Articles in Asteroids
SHTF vs EOTW vs TEOTWAWKI
This isn’t just a 2012 problem – in newspapers and tabloid television, “experts” can find it easy to dismiss a topic by misrepresenting it and then debunking it. This is unfortunate because most of the …
New Comet, New Asteroid
The comet was discovered by Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope which scans areas of the sky for dangerous asteroids. It is early days, but they estimate that:
The comet will likely come within about 30 million miles …
Rapid Magnetic Changes / Houston Dome / Another Tunguska
“a new study of ancient copper mines in southern Israel found that the strength of the magnetic field could double and then fall back down in less than 20 years.” This could be …
New Sinkhole / John Perkins / Asteroid Satellite
This time the sinkhole is in Germany, measuring 30 meters across, and 20 meters deep. Six houses were evacuated. Photo over at a News Corp site.
Author John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) has …
Meteoroid Tracking / New 2012 Drink / Missing Sunspots
NASA is installing a network of smart cameras across the USA to track fireballs and meteoroids. Soon there will be 15, and then they plan to expand nationwide. These cameras are automated and linked together …
The Royal Society Laughs at 2012
A few days ago, the highly-regarded Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a Royal Society lecture about the sham that is 2012. You can watch it online:
http://royalsociety.org/The-end-of-the-world-in-2012/
Now for some criticisms!
You have to wonder about a scientist who …
Noah’s Ark / Facebook Game / Bolide Data
With state-funding, a Christian ministry will build a $150 million theme park, featuring a full-size Noah’s Ark, complete with live animals. There will also be a Tower of Babel. Can’t wait to take my family, …
That Unacknowledged Asteroid
Imagine if you had spotted an asteroid or comet hurtling toward Earth. Or that you became aware of such via the Interweb. It would be very useful to calculate how the collision will affect you, …
Cosmic Rays / Sting / Asteroid in 2182
A neutrino observatory consisting of strings of detectors buried deep in Antarctic ice has confirmed that more cosmic rays arrive from some parts of the sky than others, something already observed in the northern hemisphere
BBC …
Protecting Earth: Governments Finally Getting Serious
The timing could be better, because Dec 2012 is only 2.5 years away, but better late than never!
Last month, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R – CA) introduced the new bill before Congress, H.R. 5587, titled: “To …
NASA Discovers 25,000 New Asteroids
And as an example of how infrequent it is for an asteroid to crash into our planet, not one of the 25,000 is aimed for Earth.
It’s a pretty impressive haul for WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey …
Major Asteroid Impact circa 3114BC
While a lot of energy is being spent on the Mayan Long Count end date of 2012AD, very few investigators (if any) are looking into the start date of 3114BC and possible reasons for that …
Conspiracy Update + June 23 Terrorist Attack?
There’s a very active thread over at Above Top Secret, which starts off like this:
To those who think that Operation Blackjack, that comic series published by the London Telegraph last year, was just a sick …
Asteroids: We Aren’t Prepared
NASA is looking, and does find asteroids. Unfortunately their efforts are far from comprehensive, and our planet is woefully under-prepared relative to our technical capabilities. A few months back New Scientist published what will hopefully …
A Russian Solution to the Apophis non-problem
Universe Today recently reported a Russian plan to deflect an asteroid that is not expected to be a problem:
Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid and prevent a possible collision with …
Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All?
A new computer simulation has determined that if a 200 metre wide asteroid lands in the ocean, where the water depth is 5 kilometres, the following will occur:
Initial tsunami with a height of hundreds of …
Heard of the Köfels’ Impact Event?
I hadn’t before today. Apparantly the Sumerians witnessed and recorded it.
On 29th June 3,123BC (very close to the start of the ancient Mayan Long Count), an asteroid gouges a 2 kilometre cut out of the …
Planet X & Asteroids – They Will Be Found!
There has a been a lot of talk about how an uncharted asteroid, or even Planet X, could do us harm in 2012. The problem is that these predictions are hard to prove or disprove …
