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Bizarre fireball filmed over Germany

NYC812
YouTube
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:21 UTC
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Comment: This looks like it could be a fireball/comet fragment that is doing some electrical things as described by Jim McCanney. Also, looks like some of the strange comet things described by the ancients and why they called comets "serpents." The double tail then appears to be just the way this one manifested.

Also, some fireballs that travel so "leisurely" may be not be purely 'physical' objects since electrical phenomena also seem to be often transdensity (or transdimensional).

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Asteroid makes sharpest turn yet seen in solar system

Jeff Hecht
New Scientist
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00 UTC
2001CQ1
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On Friday, a metre-sized asteroid called 2011 CQ1 was spotted zipping only 5480 kilometres above the Earth's surface. That is the closest near miss on record, beating the previous record holder, a rock that buzzed Earth in 2004 called 2004 FU162, by a few hundred kilometres.

When something that small comes close to our planet, Earth's gravity is sure to bend its orbit. In this case, the approach was so close that the little asteroid's path bent by 60 degrees, reports Don Yeomans of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Short of collisions with a planet, that's the biggest orbital change ever recorded by observers. It was large enough to shift the asteroid from one category of objects into another. As Yeomans and his JPL colleague Paul Chodas explain in an online update:
Prior to the Earth close approach, this object was in a so-called Apollo-class orbit that was mostly outside the Earth's orbit. Following the close approach, the Earth's gravitational attraction modified the object's orbit to an Aten-class orbit where the asteroid spends almost all of its time inside the Earth's orbit.
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SOTT Focus: Has Nibiru/Planet X Been Sighted?

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:30 UTC
Comment: The following article was written by Laura in the early days of Signs. We're reviving it here and now in the hope of clearing up a lot of the confusion surrounding what this 'Planet X' really is and to provide readers with some insight into the background research that led to our catastrophist hypothesis.

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© Alastair Grant/Associated PressComet Hale-Bopp, seen above the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in southwest England in 1997
Is Nibiru going to appear in April, 2003 as is being claimed by certain New Age Gurus?

In a word, NO. And you can take that to the bank.

It is part of a COINTELPRO operation designed to drive believers over the edge and force legislation against alternative ideas, research, and the free exchange of information over the internet.

It is part of the Stargate Conspiracy.

Remember Hale Bopp? Remember Heaven's Gate? Have we learned anything?

Read the following article very carefully. Indeed, Earth will very likely experience cataclysms at some point in the future, but it won't be because of the Planet Nibiru, and it isn't going to be in 2003.

Comment: Suggested further reading: Comets and Catastrophe Series, beginning here.

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Apophis Asteroid Heading Toward Earth - 2011 CA7 Asteroid Passes Today!


news.gather.com
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:33 UTC
Ateroid near earth
While the Apophis asteroid has little chance of hitting Earth in 2036, there is a car sized asteroid nearing Earth today! Is it going to hit?

No, NASA scientists from Asteroid Watch program say that there is no threat from 2011 CA7. The asteroid flew within about 64,300 miles of the third rock from the sun this afternoon around 2:25 p.m. EST, and it was actually the second one in the past 5 days. On February 4, the smaller 2011 CQ1 was a mere 3,400 miles from Earth. Neither asteroid hit Earth. For comparison, consider that the moon is 238,000 miles away from the planet, so these space rocks were much closer than that.

These types of smaller asteroids flying near Earth are quite common. In fact, NASA predicts that there are close encounters nearly daily. Asteroids that could be potentially hazardous to the planet must be at least 490 feet wide. That means that the Apophis Asteroid 900 feet is one of the larger rocks that does pose a threat to the world.

A Russian report has predicted that the huge space rock could hit Earth on April 13, 2036. Of course this dire prediction has garnered lots of attention from scientists and others. Thankfully the chances of a true impact are still quite slim. In fact, Donald Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office said that the chance is just 1-in-250,000.


Comment: To understand more about real chances of impacts the reader might wish to read these articles:
Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls
Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!

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Bright Fireball Seen Over Italy


Lunar Meteorite Hunters
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:33 UTC
A bright fireball has was seen on the night of February 8th 2011:

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NASA Spacecraft Closes in on Comet Tempel 1

Dauna Coulter
Science@NASA
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:40 UTC
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© Science@NASAStardust-NExT chases a comet, an artist's concept.
"For the first time, we'll see the same comet before and after its closest approach to the sun," explains Joe Veverka, principal investigator for NASA's Stardust-NExT mission.

The comet is Tempel 1, which NASA's Deep Impact probe visited in 2005. Now another NASA spacecraft, Stardust-NExT, is closing in for a second look on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2011. The two visits bracket one complete orbit of the comet around the sun--and a blast of solar heat.

"Close encounters with the sun never go well for a comet," says Veverka. "Fierce solar heat vaporizes the ices in the comet's core, causing it to spit dust and spout gas. The cyclic loss of material eventually leads to its demise."

Researchers suspect the flamboyant decay doesn't happen evenly all over a comet's surface*, but until now they've lacked a way to document where, exactly, it does occur. Stardust NExT will image some of the same surface areas Deep Impact photographed 6 years ago, revealing how these areas have changed and where material has been lost.
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Best of the Web: Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around A.D. 500?

Richard A. Lovett
National Geographic
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:01 UTC
Double impact may have caused tsunami, global cooling.

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© Illustration by Detlev van Ravenswaay, Astrofoto, Peter Arnold Images, PhotolibraryAn asteroid hurtles toward Earth in an artist's rendering.
Pieces of a giant asteroid or comet that broke apart over Earth may have crashed off Australia about 1,500 years ago, says a scientist who has found evidence of the possible impact craters.

Satellite measurements of the Gulf of Carpentaria (see map) revealed tiny changes in sea level that are signs of impact craters on the seabed below, according to new research by marine geophysicist Dallas Abbott.

Based on the satellite data, one crater should be about 11 miles (18 kilometers) wide, while the other should be 7.4 miles (12 kilometers) wide.

For years Abbott, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has argued that V-shaped sand dunes along the gulf coast are evidence of a tsunami triggered by an impact.

"These dunes are like arrows that point toward their source," Abbott said. In this case, the dunes converge on a single point in the gulf - the same spot where Abbott found the two sea-surface depressions.

Comment: Interestingly, this was described by the Cassiopaeans long before any studies about it were published:
Session 12 September 1998

Q: (L) On the subject of supernovas; I have discovered that three of the supernovas of antiquity which have be discovered and time estimated by the remnants, if they were not observed, occurred in or near Cassiopeia at very interesting points in history.

A: Yes...

Q: (L) Well, one of these periods in history was around 1054. This is a very interesting time. It just so happens that there are no European records of this supernova which was recorded by the Chinese, Japanese, and perhaps even the Koreans. Yet, there are no European records. What happened to the European records?

A: Europe was in a "recovery mode" at the "time."

Q: (L) Recovery from what?

A: Loss of civilized structure due to overhead cometary explosion in 564 AD.

Q: (C) There were certain historical facts you picked up, so that doesn't make sense to me. (L) On the other hand it might, because there is some stuff from Gregory of Tours that is real bizarre. What effect did this have on the civilized structure? Was it a direct effect in terms of material, or did it have effects on people causing them to behave in an uncivilized and barbaric way?

A: Well, the burning fragmentary shower ignited much of the land areas in what you now refer to as Western Europe. This had the results you can imagine, causing the resulting societal breakdown you now refer to as "The Dark Ages."

Q: (L) Well, it damn sure was dark. There is almost a thousand years that nobody knows anything about!

A: Check Irish or Celtic, and French or Gallic records of the era for clues. There were temporary "islands of survival," lasting just long enough for the written word to eke out.


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Best of the Web: Ancient Crash, Epic Wave: Did an Asteroid Impact Cause an Ancient Tsunami?

Sandra Blakeslee
The New York Times
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:46 UTC
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© Dallas AbbottThe Fenambosy chevron, one of four near the tip of Madagascar, is 600 feet high and three miles from the ocean.
At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.

On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction - toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.

The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world's population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.
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Arizona Meteor Fireball


Lunar Meteorite Hunters Blog
Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:33 UTC
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© Doug Snyder 2011Arizona meteor 7FEB2011
A fireball was captured on 7 Feb. at about 2256 Mountain Standard Time. The fireball occurred in the constellation Canis Major. The photo was taken in SE Arizona, near the border with Mexico.
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Best of the Web: Fireball falls from the sky and torches field near Bjelovar, Croatia

Jutarnji list
Jutarnjil.hr
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:17 UTC
A frightened ambulance driver saw it first: "a fireball fell from the sky and lit up the woods near Bjelovar!" 'Driving a patient at night I noticed a fiery flame in the sky. Falling into a valley in the countryside '

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Bjelovar - A comet fell from the sky and set fire to the woods near Bjelovar! On Saturday evening there were also media reports of a fire in a field near the center of Bulinca. The alarm was raised by callers dialing emergency number 112.

A man said he was driving the car, saw the comet with a flaming tail that fell from the sky into an area of vegetation. According to information from the Bjelovar Fire Department, a fire broke out in between the towns of Bulinac with Bjelovar.

"I was exiting Patkovca on the left side of the road and noticed a fiery flame in the sky. Since we are in a valley and it was dusk, we could see very well. It was within walking distance of two to three kilometers from me and at first I thought it was a plane crash. I watched the fiery ball until it fell to the ground. It all lasted about ten seconds. A dozen sci-fi scenarios passed through my head and I could not believe what I saw. A few miles away, at the entrance to Bulinac, I saw a big fire near the forest on a nearby area of grass. About this I immediately informed the Emergency Center 112. Unfortunately, I did not had time to stop and see what it was because I was in an ambulance transporting patients," said Daruvarcanin Darko Hresic, an ambulance driver.

When they put out the fire, members of the DVD searched the area looking for a crater or something that would point to a deliberate arson. Nothing was found. The news of the event very quickly spread throughout Bulincem. According to information from the Bjelovar Police, so far the only eyewitness is Hresic.
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