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Message Subject Elenin fails to perturb a small asteroid at 0.002 AUs distance
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On May 20th (Friday), C/2010 X1 (Elenin) passed within 0.002 AUs of an asteroid in the asteroid belt known as 1999 RQ176 (asteroid number 74732). The name designates when it was found and in what order. This asteroid is several magnitudes dimmer than Elenin itself. In order to determine if it was still where it should be after the encounter, I purchased telescope time from a civilian telescope in the Canary Islands.

As expected, it's faint as hell, and this was with a telescope as large as GLP's new main scope (different optical design though). First, here's the image of 1999 RQ176. Elenin's clearly visible on the right end of the image as well.
[link to flickr.com]
The purple sheen is just due to white balance issues. Asteroid 1999 RQ176 is just barely visible. This is actually a stack of 4 exposures from the telescope, the first exposure ending at 22:34:31 GMT May 21st.

Elenin's position was predicted to be 10h 27m 32.27s, +08d 09' 03.5". According to astrometry, it was detected at 10h 27m 32s, +08d 09' 04", well within the 2.15 arcsecond per pixel resolution of the image.

Asteroid 1999 RQ176 was predicted to be at 10h 28m 35.60s, +08d 05' 23.1". According to the same astrometry, it was actually detected at 10h 28m 36s, +08d 05' 23", again right on the money and within the resolution of the image.

Elenin failed to detectably perturb this little asteroid at all despite encountering it at a very close distance of 0.002 AUs and even pelting it with its tail as it passed between the asteroid and sun during that close approach. Here's a simulation showing the encounter:
[link to i319.photobucket.com]
I hope this sets some of your minds at ease. I'm well aware that some, perhaps many here, will choose to believe Elenin is an imminent threat to earth no matter what, but if you're willing to look you'll see it's really just a harmless minor comet.
 Quoting: Astronut


I've asked in this forum for ANY evidence that Elenin is "huge", posing a threat to earth and got none. Elenin is nothing, just like Y2K was nothing, just like Nibiru is non-existent and just like 2012 will be nothing. I happen to KNOW that many accounts of the paranormal are true from first-hand experience. These other offbeat ideas are different. While I can point to personal experience as support for my beliefs, no one can point to any such personal experience or research that proves things like Elenin or Nibiru are anything but imaginary dangers. If they could, I'd like to see it. Repeating inaccurate or misleading statements, articles, etc. doesn't count. I mean first hand -- surely there are amateur astronomers here who have done calculations that can withstand critical scrutiny? Otherwise, it's all BS. Or maybe it's just HAARP playing tricks on us. It seems to be responsible for everything else that doesn't make sense.
 
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