On Anniversary of Tunguska, Meteor Plunges into Indian Ocean, Lighting up Perth sky

Silence is Golden

Especially when such a pretty pic leaves one nearly speechless.

Optical illusion or...

...are there two suns?

"A spokesman for the Bureau of Meteorology said the weather bureau's radar would not pick up a fast moving object like a meteor."

BS, meteors and cometary fragments can appear to crawl through the skies. The reason they have no radar data is because they are not allowed to disclose it.

fireballs up from 1.28 to 5.03 per day since 2005

I have been tracking the incidence of reported fireballs over the US for over a year now, since the increase first caught my notice.

Working from the ams.org database, and researching prior reports going back a century, what I found was that the reported fireball incidence has held steady at around 1.2-1.3 per day for a very long time. Beginning in 2006 we see the following pattern:

2005: 1.28
2006: 1.41
2007: 1.61
2008: 1.98
2009: 1.90
2010: 2.59
2011: 4.46

And so far for 2012, as of yesterday: 5.03

Plot those points and the slope is pretty steep.

I am beginning to suspect that the "Mayan" calendar, which is not really Mayan, since they inherited it from the Olmec, who got it from who knows where, is actually a countdown calendar the pinpoints an intersection with the dense stream of cometary fragments that cuased the Younger Dryas period some 12.5K years ago.

My reasoning is that if the impacts that likely killed the megafuana and Clovis culture occurred over a period of time, say months, instead of hours, then it is possible that those people or more properly, the survivors,were able to figure out the orbit, and that orbit was very long.

If you knew that something devasting was going to return may thousands of years later, how do you warn the future?

About the only thing that might possibly stand the test of time would be a calendar system. So if you construct the calendar to end at the begiing of the intersection, there is some small hope that people will be prompted to pay greater attention to things around them and pick up on the warning signs. Small hope, but better than nothing.

For what it is worth, that's my theory.

I hope I'm wrong, but with the fireball incidence rising as fast as it is doing, I'm not so sure I am. I think we are now entering the front of a dense cloud of rocks or comet fragments that will intensify come December.

I think that the increase has a lot to do with the freaky global weather; so much extra energy is being put into the upper and middle layers of the atmosphere and that energy is being expressed in the weather. Not to mention that we are heating the bottom pretty hard ourselves. Combined with extra solar input from higher sunspot activity, the totality seems to predict some very bad weather ahead.

Heads up!

Re: Two suns

The optical illusion of two suns in the image is caused by internal relflections inside the camera's lens. Among photographers it's called a lens flare.