BIG ASTEROID FLYBY:Ok this explains some things look at dates and the fireballs this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow.

Toutatis passes every 4 years. Last time in 2008 was a very close shave. This pass is Meh!.

The only interesting thing about Toutatis, IMHO, are the seemingly accurate prophecies about it made by Billy Meier.

Edit to add: Those prophecies were made in the 60's, when Toutatis had not been discovered. Meier predicted the discovery of Toutatis in the 80's (was right even to the year of teh discovery, can't remember if it was 1983 or 1987), and the name it would be given. He also was right that it would threathen the Earth in 2008.

Last Edited by Red Hot Chilean Pepe on 12/08/2012 03:15 PM

???EXPLAIN

Some of this doesn't make sense. Below is the orbital diagram (which I got from the spaceweather.com page by clicking on the asteroid in question in their Near earth objects chart) and it seems to be very close to earth, chasing it, so to speak, until way out into the spring of 2013, yet they report on spaceweather.com it will be pinging the radar only until the 22 of December. Also, in the chart of NEO it is listed as 2.5km but in the text below the radar images they report it is 5km long, that's a pretty big difference. Also, does anyone remembering seeing this PHA in that chart before? Not that I memorize the thing, but this asteroid has a catchy enough name that I thought I would have noticed it.


EDIT: Skip this, I was looking at DA14 on the chart, not Toutatis

Last Edited by Isis One on 12/08/2012 07:49 PM

some asstrodoctors will be very busy this week

thanks

A post shouldn't need much help to be pinned....

Very good link, only scroll down about 4/5 to the comet reference. This looked like an excellent article that I will go back and read thouroghly as I have not seen some of those cropcircles before, especially the one with the sun's rays, sooooo cool. Thanks

Wow, this is really spooky

In november 1996, they said it was at 5.3 million km now today on Spaceweather.com, they have it listed at 7 million km, this is a major discerancy for an asteroid that is calculated to be getting closer with each orbit.

[link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov]

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

So in 1996 it was 14 LD (lunar distance), in 2004 it was projected to be 4 LD, and now somehow its gone back to 18 LD????????????? All this is NASA data.

Last Edited by Isis One on 12/08/2012 03:48 PM

Yeah, why time it for its closest approach to earth, to shoot it down?

I'm not thinking collision as much as plasma discharge events due to colliding and smashing together of their magnetic fields.

If you would read up on it, say on Wikipedia, you wouldn't be such a frightened little girl. It's orbit is so well known it has a 0% chance of getting anywhere near the Earth for the next 6 centuries.

Sorry to pop your false bubble of doom. Wait, no I'm not!

Wormwood.

Inagreemit explains nothing about the recent phenomena.

Coming to a conspiracy forum to pop people's doom bubble is like shooting fish in a barrel, hope the inference is clear.

Shepard was right.

We should be worried about this one, .001 AU from earth at its closest distance.

[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

Well this is certainly a ~cheery~ description from the space.com link someone posted:

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The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely.

The space rock, named Toutatis, will not hit Earth, despite rumors of possible doom that have circulated the Internet for months. Humanity is very fortunate there won't be an impact, as the asteroid is large enough to cause global devastation. Toutatis is about 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide (4.6 by 2.4 kilometers).

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so you think it will crash into the sun causing a cme?

There was NO "asteroid strike" in 1908 !

The 'asteroid was OBSERVED by 100s to make a NINETY DEGREE TURN, wabble, then explode. Those who were watching it were BLINDED, like Hiroshima victims who watched that fireball, and MANY thousands suffered from RADIATION POISONING, till their deaths. As that particular symptom was still unknown, it was NOT recognized as from a nuclear explosion !

COME ON, believers in BOOK FANTSY they have read, written by those who ONLY knew how to write, NOT THINK, EXAMINE the REPORTED FACTS of the EYE WITNESSES, not made up fairy tales YOU BELIEVE, LOL !

Eagle

hi, not trying to be funny but this stuck on my mind since yesterday:

I was watching some tv when i noticed there was a movie on
Comet Impact (2007)

Alternatieve titel: Futureshock: Comet

Storyline

Astronomer Neil Gant fails to predict a comet hitting Ireland with disastrous consequences. However fear for a repeat gets his sky-watch program more NASA-resources. This time an approaching series of comets is detected in time, but only to calculate they're too large and fast to be eliminated. The target area, around Pennsylvania, is determined and hastily evacuated in a race against apocalyptic time.

it started at 00:45..but now the strange thing on MGM there was another movie on, also lasted untill 2:55 like Futureshock, this one was:

Asteroid (1997)

With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas City, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.

after i watched these, this strange feeling came creeping up on me, i wanted to post a thread on this but seeying so many comet/fireball threads i'd leave it here, to me it basicly said usa is gonna get hit, maybe i'm thinking too far on this but yea.

It very much looks so.

Was just listening to Revelations

yea tell em

No it was a lost comet, blue-ish in color. Look it up.

Nice youtube
[youtube] [link to www.youtube.com]

Asteroid Toutatis Close Approach to Eath 12 Dec 2012

hmmm