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The closest approach to Earth will be October 16th, at 19:56 UTC, +/- 4 minutes.
Originally posted by bookmandh2
There have been several posts recently regarding Comet Elenin, it's debatable existence, trajectory, etc. One such claim is that Comet Elenin will be closest to the Earth on October 19th. Some have speculated that it may be a few days before or after this date.
Originally posted by JerryB08
Oh it's definitely real and it's big. The MSM had pictures of it. There was also a company called "deep Impact" that launched two rockets at it to supposedly find out the make up of the comet. That happened in 2005. In the picture you could see the impact area because it was very smooth and the rest of the comet's not. However they were saying that it's closest pass was in April 22 million miles away or something like that. The name of the company that launched the experiment has a site up about their mission gjust Google it. THAT bother's me. That we shot at this thing twice already (6 years ago) and the name of the company happens to be named Deep Impact like the movie. And also in the movie the comet that hit earth was called ELI I think. Kinda makes ya go Hmm. But I'm still skeptical. Everyone was saying in March it was gonna mess us up then. And then nothing happened AGAIN. lol
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
reply to post by ufoinquirer
you'll know before it gets here if it will hit, or be close enough to worry about. by nasa's official trajectory, you will probably need binoculars to see it. so if you can see it with your naked eye very visibly prior to its passing, you'll know nasa is bsing you.
i believe someone posted a vid on here about a meteor that came very close to hitting earth a few months ago. it was on the news AFTER it had missed. if it had hit us, i believe i remember the news people saying it would have hit with the force of 1000 nuclear bombs. no evacuations were issued, no warnings. and it was much, much smaller than elenin. right there you can see nasa's policy on disclosing information of this nature.
i tried to get more from my source, its kind of complicated, but i doubt i will get more from that avenue.
There have been numerous near-earth objects that weren't discovered until after past the point of closest approach. That doesn't mean any information was withheld.
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
i believe someone posted a vid on here about a meteor that came very close to hitting earth a few months ago. it was on the news AFTER it had missed. if it had hit us, i believe i remember the news people saying it would have hit with the force of 1000 nuclear bombs. no evacuations were issued, no warnings. and it was much, much smaller than elenin. right there you can see nasa's policy on disclosing information of this nature.
What dots are you connecting? Asteroid 2005 YU55 and comet Elenin are in vastly different orbits and were discovered some 5 years apart.
Originally posted by waybehind
Check out this article:
www.foxnews.com...
It's from Fox News and says an asteroid is going to come very close to the earth November 8. I thought that was very coincidental since that's EXACTLY the date the earth is supposed to go through the debris field of comet (or whatever it is) elenin according to elenin.org. I'm just really amazed that this is in the main stream media. Anyone else connecting the dots? Are they saying this so people won't panic about what's really happening?
you don't seem to understand how orbits are calculated. The orbit that NASA has calculated is based on many observations, some from amateur astronomers. By plotting its position over time, you can devise the orbital path that intersects with the previous observations. It's not a guess. The calculated error on the time of closest approach is just 4 minutes.
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
i've heard estimates on elenin's orbit ranging from a few thousand years to over half a million, that is an extremely steep parabola, you could change it an imperceptible distance from our perspective, and alter its orbital time by thousands to tens of thousands of years. i wouldn't be suprised if nasa as a much more precise window, but again, plausible deniablity "with such a (possibly) large orbit period, our estimation on how close it would pass was just a guess"
those statements aren't so far fetched. i've heard it claimed that amature astronomers have "nasa-like capabilities" now that is some bs. some guy using a small telescope in his backyard may be able to see elenin, but its highly doubtful they would have the skills and equipment to measure such a steep parabola (i say parabola because it is very possible elenin has never orbited even once)
Originally posted by OrdoSeclorum
Comet Elenin and the brown dwarf 12th planet are both being hidden from us.