A comet appeared in March 1811.

Ummm... I'm quite sure we are in a solar max, not min bud... geez, stop bumping your own post as well

We are in a Solar Minimum still. We were supposed to be out of it in 2009 or 2010 but it has been prolonged somehow.

Thanks for the bump by the way.

I like Indian past stories. They have a lot of insight.

Unless someone explains to me something else about comets...

Comets have an ice core. How can it have a large impact on Earth? According to a NASA site, comets have so little gravitational pull emitting from it that a person in deep space would have little trouble leaping off it


In the late 90's was a close fly by of a comet. (i'd have to look that name up) I watched that thing for nearly two weeks passing the earth. One of my most memorable celestial experiences. That was in the mid summer.If anything, Victoria B.C. experienced a 100 year snow dump which buried my truck that winter.

No idea if the two are related but, no other disasters I know of happened

That was a big beautiful shining blue comet..Not Hailey's as was further away from earth and not so gorgeous
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I think the Comet you speak of is Hale-Bop.

Nope that was way out in space..It had a Japanese name what I'm thinking.

It looked as big as a nickel at arms length...huge ok. funny not much publicity. Hale-Bop was in the same time frame and was pushed by NASA as a comet with a mag 10. you would need a telescope to appreciate it

I'll look up the name after I get the fire going...be right back

I held a dime at arms length so it was between the two sizes

That took a bit of work not remembering the name...

996 Hyakutake C/1996 B2 In Japan, Yuji Hyakutake discovered this comet just one month before it put on its big show. Five weeks after the discovery of the comet it traveled 16 million km from earth. SOHO images showed that the comet had three separate tails. The comet last appeared around 6000 B.C. and astronomers say that its trip will not bring it back until the year 18,000 AD. This comet was very long and bright at a magnitude of about 0. Photographs of the comet are quite beautiful, with a long blue tail. It was seen with unaided eye from early March until early June.

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we are? NOT HARDLY. not yet, still a long min, maybe coming to MID, but no where MAX.

Before I was ever aware of a Planet X, one afternoon (yes this thing was so bright you could see it during the day) I remember someone standing near me and said and I quote, This is little brother, big brother is not far behind. Of course I had no idea what he meant. hey, eh?

Tecumseh tried to unite all of the tribes together. They would not heed tecumseh or his brother the prophet who both had converted to Christ.

They fought along side the British/Canadians against the Americans during the war of 1812.

The war was a odd war in which the British made huge advances against the Americans up to and including burning down most of Washington including the Whitehouse.

Abigail Adams saved the portrait of Washington as she refused to leave Washington right up until the last moment when the British marched into Washington burning it to the ground.

The one thing I find interesting is that after the British routed the Americans in Washington a fierce hurricane like storm forced all of the British to retreat.

One can read in some of the British soldiers journals of winds so strong that it picked up soldier and canon alike tossing them around like chaff.

Tecumseh was betrayed by the British and killed in battle near Catham Ontario. The British fled like cowards leaving Tecumseh flanked by American forces. He died a good death for his people.

Meanwhile down in New Orleans a year or two later then Old Hickory Andrew Jackson routed the British with irregulars...black, white and a whole bunch of pirates who supplied most of the munitions.

God saved the USA the likes of the common man and weather oddities.

One last thing. I was reading Hale-Bopp's brightness at mag.-1

Which would make it even brighter that the comet I mentioned but I don't recall seeing it at all. The article here says that you could view it in the early morning

The one I saw is classified as the 5th closest comet in the 20th century and believe me it was viewed all day long. You would have to be blind as not to see it.

The crux to all of this is I don't believe passing comets have much of an effect on earth... back to normal programing :)

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Yes. I had heard mention of it but forgot.

So you don't think The passing of that comet Tecumseh predicted had anything to do with the great Quakes of 1811 and 1812? No kind of influence there?

The sun has been weak for the lasts three or four years, cosmic rays are getting much stronger, we've had several bright supernovae, two comets recently impacted the sun causing sunspots and E.M.F.s., Tecumseh actually means "Panther Across the Sky", and you will find proof of an impact from Comet C/1811 F1 [The great Comet of 1811", at www.wix.com/koolkreations/kalopins-legacy, "documents and links", "a few comments on 1811", or just google "Kalopins Legacy".