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Comets, Calamities and
Planet X
Andrew Johnson
Introduction

In this presentation we will look at the

Data about Comets
Data about the alleged “Planet X”
Predictions about “The End of The World” – and a history of these
predictions.

To help us understand Comets and Planet X, we will look at
Scale of the Solar System
Amateur Astronomer Observations

To understand what comets are and we will look at some data
from

Comet Wild 2, Comet Halley, Comet Tempel 1.
Missions to Comets by the “Stardust” and “Deep Impact” Probes.

We will look at the story of Comet Hale Bopp and the troubling
way it was linked to an end of world prediction.
We will look at some past impact events on earth
The Tunguska Event of 1908
The Possible Decimation of England in 562AD by a Cometary or
Asteroid Impact
A brief look The Feb 2013 Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor

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Solar System – Facts and Figures
Name of Planet

Av Dist
from Sun
(million
miles)

Diameter (miles)

Time to Orbit Sun (a year)

Average Temperature

Mercury

36

3,031

88 days

-183 °C to 427 °C

Venus

67

7,521

224 days

480 °C

Earth

93

7,926

365.25 days

14 °C

Mars

142

4,222

687 days

-63 °C

Jupiter

483.5

88,846

11.86 years

-130 °C

Saturn

888.75

74,900

29 years

-130 °C

Uranus

1784

31,763

84 years

-200 °C

Neptune

2800

30,779

164.8 years

-200 °C

Pluto

4584

1430

248 years

-228 °C

Adapted from http://www.bobthealien.co.uk/table.htm

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A Note About Distances…
We need to get a good feel for the distances involved in what
we will be discussing about Comets and “Planet X”.
We will be considering things in units of roughly 100 Million
Miles.
This is also roughly the distance between the Earth and the
Sun, so note:
1 AU = Distance from Earth to Sun = ~ 100,000,000 miles
So, for example:
Jupiter is about 5 AU from the Sun (between 4 and 6 AU from us)
Saturn is about 9 AU from the Sun (between 8 and 10 AU from us)

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

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Solar System - Distances…

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

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Solar System Diagram

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Relative Sizes of Planets

http://www.iau.org/static/archives/images/screen/iau0603a.jpg

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A few Distant Dwarf Planets
Discovered Since 2000
It is now possible to detect small
planetoids/dwarf planets A LONG WAY AWAY...

 

                    QUAOAR Quaoar is approximately 800 miles in diameter and is slightly 
farther away from the Sun than Pluto. It is made primarily of ices.
Off Site Quaoar Links:
Quaoar--Cal Tech

 

 

                       MAKEMAKE (pronounced MAH-keh MAH-keh) Diameter: 950 mi. (1500 km.), 
it's the third largest Trans-Neptunian Object after Eris and Pluto. Originally designated 2005 FY9, 
Makemake was discovered on March 31, 2005, near Easter, hence its original knickname of "Easter 
Bunny". Since Kuiper Belt objects are all officially named after creation gods, 2005FY9 was named 
Makemake for the creation god found in the traditional mythology of Rapa Nui or Easter Island.
http://www.northern-stars.com/solar_system_info.htm

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A few Distant Dwarf Planets
Discovered Since 2000 - 2

 

                    ERIS  (formerly known as 2003 UB 313 or Xena) was first photographed in
October 2003, but was not detected until January 2005. Its discovery was announced in August
2005. This object is about the same size as Pluto and currently about three times farther away
from the Sun than Pluto.. It is made of ices, much like Pluto. It takes this new planet 557 years
to orbit the Sun just once. Its orbit is tilted nearly 45 degrees up at an angle compared to the
plane of Earth's orbit. Eris has one known moon, Dysnomia
Off Site Eris Links:
2003UB313--Cal Tech / NASA Tenth Planet?

 

   

                 SEDNA  Sedna is   the most distant object yet discovered in the solar

system. It was discovered in 2003. It is roughly three times further away than Pluto, well
outside the Kuiper Belt. It is approximately 1000 miles in diameter and takes nearly 10,500
years to go around the sun just once. Currently, scientists have not officially classified Sedna as
either a planet nor a dwarf planet, Sedna was named after an Inuit Goddess of the Sea.

http://www.northern-stars.com/solar_system_info.htm

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One Example - Sedna’s Orbit

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IAU - The Minor Planet Centre

“The Minor Planet Centre, or MPC,
is the single worldwide location for
receipt and distribution of positional
measurements of minor planets,
comets and outer irregular natural
satellites of the major planets.”
The table on the left is for Nov
2013…
7.9 MILLION observations in 2013…

http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/

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Amateur detection of
Near Earth Objects

Published on 04/04/2011 
Question:
Is it possible for an amateur astronomer to assist with detecting near-Earth asteroids or
comets? If so, what would be the minimum telescopic aperture and type of photographic
equipment required to conduct this kind of research?
Amateur astronomers can and do play an important part in detecting near-Earth objects.
Today more than 5% of all near-Earth objects are discovered by amateurs and this proportion
is on the increase. The Minor Planets Centre (http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/) based at
Harvard University is the organisation responsible for cataloguing and archiving all
discoveries of small bodies in the solar system and have a wealth of information to help
potential amateur astronomers. The professional search programs typically use telescopes
with a diameter of ~1m; LINEAR, one of the longest running and most successful programs
currently has two 1m telescopes and a 0.5m telescope. When conducting searches smaller
telescopes are to some extent preferred since they have a larger field of view and can image
a larger area of the sky at once.
When you have your telescope, discovering asteroids is still not trivial! Because these objects
are particularly faint (due to their size), the detectors being used (usually a CCD) need to be
sensitive enough to be able to distinguish them from the background noise from the device.
For CCDs, when they are cooled the background noise is reduced and because of this, most of
the CCD detectors you can purchase for amateur astronomy today use fans to cool the CCD
well below the ambient temperature.
Even with both of these, the main requirement to successfully discover asteroids and other
small (and faint) objects is a dark site with good seeing (clear, still skies). Combining all of
these things together means you could potentially discover some new asteroids!
Page last updated: 2 May 2011 at 11:10
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public/ask/1353

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Comets – What Are They?
Harbingers of Doom? “Dirty Snowballs”?
Or Lumps of Rock?
The Standard View of Comets…
Explained here very nicely by David Talbot
from a video freely available on YouTube
called “The Electric Comet”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=34wtt2EUToo
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/06/20/the-electric-comet-full-documentary/

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Comets and Asteroids
As we have already seen (briefly), Comets
are now being discovered almost every
week.
Few of these comets will ever become visible
to us on Earth – most will remain as almost
invisible blobs in the images captured by
Professional and Advanced Amateur
Astronomers.
Standard Astronomy more or less considers
comets to be in elliptical orbits with one
focus closer to the sun. When they get close
to the sun, they develop a visible tail…
Asteroids normally thought to stay in the
asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, or
they may come closer to the earth – when
they are called “Near Earth Objects” or
“NEO’s”

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http://www.passmyexams.co.uk/GCSE/physics/comets.html http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_2/comets_and_asteroids.htm
Some Facts about Discovered Comets
Comet’s
Most
Common
Name

Perihelio
n Date

Closest
Distance to
Earth (million
miles) on last
apparition

Size of
Nucleus
in
Miles

1000 (Oct
16, 1982)

09 Feb
1986

29

9x5

23rd
July
1995

670

01 Apr
1997

120

19 –
25

Jan
1978

500
Approx

22 Feb
2010

62

2

24 Sep
2012

590

26 Dec
2013

40

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Discovered By

Date
Discovere
d

Discovery Dist from
Earth (Million
Miles)

Halley

Edmund
Halley

1705

HaleBopp

Alan Hale /
Thomas
Bopp

Wild 2
(pron.
“Vilt 2”)

Paul Wild

ISON

Vitali Nevski
and Artyom
Novichonok

http://www.geocities.com/lauferworld.geo/HCWNV2N1.htm
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/halley.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/275/5308/1900

Image

http://cometography.com/pcomets/001p.html
http://www.space.com/19931-hale-bopp.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/ison.html

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Comet Hale Bopp – 1996 - 1998
Here are some photos I took in April 1997 – I put them on my
first Website!
Camera: Zenit, Film: Truprint 400 ASA, Lenses: 50mm F2,
200mm F4, Exposure Time 10 – 15 Secs

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Hale Bopp, the Companion
Object, Chuck Shramek, Art
Bell and “Heaven’s Gate”
Getting to the Bottom of a Messy, Confused
and Tragic Story
Chuck Shramek and
The Hale Bopp “Companion” Object
The image on the right was taken by Chuck
Shramek. It garnered a lot of attention due to
his appearance on the Art Bell Show on 18 and
19 Nov 1997. A few years later, Shramek
stated on his website:
Here's the picture that I took that caused such
a stir on November 15, 1996. I simply asked,
"what's that Saturn-like thing near the
comet?" All hell broke lose up to and including
blaming me for the mass suicide of a strange
group in California. Real "astronomers" say
the "thing" I photographed is a star distorted
by my telescope. I have recently taken a
picture of the very same area of the sky. (It
had been impossible to photograph for several
months because of the proximity of the Sun.)
My new pictures clearly prove with digital
clarity that the "thing" in the above photo is
not this star alone. The star they say I mistook
for the "thing" is much dimmer and it does not
produce a "ring" effect. For that matter, no
star I have ever photographed (and I've
photographed thousands) produced this odd
"ring" effect.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20061018093546/http://techmonkeys.org/~tothwolf/mirrors/www.neosoft.com_cshramek/comet.htm
Chuck Shramek and
The Hale Bopp “Companion” - 2

“Months before I took this picture, I smelled
a cover-up of the good pictures of the
comet. The pictures from the major
observatories went away from the web in
May of 1996. The Hubble pictures went
away in October of 1995. Hubble pictures
posted later were deliberately degraded.
This is why I decided to launch my own
observation campaign. It got so silly that
NASA and JPL were posting crappier
pictures than I could take.
I now think I have a good grasp of why they
were covering-up the good pictures. Good
close up pictures of the comet nucleus
revealed a cosmology that contradicted the
accepted paradigm. To a few fearless
astronomers willing to really look at the
evidence, comets reveal a much different
solar system history. It's a history that
includes other technological civilizations on
other planets only several million years
ago.”

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https://web.archive.org/web/20061018093546/http://techmonkeys.org/~tothwolf/mirrors/www.neosoft.com_cshramek/comet.htm
Alan Hale and
The Hale Bopp “Companion”
Alan Hale – Co-Discoverer of Comet Hale
Bopp eventually did an analysis of Chuck
Shramek’s Image
If you rotate this image counter-clockwise
about 45 degrees, and compare this to
Shramek's image (with it oriented with the
long axis top-down and the "object" on
top), you will see that the bright two stars
above the comet in Shramek's image will
match the two brighter stars above center
in the DSS image. [Editor's Note: the image
displayed here has been rotated in the
manner Alan describes.]
Palomar Image of Same Field of View
Shramek's "mysterious object" is nothing
more than the bright 9th-magnitude star
appearing in the DSS image. The "Saturnlike rings" are nothing more than a
diffraction effect (see also the spikes from
the same star in the DSS image), a
phenomenon which has been known and
understood for centuries.
https://web.archive.org/web/19970220182856/http://www.halebopp.com/slo3.htm

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Most Likely Explanation for
The Hale Bopp “Companion”

Now comes the smoking gun. Shramek was using
the computer star atlas program MegaStar … In
MegaStar the user can set parameters such as:
magnitude limits…. If the star magnitude limit is
set at less than 9, or if the GSC catalog has nonstars toggled off, or if the PPM catalog is toggle
off (in Version 2.0 or higher) then SAO141894
will not appear. This can happen very easily, and
is most likely what happened to Shramek.
MegaStar users must remember that there are at
least TWO magnitude limit settings, one for stars
and one for NSOs (non-stellar objects). When I
ran the program with the star magnitude limit
set to 7 the chart below was the result. Notice
that the label for SAO141894 is there but the star
is not. On Shramek's web site he shows a
MegaStar chart for this location in which not only
the star but the SAO label is missing. This is
because he had the labels option turned of in the
program.
So when Schramek looked at MegaStar and did
not see SAO141894, he concluded that he had
found the mysterous object which apparently he
had been looking for (this becomes more clear
when you read his email later).

https://web.archive.org/web/19970716003233/http://www.halebopp.com/slomaps.htm

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The Electric Comet
Following on from the earlier segment about the
“standard” (dirty snowball model) of comets, let’s look
a little more at the “Electric Comet” idea.
There are a number of things it explains much better
than the standard model.
I can strongly recommend a visit to the “Thunderbolts”
Website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=34wtt2EUToo
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/06/20/the-electric-comet-full-documentary/

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Visiting the Comets With Probes
There are several missions which have now given
us close-up pictures of Comet Nuclei:
Several Probes, including Giotto, visited Comet
Halley in 1986.
Deep Space 1 visited Comet Borrelly in 2001
The Stardust mission was a “sample and return”
mission to Comet Wild 2 (81P/Wild) in 2004
Deep Impact fired a probe/projectile at Comet
Tempel 1 in 2005
We will briefly look at some of the data from
these missions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_comets

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Deep Impact – NASA’s Description
A preliminary interpretation
of these data indicate that
the upper surface of the
comet may be fluffy, or highly
porous. The observed
sequence of impact events is
similar to laboratory
experiments using highly
porous targets, especially
those that are rich in volatile
substances. The duration of
the hot, luminous gas phase,
as well as the continued
growth of the crater over
time, all point to a model
consistent with a large crater.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/PIA02131.html#.UoDC_fl7KvY
“Tempel Alive with Light”
This spectacular image of
comet Tempel 1 was taken 67
seconds after it obliterated
Deep Impact's impactor
spacecraft. The image was
taken by the high-resolution
camera on the mission's flyby
craft. Scattered light from the
collision saturated the
camera's detector, creating the
bright splash seen here. Linear
spokes of light radiate away
from the impact site, while
reflected sunlight illuminates
most of the comet surface. The
image reveals topographic
features, including ridges,
scalloped edges and possibly
impact craters formed long
ago.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/pia02137.html#.UoDD8fl7KvY

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Spectrum of Tempel 1 Images - 1
a) The ice-rich nucleus
spectrum (black), when
modeled as a mixture of
non-ice nucleus (see Fig.
4b) and a calculated
spectrum of 70 µm size
water ice particles (purple)
does not match at short
wavelengths, while a
mixture with 3 µm size
water ice particles
(orange) produces a poor
match at long
wavelengths.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/surface_ice_spectra-20061002.html#.UoDPQ_l7KvY

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Spectrum of Tempel 1 Images - 2
b) The same ice-rich
spectrum (black) is well
modeled with 30 µm size
water ice particles (blue)
and a nearby non-ice
nucleus spectrum (red;
offset by ?0.3 for clarity).
Modeling indicates that the
ice-regions contain 6 ± 3%
of ice with 30 ± 20 µm size
particles.
Between 3% and 9% ice =
Not Much!
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/surface_ice_spectra-20061002.html#.UoDPQ_l7KvY
Bright Regions on Surface of Tempel 1
This is a region of particular
interest. The lack of any
features on the smooth
region (lower left) implies a
young surface. But is it
advancing towards the right
and covering up rougher,
older surface regions? Or is
it retreating to the left,
eroding and uncovering
those regions? The scarp
edge marked by arrows is
about 10-20 m above the
lower and older terrain. It
appears bright since it is
catching direct sunlight.
The bright regions may be
illuminated because they
are facing the sun – or are
they regions of interaction
with the solar wind?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/scarp-20060925.html

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NASA Spacecraft Finds Comet Has Hot,
Dry Surface
April 5, 2002
Comets are sometimes described as "dirty
snowballs," but a close flyby of one by NASA's
Deep Space 1 spacecraft last fall detected no
frozen water on its surface.
Comet Borrelly has plenty of ice beneath its tarblack surface, but any exposed to sunlight has
vaporized away, say scientists analyzing data
from Deep Space 1, managed by NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Dr. Laurence Soderblom of the U.S. Geological
Survey's Flagstaff, Ariz., station, lead author of
a report on the Borrelly flyby results appearing
in the online edition of the journal Science.
"We know the ice is there," he said. "It's just
well-hidden. Either the surface has been dried
out by solar heating and maturation or perhaps
the very dark soot-like material that covers
Borrelly's surface masks any trace of surface
ice."

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_80.html

Comet Borrelly and its topographical map (right)

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Summary of “Dirty Snowball” vs.
“Electric” Comet Models

All sources you will find on NASA and similar websites
talk about “Icy comets”.
Articles, papers and postings, like the ones I showed will
claim Ice has been detected, therefore the “ dirty
snowball” model is correct.
snowball
The other data about compounds (such as olivine) that
could never have formed “in a snowball” are rarely
discussed.
If the anomalous data are discussed, Scientists would
normally say “Well, yes, we know about that but it’s not
significant compared to the other data which proves the
‘dirty snowball’ model is basically correct.
To move away from the “snowball” model would make
their lives more difficult…
Note: The Electric Comet model does NOT preclude the
presence of Water or Water Ice in cometary nuclei.
The “Thunderbolts” website is concerned with the
evidence which proves that electricity – perhaps more
than gravity – has played a significant role in the
formation of the galaxy and the solar system.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/144607main_061303_DB8-olivine.jpg

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http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/060313.html
Another Problem with “Dirty Snowball”
Comets…
Sometimes, Rocky Asteroids can suddenly start to
“turn into” comets….
Below shows an Artist’s Schematic

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/52/image/d/

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Hubble Sees an Asteroid with
Six Comet-like Tails

Nov. 7, 2013: Astronomers viewing our solar system's asteroid belt with NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope have seen for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust. Designated P/2013
P5, the asteroid resembles a rotating lawn sprinkler.
"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," said lead investigator David Jewitt of the University
of California at Los Angeles. "Even more amazing, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days
as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise. It's hard to believe we’re looking at an asteroid."

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/07nov_6tails/

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Asteroids with “Comet” Tails
Space.com - Jan 06, 2011 A huge asteroid discovered
more than 100 years ago
may not be an asteroid at
all, but a dormant comet
that is just now coming
back to life, according to
new observations.
The object, known as 596
Scheila, is about 70 miles
(113 kilometers) wide and
has a faint, wispy tail that
suggests it may actually be
a comet, researchers said.
If that's the case, then 596
Scheila would be only the
sixth known comet to
reside in the main asteroid
belt, a vast region of space
rocks that lies between the
orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
So is it an “asteroid belt” –
or a “Comet Belt”???
http://www.space.com/9700-comet-asteroid-big-space-rock-identity-crisis.html

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Comet ISON - Discovery
How was it found? The discovery of C/2012 S1 (ISON) was announced on 24
September 2012.It was found by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom
Novichonok on CCD images made with a 0.4-m telescope of the International
Scientific Optical Network (ISON) near Kislovodsk, Russia. The comet was further
from the Sun than Jupiter 6.6 Astronomical Units or AU distant (an AU is an
astronomical unit, equal to 150 million km, the average distance the Earth is from
the Sun) and was a very dim Magnitude 18.8 when discovered (objects dimmer
than Magnitude 6 cannot be seen with the unaided eye).

http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2012/09/new-comet-c2012-s1-ison.html

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http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/ison-things-you-need-to-know.html
http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/STEREOorbit/C2012_S1_ISON.html
Comet ISON – Will it
Crash into the Earth??
“Comet ISON Will Crash into the Earth in Dec
2013!”

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ison/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/4592130/Unseen-dark-comets-could-pose-deadly-threat-to-earth.html

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Comet ISON – 3D Simulation
Done with “Solar System Scope!”

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/comet_ison/

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Comet ISON – CLOSELY Watched
By amateurs and NASA…

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Comet ISON – CLOSELY Watched
By amateurs and NASA…

NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft is monitoring Comet ISON as it approaches the sun. The latest movie from the spacecraft's
Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over a two day period from Nov. 20 to Nov. 22, 2013.
The sun sits right of the field of view of this camera. Image Credit: Karl Battams/NRL/NASA STEREO/CIOC.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-stereo-shows-comet-ison-approaching-the-sun/

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Comet ISON’s Coma is over
60000 Miles Wide!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/21/comet_ison_12_cool_facts.html

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Really…? Remember
Comet Holmes in 2007?
http://www.space.com/4643-incredible-comet-bigger-sun.html

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Yes, Things Have Crashed
into the Earth…
… but not everything that comes past will hit us.
184 Impact Craters…

http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Diametersort.html

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Tunguska, 1908
One well documented, but still mysterious case is the
Great Siberian Explosion Over Tunguska in 1908…
It is still unresolved as to what the object was – some
think it was a comet, but for the size of the explosion,
a crater and/or recoverable pieces would seem to
have been more likely.
But maybe nothing was recoverable due to the
explosion being over a vast area of swamp.
Over Chelyabinsk on 15 Feb 2013, a much smaller
object caused some damage and injuries….

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131015-asteroid-burst-russia-meteor-tunguska-space-science/?
rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_n1p_intl_ot_w#

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Did a Comet/Asteroid Strike Decimate
England in About 532 or 562 AD?
Since about 1982, Alan Wilson and Barrum Blacket have
been writing about this in some of their books – they
came across accounts during their research into the real
story of King Arthur.
There are unexplained Vitrified Rocks found in Ramparts
at 200 Hill Forts Around Northern Europe – dating from a
few hundred years BC to a few hundred years AD.
Bolivia is also reported to have had considerable effects
of some type of impact, about the same time.
From the Anglo Saxon Chronicles – written by Geoffrey of
Monmouth (1130AD):
“And then a Star of enormous size appeared to Ythyr, having a

single shaft, and at the head of the shaft a ball of fire in shape of a
dragon, and from the dragon’s jaws, two beams went upward, the
one beam reaching towards the farthest parts of Ffraink and the
other beam towards Iwerddon, which split into seven smaller
beams. And Ythr and all who saw this spectacle feared, and they
asked the wise men what it might mean. And then Merddin wept
and said, “O nation of the Bryttaniait! now are ye bereft of Emrys
Wledic, a loss that cannot be replaced.”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceways/6455068395/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/cu-aua020304.php
http://www.brigantesnation.com/VitrifiedForts/VitrifieedForts.htm
http://self-realisation.com/ourstory/301/
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/artwork/Single_Pics.pdf

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gsQnT2taacC&pg=PA417&lpg=PA417&dq=
%E2%80%9CAnd+then+a+Star+of+enormous+size+appeared+to+Yt
hyr,&source=bl&ots=XCY0Ld2FQH&sig=xY8VrSMdhK8W5paeBSTN
JtR05g0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j_2JUo3xK4iihgfzj4G4DA&ved=0CDsQ6A

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Comet/Asteroid Strike - 532 or 562 AD?

Vitrified rock at Dunnideer Hill Fort, Taken on
December 3, 2011, Insch, Scotland, GB

Vitrified material from Bruce's Camp in
Aberdeenshire. Image: Murray Cook
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceways/6455068395/ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/cu-aua020304.php
http://www.brigantesnation.com/VitrifiedForts/VitrifieedForts.htm
http://self-realisation.com/ourstory/301/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/abbey-craig-not-just-another-iron-age-hillfort
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/artwork/Single_Pics.pdf

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Summary for Comets
There is no observable risk of Comet Ison crashing into the
earth.
Asteroids and Comets are probably very similar – or even the
same – fragments of larger bodies which were formed in
collisions, explosions or “plasma discharge erosion”.
Objects do crash into the earth every day – but the larger
they are, the rarer they are, it seems.
More Near Earth Objects are catalogued every day.
The truth is that we could indeed be destroyed at any time by
a large, dark object, not yet picked up.
I believe the technology already exists which could be used to
deflect or destroy incoming objects – but we would never (as
things are now) be told about this.
Knowledge about the true nature of comets could lead to our
realising more about the true history of our solar system –
whether that means that a planet exploded (e.g. forming the
asteroid belt), or there was indeed time when the
configuration of the solar system was much different and the
changes were recorded by some peoples/tribes – as
suggested in “Symbols of an Alien Sky”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EAlTcZFwY

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQO3LIAaDM
“The End of the World IS
Nigh! No, Really!”
“How would you like the world to end…?” “There are plenty
of choices, folks!”
Super volcano, Mega tsunami, Comet/Asteroid Impact,
Pandemic, Planet X Inbound, Super Solar Flare…
Comet Hale Bopp …
and the End of the World
Back in 1997, it was said by some that Hale
Bopp would crash into the earth…
This usually happens with most comets that
come by…
With Hale Bopp in 1997, a string of events
related to the sighting of the Comet seemed
to lead to a tragedy…
Following the exposure of Chuck Shramek’s
photo showing the “companion object”,
quite a frenzy ensued which resulted in
someone generating a fake image to try and
give more credibility to the “companion
object” story….
http://cometography.com/hysteria.html

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Hale Bopp – Fake Image Introduced
The "Secret Image“ - On January 15, 1997, a
new "secret UFO picture" was posted on
Art Bell's and Whitley Strieber's web sites,
after being announced for several days. They
supposedly received it through Ms. Prudence
Calabrese and Dr. Courtney Brown from a
"mysterious astrophysicist" who "preferred
to remain anonymous." Below are the
original images released at the two sites
above (compressed 2x to save bandwidth).

We have identified that image as being a fake
based on an image obtained by an astronomer of
the Institute for Astronomy, Dr. David Tholen.
The original image was posted on
our Hale-Bopp page more than one year ago.
Below is a comparison of the central region of
the two images. The fraudulent image has been
rotated to match the orientation of the original
image.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/images/hale-bopp/tholen-sep1/hb_ufo_tholen.html#brown

FRAUD

Original Image

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Comet Hale Bopp, Art Bell and the
Heaven’s Gate Cult

Loosely, the story goes that following the release of Chuck
Shramek’s photo, word “got around” that a spaceship was
following Hale Bopp.
As mentioned, it was discussed on Coast to Coast.
Remote Viewers – Ed Dames and Courtney Brown (“Far
sight Institute”) get in on the story on Art Bell’s Coast to
Coast between Late November 1996 and Jan 1997
Brown send’s Bell the (Fake) Photo allegedly showing the
companion object.
Heaven’s Gate Cult Members allegedly take this seriously.
Ed Dames remote views a UFO & a meteor shower on the
earth a year from the Hale-Bopp's aftermath.
On 22 March 1997, Members of the Heaven’s Gate Cult
committed Mass Suicide – allegedly thinking they were
going to join the spaceship “accompanying” Hale Bopp.
In the USA, there was something of an outcry and Art Bell
went off air for several weeks (initially saying he would
never return).
http://www.tarheel24.com/religion/cult/hgate.html

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Ed Dames Killshot - 2004
Ed Dames has repeatedly stated that the Planet Earth will
be subjected to a “Killshot” Here is a synopsis of an Art Bell
Coast to Coast on 17 July 2004:
According to Dames, the harbinger of this catastrophic
event will be when the Space Shuttle program is grounded
due to meteor showers. He said Earth's population will have
only three months after this to get to designated survival
zones. Dames revealed that survival zones are marked by
crop circles, which he believes were created by an "alien
agency." In North America, the most survivable areas are in
Alberta and Saskatchewan, Dames concluded. For more
info, visit TheKillshot.com.
Space Shuttle Program ended on
21 July 2011. 3 Months later was
21 Oct 2011 – Hmmmm….
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2004/07/17

http://thekillshot.com/

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Ed Dames Killshot - 2012

Undeterred, on Coast to Coast on 15 Mar 2012…
Remote viewing teacher Ed Dames presented his latest insights
and predictions on such subjects as 'Solar Killshot' safe havens,
ongoing extraterrestrial intervention, the Fukushima disaster,
and war with Iran. We're not going to be hit by just one mega
solar flare, but a series of them over time (perhaps over a 1-2
year period), "that's going to turn Earth into a veritable X-ray &
proton rotisserie," he said. Locations in the southern hemisphere,
such as in Australia and Africa will have few survival zones,
though Christchurch, New Zealand is one possible sanctuary, he
said. If you aren't in a safe haven, then living underground to
avoid the high winds and dark skies, is your best option, he
added.
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http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/03/15
http://thekillshot.com/
Courtney Brown Remote
Views 1st Jun 2013
Courtney Brown runs the “Far sight Institute”.
On Red Ice Radio, 19 July 2012, he stated that they
had performed controlled remote viewing tests for the
date of 01 Jun 2013 (in the future).
He said there were “huge earth changes”…
Tsunamis, Asteroids and an unrecognizable landscape
at what is now sea level.
Here is a slightly edited (for time) clip…

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Arch Crawford – Killshot - 13 Nov 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Arch Crawford Interview - Expert Financial
Analyst - that has been the top in the U.S.
previously using Planetary Alignments. Predicting
a Solar Kill Shot - November due to Alignments
I interviewed Arch Crawford and expert Financial
Analyst about his predictions for November 2013.
Arch has been a top financial analyst since the
1960s. He uses astrology to predict what will
happen in the markets and due to that he has
been named a top analyst for a few different
years in the markets.
He is predicting major events for November and
due to the planetary alignments he is predicting a
solar flare kill shot possibly happening on the
13th of November.
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/arch%20crawford

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Eric Julien - aka Jean Ederman - 2006
“What will occur on May 25, 2006? Perhaps a planetary
catastrophe originating from the Atlantic Ocean due to
a medium size impact event. On this assumption, a
series of giant waves, including one méga-tsunami
almost two hundred meters in height, will be born from
a succession of underwater eruptions. These watery
giants, decreasing with distance, will touch the majority
of the Atlantic coasts; in particular, those most at risk
lie between the equator and the tropic of Cancer. The
victims of May 25 2006 will be tens of millions.”

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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_ZZP.htm http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-43.htm
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_ZZU.htm
Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW’s)
The JW’s are well known
for telling people that
they should consider
“God” in various ways.
Over the last 100 years,
they have given various
dates when we will be in
the “last days”….
Charles Taze Russell,
founder of the group that
evolved into the JW’s is
memorialised with an 8foot high stone pyramid in Rosement Cemetery,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Russell predicted an endof-world scenario would
happen in 1914.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37388366

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Many JW Prophecies
Have Been Wrong…
There are a number of websites which careful show where the JW’s have
been completely inconsistent over the last few decades with their
published writings and statements…
“As one reads the prophetic statements below, it is important to bear in mind just
how bold the Organization is in claiming direct inspiration of God in what it
publishes. Yet what you will observe is an ever changing system of doctrine. Take
careful note at how they make bold claims of events to happen in a specific year,
then as soon as the date passed, they do an about face and say, "we never said
that". Because the organization that revolves around print, it is simply a matter of
"being more noble minded and searching the Watchtower to see if these things are
so." (Acts 17:11) Reading the quotes below causes one to ask, not what the
Organization got wrong, but did the Organization get anything right? Currently the
Organization rejects.”

About 100,000 Witnesses left the order in 1975, when yet another “end
times” prediction failed…

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A Few Failed Predictions of “End Times”
JW’s have later glossed over these in subsequent publications:
1888 "In this chapter we present the Bible evidence proving that the full end of the times of the gentiles,
i.e., the full end of their lease of dominion, will be reached in A.D. 1914; and that the date will be the
farthest limit of the rule of imperfect men. And be it observed, that if this is shown to be a fact firmly
established by the Scriptures, it will prove; Firstly, that at that date the Kingdom of God, for which our
Lord taught us to pray, saying, Thy Kingdom come, will obtain full, universal control, and that it will then
be set up, or firmly established, in the earth, on the ruins of present institutions." (The Time Is At Hand,
1888, p. 76, 77)
1915 "In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an
established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the
kingdom of God, will be accomplished near the end of A.D. 1915. (The Time Is At Hand, 1915 edition, p.
99)
1922 "The period must end in 1925. The type ending, the antitype must begin; and therefore 1925 is
definitely fixed in the scriptures. every thinking person can see that a great climax is at hand. The
Scriptures clearly indicate that the climax is the fall of Satan's empire and the full establishment of the
Messianic kingdom. This climax being reached by 1925, and that marking the beginning of the fulfilment of
the long promised blessings of life to the people, millions now living on earth will be living then and those
who obey the righteous laws of the new arrangement will live forever. Therefore it can be confidently said
at this time that millions now living will never die." (Golden Age, Jan. 4, 1922, p. 217)
1931 "God's kingdom has begun to operate. His day of vengeance is here and Armageddon is at hand and
certain to fall upon Christendom and that within an early date. God's judgment is upon Christendom and
must shortly be executed." (J. F. Rutherford, Vindication, Vol. I, p. 147, 1931)
1968 "More recently, the book entitled "Famine-1975!" [by W. & P. Paddock, 1967, pp. 52,55,61.] said
concerning today's food shortages: "Hunger is rampant throughout country after country, continent after
continent around the undeveloped belt of the tropics and subtropics. Today's crisis can move in only one
direction -toward catastrophe. Today hungry nations; tomorrow starving nations." … "By 1975 civil
disorder, anarchy, military dictatorships, runaway inflation, transportation breakdowns and chaotic unrest
will be the order of the day in many of the hungry nations." (The Truth That Leads To Eternal Life, p 88-89,
1968)
http://www.bible.ca/Jw-Prophecy.htm

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100’s of “Armageddon” Type
Predictions…

It’s not just JW’s and religions that have told us to “prepare”, there are many other sources –
including those said to come from ET’s.
A page on the “Anomalist” site lists 213 different predictions involving ET’s
35. Max B. Miller of Flying Saucers International interpreted Nostradamus as predicting for
1953 "A third world war will come to the world. A great ship from another world of higher
intelligence shall land and intervene."
36. Donald Keyhoe hoped his book Flying Saucers from Outer Space would prepare Americans
for the "final act of the saucer drama." He termed 1954 a "possibly fateful year" in which
Russians could stage a mass A-bomb attack by paralyzing defense efforts with rumors that
alien machines were actually secret Red weapons.
42. July 28, 1954. Affa of Uranus passes along a message through contactee Francis Swan
indicating, "This earth is really going to end as stated in the Holy Bible around 1956."
69. August 3, 1958. Necoma of Jupiter warns Americans by ham radio that they must stop
hydrogen and atom bomb tests because they will eventually cause the entire solar system to
blow up.
109. Judgment Day was due to commence November 22, 1969 according the entity named
Ox-Ho. It would involve a series of cataclysms that would culminate in the tilting of the
earth's axis. The contactees, Light Affiliates, claim Judgment Day did take place as scheduled,
but they frankly admit they misinterpreted the messages about the world's collapse.
148. Vera Gregovic convinced a Beverly Hills urologist that space aliens in league with the CIA
would trigger a nuclear war on May 1, 1976
208. Alexander Collier, friend of Andromedans, predicts between now and 2007 that Saudi
Arabia will become the North Pole. Atlantis, Lemuria, the hollow inner earth, and
reincarnation will be scientifically proven.
http://www.anomalist.com/features/waiting.html

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Planet X Is Nigh!
It’s here! Can’t you see it?
Tsunamis! Earthquakes! Volcanoes!
Looking for Planet X / Nibiru
Alleged to be an earth-size or larger
planet which has been “Inbound” into
the inner solar system for years.
Claims by people like Nancy Lieder
Jim McCanney, may at times, sound
convincing to some people.
These claims have been ongoing for
about 10 years and are most probably
based the result of the popularity of
the research of Zechariah Sitchin who
reports in his Earth Chronicles books
that the Sumerian Tablets talk of the
planet Nibiru which has a 3600 year
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orbital period around our sun.

Nancy Lieder

Jim McCanney
Sitchin’s Nibiru

According to the interpretation given
by Sitchin of Sumerian cosmology, The solar
system would have a tenth planet, following
an elliptical orbit, would be within the system
center once every 3,600 years. According to
Sitchin, the hypothetical planet would be
captured by the gravitational pull of Neptune
and deviated from its path towards the inside,
billions of years ago when our solar system
was still in the making. So, according to the
Azerbaijani writer, Nibiru was a wandering
planet "Captured" by the Sun's gravity.
Nibiru is also called the "planet of the
passage. "Every 3,600 years, in the transition
to its perihelion (So close to the Sun and the
​
inner planets), Nibiru, due to the gravitational
perturbations due to its mass, it would be the
source of great upheavals and cataclysms on
Earth.

Zechariah Sitchin

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http://en.apocalisselaica.net/varie/scienza-ed-evoluzione/perche-l-orbita-della-terra-e-inclinata-di-7-gradi-rispetto-all-equatore-del-sole#sthash.S2v3a6Xt.dpuf
Nancy Lieder, Zeta Talk and Planet X
Nancy Lieder’s Zeta Talk website is quite extensive and
she claims to channel “The Zetans” on demand to
answer people’s questions.
However, some answers she gives have been
hopelessly wrong… In 2002, the Author of a “Planet X
Critical” Website wrote
“Nancy started posting to astronomy newsgroups in
1995, about the time comet Hale Bopp was
discovered, claiming that there was no comet. Hale
Bopp, she claimed, was simply a nova used as a
distraction so people wouldn't see Planet X. In the
spring of 1997 comet Hale Bopp put on a spectacular
show even moving across the Orion area, very near
where the mythical Planet X was supposed to be.
Pretty strange for a distraction to move across the
area it is supposed to be distracting people from! Now
7 years after this claim was made we still don't see
Planet X, even without a distraction.”
Lieder is still talking about Planet being visible on
SOHO images in 2009/2010
http://planet-x.150m.com/where.html

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Planet X – Zeta Talk

http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue167.htm

Tail of Planet X
Planet X has been appearing on SOHO
and the Stereo Ahead for some
months now, in approximately the
4:30 o'clock position. But sometimes
something bright with a tail shows up
in other places, above the Sun, or to
the left of the Sun. If this is Planet X,
why is it moving around so much?
ZetaTalk Explanation 1/2/2010: When
the Winged Globe or the Red Cross
appears to the lower right on the Sun,
this is the Planet X corpus. We have
explained that the tail is vast, the
Moon swirls swinging to either side of
Planet X by 5 million miles, but the tail
itself swings further than that. During
the hour of the pole shift, when Planet
X is a mere 14 million miles from the
Earth, the tail is whipping the Earth,
depositing hail and red dust. The tail
itself can catch the light, reflecting this
to Earth, in what appears to be a blaze
of light with a tail drifting away. It is
charged, so clings to itself in places, so
is thicker in some places than others,
just as an electrical charge can raise
the hair on your head. As Planet X
turns its charged tail toward the Earth,
increasingly, such sudden appearances
will increase, consternating NASA.

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(Prof?) Jim McCanney
In 2006, he was a proponent of irreversible global warming.
A synopsis on the Coast to Coast Website of his 19 Mar 2006 says:
“Far out in the solar system, Planet X-type objects could become
enshrouded in clouds of dust and gas and thus be hard to see, said
McCanney, but he noted that a large object could be quite visible
by the time it reached Pluto. Once in this position, such an object
could take hundreds of years to approach Earth or it could come in
at a "superspeed" in a matter of weeks, he warned.”
From another website: Mr. McCanney often calls himself
"Professor McCanney" although his own biography only shows that
he was an introductory lecturer at Cornell University for 2 years in
1979-80. No where does Mr. McCanney show that he earned the
title Professor. He's apparently been working as a Certified
Licensed massage therapist! He does not seem to have worked in a
scientific or academic capacity since Cornell more than 20 years
ago.
Some debunking websites uses McCanney’s “Solar capacitor”
description to “debunk” the idea of electric charges being
important in certain effects on our weather, comets etc – so
McCanney’s other rather bogus statements make it easier for
some scientists to gloss over what “The Electric Universe”
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/electric_universe/esp_electricuniverse21.htm
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researchers have shown.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2006/03/19 http://www.cosmophobia.org/james-mccanney http://planet-x.150m.com/mccanney.html
Planet X / Nibiru
A typical
email which
may be seen
from time to
time…

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Asking for Planet X / Nibiru Evidence Oct 2012
ANON: “Also folks, AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS
HAVE BEEN SIGHTING PLANET-X ( Over 100 of
them as a matter of fact )..”
ADJ: Got any links to photos etc please? I'd be
very interested to see them!

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Send Me Planet X Photos!!
From: "Andrew Johnson" <ad.johnson@ntlworld.com>
To:
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 9:31:18 AM
Subject: RE: [FWD: DEAD ASTRONOMERS- RESENDING]
So can you send me a link? I've seen a lot of photos claiming to show planet X - but
none of the ones I've looked actually show it - they show various things from CCD
artefacts/over exposure to sundogs to blank areas of an image - every one that I've
seen has been a case of misidentification.
Please can you send me a few pictures - along with details about who took it,
time/date and equipment used. This would be the data required for verification and
checking by anyone (I have a reasonable telescope - which should not even be needed
if it's of decent size and close. For example, Mars is about 180 million miles away - it's
about 1/2 the size of the earth and we can see it at night with the naked eye. Use this
as a "BS-guide" if you will.
Any measurements on Planet X? How big is it in relation to the Earth? How far away is
it? What colour is it?
Andrew

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Here is Planet X… Honest!
“GG (21 Oct 2012): I took it from
eastern Penobscot, Maine, looking
west on October 2nd 2012 with a
12 mp Fuji digital and a green #12
filter. There are thousands of
photos on poleshift.ning.com”
“It came from the direction of
Orion in 1983, came into the solar
system in 1999, came around from
behind the sun in 2003 and
stopped. As gravity pushes, it
stopped the earth, venus, and the
dark twin of the earth in its orbit
while they stopped it in its orbit.
Poleshift occurs in the 1 hour to
break free of the dance/cups, and
that will send a 600 ft tidal wave
around the world, and in your case,
UK will sink 150 ft.; therefore
waves of 750-850 will erase the UK
and Denmark. The date has never
been announced.”

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Here is Planet X… Honest!
GG: “[Planet X is] 29,000 miles in diameter, cloudy
oceanic, volcanic and atmospheric planet
30 million miles from earth below the line from earth to
the sun at the 5 o'clock
position; its 5 million mile long tail pointed right at
earth.”
AJ: So it's roughly 3.5 times bigger than the earth. And
it's therefore about 7 times bigger than Mars. At
30,000,000 miles from us, it's about 1/3 the distance to
the sun and 6 times nearer than Mars. So I guess it
should be about 40 times bigger in the sky than Mars is
(feel free to correct any of my figures). That's a pretty big
object - and if it's greenish as your photo suggests, it
should be pretty obvious.
GG: “And Zetatalk.com answers all your questions. It has
its own google search engine for its own 39,000 pages of
questions from the public and answers from the Zetas.”

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Planet X - IRAS

IRAS – the Infrared Astronomical
Satellite – was launched on 26th
Jan 1983.
For several months, IRAS
surveyed the sky in Infra-red –
detecting objects too faint to be
seen in visible light.
In 1983/1984 stories began that it
had detected an object that was
way out in the solar system but
too faint to be seen in the normal
optical range.
It was tentatively suggested by 1
or 2 scientists it could be a distant
“10th Planet” – Planet X – or a
brown dwarf = Cool Star”
companion to the Sun
Stories appeared in the
Washington Post (30 Dec 1983),
New York Times (30 Jan 1983 –
only 4 days after the launch….)
and US News & World Report
(left) – Sept 10, 1984.

http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/1.shtml
http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/pxUSNW.jpg

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http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/1.shtml
http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/pxUSNW.jpg
Google Earth / Sky and Planet X!
There are quite a few
YouTube videos
claiming there is a cover
up about Planet X.
Here’s one example –
and illustration of the
limited research and
assumptions that it
makes.
Some not-so-difficultchecking is required…
http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=327&Itemid=59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WaJt-hYyeQ

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Other Planet X Speakers / Supporters
Marshall Masters (YOWUSA
website)
John Moore
Jason Martell (mainly focused on
Sitchin’s writings). My opinion is
that Jason Martell is much more
well-informed and realistic than
the others (he’s not focused on
“prepping” – “preparing for
disaster”).
http://xfacts.com/x1.htm

Marshall Masters

John Moore

Jason Martell
http://yowusa.com/ http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/2011/08/planet-x-the-thoughts-of-john-moore/

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“Planet X – Inside orbit of Jupiter in 2013”!!

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hercolobus/esp_hercolobus_58.htm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZ8mu08RBk
Further Study - No Apparent Evidence of
Planet X in IRAS Data
What did IRAS Find?
The conspiracy theory of IRAS is primarily due to there
not being any follow-up news reports. NASA obviously
put a lid on the news according to the Planet X
supporters. In reality what IRAS found was not an
exciting or newsworthy discovery. Nothing unknown
and mysterious for sensational headlines as in the case
of the 1983 story.
According to Dr. Mike Dworetsky, Director University of
London Observatory, "The object in question was
eventually identified as a denser knot of "interstellar
cirrus" in Taurus (not in Orion but a bit to the west)
while the other objects the team were interested in
were identified as infra-red-bright galaxies."
"The object was designated as 0412+085 in Houck J.R.
et al, Astrophysical Journal Letters vol 278, p L63, 1984
and reported as infrared cirrus in Houck, J.R. et al,
Astrophysical Journal Letters vol 290, p. L5, 1985. The
other objects, as the article stresses, were identified as
very faint galaxies."
So what did IRAS find? A knot of interstellar cirrus,
which is simply an area of dust grains between the
stars. This would not make a very exciting news story,
certainly not up to the 1983 Washington Post story.

http://planet-x.150m.com/ - http://planet-x.150m.com/iras2.html

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Planet X - Conclusions
I have seen no credible evidence that there is a large planet anywhere
in our solar system.
It seems to me that if an amateur can detect a comet only 5 miles in
diameter when it is as far away as Jupiter, they would easily see a larger
object much further out – with advanced and semi-automated
observing equipment.
All Planet X predictions have so far been hopelessly wrong and at least
some of those promoting the stories don’t understand the figures they
are using and the images they are seeing – they don’t seem able to
compare them to data about the solar system that we already know
and can observe.
The Sun may have a binary star companion – or an additional planet –
but it must be extremely difficult to detect if it is there bearing in mind
that:

Tom Van Flandern

Objects smaller than Pluto have recently been observed at far greater
distances.
Over 1000 extrasolar (outside the solar system) planets have now been
detected – by using missions like Kepler.

Though NASA could be well be covering up knowledge about a present
or ancient “Planet X”, it would be far more difficult to keep Amateur
Astronomers quiet about such things – they’d want their names in the
history books!
Perhaps Sitchin’s Planet X is not in the orbit he says/said – or has been
confused in Mythology for something else.
It does seem like there may have been another Planet in our Solar
System which exploded, as Tom Van Flandern (deceased) has
hypothesised.
http://metaresearch.org/solar%20system/eph/eph2000.asp

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Overall Conclusions

Comets come round every few years but are
currently not predictable in the way they will
appear to us.
More observations and better technology now
allow us to catalogue and analyse Comets and
NEO’s more thoroughly – but this does little or
nothing to increase our safety from the effects
they could have – at short notice.
Planet X may be out there – but it’s a LONG way
off and probably not that big or warm/hot!
“Catastrophists” and Preachers will likely exploit
the fears created by the passage of Comets and
the occurrence of natural disasters - as much as
they have always done.
Oh, and 21st Dec 2012 was said, by many to be
some kind of “cut off” date, but I feel little
different in Nov 2013 compared to this time last
year. I, for one, have not “ascended”… However,
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we are involved in some kind of “transition”.
We’re STILL Here! Keep Going!
So Far ALL of the End of the World
Predictions have – errrr… Been WRONG!
Sadly, we have borne witness to quite a few
disasters in the last 20 years, such as
Tsunamis, Oil Disasters, Wars, Powerful
Storms etc.
It seems these will continue to occur.
This exploitation of fear will only end when
the knowledge of hidden advanced
technologies that can “change the whole
game” is more widely understood and those
covering up this knowledge are fully
identified and their agenda halted.
Then, we will not be subject, to the same
degree, to all the factors that have caused
some of the terrible events he have seen in
the last few years.

LUTEC Free Energy Generator

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Thank you for listening!
www.solarsystemscope.com/
www.iau.org/
www.thunderbolts.info/
cometography.com/
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/
www.brigantesnation.com/VitrifiedForts/VitrifieedForts.htm
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/
www.bible.ca/
www.cosmophobia.org/
xfacts.com/
planet-x.150m.com/
www.checktheevidence.com

Please check and form your own view of this
information. DVD’s Booklets, Leaflets Available!
A NASA Spaceweather Update has just noted that Comet Ison is now visible (see below). I have been asked by Omar Fowler to talk
about Comet Ison at his Derby PRA Group on Tues 26th Nov (this is very local to me) - so I am doing some research on it. Some think
Ison will be very bright - some thought it was set to crash into the earth (seems like that is said of almost every comet that comes
around now). I will also be talking about the recurring themes predicitions of catastrophes etc.
The traditional explanation for comets - in most text books and websites - is that comets are "dirty snowballs" - a mixture of dust and
ice - hardly solid even - you can see a typical explanation used in shcools here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/edexcel_pre_2011/space/planetsstarsandgalaxiesrev2.shtml
However, it has become clear in the last 20 years or so that this "dirty snowball" model is wrong - as another recent update from NASA
- about asteroids seems also to indicate:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/07nov_6tails/
Despite this, evidence is ignored in favour of coming up with theoretical scenarios - and classic scientific statements about the data
returned from probes that have visited and even crashed into comets such as: ""We know the ice is there," he said. "It's just wellhidden." (Dr. Laurence Soderblom of the U.S. Geological Survey)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_80.html
One of the key factors that remains largely unspoken of in mainstream astronomy is the role of electricity - this is covered in depth in
this excellent 1.5 hour video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=34wtt2EUToo
(which is a little repetitve and I think needs editing a bit, but is still higly informative). Most of what's in the video seems to be
summarised here:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/electric_universe/esp_electricuniverse17.htm (reposting of essentialy what is here:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/?s=comet)
So here is the Ison update....
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=11&year=2013

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  • 1. Comets, Calamities and Planet X Andrew Johnson
  • 2. Introduction In this presentation we will look at the Data about Comets Data about the alleged “Planet X” Predictions about “The End of The World” – and a history of these predictions. To help us understand Comets and Planet X, we will look at Scale of the Solar System Amateur Astronomer Observations To understand what comets are and we will look at some data from Comet Wild 2, Comet Halley, Comet Tempel 1. Missions to Comets by the “Stardust” and “Deep Impact” Probes. We will look at the story of Comet Hale Bopp and the troubling way it was linked to an end of world prediction. We will look at some past impact events on earth The Tunguska Event of 1908 The Possible Decimation of England in 562AD by a Cometary or Asteroid Impact A brief look The Feb 2013 Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor 2
  • 3. Solar System – Facts and Figures Name of Planet Av Dist from Sun (million miles) Diameter (miles) Time to Orbit Sun (a year) Average Temperature Mercury 36 3,031 88 days -183 °C to 427 °C Venus 67 7,521 224 days 480 °C Earth 93 7,926 365.25 days 14 °C Mars 142 4,222 687 days -63 °C Jupiter 483.5 88,846 11.86 years -130 °C Saturn 888.75 74,900 29 years -130 °C Uranus 1784 31,763 84 years -200 °C Neptune 2800 30,779 164.8 years -200 °C Pluto 4584 1430 248 years -228 °C Adapted from http://www.bobthealien.co.uk/table.htm 3
  • 4. A Note About Distances… We need to get a good feel for the distances involved in what we will be discussing about Comets and “Planet X”. We will be considering things in units of roughly 100 Million Miles. This is also roughly the distance between the Earth and the Sun, so note: 1 AU = Distance from Earth to Sun = ~ 100,000,000 miles So, for example: Jupiter is about 5 AU from the Sun (between 4 and 6 AU from us) Saturn is about 9 AU from the Sun (between 8 and 10 AU from us) http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ 4
  • 5. Solar System - Distances… http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ 5
  • 7. Relative Sizes of Planets http://www.iau.org/static/archives/images/screen/iau0603a.jpg 7
  • 8. A few Distant Dwarf Planets Discovered Since 2000 It is now possible to detect small planetoids/dwarf planets A LONG WAY AWAY...                       QUAOAR Quaoar is approximately 800 miles in diameter and is slightly  farther away from the Sun than Pluto. It is made primarily of ices. Off Site Quaoar Links: Quaoar--Cal Tech                            MAKEMAKE (pronounced MAH-keh MAH-keh) Diameter: 950 mi. (1500 km.),  it's the third largest Trans-Neptunian Object after Eris and Pluto. Originally designated 2005 FY9,  Makemake was discovered on March 31, 2005, near Easter, hence its original knickname of "Easter  Bunny". Since Kuiper Belt objects are all officially named after creation gods, 2005FY9 was named  Makemake for the creation god found in the traditional mythology of Rapa Nui or Easter Island. http://www.northern-stars.com/solar_system_info.htm 8
  • 9. A few Distant Dwarf Planets Discovered Since 2000 - 2                       ERIS  (formerly known as 2003 UB 313 or Xena) was first photographed in October 2003, but was not detected until January 2005. Its discovery was announced in August 2005. This object is about the same size as Pluto and currently about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto.. It is made of ices, much like Pluto. It takes this new planet 557 years to orbit the Sun just once. Its orbit is tilted nearly 45 degrees up at an angle compared to the plane of Earth's orbit. Eris has one known moon, Dysnomia Off Site Eris Links: 2003UB313--Cal Tech / NASA Tenth Planet?                        SEDNA  Sedna is   the most distant object yet discovered in the solar system. It was discovered in 2003. It is roughly three times further away than Pluto, well outside the Kuiper Belt. It is approximately 1000 miles in diameter and takes nearly 10,500 years to go around the sun just once. Currently, scientists have not officially classified Sedna as either a planet nor a dwarf planet, Sedna was named after an Inuit Goddess of the Sea. http://www.northern-stars.com/solar_system_info.htm 9
  • 10. One Example - Sedna’s Orbit 10
  • 11. IAU - The Minor Planet Centre “The Minor Planet Centre, or MPC, is the single worldwide location for receipt and distribution of positional measurements of minor planets, comets and outer irregular natural satellites of the major planets.” The table on the left is for Nov 2013… 7.9 MILLION observations in 2013… http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/ 11
  • 12. Amateur detection of Near Earth Objects Published on 04/04/2011  Question: Is it possible for an amateur astronomer to assist with detecting near-Earth asteroids or comets? If so, what would be the minimum telescopic aperture and type of photographic equipment required to conduct this kind of research? Amateur astronomers can and do play an important part in detecting near-Earth objects. Today more than 5% of all near-Earth objects are discovered by amateurs and this proportion is on the increase. The Minor Planets Centre (http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/) based at Harvard University is the organisation responsible for cataloguing and archiving all discoveries of small bodies in the solar system and have a wealth of information to help potential amateur astronomers. The professional search programs typically use telescopes with a diameter of ~1m; LINEAR, one of the longest running and most successful programs currently has two 1m telescopes and a 0.5m telescope. When conducting searches smaller telescopes are to some extent preferred since they have a larger field of view and can image a larger area of the sky at once. When you have your telescope, discovering asteroids is still not trivial! Because these objects are particularly faint (due to their size), the detectors being used (usually a CCD) need to be sensitive enough to be able to distinguish them from the background noise from the device. For CCDs, when they are cooled the background noise is reduced and because of this, most of the CCD detectors you can purchase for amateur astronomy today use fans to cool the CCD well below the ambient temperature. Even with both of these, the main requirement to successfully discover asteroids and other small (and faint) objects is a dark site with good seeing (clear, still skies). Combining all of these things together means you could potentially discover some new asteroids! Page last updated: 2 May 2011 at 11:10 http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public/ask/1353 12
  • 13. Comets – What Are They? Harbingers of Doom? “Dirty Snowballs”? Or Lumps of Rock?
  • 14. The Standard View of Comets… Explained here very nicely by David Talbot from a video freely available on YouTube called “The Electric Comet”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=34wtt2EUToo http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/06/20/the-electric-comet-full-documentary/ 14
  • 15. Comets and Asteroids As we have already seen (briefly), Comets are now being discovered almost every week. Few of these comets will ever become visible to us on Earth – most will remain as almost invisible blobs in the images captured by Professional and Advanced Amateur Astronomers. Standard Astronomy more or less considers comets to be in elliptical orbits with one focus closer to the sun. When they get close to the sun, they develop a visible tail… Asteroids normally thought to stay in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, or they may come closer to the earth – when they are called “Near Earth Objects” or “NEO’s” 15 http://www.passmyexams.co.uk/GCSE/physics/comets.html http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_2/comets_and_asteroids.htm
  • 16. Some Facts about Discovered Comets Comet’s Most Common Name Perihelio n Date Closest Distance to Earth (million miles) on last apparition Size of Nucleus in Miles 1000 (Oct 16, 1982) 09 Feb 1986 29 9x5 23rd July 1995 670 01 Apr 1997 120 19 – 25 Jan 1978 500 Approx 22 Feb 2010 62 2 24 Sep 2012 590 26 Dec 2013 40 3 Discovered By Date Discovere d Discovery Dist from Earth (Million Miles) Halley Edmund Halley 1705 HaleBopp Alan Hale / Thomas Bopp Wild 2 (pron. “Vilt 2”) Paul Wild ISON Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok http://www.geocities.com/lauferworld.geo/HCWNV2N1.htm http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/halley.html http://www.sciencemag.org/content/275/5308/1900 Image http://cometography.com/pcomets/001p.html http://www.space.com/19931-hale-bopp.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/ison.html 16
  • 17. Comet Hale Bopp – 1996 - 1998 Here are some photos I took in April 1997 – I put them on my first Website! Camera: Zenit, Film: Truprint 400 ASA, Lenses: 50mm F2, 200mm F4, Exposure Time 10 – 15 Secs 17
  • 18. Hale Bopp, the Companion Object, Chuck Shramek, Art Bell and “Heaven’s Gate” Getting to the Bottom of a Messy, Confused and Tragic Story
  • 19. Chuck Shramek and The Hale Bopp “Companion” Object The image on the right was taken by Chuck Shramek. It garnered a lot of attention due to his appearance on the Art Bell Show on 18 and 19 Nov 1997. A few years later, Shramek stated on his website: Here's the picture that I took that caused such a stir on November 15, 1996. I simply asked, "what's that Saturn-like thing near the comet?" All hell broke lose up to and including blaming me for the mass suicide of a strange group in California. Real "astronomers" say the "thing" I photographed is a star distorted by my telescope. I have recently taken a picture of the very same area of the sky. (It had been impossible to photograph for several months because of the proximity of the Sun.) My new pictures clearly prove with digital clarity that the "thing" in the above photo is not this star alone. The star they say I mistook for the "thing" is much dimmer and it does not produce a "ring" effect. For that matter, no star I have ever photographed (and I've photographed thousands) produced this odd "ring" effect. 19 https://web.archive.org/web/20061018093546/http://techmonkeys.org/~tothwolf/mirrors/www.neosoft.com_cshramek/comet.htm
  • 20. Chuck Shramek and The Hale Bopp “Companion” - 2 “Months before I took this picture, I smelled a cover-up of the good pictures of the comet. The pictures from the major observatories went away from the web in May of 1996. The Hubble pictures went away in October of 1995. Hubble pictures posted later were deliberately degraded. This is why I decided to launch my own observation campaign. It got so silly that NASA and JPL were posting crappier pictures than I could take. I now think I have a good grasp of why they were covering-up the good pictures. Good close up pictures of the comet nucleus revealed a cosmology that contradicted the accepted paradigm. To a few fearless astronomers willing to really look at the evidence, comets reveal a much different solar system history. It's a history that includes other technological civilizations on other planets only several million years ago.” 20 https://web.archive.org/web/20061018093546/http://techmonkeys.org/~tothwolf/mirrors/www.neosoft.com_cshramek/comet.htm
  • 21. Alan Hale and The Hale Bopp “Companion” Alan Hale – Co-Discoverer of Comet Hale Bopp eventually did an analysis of Chuck Shramek’s Image If you rotate this image counter-clockwise about 45 degrees, and compare this to Shramek's image (with it oriented with the long axis top-down and the "object" on top), you will see that the bright two stars above the comet in Shramek's image will match the two brighter stars above center in the DSS image. [Editor's Note: the image displayed here has been rotated in the manner Alan describes.] Palomar Image of Same Field of View Shramek's "mysterious object" is nothing more than the bright 9th-magnitude star appearing in the DSS image. The "Saturnlike rings" are nothing more than a diffraction effect (see also the spikes from the same star in the DSS image), a phenomenon which has been known and understood for centuries. https://web.archive.org/web/19970220182856/http://www.halebopp.com/slo3.htm 21
  • 22. Most Likely Explanation for The Hale Bopp “Companion” Now comes the smoking gun. Shramek was using the computer star atlas program MegaStar … In MegaStar the user can set parameters such as: magnitude limits…. If the star magnitude limit is set at less than 9, or if the GSC catalog has nonstars toggled off, or if the PPM catalog is toggle off (in Version 2.0 or higher) then SAO141894 will not appear. This can happen very easily, and is most likely what happened to Shramek. MegaStar users must remember that there are at least TWO magnitude limit settings, one for stars and one for NSOs (non-stellar objects). When I ran the program with the star magnitude limit set to 7 the chart below was the result. Notice that the label for SAO141894 is there but the star is not. On Shramek's web site he shows a MegaStar chart for this location in which not only the star but the SAO label is missing. This is because he had the labels option turned of in the program. So when Schramek looked at MegaStar and did not see SAO141894, he concluded that he had found the mysterous object which apparently he had been looking for (this becomes more clear when you read his email later). https://web.archive.org/web/19970716003233/http://www.halebopp.com/slomaps.htm 22
  • 23. The Electric Comet Following on from the earlier segment about the “standard” (dirty snowball model) of comets, let’s look a little more at the “Electric Comet” idea. There are a number of things it explains much better than the standard model. I can strongly recommend a visit to the “Thunderbolts” Website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=34wtt2EUToo http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/06/20/the-electric-comet-full-documentary/ 23
  • 24. Visiting the Comets With Probes There are several missions which have now given us close-up pictures of Comet Nuclei: Several Probes, including Giotto, visited Comet Halley in 1986. Deep Space 1 visited Comet Borrelly in 2001 The Stardust mission was a “sample and return” mission to Comet Wild 2 (81P/Wild) in 2004 Deep Impact fired a probe/projectile at Comet Tempel 1 in 2005 We will briefly look at some of the data from these missions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_comets 24
  • 25. Deep Impact – NASA’s Description A preliminary interpretation of these data indicate that the upper surface of the comet may be fluffy, or highly porous. The observed sequence of impact events is similar to laboratory experiments using highly porous targets, especially those that are rich in volatile substances. The duration of the hot, luminous gas phase, as well as the continued growth of the crater over time, all point to a model consistent with a large crater. 25 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/PIA02131.html#.UoDC_fl7KvY
  • 26. “Tempel Alive with Light” This spectacular image of comet Tempel 1 was taken 67 seconds after it obliterated Deep Impact's impactor spacecraft. The image was taken by the high-resolution camera on the mission's flyby craft. Scattered light from the collision saturated the camera's detector, creating the bright splash seen here. Linear spokes of light radiate away from the impact site, while reflected sunlight illuminates most of the comet surface. The image reveals topographic features, including ridges, scalloped edges and possibly impact craters formed long ago. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/pia02137.html#.UoDD8fl7KvY 26
  • 27. Spectrum of Tempel 1 Images - 1 a) The ice-rich nucleus spectrum (black), when modeled as a mixture of non-ice nucleus (see Fig. 4b) and a calculated spectrum of 70 µm size water ice particles (purple) does not match at short wavelengths, while a mixture with 3 µm size water ice particles (orange) produces a poor match at long wavelengths. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/surface_ice_spectra-20061002.html#.UoDPQ_l7KvY 27
  • 28. Spectrum of Tempel 1 Images - 2 b) The same ice-rich spectrum (black) is well modeled with 30 µm size water ice particles (blue) and a nearby non-ice nucleus spectrum (red; offset by ?0.3 for clarity). Modeling indicates that the ice-regions contain 6 ± 3% of ice with 30 ± 20 µm size particles. Between 3% and 9% ice = Not Much! 28 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/surface_ice_spectra-20061002.html#.UoDPQ_l7KvY
  • 29. Bright Regions on Surface of Tempel 1 This is a region of particular interest. The lack of any features on the smooth region (lower left) implies a young surface. But is it advancing towards the right and covering up rougher, older surface regions? Or is it retreating to the left, eroding and uncovering those regions? The scarp edge marked by arrows is about 10-20 m above the lower and older terrain. It appears bright since it is catching direct sunlight. The bright regions may be illuminated because they are facing the sun – or are they regions of interaction with the solar wind? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/scarp-20060925.html 29
  • 30. NASA Spacecraft Finds Comet Has Hot, Dry Surface April 5, 2002 Comets are sometimes described as "dirty snowballs," but a close flyby of one by NASA's Deep Space 1 spacecraft last fall detected no frozen water on its surface. Comet Borrelly has plenty of ice beneath its tarblack surface, but any exposed to sunlight has vaporized away, say scientists analyzing data from Deep Space 1, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Laurence Soderblom of the U.S. Geological Survey's Flagstaff, Ariz., station, lead author of a report on the Borrelly flyby results appearing in the online edition of the journal Science. "We know the ice is there," he said. "It's just well-hidden. Either the surface has been dried out by solar heating and maturation or perhaps the very dark soot-like material that covers Borrelly's surface masks any trace of surface ice." http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_80.html Comet Borrelly and its topographical map (right) 30
  • 31. Summary of “Dirty Snowball” vs. “Electric” Comet Models All sources you will find on NASA and similar websites talk about “Icy comets”. Articles, papers and postings, like the ones I showed will claim Ice has been detected, therefore the “ dirty snowball” model is correct. snowball The other data about compounds (such as olivine) that could never have formed “in a snowball” are rarely discussed. If the anomalous data are discussed, Scientists would normally say “Well, yes, we know about that but it’s not significant compared to the other data which proves the ‘dirty snowball’ model is basically correct. To move away from the “snowball” model would make their lives more difficult… Note: The Electric Comet model does NOT preclude the presence of Water or Water Ice in cometary nuclei. The “Thunderbolts” website is concerned with the evidence which proves that electricity – perhaps more than gravity – has played a significant role in the formation of the galaxy and the solar system. http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/144607main_061303_DB8-olivine.jpg 31 http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/060313.html
  • 32. Another Problem with “Dirty Snowball” Comets… Sometimes, Rocky Asteroids can suddenly start to “turn into” comets…. Below shows an Artist’s Schematic http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/52/image/d/ 32
  • 33. Hubble Sees an Asteroid with Six Comet-like Tails Nov. 7, 2013: Astronomers viewing our solar system's asteroid belt with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have seen for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust. Designated P/2013 P5, the asteroid resembles a rotating lawn sprinkler. "We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," said lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California at Los Angeles. "Even more amazing, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise. It's hard to believe we’re looking at an asteroid." http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/07nov_6tails/ 33
  • 34. Asteroids with “Comet” Tails Space.com - Jan 06, 2011 A huge asteroid discovered more than 100 years ago may not be an asteroid at all, but a dormant comet that is just now coming back to life, according to new observations. The object, known as 596 Scheila, is about 70 miles (113 kilometers) wide and has a faint, wispy tail that suggests it may actually be a comet, researchers said. If that's the case, then 596 Scheila would be only the sixth known comet to reside in the main asteroid belt, a vast region of space rocks that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. So is it an “asteroid belt” – or a “Comet Belt”??? http://www.space.com/9700-comet-asteroid-big-space-rock-identity-crisis.html 34
  • 35. Comet ISON - Discovery How was it found? The discovery of C/2012 S1 (ISON) was announced on 24 September 2012.It was found by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok on CCD images made with a 0.4-m telescope of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) near Kislovodsk, Russia. The comet was further from the Sun than Jupiter 6.6 Astronomical Units or AU distant (an AU is an astronomical unit, equal to 150 million km, the average distance the Earth is from the Sun) and was a very dim Magnitude 18.8 when discovered (objects dimmer than Magnitude 6 cannot be seen with the unaided eye). http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2012/09/new-comet-c2012-s1-ison.html 35 http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/ison-things-you-need-to-know.html http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/STEREOorbit/C2012_S1_ISON.html
  • 36. Comet ISON – Will it Crash into the Earth?? “Comet ISON Will Crash into the Earth in Dec 2013!” http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ison/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/4592130/Unseen-dark-comets-could-pose-deadly-threat-to-earth.html 36
  • 37. Comet ISON – 3D Simulation Done with “Solar System Scope!” http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/comet_ison/ 37
  • 38. Comet ISON – CLOSELY Watched By amateurs and NASA… 38
  • 39. Comet ISON – CLOSELY Watched By amateurs and NASA… NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft is monitoring Comet ISON as it approaches the sun. The latest movie from the spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over a two day period from Nov. 20 to Nov. 22, 2013. The sun sits right of the field of view of this camera. Image Credit: Karl Battams/NRL/NASA STEREO/CIOC. http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-stereo-shows-comet-ison-approaching-the-sun/ 39
  • 40. Comet ISON’s Coma is over 60000 Miles Wide! http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/21/comet_ison_12_cool_facts.html 40
  • 41. Really…? Remember Comet Holmes in 2007? http://www.space.com/4643-incredible-comet-bigger-sun.html 41
  • 42. Yes, Things Have Crashed into the Earth… … but not everything that comes past will hit us.
  • 44. Tunguska, 1908 One well documented, but still mysterious case is the Great Siberian Explosion Over Tunguska in 1908… It is still unresolved as to what the object was – some think it was a comet, but for the size of the explosion, a crater and/or recoverable pieces would seem to have been more likely. But maybe nothing was recoverable due to the explosion being over a vast area of swamp. Over Chelyabinsk on 15 Feb 2013, a much smaller object caused some damage and injuries…. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131015-asteroid-burst-russia-meteor-tunguska-space-science/? rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_n1p_intl_ot_w# 44
  • 45. Did a Comet/Asteroid Strike Decimate England in About 532 or 562 AD? Since about 1982, Alan Wilson and Barrum Blacket have been writing about this in some of their books – they came across accounts during their research into the real story of King Arthur. There are unexplained Vitrified Rocks found in Ramparts at 200 Hill Forts Around Northern Europe – dating from a few hundred years BC to a few hundred years AD. Bolivia is also reported to have had considerable effects of some type of impact, about the same time. From the Anglo Saxon Chronicles – written by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1130AD): “And then a Star of enormous size appeared to Ythyr, having a single shaft, and at the head of the shaft a ball of fire in shape of a dragon, and from the dragon’s jaws, two beams went upward, the one beam reaching towards the farthest parts of Ffraink and the other beam towards Iwerddon, which split into seven smaller beams. And Ythr and all who saw this spectacle feared, and they asked the wise men what it might mean. And then Merddin wept and said, “O nation of the Bryttaniait! now are ye bereft of Emrys Wledic, a loss that cannot be replaced.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceways/6455068395/ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/cu-aua020304.php http://www.brigantesnation.com/VitrifiedForts/VitrifieedForts.htm http://self-realisation.com/ourstory/301/ http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/artwork/Single_Pics.pdf http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gsQnT2taacC&pg=PA417&lpg=PA417&dq= %E2%80%9CAnd+then+a+Star+of+enormous+size+appeared+to+Yt hyr,&source=bl&ots=XCY0Ld2FQH&sig=xY8VrSMdhK8W5paeBSTN JtR05g0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j_2JUo3xK4iihgfzj4G4DA&ved=0CDsQ6A 45
  • 46. Comet/Asteroid Strike - 532 or 562 AD? Vitrified rock at Dunnideer Hill Fort, Taken on December 3, 2011, Insch, Scotland, GB Vitrified material from Bruce's Camp in Aberdeenshire. Image: Murray Cook http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceways/6455068395/ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/cu-aua020304.php http://www.brigantesnation.com/VitrifiedForts/VitrifieedForts.htm http://self-realisation.com/ourstory/301/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/abbey-craig-not-just-another-iron-age-hillfort http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/artwork/Single_Pics.pdf 46
  • 47. Summary for Comets There is no observable risk of Comet Ison crashing into the earth. Asteroids and Comets are probably very similar – or even the same – fragments of larger bodies which were formed in collisions, explosions or “plasma discharge erosion”. Objects do crash into the earth every day – but the larger they are, the rarer they are, it seems. More Near Earth Objects are catalogued every day. The truth is that we could indeed be destroyed at any time by a large, dark object, not yet picked up. I believe the technology already exists which could be used to deflect or destroy incoming objects – but we would never (as things are now) be told about this. Knowledge about the true nature of comets could lead to our realising more about the true history of our solar system – whether that means that a planet exploded (e.g. forming the asteroid belt), or there was indeed time when the configuration of the solar system was much different and the changes were recorded by some peoples/tribes – as suggested in “Symbols of an Alien Sky” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EAlTcZFwY 47 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQO3LIAaDM
  • 48. “The End of the World IS Nigh! No, Really!” “How would you like the world to end…?” “There are plenty of choices, folks!” Super volcano, Mega tsunami, Comet/Asteroid Impact, Pandemic, Planet X Inbound, Super Solar Flare…
  • 49. Comet Hale Bopp … and the End of the World Back in 1997, it was said by some that Hale Bopp would crash into the earth… This usually happens with most comets that come by… With Hale Bopp in 1997, a string of events related to the sighting of the Comet seemed to lead to a tragedy… Following the exposure of Chuck Shramek’s photo showing the “companion object”, quite a frenzy ensued which resulted in someone generating a fake image to try and give more credibility to the “companion object” story…. http://cometography.com/hysteria.html 49
  • 50. Hale Bopp – Fake Image Introduced The "Secret Image“ - On January 15, 1997, a new "secret UFO picture" was posted on Art Bell's and Whitley Strieber's web sites, after being announced for several days. They supposedly received it through Ms. Prudence Calabrese and Dr. Courtney Brown from a "mysterious astrophysicist" who "preferred to remain anonymous." Below are the original images released at the two sites above (compressed 2x to save bandwidth). We have identified that image as being a fake based on an image obtained by an astronomer of the Institute for Astronomy, Dr. David Tholen. The original image was posted on our Hale-Bopp page more than one year ago. Below is a comparison of the central region of the two images. The fraudulent image has been rotated to match the orientation of the original image. http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/images/hale-bopp/tholen-sep1/hb_ufo_tholen.html#brown FRAUD Original Image 50
  • 51. Comet Hale Bopp, Art Bell and the Heaven’s Gate Cult Loosely, the story goes that following the release of Chuck Shramek’s photo, word “got around” that a spaceship was following Hale Bopp. As mentioned, it was discussed on Coast to Coast. Remote Viewers – Ed Dames and Courtney Brown (“Far sight Institute”) get in on the story on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast between Late November 1996 and Jan 1997 Brown send’s Bell the (Fake) Photo allegedly showing the companion object. Heaven’s Gate Cult Members allegedly take this seriously. Ed Dames remote views a UFO & a meteor shower on the earth a year from the Hale-Bopp's aftermath. On 22 March 1997, Members of the Heaven’s Gate Cult committed Mass Suicide – allegedly thinking they were going to join the spaceship “accompanying” Hale Bopp. In the USA, there was something of an outcry and Art Bell went off air for several weeks (initially saying he would never return). http://www.tarheel24.com/religion/cult/hgate.html 51
  • 52. Ed Dames Killshot - 2004 Ed Dames has repeatedly stated that the Planet Earth will be subjected to a “Killshot” Here is a synopsis of an Art Bell Coast to Coast on 17 July 2004: According to Dames, the harbinger of this catastrophic event will be when the Space Shuttle program is grounded due to meteor showers. He said Earth's population will have only three months after this to get to designated survival zones. Dames revealed that survival zones are marked by crop circles, which he believes were created by an "alien agency." In North America, the most survivable areas are in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Dames concluded. For more info, visit TheKillshot.com. Space Shuttle Program ended on 21 July 2011. 3 Months later was 21 Oct 2011 – Hmmmm…. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2004/07/17 http://thekillshot.com/ 52
  • 53. Ed Dames Killshot - 2012 Undeterred, on Coast to Coast on 15 Mar 2012… Remote viewing teacher Ed Dames presented his latest insights and predictions on such subjects as 'Solar Killshot' safe havens, ongoing extraterrestrial intervention, the Fukushima disaster, and war with Iran. We're not going to be hit by just one mega solar flare, but a series of them over time (perhaps over a 1-2 year period), "that's going to turn Earth into a veritable X-ray & proton rotisserie," he said. Locations in the southern hemisphere, such as in Australia and Africa will have few survival zones, though Christchurch, New Zealand is one possible sanctuary, he said. If you aren't in a safe haven, then living underground to avoid the high winds and dark skies, is your best option, he added. 53 http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/03/15 http://thekillshot.com/
  • 54. Courtney Brown Remote Views 1st Jun 2013 Courtney Brown runs the “Far sight Institute”. On Red Ice Radio, 19 July 2012, he stated that they had performed controlled remote viewing tests for the date of 01 Jun 2013 (in the future). He said there were “huge earth changes”… Tsunamis, Asteroids and an unrecognizable landscape at what is now sea level. Here is a slightly edited (for time) clip… 54
  • 55. Arch Crawford – Killshot - 13 Nov 2013 Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Arch Crawford Interview - Expert Financial Analyst - that has been the top in the U.S. previously using Planetary Alignments. Predicting a Solar Kill Shot - November due to Alignments I interviewed Arch Crawford and expert Financial Analyst about his predictions for November 2013. Arch has been a top financial analyst since the 1960s. He uses astrology to predict what will happen in the markets and due to that he has been named a top analyst for a few different years in the markets. He is predicting major events for November and due to the planetary alignments he is predicting a solar flare kill shot possibly happening on the 13th of November. http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/arch%20crawford 55
  • 56. Eric Julien - aka Jean Ederman - 2006 “What will occur on May 25, 2006? Perhaps a planetary catastrophe originating from the Atlantic Ocean due to a medium size impact event. On this assumption, a series of giant waves, including one méga-tsunami almost two hundred meters in height, will be born from a succession of underwater eruptions. These watery giants, decreasing with distance, will touch the majority of the Atlantic coasts; in particular, those most at risk lie between the equator and the tropic of Cancer. The victims of May 25 2006 will be tens of millions.” 56 http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_ZZP.htm http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-43.htm http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_ZZU.htm
  • 57. Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW’s) The JW’s are well known for telling people that they should consider “God” in various ways. Over the last 100 years, they have given various dates when we will be in the “last days”…. Charles Taze Russell, founder of the group that evolved into the JW’s is memorialised with an 8foot high stone pyramid in Rosement Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Russell predicted an endof-world scenario would happen in 1914. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37388366 57
  • 58. Many JW Prophecies Have Been Wrong… There are a number of websites which careful show where the JW’s have been completely inconsistent over the last few decades with their published writings and statements… “As one reads the prophetic statements below, it is important to bear in mind just how bold the Organization is in claiming direct inspiration of God in what it publishes. Yet what you will observe is an ever changing system of doctrine. Take careful note at how they make bold claims of events to happen in a specific year, then as soon as the date passed, they do an about face and say, "we never said that". Because the organization that revolves around print, it is simply a matter of "being more noble minded and searching the Watchtower to see if these things are so." (Acts 17:11) Reading the quotes below causes one to ask, not what the Organization got wrong, but did the Organization get anything right? Currently the Organization rejects.” About 100,000 Witnesses left the order in 1975, when yet another “end times” prediction failed… 58
  • 59. A Few Failed Predictions of “End Times” JW’s have later glossed over these in subsequent publications: 1888 "In this chapter we present the Bible evidence proving that the full end of the times of the gentiles, i.e., the full end of their lease of dominion, will be reached in A.D. 1914; and that the date will be the farthest limit of the rule of imperfect men. And be it observed, that if this is shown to be a fact firmly established by the Scriptures, it will prove; Firstly, that at that date the Kingdom of God, for which our Lord taught us to pray, saying, Thy Kingdom come, will obtain full, universal control, and that it will then be set up, or firmly established, in the earth, on the ruins of present institutions." (The Time Is At Hand, 1888, p. 76, 77) 1915 "In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished near the end of A.D. 1915. (The Time Is At Hand, 1915 edition, p. 99) 1922 "The period must end in 1925. The type ending, the antitype must begin; and therefore 1925 is definitely fixed in the scriptures. every thinking person can see that a great climax is at hand. The Scriptures clearly indicate that the climax is the fall of Satan's empire and the full establishment of the Messianic kingdom. This climax being reached by 1925, and that marking the beginning of the fulfilment of the long promised blessings of life to the people, millions now living on earth will be living then and those who obey the righteous laws of the new arrangement will live forever. Therefore it can be confidently said at this time that millions now living will never die." (Golden Age, Jan. 4, 1922, p. 217) 1931 "God's kingdom has begun to operate. His day of vengeance is here and Armageddon is at hand and certain to fall upon Christendom and that within an early date. God's judgment is upon Christendom and must shortly be executed." (J. F. Rutherford, Vindication, Vol. I, p. 147, 1931) 1968 "More recently, the book entitled "Famine-1975!" [by W. & P. Paddock, 1967, pp. 52,55,61.] said concerning today's food shortages: "Hunger is rampant throughout country after country, continent after continent around the undeveloped belt of the tropics and subtropics. Today's crisis can move in only one direction -toward catastrophe. Today hungry nations; tomorrow starving nations." … "By 1975 civil disorder, anarchy, military dictatorships, runaway inflation, transportation breakdowns and chaotic unrest will be the order of the day in many of the hungry nations." (The Truth That Leads To Eternal Life, p 88-89, 1968) http://www.bible.ca/Jw-Prophecy.htm 59
  • 60. 100’s of “Armageddon” Type Predictions… It’s not just JW’s and religions that have told us to “prepare”, there are many other sources – including those said to come from ET’s. A page on the “Anomalist” site lists 213 different predictions involving ET’s 35. Max B. Miller of Flying Saucers International interpreted Nostradamus as predicting for 1953 "A third world war will come to the world. A great ship from another world of higher intelligence shall land and intervene." 36. Donald Keyhoe hoped his book Flying Saucers from Outer Space would prepare Americans for the "final act of the saucer drama." He termed 1954 a "possibly fateful year" in which Russians could stage a mass A-bomb attack by paralyzing defense efforts with rumors that alien machines were actually secret Red weapons. 42. July 28, 1954. Affa of Uranus passes along a message through contactee Francis Swan indicating, "This earth is really going to end as stated in the Holy Bible around 1956." 69. August 3, 1958. Necoma of Jupiter warns Americans by ham radio that they must stop hydrogen and atom bomb tests because they will eventually cause the entire solar system to blow up. 109. Judgment Day was due to commence November 22, 1969 according the entity named Ox-Ho. It would involve a series of cataclysms that would culminate in the tilting of the earth's axis. The contactees, Light Affiliates, claim Judgment Day did take place as scheduled, but they frankly admit they misinterpreted the messages about the world's collapse. 148. Vera Gregovic convinced a Beverly Hills urologist that space aliens in league with the CIA would trigger a nuclear war on May 1, 1976 208. Alexander Collier, friend of Andromedans, predicts between now and 2007 that Saudi Arabia will become the North Pole. Atlantis, Lemuria, the hollow inner earth, and reincarnation will be scientifically proven. http://www.anomalist.com/features/waiting.html 60
  • 61. Planet X Is Nigh! It’s here! Can’t you see it? Tsunamis! Earthquakes! Volcanoes!
  • 62. Looking for Planet X / Nibiru Alleged to be an earth-size or larger planet which has been “Inbound” into the inner solar system for years. Claims by people like Nancy Lieder Jim McCanney, may at times, sound convincing to some people. These claims have been ongoing for about 10 years and are most probably based the result of the popularity of the research of Zechariah Sitchin who reports in his Earth Chronicles books that the Sumerian Tablets talk of the planet Nibiru which has a 3600 year 62 orbital period around our sun. Nancy Lieder Jim McCanney
  • 63. Sitchin’s Nibiru According to the interpretation given by Sitchin of Sumerian cosmology, The solar system would have a tenth planet, following an elliptical orbit, would be within the system center once every 3,600 years. According to Sitchin, the hypothetical planet would be captured by the gravitational pull of Neptune and deviated from its path towards the inside, billions of years ago when our solar system was still in the making. So, according to the Azerbaijani writer, Nibiru was a wandering planet "Captured" by the Sun's gravity. Nibiru is also called the "planet of the passage. "Every 3,600 years, in the transition to its perihelion (So close to the Sun and the ​ inner planets), Nibiru, due to the gravitational perturbations due to its mass, it would be the source of great upheavals and cataclysms on Earth. Zechariah Sitchin 63 http://en.apocalisselaica.net/varie/scienza-ed-evoluzione/perche-l-orbita-della-terra-e-inclinata-di-7-gradi-rispetto-all-equatore-del-sole#sthash.S2v3a6Xt.dpuf
  • 64. Nancy Lieder, Zeta Talk and Planet X Nancy Lieder’s Zeta Talk website is quite extensive and she claims to channel “The Zetans” on demand to answer people’s questions. However, some answers she gives have been hopelessly wrong… In 2002, the Author of a “Planet X Critical” Website wrote “Nancy started posting to astronomy newsgroups in 1995, about the time comet Hale Bopp was discovered, claiming that there was no comet. Hale Bopp, she claimed, was simply a nova used as a distraction so people wouldn't see Planet X. In the spring of 1997 comet Hale Bopp put on a spectacular show even moving across the Orion area, very near where the mythical Planet X was supposed to be. Pretty strange for a distraction to move across the area it is supposed to be distracting people from! Now 7 years after this claim was made we still don't see Planet X, even without a distraction.” Lieder is still talking about Planet being visible on SOHO images in 2009/2010 http://planet-x.150m.com/where.html 64
  • 65. Planet X – Zeta Talk http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue167.htm Tail of Planet X Planet X has been appearing on SOHO and the Stereo Ahead for some months now, in approximately the 4:30 o'clock position. But sometimes something bright with a tail shows up in other places, above the Sun, or to the left of the Sun. If this is Planet X, why is it moving around so much? ZetaTalk Explanation 1/2/2010: When the Winged Globe or the Red Cross appears to the lower right on the Sun, this is the Planet X corpus. We have explained that the tail is vast, the Moon swirls swinging to either side of Planet X by 5 million miles, but the tail itself swings further than that. During the hour of the pole shift, when Planet X is a mere 14 million miles from the Earth, the tail is whipping the Earth, depositing hail and red dust. The tail itself can catch the light, reflecting this to Earth, in what appears to be a blaze of light with a tail drifting away. It is charged, so clings to itself in places, so is thicker in some places than others, just as an electrical charge can raise the hair on your head. As Planet X turns its charged tail toward the Earth, increasingly, such sudden appearances will increase, consternating NASA. 65
  • 66. (Prof?) Jim McCanney In 2006, he was a proponent of irreversible global warming. A synopsis on the Coast to Coast Website of his 19 Mar 2006 says: “Far out in the solar system, Planet X-type objects could become enshrouded in clouds of dust and gas and thus be hard to see, said McCanney, but he noted that a large object could be quite visible by the time it reached Pluto. Once in this position, such an object could take hundreds of years to approach Earth or it could come in at a "superspeed" in a matter of weeks, he warned.” From another website: Mr. McCanney often calls himself "Professor McCanney" although his own biography only shows that he was an introductory lecturer at Cornell University for 2 years in 1979-80. No where does Mr. McCanney show that he earned the title Professor. He's apparently been working as a Certified Licensed massage therapist! He does not seem to have worked in a scientific or academic capacity since Cornell more than 20 years ago. Some debunking websites uses McCanney’s “Solar capacitor” description to “debunk” the idea of electric charges being important in certain effects on our weather, comets etc – so McCanney’s other rather bogus statements make it easier for some scientists to gloss over what “The Electric Universe” http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/electric_universe/esp_electricuniverse21.htm 66 researchers have shown. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2006/03/19 http://www.cosmophobia.org/james-mccanney http://planet-x.150m.com/mccanney.html
  • 67. Planet X / Nibiru A typical email which may be seen from time to time… 67
  • 68. Asking for Planet X / Nibiru Evidence Oct 2012 ANON: “Also folks, AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS HAVE BEEN SIGHTING PLANET-X ( Over 100 of them as a matter of fact )..” ADJ: Got any links to photos etc please? I'd be very interested to see them! 68
  • 69. Send Me Planet X Photos!! From: "Andrew Johnson" <ad.johnson@ntlworld.com> To: Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 9:31:18 AM Subject: RE: [FWD: DEAD ASTRONOMERS- RESENDING] So can you send me a link? I've seen a lot of photos claiming to show planet X - but none of the ones I've looked actually show it - they show various things from CCD artefacts/over exposure to sundogs to blank areas of an image - every one that I've seen has been a case of misidentification. Please can you send me a few pictures - along with details about who took it, time/date and equipment used. This would be the data required for verification and checking by anyone (I have a reasonable telescope - which should not even be needed if it's of decent size and close. For example, Mars is about 180 million miles away - it's about 1/2 the size of the earth and we can see it at night with the naked eye. Use this as a "BS-guide" if you will. Any measurements on Planet X? How big is it in relation to the Earth? How far away is it? What colour is it? Andrew 69
  • 70. Here is Planet X… Honest! “GG (21 Oct 2012): I took it from eastern Penobscot, Maine, looking west on October 2nd 2012 with a 12 mp Fuji digital and a green #12 filter. There are thousands of photos on poleshift.ning.com” “It came from the direction of Orion in 1983, came into the solar system in 1999, came around from behind the sun in 2003 and stopped. As gravity pushes, it stopped the earth, venus, and the dark twin of the earth in its orbit while they stopped it in its orbit. Poleshift occurs in the 1 hour to break free of the dance/cups, and that will send a 600 ft tidal wave around the world, and in your case, UK will sink 150 ft.; therefore waves of 750-850 will erase the UK and Denmark. The date has never been announced.” 70
  • 71. Here is Planet X… Honest! GG: “[Planet X is] 29,000 miles in diameter, cloudy oceanic, volcanic and atmospheric planet 30 million miles from earth below the line from earth to the sun at the 5 o'clock position; its 5 million mile long tail pointed right at earth.” AJ: So it's roughly 3.5 times bigger than the earth. And it's therefore about 7 times bigger than Mars. At 30,000,000 miles from us, it's about 1/3 the distance to the sun and 6 times nearer than Mars. So I guess it should be about 40 times bigger in the sky than Mars is (feel free to correct any of my figures). That's a pretty big object - and if it's greenish as your photo suggests, it should be pretty obvious. GG: “And Zetatalk.com answers all your questions. It has its own google search engine for its own 39,000 pages of questions from the public and answers from the Zetas.” 71
  • 72. Planet X - IRAS IRAS – the Infrared Astronomical Satellite – was launched on 26th Jan 1983. For several months, IRAS surveyed the sky in Infra-red – detecting objects too faint to be seen in visible light. In 1983/1984 stories began that it had detected an object that was way out in the solar system but too faint to be seen in the normal optical range. It was tentatively suggested by 1 or 2 scientists it could be a distant “10th Planet” – Planet X – or a brown dwarf = Cool Star” companion to the Sun Stories appeared in the Washington Post (30 Dec 1983), New York Times (30 Jan 1983 – only 4 days after the launch….) and US News & World Report (left) – Sept 10, 1984. http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/1.shtml http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/pxUSNW.jpg 72 http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/1.shtml http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/pxUSNW.jpg
  • 73. Google Earth / Sky and Planet X! There are quite a few YouTube videos claiming there is a cover up about Planet X. Here’s one example – and illustration of the limited research and assumptions that it makes. Some not-so-difficultchecking is required… http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=327&Itemid=59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WaJt-hYyeQ 73
  • 74. Other Planet X Speakers / Supporters Marshall Masters (YOWUSA website) John Moore Jason Martell (mainly focused on Sitchin’s writings). My opinion is that Jason Martell is much more well-informed and realistic than the others (he’s not focused on “prepping” – “preparing for disaster”). http://xfacts.com/x1.htm Marshall Masters John Moore Jason Martell http://yowusa.com/ http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/2011/08/planet-x-the-thoughts-of-john-moore/ 74
  • 75. “Planet X – Inside orbit of Jupiter in 2013”!! http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hercolobus/esp_hercolobus_58.htm 75 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZ8mu08RBk
  • 76. Further Study - No Apparent Evidence of Planet X in IRAS Data What did IRAS Find? The conspiracy theory of IRAS is primarily due to there not being any follow-up news reports. NASA obviously put a lid on the news according to the Planet X supporters. In reality what IRAS found was not an exciting or newsworthy discovery. Nothing unknown and mysterious for sensational headlines as in the case of the 1983 story. According to Dr. Mike Dworetsky, Director University of London Observatory, "The object in question was eventually identified as a denser knot of "interstellar cirrus" in Taurus (not in Orion but a bit to the west) while the other objects the team were interested in were identified as infra-red-bright galaxies." "The object was designated as 0412+085 in Houck J.R. et al, Astrophysical Journal Letters vol 278, p L63, 1984 and reported as infrared cirrus in Houck, J.R. et al, Astrophysical Journal Letters vol 290, p. L5, 1985. The other objects, as the article stresses, were identified as very faint galaxies." So what did IRAS find? A knot of interstellar cirrus, which is simply an area of dust grains between the stars. This would not make a very exciting news story, certainly not up to the 1983 Washington Post story. http://planet-x.150m.com/ - http://planet-x.150m.com/iras2.html 76
  • 77. Planet X - Conclusions I have seen no credible evidence that there is a large planet anywhere in our solar system. It seems to me that if an amateur can detect a comet only 5 miles in diameter when it is as far away as Jupiter, they would easily see a larger object much further out – with advanced and semi-automated observing equipment. All Planet X predictions have so far been hopelessly wrong and at least some of those promoting the stories don’t understand the figures they are using and the images they are seeing – they don’t seem able to compare them to data about the solar system that we already know and can observe. The Sun may have a binary star companion – or an additional planet – but it must be extremely difficult to detect if it is there bearing in mind that: Tom Van Flandern Objects smaller than Pluto have recently been observed at far greater distances. Over 1000 extrasolar (outside the solar system) planets have now been detected – by using missions like Kepler. Though NASA could be well be covering up knowledge about a present or ancient “Planet X”, it would be far more difficult to keep Amateur Astronomers quiet about such things – they’d want their names in the history books! Perhaps Sitchin’s Planet X is not in the orbit he says/said – or has been confused in Mythology for something else. It does seem like there may have been another Planet in our Solar System which exploded, as Tom Van Flandern (deceased) has hypothesised. http://metaresearch.org/solar%20system/eph/eph2000.asp 77
  • 78. Overall Conclusions Comets come round every few years but are currently not predictable in the way they will appear to us. More observations and better technology now allow us to catalogue and analyse Comets and NEO’s more thoroughly – but this does little or nothing to increase our safety from the effects they could have – at short notice. Planet X may be out there – but it’s a LONG way off and probably not that big or warm/hot! “Catastrophists” and Preachers will likely exploit the fears created by the passage of Comets and the occurrence of natural disasters - as much as they have always done. Oh, and 21st Dec 2012 was said, by many to be some kind of “cut off” date, but I feel little different in Nov 2013 compared to this time last year. I, for one, have not “ascended”… However, 78 we are involved in some kind of “transition”.
  • 79. We’re STILL Here! Keep Going! So Far ALL of the End of the World Predictions have – errrr… Been WRONG! Sadly, we have borne witness to quite a few disasters in the last 20 years, such as Tsunamis, Oil Disasters, Wars, Powerful Storms etc. It seems these will continue to occur. This exploitation of fear will only end when the knowledge of hidden advanced technologies that can “change the whole game” is more widely understood and those covering up this knowledge are fully identified and their agenda halted. Then, we will not be subject, to the same degree, to all the factors that have caused some of the terrible events he have seen in the last few years. LUTEC Free Energy Generator 79
  • 80. Thank you for listening! www.solarsystemscope.com/ www.iau.org/ www.thunderbolts.info/ cometography.com/ www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/ www.brigantesnation.com/VitrifiedForts/VitrifieedForts.htm www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ www.bible.ca/ www.cosmophobia.org/ xfacts.com/ planet-x.150m.com/ www.checktheevidence.com Please check and form your own view of this information. DVD’s Booklets, Leaflets Available!
  • 81. A NASA Spaceweather Update has just noted that Comet Ison is now visible (see below). I have been asked by Omar Fowler to talk about Comet Ison at his Derby PRA Group on Tues 26th Nov (this is very local to me) - so I am doing some research on it. Some think Ison will be very bright - some thought it was set to crash into the earth (seems like that is said of almost every comet that comes around now). I will also be talking about the recurring themes predicitions of catastrophes etc. The traditional explanation for comets - in most text books and websites - is that comets are "dirty snowballs" - a mixture of dust and ice - hardly solid even - you can see a typical explanation used in shcools here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/edexcel_pre_2011/space/planetsstarsandgalaxiesrev2.shtml However, it has become clear in the last 20 years or so that this "dirty snowball" model is wrong - as another recent update from NASA - about asteroids seems also to indicate: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/07nov_6tails/ Despite this, evidence is ignored in favour of coming up with theoretical scenarios - and classic scientific statements about the data returned from probes that have visited and even crashed into comets such as: ""We know the ice is there," he said. "It's just wellhidden." (Dr. Laurence Soderblom of the U.S. Geological Survey) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_80.html One of the key factors that remains largely unspoken of in mainstream astronomy is the role of electricity - this is covered in depth in this excellent 1.5 hour video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=34wtt2EUToo (which is a little repetitve and I think needs editing a bit, but is still higly informative). Most of what's in the video seems to be summarised here: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/electric_universe/esp_electricuniverse17.htm (reposting of essentialy what is here: http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/?s=comet) So here is the Ison update.... http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=11&year=2013 81
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