Here Comes Elenin
“At its present position beyond the orbit of Mars, Elenin is a faint telescopic object. At that distance a planet-sized object would be one of the brightest ‘stars’ in the night sky one would think, and if it were Jupiter-sized it would be visually spectacular, a shining beacon that would make everyone take notice! But no, that does not seem to be the case. Large amateur telescopes are straining to even catch a glimpse of Elenin; it is likely a small object, probably a big rock,” writes one blogger.
Big seems to be the appropriate word for we now have the first actual astronomical calculations that puts the coma (the part they can see is 50,000 miles in diameter. Yes a big rock!
“On April 8th at our Russian observatory we carried out planned observations of Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin). An analysis of the results of the observations shows a rapid growth of the coma. Besides the internal compact gas envelope, the forming rarified external coma is also visible in the image. Its diameter exceeds 1 minute of arc, or 80,000 km! It is possible that such a rapid growth of the coma is associated with the apparent superposition over it of the comet’s dust tail, which after opposition, still remains invisible to the earthly observer.”
The coma is what astronomers actually see and is actually much bigger than the core. It’s the green in the above picture that they are saying is 80,000 km or 50,000 miles across. We could estimate that the core might be half the diameter of the coma or approximately 25,000 miles. Big enough—it seems to be already stirring up the Earth under our feet.
There is a lot of speculation going on about what this comet actually is and what it is composed of but at least now we have an idea of its size. The following video is from a man who explains how the size was calculated and he confirms the above astronomers are not out of their minds.
The Professionals Step In
We have news out of Cornell University that sustains the view that Elenin is playing a direct part in causing large earthquakes. Professor Mensur Omerbashich is saying that his “georesonator concept in which tidally induced magnification of Earth masses’ resonance causes seismicity.” This trashes NASA’s assertion that the humongous earthquake we saw in Japan and before that with the ones in Chile and New Zealand were coincidental with alignments between Elenin, the Earth and the Sun.
The earth’s seismicity can arise as a natural response
of our planet to its alignments with other celestial objects.
Professor Mensur Omerbashich
Omerbashich demonstrates empirically that “all strong (~M6+) earthquakes of 2010 occurred during the Earth’s long astronomical alignments within our solar system. He shows that the same holds true for all very strong (~M8+) earthquakes of the decade of 2000s. He asserts that the “comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) has been adding to robustness in terms of very strong seismicity since 2007. Elenin will continue intensifying the Earth’s very strong seismicity until August-October, 2011.”
It seems like every time Elenin lines up with Earth and another planet or the Sun we have an earthquake, the nearer Elenin gets the bigger the earthquakes.
Past Elenin Alignments and Earthquakes:
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Past Alignments |
Date |
Location |
Magnitude |
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Elenin – Earth – Sun |
Feb 20 2008 |
Indonesia |
7.4 |
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Elenin – Earth – Sun |
Feb 25 2008 |
Indonesia |
7.2 |
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Elenin – Earth – Neptune |
May 12 2008 |
China |
7.9 |
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Elenin – Earth – Sun |
Feb 18 2009 |
Kermadec Islands |
7.0 |
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Elenin – Earth -Jupiter |
May 18 2009 |
Los Angeles, US |
4.7 |
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Elenin – Mercury- Earth |
July 15 2009 |
New Zealand |
7.8 |
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Elenin – Mercury – Earth |
Aug 09 2009 |
Japan |
7.1 |
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Elenin – Sun – Earth |
Sept 09 2009 |
Sunola islands |
8.1 |
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Elenin – Earth – Venus |
Feb 18 2010 |
China/RU/N.Korea |
6.9 |
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Elenin – Earth-Sun |
Feb 25 2010 |
China |
5.2 |
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Elenin – Earth-Sun |
Feb 26 2010 |
Japan |
7.0 |
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Elenin – Earth- Sun |
Feb 27 2010 |
Chile |
8.8 [Earth knocked off axis] |
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Elenin – Earth- Sun |
Feb 27 2010 |
Argentina |
6.3 |
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Elenin – Earth – Mercury |
Mar 04 2010 |
Taiwan |
6.3 |
|
Elenin – Earth – Mercury |
Mar 04 2010 |
Vanuatu |
6.5 |
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Elenin – Earth – Mercury |
Mar 05 2010 |
Chile |
6.6 |
|
Elenin – Earth – Mercury |
Mar 05 2010 |
Indonesia |
6.3 |
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Elenin – Earth – Mercury |
Mar 08 2010 |
Turkey |
6.1 |
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Elenin – Earth – Neptune |
May 05 2010 |
Indonesia |
6.6 |
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Elenin – Earth – Neptune |
May 06 2010 |
Chile |
6.2 |
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Elenin – Earth – Neptune |
May 09 2010 |
Indonesia |
7.2 |
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Elenin – Earth – Neptune |
May 14 2010 |
Algeria |
5.2 |
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Elenin – Earth – Jupiter |
Jan 03 2011 |
Chile |
7.0 |
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Elenin – Earth – Sun |
March 11 2011 |
Japan |
9.0 [Earth knocked off axis] |
Future Elenin Alignments:
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Future Alignments |
Date |
Note |
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Elenin – Mercury – Mars – Earth |
Sept 06 2011 |
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Mercury – Sun – Elenin |
Sept 25 2011 |
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Sun – Elenin – Jupiter |
Oct 11 2011 |
Elenin 0.246au from Earth; that’s a quarter of the distance to the sun. |
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Oct 17 2011 |
Elenin closet to earth 0.232au |
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Oct 20 2011 |
Elenin will enter Earth orbit and we will experience a gravitational pull. |
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Nov 02 2011 |
Earth enter Elenins tail/ previous path |
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Venus – Earth- Elenin – Mercury |
Nov 11 2011 |
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Sun – Mercury – Earth – Elenin |
Dec 04 2011 |
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Mars – Elenin – Jupiter |
Dec 25 2011 |
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Final Alignment: Elenin – Earth – Sun |
Dec 21 2012 |
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Now of course we have many earthquakes and if we showed them all, this chart would then lose much of its meaning. The 9.1 earthquake in Japan though will never lose its meaning and it happened on cue with an alignment with Elenin.
So everyone I guess it is not a small pebble after all that is coming our way and I think NASA knows this for how could they calculate its pathway through the inner solar system without knowing its mass or size? But before we blow our gaskets over this I want you to take a look at a most interesting and strange video of a presentation by a most beautiful and intelligent man. It seems that flybys of big objects are not that unusual and that we had a truly big comet almost hit the Sun less than ten years ago. Below we have physicist Nassim Haramein showing a NASA video of something that frightened everyone who was watching yet nothing happened when something should have. When asked why not Haramein said, “I don’t know.”
I trust Nassim, and what he shows goes beyond the pale of scientific understanding. According to him such a large object should have made a mess of the inner solar system but it did not. In the film we actually see the sun protecting itself with a huge and forceful solar flare from what looked like a possible collision with a huge comet.
But now we have another one heading in but this one is already wrecking the earth with 9.0 earthquakes, already resulting in a nuclear catastrophe in Japan. It was only seven days ago when I published:
In this video you will see with mathematical precision that every time this celestial body comes into alignment with the earth and sun we have a huge earthquake. The last three alignments produced the Japanese 9.0 quake, the one in New Zealand and before that the one in Chile. On March 11th Elenin was much further out. When the next alignment happens it will be devastatingly close. The main point to understand is that if Elenin was just a normal comet it would not have the mass to generate a gravity pull that would affect the earth when the Earth swings around into alignment.
The mystery only gets more profound. Cosmic rays crashing into the Earth over the South Pole appear to be coming from particular locations rather than being distributed uniformly across the sky. Similar cosmic ray “hotspots” have been seen in the northern skies too, yet we know of no source close enough to produce this pattern. “We don’t know where they are coming from,” says Stefan Westerhoff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s a mystery because the hotspots must be produced within about 0.03 light years of Earth. Further out, galactic magnetic fields should deflect the particles so much that the hotspots would be smeared out across the sky. But no such sources are known to exist.
Perhaps our incoming comet is hot in terms of radiation and is doing more than putting out gravity fields that are affecting the Earth’s structure. We have an evolving puzzle going on down here on Earth but it will get clearer as the next few weeks or months pass. So far we have many strange “coincidences” that are going unexplained but as they pile up we will be better able to triangulate events into a comprehensible perception of what is in store for us and what to do, if anything, about it.
People pounced on Nassim Haramein for inferring that the NASA video he was showing in his presentation above was proof that Nibiru had come and gone already. It is dangerous to make assumptions but who would have thought that there was more than one big planet-size object that was coming in on comet trajectories within ten years of each other?
This last one that Haramein shows danced with the sun and must have had some Klingon cloaking device—certainly no one I know was aware of such a close call or that comets could be that big. Now according to NASA we have a tiny rock coming in that somehow is big enough to yank on the gravitational/electric/magnetic/structural under-pinnings of our world. Must be made of Krypton or its bigger than NASA is letting on.
Excuse my attempt to lighten up the discussion. I have people crawling all over the place, including inside my own family, who are uncomfortable even knowing what’s going on with comets on their way into our backyard. This one is going to pass close where the other one seen in Haramein’s presentation miraculously left the inner solar system in peace.
What is going to happen is anyone’s guess but Professor Mensur Omerbashich does not seem to be guessing. Perhaps we should all read his paper and study up on his georesonator concept. He is from Cornell, one of the most respected Universities in the world, so personally I do give him the courtesy and honor of taking him seriously. It is most difficult presenting these topics to the world for their will be great dissention and controversy until September and then we will really get to experience whatever reality is going to offer itself to us on earth. My bet is that events will continue to build in intensity and life will continually get more and more out of hand on every level and dimension.
I could literally post hundreds of videos and stories of strange happenings in our world. We do not need a crystal ball to see the relentless Earth changes. We have left the landscape of normalcy behind and are entering into a world where cataclysmic chaos is becoming the new norm. Just ask the people in the Mississippi valley this week. The escalating trend of anomalous weather patterns, massive animal die-offs, inexplicable seismic activities, droughts, famine and increasing food prices supports the view that things are changing quickly and something unseen and uncalculated is participating in this. Can’t blame everything on global warming and CO2!
Below you will see two articles, one from the Washington Post and another from The New York Times from 28 years ago, but read them like they were printed yesterday. Astronomy deals practically with eternity so what is 28 years? NASA came right out and admitted they found a massive very cold body outside the solar system. Now they are not saying a thing about this or whether this past massive comet from 2003, or the current one, have anything to do with their discovery almost three decades ago. What could possibly be their motive for keeping a tight lid on this terribly important subject?
Washington Post
Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered
31-Dec-1983
A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite. So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby “protostar” that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars, or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through. “All I can tell you is that we don’t know what it is,” Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview.
The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body, which is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is that it is a giant gaseous planet, as large as Jupiter and as close to Earth as 50 billion miles. While that may seem like a great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone’s throw in cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto. “If it is really that close, it would be a part of our solar system,” said Dr. James Houck of Cornell University’s Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a member of the IRAS science team. “If it is that close, I don’t know how the world’s planetary scientists would even begin to classify it.”
The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite as it scanned the northern sky from last January to November, when the satellite ran out of the super-cold helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies in the heavens. The second observation took place six months after the first and suggested the mystery body had not moved from its spot in the sky near the western edge of the constellation Orion in that time. “This suggests it’s not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we’ve observed and a comet would probably have moved,” Houck said. “A planet may have moved if it were as close as 50 billion miles but it could still be a more distant planet and not have moved in six months’ time.
Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery body is so cold its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above “absolute” zero, which is 459 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so low and is so sensitive it can “see” objects in the heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero. When IRAS scientists first saw the mystery body and calculated that it could be as close as 50 billion miles, there was some speculation that it might be moving toward Earth. “It’s not incoming mail,” Cal Tech’s Neugebauer said. “I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can.”
The New York Times
Clues Get Warm in the Search for Planet X
30-January-1983
John Noble Wilford
Something out there beyond the farthest reaches of the known solar system seems to be tugging at Uranus and Neptune. Some gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object that may be the long-sought Planet X.
Evidence assembled in recent years has led several groups of astronomers to renew the search for the 10th planet. They are devoting more time to visual observations with the 200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar in California. They are tracking two Pioneer spacecraft, now approaching the orbit of distant Pluto, to see if variations in their trajectories provide clues to the source of the mysterious force. And they are hoping that a satellite-borne telescope launched last week will detect heat “signatures” from the planet, or whatever it is out there.
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite was boosted into a 560-mile-high polar orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. It represents an $80-million venture by the United States, Britain and the Netherlands. In the next six or seven months, the telescope is expected to conduct a wide-ranging survey of nearly all the sky, detecting sources not of ordinary light, but of infrared radiation, which is invisible to the human eye and largely absorbed by the atmosphere. Scientists thus hope that the new telescope will chart thousands of infrared-emitting objects that have gone undetected—stars, interstellar clouds, asteroids and, with any luck, the object that pulls at Uranus and Neptune.
The last time a serious search of the skies was made, it led to the discovery in 1930 of Pluto, the ninth planet. But the story begins more than a century before that, after the discovery of Uranus in 1781 by the English astronomer and musician William Herschel. Until then, the planetary system seemed to end with Saturn.
As astronomers observed Uranus, noting irregularities in its orbital path, many speculated that they were witnessing the gravitational pull of an unknown planet. So began the first planetary search based on astronomers’ predictions, which ended in the 1840s with the discovery of Neptune almost simultaneously by English, French and German astronomers.
But Neptune was not massive enough to account entirely for the orbital behavior of Uranus. Indeed, Neptune itself seemed to be affected by a still more remote planet. In the late 19th century, two American astronomers, William H. Pickering and Percival Lowell, predicted the size and approximate location of the trans-Neptunian body, which Lowell called Planet X.
Years later, Pluto was detected by Clyde W. Tombaugh working at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Several astronomers, however, suspected it might not be the Planet X of prediction. Subsequent observations proved them right. Pluto was too small to change the orbits of Uranus and Neptune; the combined mass of Pluto and its recently discovered satellite, Charon, is only one-fifth that of Earth’s moon.
Recent calculations by the United States Naval Observatory have confirmed the orbital perturbation exhibited by Uranus and Neptune, which Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, an astronomer at the observatory, says could be explained by “a single undiscovered planet.” He and a colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, calculate that the 10th planet should be two to five times more massive than Earth and have a highly elliptical orbit that takes it some 5 billion miles beyond that of Pluto—hardly next door but still within the gravitational influence of the Sun.
Some astronomers have reacted cautiously to the 10th-planet predictions. They remember the long, futile quest for the planet Vulcan inside the orbit of Mercury; Vulcan, it turned out, did not exist. They wonder why such a large object as a 10th planet escaped the exhaustive survey by Mr. Tombaugh, who is sure it is not in the two-thirds of the sky he examined. But according to Dr. Ray T. Reynolds of the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, other astronomers “are so sure of the 10th planet, they think there’s nothing left but to name it.”
At a scientific meeting last summer, 10th-planet partisans tended to prevail. Alternative explanations for the outer-planet perturbations were offered. The something out there, some scientists said, might be an unseen black hole or neutron star passing through the Sun’s vicinity. Defenders of the 10th planet parried the suggestions. Material falling into the gravitational field of a black hole, the remains of a very massive star after its complete gravitational collapse, should give off detectable X-rays, they noted; no X-rays have been detected. A neutron star, a less massive star that has collapsed to a highly dense state, should affect the courses of comets, they said, yet no such changes have been observed.
More credence was given to the hypothesis that a “brown dwarf” star accounts for the mysterious force. This is the informal name astronomers give to celestial bodies that were not massive enough for their thermonuclear furnaces to ignite; perhaps like the huge planet Jupiter, they just missed being self-illuminating stars.
Most stars are paired, so it is not unreasonable to suggest that the Sun has a dim companion. Moreover, a brown dwarf in the neighborhood might not reflect enough light to be seen far away, said Dr. John Anderson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Its gravitational forces, however, should produce energy detectable by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
Whatever the mysterious force, be it a brown dwarf or a large planet, Dr. Anderson said he was “quite optimistic” that the infrared telescope might find it and that the Pioneer spacecraft could supply an estimate of the object’s mass. Of course, no one can be sure that even this discovery would define the outermost boundary of the solar system.
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Elenin is NOT I repeat NOT a comet. It is a Dwarf star and it is inbound. I predict a massive quake on Sept 25th, probably in Midwest US and/or Japan ( again). This will be a quake of unprecedented magnitude and destruction resulting in further pole shift and tsunamis. FEMA have increased their stockpile of 6 million dehydrated meals to 426 million for a reason. (look it up).
NASA and the major Governments of the world are well aware of the impending destruction and have been making plans for many months.(without telling us).
Those who cry hoax simply dont want to believe it. Dont be afraid of ridicule. Tell your family. Tell your friends. Elenin is a dwarf star approximately 25,000-30,000 miles in diameter, (thats 3-4 times the diameter of Earth) and it is coming. When it aligns with earth and the sun again around Sept 25th our world will change forever. Around Nov 4th we will begin to pass through the tail which by that time will be almost 600,000 miles long, then 2 more alignments before Christmas.
This isnt science fiction or scaremongering. It is simply the truth.
if the galaxy milky way has a core dark yet with halo, may the ort, magellionic or van allen phenomanon have a ruin or silver seed if ya will, vulcun, yeah if it didn’t want to be found it must not be whare math moved it huh, brilliance, take the rest of the year off and think again, sabatical to alpha & omega, don’t forget your monster magnets & compass, so this is the photon belt, watch that tail for rates of decay, inside the moon as earth follows the wake, come back on that, du ya think the (prime) evil is famaliar with teamwork,,, yet, or just sit back and quak some propaganda about how outta tune what goes on in the universe is outta touch with what goes on or passes the bar here on earth versus the effect if civilazations damages were not anything but something self made and lethally toxic, lets call it the “capitalist cloud bank/whiteout” take it away operation space trash & back 2 u influence HQ, may the mountains fall on the pile of their own ruble, all else take shelter from the positronic anti matter of what contemporally that is actually the chief hazard as the propaganda suggests the source of the pollution layed appearient during the periods of transition,,,unlike say, continuity of the war pigs operations and its related synthetic textiles of manufacture,,,more toxic & lethal than the kiss of the visiting celestial solar/-(extra?) “object” god or man whOO did it, blame the butterfly effect for maxuimn socio/pathic propaganda, shame on modern science for lying or fudging the edges,100% safety, no such thing,yer the slave to pollution and metropolisis’s wheels, better get busy and clean this mess up or at least make ready,,,huh Mr/Mz sociologic oppurtune authoratie, get my drift,,,da ja vu part DUEXX, yer the disaster of panic aka evil manifold
Just so you know there were a few earthquakes that was considered VERY large the week that huge comet passed thru the solar system on February 18th, 2003. http://www.volcanolive.com/news50.html
It seems there was a lot of hyped at first about the comet being a dwarf. Star, but now not much in the news. It looks more and more like a small comet each passing day
[...] I have seen nothing to dispute what I reported on at the end of May about Elenin. [...]
Just wondering if this thing is suppose to be so massive as to affect the Earth at this distance; then why is there a coma? If this thing is heating up and emitting gases as it nears the sun (this is how comet tails are formed) then the formation of a coma and tail would mean it is a low-mass object, whereas something of planetary proportions would retain an atmosphere and should not form a tail. What do you think?
No I think the question is How big is Comet Elenin? or rather what is its mass? If the initial reports on the size were a typo. Why doesn’t NASA tell us the actual size? I cant find it, if you can great. If they dont know the size and mass how can they plot it correctly? I’ve heard a couple sources say that NASA has stated that the core is 2-7 km is diameter. yeah but whats the Coma size? and its growing? One more question.. getting conflicting stories about visibility. Might be visible later in the summer? People claim they are seeing it at dawn with binocs and Low zoom Cameras.. Could you see it at this distance if it was 2-7 km? could you see it at this distance if it was the size of Jupiter? what if it was a brown dwarf?
My idea about Elenin is that there is a comet , but that is not all there is.
“Something” is coming along with the ride, or the comet is coming along with “it”.
Option 2 is far more likely , because of the obvious gravity pull in our solar system.
So what is coming our way with the comet that’s the question.
And it will be, untill the last moment, in perfect disguise I fear.
Today the Nabro vulcano in Eritrea has erupted. This vulcano has not erupted for hundred of thousands of years. There are very strange things happening …
There’s something that doesn’t make sense. If NASA provided the trajectory for Elenin based on a regular size comet, which as we know can’t cause Earthly disturbances, then how can these models be used to model a brown star or whatever larger object they are assuming it is? To rephrase: If Elenin is a comet, then the trajectory everybody is using is correct, but its impact is false, and if it is much bigger than a comet, then the trajectory is false and then we don’t know what and when its impact is
You folks are being misled by capitalistic schmucks who feed you BS so they can enrich themselves. And because of your boring lifestyle, you suck it up like nectar.
Please get a life and stop relying on hocus pocus science. elenin is not 50,000 miles in diameter. It will not hit the earth. And you’ll likely sleep through it all when it passes because you have filled your belly with fast food and fell asleep in front of the TV.
no the tv, youtube videos on the computer
Astrobob sounds very sensible. But I vividly recall lots of people who also sounded very sensible, saying that a meltdown at Fukushima was a theoretical impossibility.
A scientific theory creates a hypothesis and makes predictions based on it. So we have a prima facie association between Elenin and earthquakes; if the predicted earthquake occurs on 6th Sept, we will know that Elenin is not just any old “been there done that” comet.
The photograph shown above apparently indicates that the coma is rendered in green, and is 50,000 miles in diameter. So what is represented by the red region ? My assumption is that this is simply the brightest part of the comet, given a red colour arbitrarily by the computer software.
The statement is made above that the object detected in the solar system some years ago was “so cold that it cast no light”. This seems rather odd; light from the Sun can be reflected by an object irrespective of its inherent temperature; the Moon for example is a pretty chilly place, but we can still see it. If you were on its dark side, you could still see it by shining your torch at it.
And by the way, assuming that we are not all going to die sometime very soon, then we need to keep our language skills intact; so the statement that Haramein infers certain things in his presentation should be replaced with the appropraite word, which is “implies”. One infers something to oneself, and then implies those things to others.
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2011/04/04/comet-elenin-will-not-destroy-the-earth/
Comet Elenin will not destroy the Earth
I did a search for Comet Elenin the other day and was surprised at how much gloom-and-doom blather has been written about this modest comet. The misinformation covers the full range of nonsense – everything from the name ‘Elenin’ being a coded message for ‘Extinction Level Event Notable Impact Nemesis’ to the comet being a secret brown dwarf star called Nibiru (which doesn’t exist). Some are even spreading the rumor that Leonid Elenin the person doesn’t actually exist.
Come on people!
Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin
Let’s shed a little light. Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) was discovered by Russian amateur Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010. Although he lives in Lyubertsy, Russia, like many amateur astronomers, Elenin takes astrophotos ‘remotely’ using telescopes that can be controlled by a home computer. The night of his discovery he was taking routine photos of the sky at the independent Russian remote observatory ISON-NM (International Scientific Optical Network) near Mayhill, New Mexico.
By the way, Elenin is real guy who lives near Moscow, loves astronomy and studies asteroids and variable stars. He
a researcher at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and volunteers at the International Astronomical Search Collaboration. Elenin also hosts a great website, where he frequently posts updates about his comet.
Elenin’s photos showed an extremely faint, tiny, teardrop-shaped fuzzball. After additional observations, astronomers determined that the comet’s orbit would bring it near the Earth later this summer, when it might become bright enough to see with the naked eye.
An animation of Comet Elenin in March compiled from multiple still photographs. Credit: Bernhard Häusler
When I heard the news, I cheered. While naked eye comets aren’t rare, they’re not common either, with one making an appearance every couple years. Each is a joy to follow. Every comet observer hopes a bright one will show interesting activity in its nucleus and develop a pretty tail. People love a nice comet – remember Hale-Bopp back in 1997? A thing of beauty.
Further study of Comet Elenin’s orbit appeared to indicate that it was making its first-ever visit to the inner solar system. This happens routinely with comets, since, like your in-laws, so many come from great distances. Other comets, like Halley’s for instance, travel on closed oval orbits called an ellipses and revisit the Earth’s vicinity periodically. These are called the periodic comets.
Leonid Elenin has studied the orbit of his comet closely and predicts that gravitational tugs from the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn will likely reshape its orbit into a very long, cigar-shaped ellipse. The closed track would return the comet for another visit in about 10,000 years. Further observations will no doubt refine Elenin’s orbit and narrow the possibilities.
Comet Elenin orbits nearly in the same plane as the planets do. It’s currently in the constellation Leo the Lion and still very faint at 16th magnitude, well below the visual limit of most amateur telescopes. As it slowly moves closer to the sun, the comet should become visible in large scopes by early summer. Right now, it’s cruising out beyond Mars in the asteroid belt some 180 million miles from Earth and looks like a small, fuzzy spot in photographs.
On September 5, the comet will be near the orbit of Mercury and closest to the sun. Unfortunately, from our vantage point on Earth, Elenin will appear in the same direction in the sky as the sun and be lost in the solar glare. Things get better later that month, when the comet moves away from the sun’s direction and makes an appearance in the morning sky at dawn in Leo the Lion.
This simplified diagram shows Comet Elenin as it swings through the inner solar system, passing by Earth on the dates shown. The two bodies are closest on October 17. Positions shown are approximate. Illustration: Bob King
Closest approach to Earth happens on October 17 when the comet will be 21 million miles away from Earth and 2.4 million miles above our orbit. While we might appear close to each other in the diagram above, we’re still millions of miles apart. After that, we each go our separate ways as Elenin plunges back into deep space.
Here are some more facts:
* Comet Elenin doesn’t appear to be any different from numerous other comets. It’s orbiting the sun in a predictable manner.
* Much baloney has been sliced about the comet or its tail striking the Earth and wreaking havoc. The truth is Comet Elenin is so tiny, its gravitational effect on Earth is practically zero. Even at closest approach it’s still 21 million miles away. Every few years we get almost that close to Venus (23.7 million miles), a rocky planet nearly the same size as our own, and don’t suffer any ill effects. Like the comet, its pull on Earth is tiny, tiny, tiny.
What about a meteor shower from the comet’s tail? After all, most meteors we see originate from comet dust lost through their tails. Elenin appears to cross right through Earth’s orbit in the diagram above. Unfortunately my little picture doesn’t show the third dimension, but this one does.
The comet actually passes above our orbit, missing Earth in the vertical direction by some 2.4 million miles. The chance for an impact is zero. Even stray meteors are extremely unlikely. We’re close but not that close. Keep this in mind too – comet tails point away from the sun. When Elenin and Earth are closest, its tail will be directed back and away from us as depicted in the diagram above.
Even if Earth were to pass through the tail, at worst we’d see a meteor shower. That would be awesome!
I’ll settle on getting up before dawn with binoculars in hand, enjoying the subtle beauty of our fuzzy visitor while trying to comprehend the amazing fact that it arrived in Duluth’s sky after a journey of billions of miles.
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My name is Bob King and I work at the Duluth News Tribune in Duluth, Minn. as a photographer and photo editor. I’m also an amateur astronomer and have been keen on the sky since age 11. My modest credentials include membership in the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) where I’m a regular contributor, International Meteorite Collectors Assn. and Arrowhead Astronomical Society. I also teach community education astronomy classes at our local planetarium.
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Bob,
Can you give us the statistical odds that a comet would be discovered by a person named LEOnin ELEnin? Must be millions to one.
Good article at all, you should join the official comet elenin group on FB. The amateur astronomers in there compete disagree with that without proof. I’m not.
Who said it was the creator who destroyed the earth before? I rather suspect we were very technologically advanced and did it ourselves with HAARP like methods…History on repeat here if we do not wake up
It sure is difficult for commoners around the globe to filter misinformation and deliberate diversional disinformation from all the alledged scientific truth that abounds…yes, Dec 21 2010 and there will be a planitary lineup…but astrial bodies responsible for adverse conditions on earth? …if that were true, then the influence of these celestial bodies would effect the whole earth all at once and not localized spots.
Call me a conspriricy therorist if you want, but I believe that many of these adverse disasters happening to our earth are the result of mad military scientists playing with Scalar Electromagnetic Wavelength Technologies (H.A.R.R.P.) and that they wait for celestrial bodies to get in position before they pull the trigger and celestrial activity takes the blame.
The creator of this universe does not wreck what He has created (a potter does not deliberalely smash a masterpiece he has just created) so there has to be another reason for why the world is experiencing an upsurge in adverse conditions.
Earthquakes, Floods, manipulation of the Jet Stream and Tidal waves, all childs play for H.A.R.R.P…that became fully functional in 1993.
Later, Benny.
The creator did destroy the earth once with a flood. It could be HARRP, but it could also be the creator showing us again who is in control.
The demiurge created not
Mark, thank you for your open mindedness and allowing debate. More on comet’s. Any relevance? Is this actually a comet diving into the sun? Apparently it had a companion with it. Is the companion also an comet? If so where is it’s tail? If not, what is it? Is it ‘only’ a coincidence that a massive eruption happened afterwards?
See spaceweather.com
Quote from Spaceweather.com: ” COMET AND CME: A comet dove into the sun on May 11th and seemed to trigger a massive eruption–emphasis on seemed.”
The diameter of the comet could be 25,000 miles? If memory serves me correctly the diameter of the Earth is only a little under 8,000 miles. I saw one entry that came off of NASA Buzzroom before they shut it down. It said they were calculating it’s nearest position at .004 AU’s. The next day the site went down and it hasn’t come back up.
I’m getting a bad feeling about all of this.
I’ve heard a lot of “predictions” from the New Age sector. But this makes so much sense, connecting planetary alignments with earthquakes etc. I get a weird feeling about all this too. It is actually logical as well as corresponding with ancient predictions around the 2012 date.
I have recently learned about conscious breathing as a way of opening up communications between the primitive brain (fight or flight) and the conscious brain. Add a little love and poof you come out of fear and dread and go into your heart….WAKE-UP, THINK, PREPARE, HELP OTHERS and I would add PRAY……and see it as the greatest adventure you will ever participate in…make your life a wonderful story….
I think there is so much in the way of smoke and mirrors at the moment its hard to extract the truth, but if the planets are about to start playing snooker with each other I can’t really see how love and light will help. And I so wish all the conspiracy sites an fearmongers would stop telling me to wake up, in rude capital letters. I am awake and aware and all that did was estrange me mates and scare the crap out of me for a while!
I do however believe this is it and its going to be bumpy. I understand our elites are crawling into their hidey holes as well as jettisoning a shed load of dosh (note not wealth), good luck to them to little way too late. By 2012 all that will be left to do is put all the unbroken ornaments back on the shelf, sweep up and with trembling hand and heart make a cup of tea and ask, “What the $%£” was that?” I have never been an angel but I still have no fear of whats to come anymore.
10th may 2011
nice thesis..planet x crossed jupiter orbit still it is not seen..even the low frequency infrared cannot detect it..
1)if nibiru is covered by dust what about its satellites(planets) can’t we see even those..
2)is there any wobbling of jupiter or saturn just like uranus,neptune?
3)what is the minimum distance at which the gravitational forces b/w earth and nibitu are effective?
any other info pls mail me
x or nemesis, every what, 3300 hundred years, according to ancient (aka pre historical) records,,, calling astrophysics, whats going on out thare, certainly not the butterfly effect, a cycle of repetition according to some like Alvarez or Stictin, something crossing or intersecting something else or remanient of Marduk, aka the 12th planet, surely not man made, a very long time ago, astononomy to astrophysics, come in please this archeologies fore/cast weather department , du u read,,,oo, & ps,,, are we not also crossing our own galactic plane, our solar systems peculiar diaganol attatude to the plane of the milky way in of horse the perseius arm if i recall every 22 or 11 million earth years, relative or absolute, depending on wild guesses and positronic matter , electronic ,solid, fluid or liquid , anti or stable body, etc, etc,,, the wind may blow i’ve heard, what civilazation has structured, now thats evil,,,ya know when ya lie about it, and cover it up, preserving social order ya say, and fake religous codes of ignarience, ever since the world began
The last two dates here are the most important!
Dec 2011 Mars and Jupiter – maybe signifying the dissolving of a lot of our physical
and psychological structures, leading to a year or so of real chaos and devastation …
And then Dec 2012 the date of all the prophecies that say that this era is at an end,
bringing a new Golden Age, Satya Loka, for a want of better descriptions. The symbolism
of Elenin ( Change? Insecurity? and Sun ( God? ) canceling each other out on the now
fallow playing field of our individual psyche
Yes, times may get really tough, more than most of us can handle, yet we do survive
( either way ) and we do win : )
Sally said the right things. Thank you for presenting al the information in this manner. Even I am a novice in the domain, I could share your link to all my friends in order to easily understand what it’ happening.
As Sally said:
Prepare. Wake-up. Think. Help Others.
Thank you for collating all that info Mark. Great detective work.
Did you see: “Billionaires Gather In Arizona To Talk About Giving Away Their Money” might that be about ensuring a ticket to Heaven ?
Is “greed” being put to rest after all ?
Prepare. Wake-up. Think. Help Others.
Future Elenin alignment for September 25, 2011 actually is Mercury – Sun – Elenin – Earth. If the theory about alignments is correct then this date is the most significant.
Don’t know what to think, but I’ve spotted something in the daylight, near the Sun. It cannot be solar flare for sure. I’m not an expert, but there is something there. You can see the fullsize picture on
http://www.flpmihai.blogspot.com/2011/09/elenin-spotted-in-daylight-sky.html