chimaybliss Posted February 12, 2011 #1 Share Posted February 12, 2011 November 6, 2011. This is the date that researchers are predicting comet elenin will strike the earth ...... http://scienceray.com/astronomy/doomsday-prophets-are-predicting-comet-elenin-will-collide-with-earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted February 12, 2011 #2 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Nope, doomsday sayers are predicting comet Elenin will hit the Earth...astronomers aren't. See artice from Sky and Telescope. Best guess is that comet Elenin will be apx. .45 AU's from Earth, for comparison the moon is .0025 AU's from Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booNyzarC Posted February 12, 2011 #3 Share Posted February 12, 2011 November 6, 2011. This is the date that researchers are predicting comet elenin will strike the earth ...... http://scienceray.com/astronomy/doomsday-prophets-are-predicting-comet-elenin-will-collide-with-earth Run! Panic! We're all gonna die! AHHHHH!!!!! Nope, doomsday sayers are predicting comet Elenin will hit the Earth...astronomers aren't. See artice from Sky and Telescope. Best guess is that comet Elenin will be apx. .45 AU's from Earth, for comparison the moon is .0025 AU's from Earth. Oh... whew... false alarm. Move along people, move along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museatlantis Posted February 14, 2011 #4 Share Posted February 14, 2011 I think it will pass close but nowhere near to crash. The Apothis asteroid might make a very close pass of the Earth but that won't happen until 2029-2036 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSearcher Posted February 15, 2011 #5 Share Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) Most astronomers and amateur astronomers, are just exited that they possibly can observe the illuminated tail of a comet as it passes between earth and the sun, according to this article. Nobody is actually running for cover just yet.......well except David Icke and his ilk of course. According to another article, the comet will come closest to the Earth, a distance of 0.27 a.u. (40.5 million km.), in the middle of October. Edited February 15, 2011 by TheSearcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcman Posted March 10, 2011 #6 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Nope, doomsday sayers are predicting comet Elenin will hit the Earth...astronomers aren't. See artice from Sky and Telescope. Best guess is that comet Elenin will be apx. .45 AU's from Earth, for comparison the moon is .0025 AU's from Earth. It may get in a lot closer than that; it has to get through the Asteroid Belt without hitting anything. It may also be a lot larger than anticipated...A LOT LARGER!! LEONID ELENIN CANT SEE AN OBJECT OF 3 KM (c/w COMA OR NO COMA) WITH only an 18" MIRROR FROM ABOUT 6-700 000 000 KM THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! There is a media blackout of this comets approach at present. Nothing we can do about it except take emergency preparedness very seriously. ...the UK is: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1363703/Our-future-water-How-devastating-floods-swamp-major-cities.html#ixzz1GCvmPglm HOW BIG IS THIS COMET? see: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=201892 Hubble would have had a hard time seeing an object that small at a billion kms. It's BIG, VERY BIG! ...and that's why it was seen with such a small (18") telescope at a billion kms. I guess we'll know soon enough...by June I should think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGirl Posted March 10, 2011 #7 Share Posted March 10, 2011 the sky is falling the sky is falling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFO_Monster Posted March 10, 2011 #8 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Can't we just...you know...put down our telescopes for once? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelvrina Posted March 10, 2011 #9 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Well all I'd have to say is get out your teles and look up into the sky at that point. If we're able to see it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeRadio Posted March 11, 2011 #10 Share Posted March 11, 2011 As any good Fortean knows, Astronomers sometimes get things wrong. But Doomsday Seers have NEVER been right, not even ONCE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSearcher Posted March 11, 2011 #11 Share Posted March 11, 2011 It may get in a lot closer than that; it has to get through the Asteroid Belt without hitting anything. It may also be a lot larger than anticipated...A LOT LARGER!! LEONID ELENIN CANT SEE AN OBJECT OF 3 KM (c/w COMA OR NO COMA) WITH only an 18" MIRROR FROM ABOUT 6-700 000 000 KM There is a media blackout of this comets approach at present. Nothing we can do about it except take emergency preparedness very seriously. ...the UK is: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1363703/Our-future-water-How-devastating-floods-swamp-major-cities.html#ixzz1GCvmPglm HOW BIG IS THIS COMET? see: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=201892 Hubble would have had a hard time seeing an object that small at a billion kms. It's BIG, VERY BIG! ...and that's why it was seen with such a small (18") telescope at a billion kms. I guess we'll know soon enough...by June I should think. [/size][/color][/size][/font] Your maths may be right, but if your premise is truncated, the maths don't matter The comet was discovered with a robotic telescope in New Mexico on 10 December 2010 by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin. He acquired four 4-minute-long images using an 18-inch (45-cm) telescope at the ISON-NM observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico, on which he detected the comet as a suspect fuzzy smudge. He indeed didn't "see" anything, however the telescope and subsequently the camera did. For those that have an issue visualising what an 18-inch telescope looks like, the below image show an 18" Centurion telescope (referred to as C18; see Brosch et al. 2008 for a description of the telescope and its performance) which is a small and modern telescope manufactured by AstroWorks, USA. The 18'' (0.46-m) mirror is assembled on a fork mount, while the focal plane is maintained at the proper distance from the primary mirror by a carbon-reinforced epoxy plastic truss tube structure. Below is a good example of what the pictures in question looked like. And yes this is an actual picture of the comet C/2010 X1 Elenin Media Blackout? Seriously? Ok then these links are all violating said blackout then. http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=14416 http://spaceobs.org/en/tag/comet-elenin/ http://www.suite101.com/content/comet-elenin-observe-a-jewel-of-the-night-skies-septembers-2011-a324612 http://www.sott.net/articles/show/221672 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2010_X1 http://www.examiner.com/astronomy-in-aurora-co/comet-elenin-boom-to-bust http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top Hell off a blackout, if even NASA ignores it. So here's some info about the comet itself : http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Elenin%20;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#phys_par http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2010_X1 I can only say one thing, before you start saying that the "end of the world" has arrived, try to research a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corp Posted March 11, 2011 #12 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Oh no we have to flee in the space ships! What? Oh we don't have any? Ok...well than we must go into the protective underground bunkers! Huh? None of those either? And it's doubtful they would do any good? Oh...ok then let's go get some dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSearcher Posted March 11, 2011 #13 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Oh no we have to flee in the space ships! What? Oh we don't have any? Ok...well than we must go into the protective underground bunkers! Huh? None of those either? And it's doubtful they would do any good? Oh...ok then let's go get some dinner. You buying? In which case, I'm game. What food you have in mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corp Posted March 11, 2011 #14 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Why not all of them? World is toast in a few months anyway. Toast would actually be a nice snack to start off with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar650ca Posted March 11, 2011 #15 Share Posted March 11, 2011 The Cold war ends and now we have to listen to this bullcrap.Whats is with people and there end of the world Sh%t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombeikiller Posted March 12, 2011 #16 Share Posted March 12, 2011 The Cold war ends and now we have to listen to this bullcrap.Whats is with people and there end of the world Sh%t Because we need something to worry about and talk about all the time when there is really nothing to say. also we just blow up the comet if it gets to close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma_Acid Posted March 12, 2011 #17 Share Posted March 12, 2011 November 6, 2011. This is the date that researchers are predicting comet elenin will strike the earth ...... http://scienceray.com/astronomy/doomsday-prophets-are-predicting-comet-elenin-will-collide-with-earth I think you need to rethink your definition of "researcher" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted March 12, 2011 #18 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I think you need to rethink your definition of "researcher" This person got banned from another forum I'm a member of as they never do more than post and run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnivorous Entity Posted March 12, 2011 #19 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I would be p***ed off if this is true, that's three days before my 18th birthday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSearcher Posted March 13, 2011 #20 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I would be p***ed off if this is true, that's three days before my 18th birthday. Well I wouldn't worry, you'll be just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlis Posted August 19, 2011 #21 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Comet Elenin Won't Kill Us, Says NASA NASA has issued the facts about a comet called Elenin. And no, these aren't the "facts" doomsayers will tell you. In short, the 3-5 kilometer-wide comet can't hurt us. Really, it can't. It's too small and its closest approach to Earth will bring it 90 times the Earth-moon distance. 90 times the Earth-moon distance. That's a whopping 35 million kilometers (22 million miles) away. Could there be any conceivable impact to our everyday lives by this dirty snowball? ANALYSIS: Will Earthbound Comet Elenin Fulfill 2012 Prophecy? > read here. Helpfully, two NASA scientists have been hard at work over the past few months responding to questions from the public. Yesterday -- August 16, 2011 -- NASA compiled some of the most popular questions, creating an "everything you ever needed to know about Comet Elenin" Q&A. > Read the Q&A here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damrod Posted August 19, 2011 #22 Share Posted August 19, 2011 (edited) http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Elenin;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb Not even close... And for asteroid buffs.... http://spaceweather.com/ About halfway down the page is the known near asteroids... But just for fun... Edited August 19, 2011 by Damrod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damrod Posted August 19, 2011 #23 Share Posted August 19, 2011 BTW...for those that are interested...Comet Honda came closer the other day than Elenin will ever get...(.0632 AU on the 14th) Honda is now .0707 AU from earth. Too bad it's been cloudy and stormy...would love to see these things. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=45P%2FHonda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova;orb=1;cov... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarGateAtlantis Posted August 19, 2011 #24 Share Posted August 19, 2011 i would be p***ed if this were true as well because i haven't lost my virginity yet or i never won the lottery. life is indeed dark times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinthecrowd Posted August 19, 2011 #25 Share Posted August 19, 2011 It's quite likely we will figure out when a massive rocks gonna hit us with the amount of people who watch the sky. It's only a matter of time yeah but it could be 10 years, 20 years, 60 years, 100, 1000, 100,000,00 years. And one that will wipe out the earth would be rare. Even apophis wouldn't wipe out the earth, just screw up some peoples lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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