- Over the last couple of months I've read with interest
the furore generated by "Aussie Bloke" and his claims of an imminent
earth impactor of some kind. I've also noted Michael Goodspeed's anecdotal
stories about missile readiness at Fort Greely, the arrival of Toutatis,
the deployment of many of the worlds naval units and the intercepted conversation
from Snowballnet.
-
- I intend to talk about Toutatis a little nearer September
29, but for the moment I would like to concentrate on what could be a current
threat to our planet.
-
- I was initially skeptical about "Aussie Bloke's"
claims, which have now been proved a hoax, but I've spent a good deal of
time over the last six weeks researching and investigating the possibilities
of an impact event or any other celestial happenings of interest in the
last week of June.
-
- As has been mentioned on Rense.com, we are currently
being treated to a good nightime display from the Taurid meteors and on
Sunday, June 27 at 01h GMT (which corresponds to Saturday, June 26 at 9:00
p.m. EDT) the Earth should be passing through the June Bootids meteor shower,
ejected by Comet Pons-Winnecke.
-
- Coincidentally, I have found that on June 27 and June
29 the Earth is also subject to an extremely close approach by two little
known asteroids. The first, on June 27, is designated 25143 Itokawa. Information
is sparse on Itokawa, but what is known is that the asteroid is approximately
0.36 kilometers wide and on June 27 it will come within 0.0128968 Astronomical
Units of Earth. An Astronomical Unit (AU) is equal to 149,597,871 kilometers,
so Itokawa will pass us bye at less than a million miles
-
- The June 29 asteroid is designated 2004 MC. It was only
discovered ten days ago, on June 15 and will come even closer to Earth
than Itokawa. 2004 MC will come within 0.0097 Astronomical Units of the
planet, less than 850 thousand miles, a very near miss, and because of
the late discovery of the asteroid NASA is unsure of the size of 2004 MC
and its orbital path is not absolutely certain.
-
- On June 21 NASA's Near Earth Orbit Dynamic Site said
of 2004 MC "This object has the possibilty of impacting the Earth".
This statement was, however, removed on June 22, just one day after it
appeared.
-
- Co-incidentally, on June 21 Asteroid 2004 MR1, an asteroid
measuring some 35 metres wide, missed Earth by only 0.0038 Astronomical
Units, about 350 thousand miles.
-
- Whether or not Itokawa and 2004 MC do pose a threat to
Earth I cannot say. However, one thing is sure, both these objects are
coming very, very close to us in the next few days. For more information
on the orbit simulations of the asteroids and observation information,
please check the links below.
-
- Oh, and have a nice day.
-
- Itokawa:-
- Orbit Simulation:-
- http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?rec=25143
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- http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:Itokawa;main
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- 2004 MC:-
- Orbit Simulation:-
- http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=2004+MC+
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- http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:2004MC;main
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- Copyright: Ian Gurney June 2004.
- Ian Gurney is the author of "The Cassandra Prophecy-Armageddon
- Approaches." (www.caspro.com) and can be contacted
at info@caspro.com
-
- Ian Gurney is a journalist, broadcaster and author of
the bestseller "The
- Cassandra Prophecy" published by International Global
Press. ISBN
- 0953581314.
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