are trying to get their employees on the preparedness wagon that is good for everyone to be on, or they could be hinting at something larger.  Here is the video.





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There is something brewing, no matter if it is a scare regarding solar flare activity or if it is the passing of a near Earth object.





The Dutch are preparing for the Apocalypse.





"No matter what you believe, many factors are pointing us to uncertain times ahead. Stormy waters, lets say ...which will test mankind like never before. There is also a real threat of World War III on our horizon as the middle East heats up. Scientist at NASA are saying solar flares are a real risk as well!!!


At some point starting by December, 2012 we need to be prepared for economic collapse. It's very important that we keep 6 to 1year worth of water, food, and fuel in storage. The more we all prepare the less damage we will suffer.... We need to become debt free and truly independent of electricity, gasoline. Preparedness is peace of mind."

The following is from CNN http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-640370:This incoming object appears to be massive. The strange thing is that only a select few sources worldwide have seen the object a few of which we traced back to DARPA directly.
Big seems to be the appropriate word for we now have the first actual  astronomical calculations that puts the coma (the part they can see is 50,000 miles in diameter) Yes a big rock!
“On April 8th at our Russian observatory we carried out planned observations of Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin). An   analysis of the results of the observations shows a rapid growth of the   coma. Besides the internal compact gas envelope, the forming rarified   external coma is also visible in the image.
Its diameter exceeds 1 minute of arc, or 80,000 km! It is possible that such a rapid growth of the coma is associated with   the apparent superposition over it of the comet’s dust tail, which  after  opposition, still remains invisible to the earthly observer.”
The coma is what astronomers actually see and is actually much bigger   than the core. It’s the green in the second above picture that they are saying   is 80,000 km or 50,000 miles across. We could estimate that the core  might be half the diameter of the  coma or approximately 25,000 miles.  Big enough—it seems to be already  stirring up the Earth under our feet.
We have news out of Cornell University that sustains the view that Elenin is playing a direct part in causing large earthquakes.
Professor Mensur Omerbashich is saying that his “georesonatorconcept in which tidally induced magnification of Earth masses’ resonance causes seismicity.”   This trashes NASA’s assertion that the humongous earthquake we saw in   Japan and before that with the ones in Chile and New Zealand were   coincidental with alignments between Elenin, the Earth and the Sun.

The earth’s seismicity can arise as a natural responseof our planet to its alignments with other celestial objects.Professor Mensur Omerbashich

Omerbashich demonstrates empirically that “all strong (~M6+)   earthquakes of 2010 occurred during the Earth’s long astronomical   alignments within our solar system. He shows that the same holds true   for all very strong (~M8+) earthquakes of the decade of 2000s.
He  asserts that the “comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) has been adding to robustness in terms of very strong seismicity since 2007.Elenin will continue intensifying the Earth’s very strongseismicity until August-October, 2011.”
It seems like every time Elenin lines up with Earth and another planet or the Sun we have an earthquake, the nearer Elenin gets the bigger the earthquakes.
Now of course we have many earthquakes and if we showed them all,  this  chart would then lose much of its meaning. The 9.1 earthquake in  Japan  though will never lose its meaning and it happened on cue with an   alignment with Elenin.
Past Elenin Alignments and Earthquakes:

Past Alignments	Date	Location	Magnitude
Elenin – Earth – Sun	Feb 20 2008	Indonesia	7.4
Elenin – Earth – Sun	Feb 25 2008	Indonesia	7.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune	May 12 2008	China	7.9
Elenin – Earth – Sun	Feb 18 2009	Kermadec Islands	7.0
Elenin – Earth -Jupiter	May 18 2009	Los Angeles, US	4.7
Elenin – Mercury- Earth	July 15 2009	New Zealand	7.8
Elenin – Mercury – Earth	Aug 09 2009	Japan	7.1
Elenin – Sun – Earth	Sept 09 2009	Sunola islands	8.1
Elenin – Earth – Venus	Feb 18 2010	China/RU/N.Korea	6.9
Elenin – Earth-Sun	Feb 25 2010	China	5.2
Elenin – Earth-Sun	Feb 26 2010	Japan	7.0
Elenin – Earth- Sun	Feb 27 2010	Chile	8.8 [Earth knocked off axis]
Elenin – Earth- Sun	Feb 27 2010	Argentina	6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury	Mar 04 2010	Taiwan	6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury	Mar 04 2010	Vanuatu	6.5
Elenin – Earth – Mercury	Mar 05 2010	Chile	6.6
Elenin – Earth – Mercury	Mar 05 2010	Indonesia	6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury	Mar 08 2010	Turkey	6.1
Elenin – Earth – Neptune	May 05 2010	Indonesia	6.6
Elenin – Earth – Neptune	May 06 2010	Chile	6.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune	May 09 2010	Indonesia	7.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune	May 14 2010	Algeria	5.2
Elenin – Earth – Jupiter	Jan 03 2011	Chile	7.0
Elenin – Earth – Sun	March 11 2011	Japan	9.0    [Earth knocked off axis]

Future Elenin Alignments:

Future Alignments	Date	Note
Elenin – Mercury – Mars – Earth	Sept 06 2011
Mercury – Sun – Elenin	Sept 25 2011
Sun – Elenin – Jupiter	Oct 11 2011	Elenin 0.246au  from Earth; that’s a quarter of the distance to the sun.
	Oct 17 2011	Elenin closet  to earth 0.232au
	Oct 20 2011	Elenin will  enter Earth orbit and we will experience a gravitational pull.
	Nov 02 2011	Earth enter  Elenins tail/ previous path
Venus – Earth- Elenin – Mercury	Nov 11 2011
Sun – Mercury – Earth –Elenin	Dec 04 2011
Mars – Elenin – Jupiter	Dec 25 2011
Final  Alignment: Elenin – Earth  – Sun	Dec 21 2012

The next alignment occurs on September 6th. Watch the news on this date for a large earthquake. Use this as a  barometer. If a massive quake occurs, then you know this info has  substance.

Many sceptics are out there. You have to look at all the info before making a snap decision.
Below you will see two articles, one from the Washington Post and   another from The New York Times from 28 years ago, but read them like   they were printed yesterday.  Astronomy deals practically with eternity   so what is 28 years? NASA came right out and admitted they found a   massive very cold body outside the solar system.

Now they are not saying  a thing about this or whether this massive comet  has anything to do with  their discovery almost three  decades ago. What could possibly be their  motive for keeping a tight lid  on this terribly important subject?

Mass panic concerns, obviously.

Washington PostMystery Heavenly Body Discovered31-Dec-1983A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and   possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system   has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an   orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite. So   mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet,   a giant comet, a nearby “protostar” that never got hot enough to  become  a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the  process of  forming its first stars, or a galaxy so shrouded in dust  that none of  the light cast by its stars ever gets through. “All I can  tell you is  that we don’t know what it is,” Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS  chief  scientist for California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director  of the  Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology,  said in  an interview.

The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body, which is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space,   is that it is a giant gaseous planet, as large as Jupiter and as close   to Earth as 50 billion miles. While that may seem like a great  distance  in earthbound terms, it is a stone’s throw in cosmological  terms, so  close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to  Earth beyond  the outermost planet Pluto. “If it is really that close,  it would be a  part of our solar system,” said Dr. JamesHouck of  Cornell University’s  Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a  member of the IRAS  science team. “If it is that close, I don’t know how  the world’s  planetary scientists would even begin to classify it.”

The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite as it scanned the northern sky from last January to November, when the   satellite ran out of the super-cold helium that allowed its telescope to   see the coldest bodies in the heavens. The second observation took   place six months after the first and suggested the mystery body had not   moved from its spot in the sky near the western edge of the   constellation Orion in that time. “This suggests it’s not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we’ve observedand   a comet would probably have moved,” Houck said. “A planet may have   moved if it were as close as 50 billion miles but it could still be a   more distant planet and not have moved in six months’ time.

Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery  body is so cold  its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above  “absolute” zero, which  is 459 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.  The telescope aboard  IRAS is cooled so low and is so sensitive it can  “see” objects in the  heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute  zero. When IRAS  scientists first saw the mystery body and calculated  that it could be  as close as 50 billion miles, there was some  speculation that it might  be moving toward Earth. “It’s not incoming  mail,” Cal Tech’sNeugebauer said. “I want to douse that idea with as  much cold water as I can.”

The New York TimesClues Get Warm in the Search for Planet X30-January-1983John Noble WilfordSomething out there beyond the farthest reaches of the known  solar  system seems to be tugging at Uranus and Neptune. Some  gravitational  force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing  irregularities in  their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away  and unseen, a large  object that may be the long-sought Planet X.

Evidence assembled in recent years has led several groups of   astronomers to renew the search for the 10th planet. They are devoting   more time to visual observations with the 200-inch telescope at Mount  Palomar in California. They are tracking two Pioneer spacecraft, now   approaching the orbit of distant Pluto, to see if variations in their   trajectories provide clues to the source of the mysterious force. And   they are hoping that a satellite-borne telescope launched last week will   detect heat “signatures” from the planet, or whatever it is out there.

The Infrared Astronomical Satellite was boosted into a  560-mile-high  polar orbit Tuesday night from VandenbergAir Force Base,  CA. It  represents an $80-million venture by the United States, Britain  and the  Netherlands. In the next six or seven months, the telescope is  expected  to conduct a wide-ranging survey of nearly all the sky,  detecting  sources not of ordinary light, but of infrared radiation,  which is  invisible to the human eye and largely absorbed by the  atmosphere.  Scientists thus hope that the new telescope will chart  thousands of  infrared-emitting objects that have gone undetected—stars,  interstellar  clouds, asteroids and, with any luck, the object that  pulls at Uranus  and Neptune.The last time a serious search of the skies was made, it led to  the  discovery in 1930 of Pluto, the ninth planet. But the story begins  more  than a century before that, after the discovery of Uranus in 1781  by the  English astronomer and musician William Herschel. Until then,  the  planetary system seemed to end with Saturn.

As astronomers observed Uranus, noting irregularities in its  orbital  path, many speculated that they were witnessing the  gravitational pull  of an unknown planet. So began the first planetary  search based on  astronomers’ predictions, which ended in the 1840s with  the discovery of  Neptune almost simultaneously by English, French and  German  astronomers.

But Neptune was not massive enough to account entirely for the   orbital behavior of Uranus. Indeed, Neptune itself seemed to be affected   by a still more remote planet. In the late 19th century, two American   astronomers, WilliamH. Pickering and Percival Lowell, predicted the size and approximate location of the trans-Neptunian body, which Lowell called Planet X. 

Years later, Pluto was detected by Clyde W. Tombaughworking at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Several astronomers, however, suspected   it might not be the Planet X of prediction. Subsequent observations   proved them right. Pluto was too small to change the orbits of Uranus   and Neptune; the combined mass of Pluto and its recently discovered   satellite, Charon, is only one-fifth that of Earth’s moon.

Recent calculations by the United States Naval Observatory have   confirmed the orbital perturbation exhibited by Uranus and Neptune,   which Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, an astronomer at the observatory, says   could be explained by “a single undiscovered planet.” He and a   colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, calculate that the 10th planet should   be two to five times more massive than Earth and have a highly   elliptical orbit that takes it some 5 billion miles beyond that of   Pluto—hardly next door but still within the gravitational influence of the Sun.

Some astronomers have reacted cautiously to the 10th-planet predictions. They remember the long, futile quest for the planet Vulcan   inside the orbit of Mercury; Vulcan, it turned out, did not exist. They   wonder why such a large object as a 10th planet escaped the exhaustive   survey by Mr. Tombaugh, who is sure it is not in the two-thirds of the   sky he examined. But according to Dr. Ray T. Reynolds of the Ames   Research Center in Mountain View, CA, other astronomers “are so sure of   the 10th planet, they think there’s nothing left but to name it.”

At a scientific meeting last summer, 10th-planet partisans tended  to  prevail. Alternative explanations for the outer-planet  perturbations  were offered. The something out there, some scientists  said, might be an  unseen black hole or neutron star passing through the  Sun’s vicinity.  Defenders of the 10th planet parried the suggestions.  Material falling  into the gravitational field of a black hole, the  remains of a very  massive star after its complete gravitational  collapse, should give off  detectable X-rays, they noted; no X-rays have  been detected. A neutron  star, a less massive star that has collapsed  to a highly dense state,  should affect the courses of comets, they  said, yet no such changes have  been observed.

More credence was given to the hypothesis that a “brown dwarf”  star  accounts for the mysterious force. This is the informal name  astronomers  give to celestial bodies that were not massive enough for  their  thermonuclear furnaces to ignite; perhaps like the huge planet  Jupiter,  they just missed being self-illuminating stars.

Most stars are paired, so it is not unreasonable to suggest that the Sun has a dim companion.Moreover, a brown dwarf in the neighborhood might not reflect enough light to be seen far away,   said Dr. John Anderson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,   CA. Its gravitational forces, however, should produce energy detectable   by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.

Whatever the mysterious force, be it a brown dwarf or a large  planet,  Dr. Anderson said he was “quite optimistic” that the infrared  telescope  might find it and that the Pioneer spacecraft could supply an  estimate  of the object’s mass. Of course, no one can be sure that even  this  discovery would define the outermost boundary of the solar system.

So the signs are out there. The Government has prepared underground bases and has continuity of government procedures in place. Notable among them are:
1. REX84 (Readiness Exercise 1984)
Activated due to a catastrophic event that is yet to take place.     
2. A Pentagon announced plan that directly correlates with a 2009, Army funded, Rand Corporation study that  called for an internal United States police force to combat civil  unrest.  The plan basically calls for the  deployment of a 20,000 strong  internal troop force inside the continental  United States (CONUS) that was set to be trained by 2011, thus  dovetailing into the current troop and equipment movements around the country reported by truckers as well as many more troop sightings by everyday citizens.

SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?

That  all depends on what you believe. You can choose NOT to see the signs  and go about your daily lives without a care, or you can try and prepare  yourself and your family for any contingency. 

Be prepared for massive earthquakes. Stock up on food, water, and ammunition. 

Be  prepared to get underground during the passage through the comets tail  on November 9th. Our magnetosphere that day will not protect us

Here is one timeline http://wmasslocal.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/may-26-2011-comet-elenin-time-line-and-path-update/:

May 26 2011 Comet Elenin Time-Line and Path Update

Posted on May 26, 2011 by wmasslocal  

ELENIN Position Update for May 25 2011: By Morpheus of 50kView.com

1 – Comet Elenin is currently at 1.853 AU distance from the earth.
2 – The comet Elenin will pass through the orbit of planet Mars on June 27 2011.
3 – Comet Elenin will reach the orbit pattern of Earth on August 1 2011.
4 – On August 19 2011 comet Elenin will passs through the orbit of Venus.
5 – On September 5 Elenin will reach the orbit of Planet Mercury.
6 – On September 11 2011 the comet Elenin will be at its closest point of its orbit to our Sun which will be a distance of (.482 AU). Elenin will then begin its journey back to outer space on its 11,000 year orbit of our sun. Before Elenin leaves the known solar system it will pass relatively close Earth.
7 – On September 25 2011 the comet Elenin will come in direct alinement with the Earth and our Sun as it passes between. At this point Elenin will be at .412 AU to Earth and .593 AU to the Sun.
9 – On October 17 Elenin will again cross the Earth orbit of the sun. At this date Elenin will be at the very close celestial distance of .232 AU to the Earth. 

As comet Elenin approaches the Earth’s orbit and comes in alinement between the Sun and the Earth all types of magnetic, gravitational, electrical and other influences of this comet will affect the tectonic movements of earth, the weather patterns of earth and the communications systems on earth. Crops of food could become affected. Electrical power could be affected. The Ocean’s tidal forces could become affected. The earth’s magnetic polarity could become affected.

The geological history of earth shows that cataclysmic changes did occur about 11,000 years ago when comet Elenin last past by the Earth’s path in its orbit of the Sun.

The comet does not have to hit earth to have monumental affects on the natural rhythms of the Earth.

It would be wise to stock up on food and necessities to be safe rather than sorry you did not prepare. By Morpheus

Read in depth article at: Mar 13 2011 Comet “Elenin” to Pass Very Close to Earth: Path in 2011 

Let's look at what is going on underground...






New World Airport Commission?
Picture of apocalyptic event...huge solar flare.
Motifs about the end-of-world.
Gargoyle coming out of a suitcase?
They only want people to survive who have certain kinds of perceptive skills.
Does this have to do with Elenin?
Why are they building these bunkers?
Who will be invited to live in these underground bunkers?
Do you have to buy your place?
This is all very interesting!!!