NASA, Sky & Telescope, J. Kelly Beatty, and Criminal Negligence

Recently it has been brought to my attention by a reader that a fellow named J. Kelly Beatty has written about Comet Elenin on the official NASA disinfo site, "Sky & Telescope." Beatty saw fit to include the following defamatory comment at the end of his article:

Meanwhile, you have my permission to ignore or refute any of the wacky postings about the supposed danger posed by Comet Elenin. All this nonsense seems to have started back in January, when edge-of-reality blogger Laura Knight Jadczyk made provocative warnings — all based on information from a member of her research team who's "an astronomer at a large observatory". (Yea, right.) It's not even worth giving you a link to her ramblings. (J. Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope)

Now, while I do admit that I am rather pleased at the higher educational level of this particular defamer (in comparison to the really ignorant fundies of both the mainstream religion and New Age variety who often go after me because I don't subscribe to their various savior theories), the fact is that this guy is rather more dangerous to the world at large than the small fry alternative crowd. Let me quote from this month's edition of SOTT's "Connecting the Dots" (a worthy read if ever there was one!) to make the point.

Marvels and Portents

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"We do not need the celestial threat to disguise Cold War intentions;
rather we need the Cold War to disguise celestial intentions!" ~ Victor Clube

It's a hell of a challenge trying to round-up countless reports about the fire in the sky when your years' long attempts to broach others' awareness about the impending danger persistently falls on deaf ears.

If everything we need to know, we learned in kindergarten, then remember, when you were a kid, how you were instructed by your carers about the basic safety measures: never take candy from a stranger, be aware of the environment at all times and be in contact (network). Learn to scream "FIRE" to get people's attention, because there is nothing quite like a fire hazard to activate people's natural self-preservation instincts.

And yet, here we are screaming "fire!" year after year, not for the sake of getting attention, and still we get responses like to this one. Sheesh, we sometimes feel like Cassandra!

But where some would give up and concentrate on their personal survival, we instead choose to utilize this cubic centimeter of opportunity still available to humanity, and be like the hummingbird from the following Chinese parable:

One day an elephant saw a hummingbird lying on its back with its tiny feet up in the air. "What are you doing?" asked the elephant. The hummingbird replied, "I heard that the sky might fall today, and so I am ready to help hold it up, should it fall." The elephant laughed cruelly. "Do you really think," he said, "that those tiny feet could help hold up the sky?" The hummingbird kept his feet up in the air, intent on his purpose, as he replied, "Not alone. But each must do what he can. And this is what I can do.

And fixing our eyes on the skies and keeping informed about the upcoming firestorm is what we can do. But let's change the format of last year's summary just a bit, shall we? Instead of simply listing all the reports we received, we will concentrate on a few key events which acted as markers or signs highlighting the perceptual problem that humanity is facing. If you're after the raw data, please do visit our blog, where you'll find a thorough chronological listing of reported fireballs, meteorites and airbursts.

The confusion surrounding the phenomenon of cosmic debris piercing our atmosphere ultimately lies in the misguided trust we tend to place in those to whom we give authority for tackling problems of global proportions. Admittedly, such responsibility cannot be easy to handle. However, there is a difference between honest error as a result of reaching the limits of knowledge and understanding available in a specific field, and a science corrupted from sacrificing truth to further political agendas or certain preconceptions, in the name of maintaining an illusion and a lie for which we are all about to pay with our very lives.

A case in point:

NASA's senior scientist, David Morrison, stated that 80 percent of the near Earth asteroids that are 1 kilometer or larger have been identified and that he could assure those gathered at the conference that "We are not going the way of the dinosaurs." He also says the Spaceguard Survey has not turned up any near Earth asteroids as large as the one that is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs.

Morrison pointed out that asteroid strikes are the only natural hazard that in principle can be completely eliminated. Thanks to the Spaceguard Survey, humanity will likely have decades of warning before an impending collision. Once alerted, missiles could be used to nudge a threatening asteroid so that it misses the earth.

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Cosmic Elephant in our living room.

The definition of criminal negligence is recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences).

We have this nagging suspicion that David Morrison's assurances that we have nothing to worry about when it comes to threats from space, and that we can peacefully go on with our daily lives, filled with quiet desperation on a planet where human tragedy and horrendous atrocities have become as common as fruit flies, amount to a disturbingly clear example of criminal negligence.

Perhaps this is why:

The experts are not remotely agreed on how worried we should be. Telescopes and satellites are now in a position to detect potential "planet-killers" - asteroids or comets over one kilometre in diameter - many years or even decades before they might collide with the Earth.

The problem, according to Jay Tate, director of the public information resource Spaceguard UK, is that no measures are in place to avert them, and smaller objects could still "whistle through" to strike us at any time. "Do you want to know how much warning we would have of a country or city-killing asteroid?" asks Tate. "About four seconds. A major impact is just as likely to happen before the end of this conversation as 10,000 years from now."

A retired British Army officer and guided-weapons specialist, Tate became curious about government plans to defend against meteorites after the SL9 comet bombarded Jupiter in 1994, and was furious to find that they didn't have a single one. He and several eminent scientists formed a task force on Near Earth Objects (NEOs), presenting parliament with a series of recommendations for action in 2000.[...]

"Very little has been done since," says Tate, from the Spaceguard Centre at the former Powys Observatory in Wales. "The official British line seems to be that we don't need to bother, because the Americans are taking care of it. But if that's the rationale, then what the bloody hell are we doing in Iraq?"

Bloody hell, indeed, is what they created in Iraq.

And since we can't rely on the "brightest and best" at NASA to present us with an accurate assessment of cosmic threats, without muddying the water or intentionally concealing crucial data (dare we call it a conspiracy of cosmic proportions?), we will take a shot at the job (once again), reminding you that from a historical point of view,

the only reality is that of conspiracy. Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power. Deception is the key element of warfare, (the tool of power elites), and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo. [Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. I]

And maintaining the "status quo" in science has to be one of the main objectives of the Power Elite. So let us break the status quo by presenting you with facts that were once known or understood by humanity on an instinctual level, learned the hard way after facing and surviving numerous life-shattering calamities.

Here is what acclaimed astrophysicist Victor Clube has to say:

There is a paradigm shift involved in recognizing that it's not just ancient history we have got wrong - it's all history.

So, what is my point? My point is that you do not have to dabble first in mythology and prehistory and geology, as Velikovsky did, in order to understand the sky. You first take the modern sky accessible to science, especially during the Space Age, and you look at its darker debris with a view to relating its behavior to the more accessible human history which we can, in principle, really understand. And by this approach you discover from the dynamics of the material in space which I'm talking about that a huge comet must have settled in a Taurid orbit some 20,000 years ago, whose dense meteor stream for 10,000 years almost certainly produced the last Ice Age.

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What else can we learn from history that will help us to understand that cometary bombardments are not isolated events, but act as an integral part of our existence by periodically bestowing upon us their fiery gifts that carry a message of 'wisdom through the awful grace of God'. And if we're getting too Biblical for your taste, dear readers, it's because even that notorious manuscript of our times has cosmic catastrophe written all over it.

Sodom and Gomorrah may have been destroyed by debris from a comet, startling new archaeological and astronomical research suggests. Another bombardment from space may have brought on the Dark Ages. [...]

The conference, on natural catastrophes during Bronze Age civilisations, will bring together astronomers, archaeologists, geologists and other scientists to try to find an explanation for the near-simultaneous fall of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, the Sumerian civilisation in Mesopotamia and the Harrapin Civilisation of the Indus Valley. In all, some 40 cities are thought to have disappeared, in a series of catastrophes. [...]

Dr Victor Clube, senior research fellow in astrophysics at Oxford, says the Biblical account accords well with similar events in Babylonian records. He has calculated that the Earth would have passed through a particularly dense cloud of debris - the Taurid meteorite stream, thought to have resulted from the break-up of a comet 40,000 years ago - between 2200 and 2000BC.

This happened again between 400 and 600AD and may have led to the fall of Rome and the Dark Ages. when contemporaries report "fires of righteous vengeance" falling from the sky.

The Taurid Stream is not due to return until the end of the next millennium but Dr Clube says that similar bombardments from other debris could occur in the meantime. "There is danger in the sky," he warns, "and people would be right to be afraid."

We are NOT trying to "spread fear and panic". People are very stressed at this point in time, in general, and we believe that the ultimate source of this stress lies in our deepest memories of cyclic catastrophes brought on by cometary bombardment of some form or another. Much strength and creative resourcefulness can be found even in the most dire and dark situations. Forewarned is forearmed, and the spear of truth and knowledge is sharper than the psychopathic Powers that Be's dagger of deception.

From Clube and Napier's Cosmic Winter, we learn that:

The Pleistocene ice epoch began about 2.5 million years ago, consistent with a sudden influx of comets from the disturbed cloud, although mountain glaciers were beginning to extend even before then. This epoch, like others which have occurred in Earth history, is broken up into a series of very erratic ice ages, each of duration typically 10,000 to 100,000 years. Again, these timescales are about those associated with the intermittent arrival and disintegration of the greatest comets, although no great precision can be put on the figures.

The last ice age ended just over 10,000 years ago. We are therefore, at the moment, living in a warm interglacial period. Interspersing such warm periods, however, are short cooling episodes, very sudden in onset, and lasting typically ten to a hundred years. During these episodes the Earth's climate plunges into glacial severity.

Such cooling episodes may be of great human consequence and will be discussed presently; for the moment we note only that for the first time there is a scientific basis for a catastrophic interpretation of human history; and we begin to discern that the threat from the sky may have a wintry aspect.

The imminent Ice Age is of course another factor that will result in the dissolution of the current civilization's way of life. So we're not only talking about a 'death by fire!' As Robert Frost so poignantly expressed:

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

This poem is not merely an attempt to add a poetic touch to an otherwise 'cut and dried' or cynical depiction of what awaits us just around the corner. Let's just say that if cosmic or other catastrophes mirror the human experience, and if this observation is even remotely true, judging from what is currently happening on the third rock from the Sun, we are way overdue for some 'balance restoration', where Mother Nature takes charge and does an extensive 'housecleaning'.

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But back to the issue at hand.

Some mainstream verification of what Sott.net has been saying for years is finally coming through the information blackout, with the UK's Daily Mail reporting in April, 2010 that the last ice age was caused by cometary bombardment. A similar rarity occurred in February, 2010 as mainstream media "revealed" how a swarm of comet debris caused the 'Dark Ages' circa 500 AD. Bill Napier, as well as Victor Clube, deserve major recognition for their dedication in putting many of the puzzle pieces together. The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes by Firestone, West and Warwick-Smith is the seminal book on the Younger Dryas Impact Event at the end of the last Ice Age.

But besides older comets that break up and leave debris trails through which Earth periodically passes, Laura Knight-Jadczyk's tireless research has led us to consider the cyclical mechanism by which comets from the Oort Cloud surrounding the outer solar system are knocked into the inner solar system in the first place. An article from February, 2010, 'Getting WISE about Nemesis,' corroborates her research:

Our solar system is surrounded by a vast collection of icy bodies called the Oort Cloud. If our Sun were part of a binary system in which two gravitationally-bound stars orbit a common center of mass, this interaction could disturb the Oort Cloud on a periodic basis, sending comets whizzing towards us.

Considering the above information, let us pose a question. For every instance of space traffic we do spot, how many go unnoticed? Only by chance did amateur astronomer Nick Howes capture images of a comet exploding in March, 2010, an event completely missed by anyone else.

The steady increase in the number of fireball sightings, together with research which reveals that our environment is constantly affected by interaction with comet debris and cosmic radiation, tells us that our Big Blue Marble is once again on the threshold of encountering a cosmic storm. In fact, we're long overdue the Big One. But don't expect our dear leaders to inform us of this anytime soon. As Laura Knight-Jadczyk has written elsewhere:

If we can't stop an asteroid or comet from hitting us, do you think they'll panic the public by announcing an impending collision beforehand? Nevertheless, panicking the public is de riguer for the Powers That Be, but only for those things they can manage. Global warming that would slowly play out over decades is the ideal problem for those seeking power: the ever more dire warnings feed into the controllers' hands as they use it to justify ever higher military spending, dismantling of civil liberties, more control for corporations, and "preemptive" invasions in the quest for dwindling resources. What the public doesn't realize is that this may very well be all in preparation for when that first comet swarm panics us little earthlings who have no underground bases, no stockpiles of supplies, no protocol for surviving such an event, to emerge on the other side still in control.

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Conspiracy of Silence

Indeed, it is highly unlikely that world leaders at the highest level are not aware of the threat of a meteorite impact. We have been suggesting that they are aware, and have been for a very long time. The reader might wish to peruse Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Comets and Catastrophe series. They are also aware that they cannot do anything to prevent impacts such as those described in the above article. And so, they marginalize the subject and feign disinterest all the while they are making their own preparations to survive.

There is much evidence to strongly suggest that much of the landmass of Western Europe was destroyed in an meteorite impact around 540 AD, ushering in what is known today as "the dark ages". Further evidence from the study of fossilized tree rings and ice core samples, not to mention historical records, suggests that this most recent event was but one of many events that have happened in a cyclical pattern throughout the course of human history.

As far as we know, no human has ever got out of this place "alive". Perhaps now that the Universe, by posing a clear and present danger to our very existence, is drawing attention to that existence, we might all begin, even at this late hour, to ponder just what the real meaning of our lives, individually and collectively, really is.

On this note, we finally come to the point of recapitulating past year's (and up to this day) marker events. Ladies and Gentlemen, brace for impact.

We will begin with NASA that has developed a new telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The telescope has been scanning the skies to locate brown dwarfs, including the Sun's hypothesized Dark Star companion - referred to as 'Nemesis' (first proposed in 1983 by Richard A. Muller, physicist at the University of California, Berkeley). In just six weeks the telescope has already found 16 previously unknown asteroids that swing close by Earth. WISE is expected to find up to 1000 Near Earth Objects, but astronomers estimate that the number of unknown objects with masses large enough to cause significant damage upon impact runs into the tens of thousands.

A report in late 2010 confirmed what we have suspected all along: the number of comets entering the inner solar system is on the rise:

It took SOHO ten years to spot its first thousand comets, but only five more to find the next thousand. That's due partly to increased participation from comet hunters and work done to optimize the images for comet-sighting, but also due to an unexplained systematic increase in the number of comets around the sun. Indeed, December alone has seen an unprecedented 37 new comets spotted so far, a number high enough to qualify as a "comet storm."

And a "comet storm" it was, with 25 comets crashing into the Sun in the space of ten days at the beginning of January:

Sundiving comets - a.k.a. "sungrazers" - are nothing new. SOHO typically sees one every few days, plunging inward and disintegrating as solar heat sublimes its volatile ices. "But 25 comets in just ten days, that's unprecedented," says Battams.[...]

"Since SOHO was launched there has been a trend of increasing numbers of Kreutz sungrazers," he points out. A table in Knight's 2008 PhD thesis shows SOHO detecting 69 sungrazers in 1997 compared to 200 sungrazers in 2010. "The increase is significant and cannot be accounted for by improvements in SOHO or the increasing skill of comet hunters."

What are the possible repercussions of such an impressive display for us Earthlings if, according to NASA, we are safe as long as it doesn't fall on our heads, and the chances for a head-on collision happening are pretty slim? By the way, if you want our take on the value of NASA's input, we would advise them to lay off the drugs before telling us how it is when it comes to extraterrestrial affairs.

As it happens, one of the biggest lies told for centuries, and which affects everything, especially in science, is that whatever happens on this planet originates on this planet. Except for a few "rare" and potentially destructive events such as massive solar flares, we are supposedly pretty much isolated from anything that happens in our solar system. Common sense tells us that everything is interconnected, but for some peculiar reason this connectedness apparently ends somewhere in the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Talk about confused minds!

It's this fundamental confusion that provides the opening for accepting nonsensical ideas such as global warming. But in a round about way, Al Gore's tall tales are not that outlandish. In fact, we might say that he is telling a half-truth. According to him, the world awaits

"an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it." How awful a calamity? "The displacement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees, civil unrest, chaos and the collapse of governance in many developing countries, large-scale crop failures and the spread of deadly diseases."

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Noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds

And this part is probably true. What is not true is that it is due to global warming, but rather to climate change brought on by changes in our cosmic environment, i.e. The Ice Age Cometh.

What we suspect has really been happening, based on our research thus far, is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because it is being loaded with comet dust, which shows up in the form of noctilucent clouds and other upper atmospheric formations.

Magnificent and mesmerizing noctilucent clouds (also called polar mesospheric clouds), once were considered to be rare. But now they are puzzling scientists with their recent dramatic changes. Apparently, the clouds are growing brighter, are seen more frequently, are visible at ever lower latitudes and are now appearing even during the day. If scientists were allowed to conduct an honest interdisciplinary research, such changes wouldn't be a mystery.

They would be able to figure out that comet dust is electrically charged which is causing the earth's rotation to slow marginally. The slowing of the rotation is reducing the magnetic field, opening earth to more dangerous cosmic radiation and stimulating more volcanism. The volcanism under the sea is heating the sea water which is heating the lower atmosphere and loading it with moisture. The moisture hits the cooler upper atmosphere and contributes to a deadly mix that inevitably leads to an ice age, preceded for a short period by a rapid increase of greenhouse gases and "hot pockets" in the lower atmosphere, heavy rains, hail, snow, and floods.

Expect this trend to continue but don't believe in "man-made global warming". Whatever warming there has been, it's really a prelude to the way ice ages begin. Let's hope that there aren't any catastrophically large chunks in that stream of comet dust cycling through our solar system. The outlook isn't very promising in this regard, as we'll see further on.

An unimaginable calamity indeed.

Recall this image of two suns that were caught on camera last month in China.

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Image of second sun in China

We've heard some suggest that it's a kind of 'sundog' which forms when sunlight refracts through ice crystals and produces striking halo effects, but since it is not an isolated or not an exclusively winter phenomenon, we propose that "two suns" and other similar anomalous phenomena is a 'mirage' effect of some sort whereby the sun is being refracted by the changed atmosphere. That is, a combination of possible comet dust loading and changes in the layers of the atmosphere.

Besides, when was the last time you heard about "two suns" being reported or observed? This is very strong evidence for major changes in the atmosphere and the question you've got to be asking yourself is, why?

Other indications of something radically different about our atmosphere are vivid contrails left by rocket launches, like this one filmed over Kopeysk in southern Russia, just over the border from Kazakhstan, last December:


Whether these are US ICBMs being launched or, as seems more likely given their locations, Russian rockets like the one that produced a weird spiral effect off the coast of Norway during the same week last December, what makes them so dramatic is the interaction of their exhaust with comet dust in the upper atmosphere, causing the trails to dissipate slowly as if suspended in a denser atmospheric solution than normal.

Here is another example of Space Shuttle Discovery producing a colorful show no less impressive than noctilucent clouds (think there is a connection?)

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Space shuttle launch April 2009: We can see now why the ancients described comets and fireballs as "dragons in the sky"

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Be they rocket launches or cometary arrivals - the amazing displays they're producing in the sky are telling us something about the change of its composition. Laura Knight-Jadczyk wrote recently about the smokescreen of chemtrails, most of which are not chemtrails at all; the suspension of jets' contrails in the atmosphere are another sign telling us that the very sky itself is changing.

We try to be extra careful about all kind of ideas that are being propagated in the alternative scene, which after thorough analysis and investigation invariably turn out to be on a par with the mainstream media's lies and are nothing but COINTELPRO red herrings adding more smoke to the matter. So-called "Chemtrails" are one of them. As Laura Knight-Jadczyk wrote this in the end of her article :

I think that I have presented more than sufficient food for thought on the topic of so-called "chemtrails" to suggest that, yes, there is something really wicked going on, but it ain't what you think. In fact, it's worse. YES, something is VERY wrong in our skies - but it is not chemtrails. The CONTRAILS themselves have changed and THAT is a huge warning about our atmosphere and our climate and the implications are a lot scarier than if some nutjobs in the Pentagon were just trying to poison us. Heck, we could survive that. Most of life on earth will NOT survive what these contrails portend!

Okay, that's the end of the quoted section from the latest "Connecting the Dots." Now, I want to ask you: have you ever learned anything equal to the above information - backed up by sources and evidence - from Mr. J. Kelly Beatty of "Sky & Telescope"? Backed by that benevolent organization we all know and love, NASA? Owned and operated by the Global Elite that have brought this planet to the edge of the abyss?

The fact that you haven't is, in my opinion, Criminal Negligence.

Axis Shift? What's Next?

Rather than post a comment in response to a comment on a previous Comet Elenin post, I thought I would just address it here. The comment was "How do you feel now that the earths axis has indeed shifted 25cms? You were adamant about it not happening...but it did."

Amazing how some people are able to spin things to preserve their "rightness". There was a lot of hoopla about a "POLE SHIFT" as in the poles of the planet reversing entirely, and it was destined to happen on either March 12th or 15th, depending on your source and was going to be globally cataclysmic.

There's a world of difference between a Pole Shift, as in "reversal" or major movement, and the few centimeters that the poles shift during major earthquakes.

Since these Chicken Little types were so hot on this pole shift and are now claiming that their prediction came true with a 4 inch shift, let me recapitulate a bit of fairly recent history. You see, the pole shifted with the Chile Earthquake, too, but nobody went around crying "The sky is falling" then.

What we see here is the same phenomenon that erupted at the approach of Comet Hale-Bopp - hysteria among some folks who might be a bit psychic, driven by pathological COINTELPRO handlers. Is there going to be another "Heaven's Gate" suicide as a result? We hope not; and it is for that reason, keeping a cool head in the face of real Earth Changes, that I work to stay balanced on the topic, present the data, and encourage people to do their own research and don't get rattled.

Anyhoo... the first report about the pole shifting as a result of the Japan Earthquake seems to have come from Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. Naturally, they have such an institute with lots of funding since they live on a volcanic and earthquake hot spot. They tell us that "the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rattled Japan Friday shifted the earth's rotation axis by about 25 centimetres. INGV's report, which came hours after the devastating incident, is equivalent to "very, very tiny" changes that won't be seen for centuries, though..." [Source]

Did you get that last part? It's something you can't even notice. If you didn't have such friendly experts to tell you that it happened, you wouldn't know it happened.

Hmmm... a conspiratorial minded person as myself, with a lot of experience sussing out COINTELPRO and knowing that nearly all the institutions in positions of power on this planet are controlled by psychopaths at the summits of power, might wonder about that... but never mind.

Back to the earthquake; we are informed:

Last year, NASA reported that a 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile shorted the day by 1.26 millionths of a second, according to computer-model calculations.

NASA had estimated that the Chilean earthquake shifted the globe's axis by about 10 centimetres, National Geographic reported at the time.

INGV, which is Europe's largest research institute to monitor geophysics, said the impact of Friday's event was "much greater" than 2004's notorious Sumatra earthquake, which clocked in at a magnitude of 9.1.[Source]

So, this is clearly not a new or even very dramatic event. It happens. It's happened before, probably more times than we realize, and it will undoubtedly happen again.

People, this is not a "Pole Shift" in the terms that the general public - or the Chicken Littles - use "pole shift" though certainly, the Earth's axis made an adjustment to accommodate the movement of Japan's landmass some 8 feet!

Now THAT figure should give us pause.

Japan's recent massive earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, appears to have moved the island by about eight feet (2.4 meters), the US Geological Survey said. ... The quake and its tectonic shift resulted from "thrust faulting" along the boundary of the Pacific and North America plates, according to the USGS.

The Pacific plate pushes under a far western wedge of the North America plate at the rate of about 3.3 inches (83 millimeters) per year, but a colossal earthquake can provide enough of a jolt to dramatically move the plates, with catastrophic consequences. [Source]

Judging by the ping-pong effect of these back and forth Pacific Rim events, this may very well mean that the West Coast of the U.S. is next. For what it is worth, this is what the Cassiopaeans have said about California:

San Diego, San Bernardino, North Bakersfield, Barstow: all are fracture points. Hollister, Palo Alto, Imperial, Ukiah, Eureka, Point Mendocino, Monterrey, Offshore San Luis Obispo, Capistrano, Carmel: these are all stress points of fracture in sequence. "Time" is indefinite. Expect gradual destruction of California economy as people begin mass exodus. Also, Shasta erupts; Lassen activity. Ocean floor begins to subside. [3 December 1994]

And from 4 July, 1998:

A: ... How about a shattering subduction quake in Pacific Northwest of U.S.? We estimate 10.4 on the Richter scale. We have warned of Ranier. Imagine a 150 meter high tsunami in Puget Sound...

Q: (L) Now, you have mentioned this earthquake. I know that you don't usually give predictions, why have you done so now?

A: We do not give time tables.

Q: (L) Anything else other than a tsunami in Puget Sound and a big subduction quake... 10.4 on the Richter scale is almost inconceivable.

A: Ranier... caldera.

Q: (L) What about the caldera?

A: Expect one.

Q: (L) Other than floods, anything else for Florida upcoming?

A: All areas experience accelerating "freak weather patterns."

Q: (L) Okay, all of these freaky weather patterns and bizarre things going on on the planet, how does it relate to the comet cluster and the brown star? Is it related?

A: Human experiential cycle intersects.

Q: (L) Any specifice physical manifestation of either this brown star or this comet cluster or this realm border, that is related to these events on the planet?

A: Approach of wave stimulates precursor activity which in turn causes effects which in turn stimulates further "heating up" of activity...

...

Q: (L) Okay, is there anyway we could graph this ourselves, and if so, what types of events would we include to create the background data?

A: "El Nino, La Nina," etc...

Q: (L) Is this El Nino thing connected to sunspot cycles?

A: No.

Q: (L) It has its own cycle. I don't think it has been tracked for long enough to get...
A: Global warming, a part of the human experiential cycle.

But then, Mother Nature may not be done with chastising Japan yet either. The Cassiopaeans have said that after the 8.9 event, an even bigger one will manifest and Japan will "buckle."

The point I'm making here is this: the Cassiopaeans predicted a whole slew of stuff back in the 90s in regards to our future after some sort of "take-over". Well, the take-over occurred on 9-11 and humanity allowed it to happen. So I figure that means most - or all of - the rest is going to come down too.

But the Cassiopaeans have also said that the future is open, that such events aren't locked in until just before they happen, that human beings can always - if they wake up en masse - mitigate disaster. The Cassiopaeans have said "It's not where you are, but who you are and what you see" that matters during Earth Changes. Obviously, if you are a "who" who can "see" you will do things rather differently than somebody who is not a "who" and who cannot "see." And that's the difference that makes the difference. (What this means in practical ways is discussed on the Cassiopaean Forum.)

Anyway, the bottom line is this: yes, the axis shifted a bit - as it has before - as a result of the Japan earthquake, and such things will happen again, but NO, there was no "Pole Shift" (in caps) as in globally catastrophic pole reorientation. But yes, we are still in the soup because too few people are awake and aware. There are going to be more earthquakes, more severe earthquakes, volcanism to an extent this planet hasn't experienced for a very long time (that's already happening and is the cause of the so-called global warming).

There is probably a "dark star" out there, as the Cassiopaeans have been saying for many years now, and it is getting close, grounding the electrical energy of our Sun, and setting the engine of change in motion. These changes can be seen in "global warming" which seems to be taking place on ALL the planets in the solar system (which precludes human causes).

Where it will end, we do not know, though we have a fair approximation: an Ice Age is coming. What is important in times like these is to keep a cool head (no pun intended)! We've got this year to get through, with Comet Elenin approaching, several alignments coming up, so just keep your eyes open and collect reliable information.

If you want to SEE, have a look at the following:

UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact

- part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqoMNnVDH3k

- part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFswoHN-m8

- part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOLQvYukqi0

- part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3axiX6JliQ

- part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8eEGZB_wNs

- part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBR8jCBLndM

- part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr-D6oR2GZI

- part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbL2qJBpvo


Now, I'm going to go downstairs and have breakfast.

Comet Elenin Update!

Today we have an update from our astronomer friend on Comet Elenin. Before I get to that, let me just reassure folks that there is NOT going to be a pole shift in the next week or so as certain raving nutzoids have been spamming all over the net. Also, Comet Elenin is NOT going to hit Earth (which is not to say that other things won't at some point in space and time). However, there are a few things about this comet that are extremely interesting in view of the plasma comet theory of James McCanney. Again, I suggest that readers get a copy of this book and get up to speed on this theory and how comets can affect our entire solar system electromagnetically, and how that can dramatically affect our sun and therefore planet Earth. There is an increasing body of evidence that electromagnetic disturbance of our Sun is directly related to earthquakes, volcanism, and weather on our planet.

So, with that in mind, let's have a look at some new predictions for what relationships the planets of our solar system might form with the incoming body. Our astronomer friend - who wishes to remain anonymous for the present, but I can tell you that he works at a large observatory - has run the algorithm with the latest orbital elements available on Elenin. Here is the animation:




On the animation, there are two dots to represent Elenin's position; one is from the February 4th elliptical orbital elements and the other is from the February 23rd elements. This is just to test the convergence of the calculations.

The perihelion date is September 10th.

Now, we have some additional graphs that plot the distances between the Earth and Elenin and the angles between the Earth and the inner planets and Elenin, as viewed from the Sun. Here is the distance plot.

Now, assuming that there are no errors and no dramatic changes to the orbit of Elenin, we find that the minimum distance (the closest Elenin will come to Earth) is 0.235 AU. (In other words, over 35 million kilometers distant - not likely to be much in the way of potential impact there!)

Referring back to the theories of Jim McCanney, there are three notable alignments between Elenin and Earth and some other body of the solar system in relation to the Sun.

On March 15th, there will be a Sun-Earth-Elenin Alignment. I guess we can look for some EM activity following that. Storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, perhaps even a little thinning of the veil?

On September 27th, there will be another Sun-Earth-Elenin alignment. There will also be a new moon at this time (rather close) and this might produce more dramatic EM action on the planet. If you check the angles plotted on the graph below, you'll see that this alignment is actually very interesting because Mercury also lines up on the opposite side of the Sun. So it is really a Mercury-Sun-Elenin-Moon-Earth alignment.

On November 23rd, another Sun-Earth-Elenin alignment. The new moon of November comes two days later on the 25th, so that might be "close enough for horseshoes" in the case of EM action.

If there are going to be any discharge related events as described in McCanney's theory, these dates may be important.

Here is the alignment graph:

Gnosticism and the Christian Myth

Taking off from, and expanding on, a number of ideas found in the works of Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy, I'll be posting a number of concepts and theories for consideration.

Freke & Gandy have done an excellent job in their books "The Jesus Mysteries" and "Jesus and the Lost Goddess," but, as we have found again and again, without both the scientific background of cosmic catastrophe we have uncovered via hints from the Cassiopaeans, and the more esoteric background concerning hyperdimensional realities, again, via explication by the Cs, most of what gets written about these matters tends to not cover some of the most essential issues. I hope to bridge these gaps here.

So, let us begin.

For thousands of years, human beings have grappled with the Mystery of Life. The legends tell us that during a Golden Age, mankind KNEW the secrets and lived a blessed life in communion with the gods until some terrible thing happened and the gods withdrew leaving man in darkness, more or less. This may be an allegorical myth AND a literal description of cosmic events. As above, so below. I’ve covered another aspect of this in the upcoming issue of the Dot Connector so those interested in the topic will want to get this issue.

Over 2,000 years ago, there was, at the time, a wide ranging Gnostic tradition that flourished among all the cultures of the ancient world. These cosmopolitan Pagan civilizations had been trading, conquering and synthesizing with each other for centuries. Plato had described the peoples of the Mediterranean as “frogs around a small pond.” Then, along came Alexander the Great who transformed that world into essentially one culture.

The Gnostic tradition had a common mystical philosophy and they all were trying to go beyond literal religions. Among some Jewish Gnostics, a school of thought began to form in Alexandria, Egypt, and it is they who synthesized the Jewish and Pagan mythology, producing rather distinctive variations on the more ancient forms.

This approach was, from the beginning, contaminated by certain elements that allowed it to be easily distorted. Those familiar with Ponerology can understand those elements as the work of schizoidal psychopaths. Those elements were present in the Jewish literature - a schizoidal take on writing history after the model of Herodotus – and this was blended with the purer, Pagan Gnosticism. This hybrid form eventually came to be known as Christianity.

Under the influence of the cosmopolitan Greek world, certain Jewish mystics sought to find greater depth in the Jewish “history” that had been produced. As an aside, there are those who say that this literature was produced to be intentionally initiatory, but the facts do not support that thesis. The allegedly historical Israel was created to support the agenda of a religious priesthood-clique seeking power and it was necessary to gather support from the masses and thus, the fake history of Israel was produced from many tribal tales and legends, genealogies created and added in order to show that a very disparate group were really “one”, and voila! Instant ancient history leading all the way back to god himself!

Getting back to the Jewish mystics who aspired to Gnosis, the Jewish Gnostics pored over their “history,” declared it to be mystical allegory, and claimed to be inheritors of secret mystical teachings passed down from their own great Gnostic master, Moses. They actually went further than that: they claimed that the great Pagan philosophers had originally received their wisdom from Moses and that all other intellectual advances were thanks to the Jews. This view has come under increasing criticism as more and more researchers discover that things were actually the other way around: the Jews borrowed many myths from other cultures, re-worked them as history which they saw as doing things one better than the originals.

However, in a world that came to be dominated by this Jewish version of history, many things are obscured and incomprehensible due to the simple fact that this single element – that the Jews stole the history of others and claimed to have it all first – is not factored into our view of our past.

It is not likely that these early Jewish Gnostics realized that the slow-acting poison of schizoidia was already incorporated into the history that they now proposed to study as allegory. Of course it was very much allegory because it originated as the myths of other peoples!

So, in their re-working and re-combining of the Pagan and Jewish materials, these Alexandrian Jewish Gnostics did not realize that they had included the poison of the schizoid in their system – they were simply trying to explore reality in a particular context and were just trying to “get closer to god,” so to say, in a context that was acceptable to their social milieu.

At the beginning, they were not known as Christians; they were probably known as the Therapeutae and the Essenes which the Jewish Gnostic, Philo, described as two branches of a single school of philosophy. They honored not only their alleged own master, Moses, they also followed the great Pagan philosopher, Pythagoras whose disciples had set up communities throughout the Pagan world. The Jewish historian, Josephus, tells us that the Essenes were comparable to the Pythagoreans. Philo, the Jewish Gnostic, was known as “the Pythagorean.” He describes the Therapeutae as practicing a contemplative life which is also what the Pythagoreans did. He tells us that their wisdom came from Greece. The Greeks, of course, said that it came from Egypt. If one has studied the works of Iman Wilkens, (Where Troy Once Stood), one might be aware that the land called Egypt was originally located in Northwst France and it was only after the conquest of Alexander the Great that the land we now know as Egypt was called Egypt. So, when one reads of ancient Egyptian mysteries, one must be very careful to consider exactly what this may mean.

Anyway, back to our Therapeutae and Pythagoreans: The Cynic school of Pagan Gnosticism called their tradition “The Way.” The Therapeutae called their tradition “The Way” also. The 4th century Christian historian, Eusebius claimed that the Therapeutae were the first followers of his “historical Jesus Christ.” The problem with this is that Philo’s description of the Therapeutae was written before the time that the historical Jesus was supposed to have lived. However, Eusebius may have been right in one sense: the Therapeutae and the Essenes may very well have created the Christian Myth of Jesus.

The Jewish Gnostics synthesized the myths from Genesis and Exodus with the works of Plato (Timaeus), and Pagan myths of the dying and resurrecting god (which were originally something else, as we will see) to create the Jesus story.

According to these Jewish Gnostics, Genesis was supposed to encode the descent of the soul into physical incarnation. The Exodus was interpreted as a myth encoding the “way back to god.” That is, the Jewish exodus from Egypt was interpreted by the Jewish Gnostics as stages of initiation and return. Combined with the Dying God myth (Moses dies before entering the Promised Land and is resurrected as Joshua), and voila! You have the most influential myth of our civilization.

Basic Structure of Exodus and the Jesus Story as Initiation Allegories as presented by Freke & Gandy:

Initiation Process Exodus Jesus Story

Purification: Crossing the Red Sea -- Baptism by John
Death of the Old Self: Death of Moses -- Crucifixion
Gnosis: Promised Land/Joshua -- Resurrection



The next question is: what happened to the Jesus Myth as a MYTH? How did it become history?

Comet Elenin: Harbinger of What?

We had a chat with the Cassiopaeans the other night and got in a few questions about Comet Elenin, to wit:

Q: (Andromeda) Is the outburst of asteroid 596 Scheila related at all to Comet Elenin?

A: Yes. And other bodies. See McCanney.

Q: (Andromeda) So what caused that asteroid to become a comet?

A: It became electrified!

In case you don't know, 596 Scheila is an asteroid that suddenly began behaving like a comet this past December. See HERE for some nice images.

As I've mentioned before, James McCanney's Plasma Theory of Comets is quite interesting and deserves some consideration. I understand from a few people who have written to me about it that McCanney isn't the only one approaching the problem from this direction: there is also Wallace Thornhill and David Talbot, but I haven't yet had time to explore what they are saying.

Anyway, in respect of the above remarks by the Cassiopaeans regarding McCanney's theories vis a vis 596 Schiela, my astronomer friend made the following comment to me in a private communication:

The activity of Scheila started roughly at the same time as the storm on Saturn. Can it be because of an alignment Saturn-Elenin-a few belt asteroids-Scheila?

He included a graphic showing the alignment:

Now, the Storm on Saturn is an interesting thing. From Spaceweather:

February 8, 2011 – STORM ON SATURN: A vast thunderstorm that erupted on Saturn during the closing weeks of 2010 is still going strong. “It looks like a comet plowing through Saturn’s northern hemisphere,” reports amateur astronomer Christopher Go. He took these pictures on Feb. 5th using an 11-inch Celestron telescope in Cebu City, the Philippines. “The storm is very bright,” says Go. “I spent a few minutes observing it visually (through the eyepiece) and it is very prominent.” Researchers call the storm the “northern electrostatic disturbance” because (1) it is in Saturn’s northern hemisphere and (2) it is strongly charged with lightning. Receivers onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are picking up radio crackles each time a bolt discharges–much like the static you hear on a car radio when driving through an electrical storm on Earth.

As mentioned, this storm on Saturn started at about the same time as 596 Scheila began to act like a comet and you can note the alignment in the graphic above.

One of the Cass Forum members, axj , noted:

Quite interesting symbology to Comet Elenin's name as well:

ELEven NINe, or even more striking when read backwards: NINELEven

And according to NASA, Comet Elenin will have its closest approach to the sun on... September 10, 2011 - which is also a NINE ELEVEN if you look at the year as 11 and month as 9. (JPL website for orbit data)

Now, what does all this mean? As it happens, there were other questions asked about Comet Elenin in that session that may be rather concerning especially in light of the recent superstorms on planet Earth, and possible future storms, not to mention the fact that we may spend some time in the tail of Comet Elenin towards the end of the year.

Q: (L) Next question. (Andromeda) Will Comet Elenin interact with and cause a major disruption of earth this year?

A: Possible yes.

Q: (Perceval) It's probably not possible to know exactly when. (L) Yeah, I think it depends on the conditions of the planet and so many other variables. It hasn't even gone through the asteroid belt yet. That traversal... The asteroid belt is between Jupiter and Mars, and it won't go through that until March and April....

A: Elenin is already taking its toll.

Q: (Perceval) How big is it?

A: 500km diameter along the long axis.

Q: (Perceval) At least it's not Venus...

A: It is growing.

Q: [discussion of answer] (L) Anything else about it?

A: And that is only the core.

Q: (Psyche) Yeah, and the tail... (Andromeda) Anything else on Elenin? (Perceval) We'll have to wait and see? (Psyche) {Considering the research we have recently done on comet borne pathogens and their possible relationship to the destruction of more than half of humanity during the Dark Ages which have now been identified as periods of cometary bombardment}, are we going to see a return of the Black Death?

A: Extremely likely.

Q: (Galaxia) In Europe first? Where's it gonna hit?

A: Wait and see.

Q: (Galaxia) Oh no! That's all I've got to say.

A: Those that have a certain genetic profile may suffer very little.

Q: (Andromeda) Is that any of us? (Galaxia) That doesn't sound like anybody is immune... like, "They'll suffer very little before they die!"

A: Smoking tobacco is a clue and an aid.

Q: (L) A clue to the genetic profile?

A: Yes.

Q: (Psyche) Oh, interesting. [everyone lights a cigarette and starts laughing] (Psyche) Everybody lights up! I feel like smoking! (laughter)

A: It is not just aliens that don't like to eat people that smoke! But from a certain perspective the viruses that cause such illnesses as the Black Death are "alien".

Q: (Psyche) You should read the article in the next issue of The Dot Connector magazine: "New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection". (L) If you look at it from a 4th density perspective, when something like the Black Death comes and there is global suffering - and when you read about it, the Black Death is just horrible - but if there was such suffering on our planet from something like that, 4D STS would be getting a rich feast of suffering which is what they feed on. So, an alien virus would be interactive with 4D reality by providing its food.

A: Close enough!

Q: (Andromeda) When will this start? (Atriedes) That's kind of a prediction... (laughter) (Galaxia) Soon, or long term?

A: 18 months to 2 years.

Q: (L) In other words, if Elenin or something else has something like that in its tail, and the earth goes through the tail, it can still take a year or so for it to precipitate onto the earth?

A: Yes

Q: (Galaxia) Will colloidal silver help us fight the plague?

A: Not alone, but very helpful.

Q: (Galaxia) Will our dietary changes help us fight it off?

A: Enormously!!! Especially fat consumption for cell protection.

And so, we begin to understand more of the Evil Plotting going on behind the scenes by the PTB, the efforts to destroy human health by advocating low fat diets and trying to stamp out tobacco smoking!

As always, this is just speculative, but the Cs do have a darn good track record!

Pole Shift in March? Not Likely!

I've recently become aware, via some Facebook posts, that there are a number of people posting videos on youtube about an alleged coming Pole Shift in March of this year. It seems that these people are using my posts about Comet Elenin along with my astronomer friend's little comet animation, without our permission to promote this ridiculous idea.

Please notice that in my posts I emphasized that Comet Elenin will achieve perihelion in the Fall. A lot can happen between now and then. This comet will only be passing through the asteroid belt in March or April and that is a long way away from Earth! Many other comets have passed through the asteroid belt in the past, so this is not something that is going to cause a pole shift. Heck, the magnetic pole is doing plenty of shifting on its own possibly as a result of discharging of the Solar capacitor.

Indeed, James McCanney (and others) predict wild weather on Earth (as accompanied Hale-Bopp) and there may be many surprises, but it's just plain nuts to go around predicting a pole shift in March based on the approach of Comet Elenin!

And that's not to say that a pole shift isn't going to happen in our future; and here I mean, the axis of rotation, not just the magnetic pole. A recent article by Terence Aym, (who is known for writing sensational articles with based on shallow or incomplete research) entitled: The Beginning of Ice Age: Magnetic polar shifts causing massive global superstorms, is going in the right direction. But there is a factor that a lot of people aren't talking about. You see, the Earth doesn't stop wobbling all of a sudden for no reason. We are seeing the effects of a change in the electro-magnetic forcing upon the Earth (weather and geology). The change is forced upon the Earth and not the other way. For example if other planets experience a magnetic change, this is a smoking gun that it doesn't come from the Earth but from space. (Too bad the article has no references.)

Aym suggests it is just the Sun's interaction with the Earth. Well, that's partly true. But what is affecting the Sun's behavior so that it induces this change in our planet? I think the Cassiopaeans answered that question ten years ago:

31 October, 2001:

Q: (L) Now according to these guys who are writing this web page about pole shift, they say it can be predicted where the poles will shift to. Is this in fact the case?
A: No.
Q: (L) Why can't pole shifts be predicted? Can't we know where the new pole will end up?
A: Chaotic function here
Q: (L) Okay, in a pole shift does the lithosphere of the planet slide on the core? (A) No. We have to be very precise. There are three possible things that would come under the name pole shift. Only one of them may come, or two, or three, okay? And these are the following - the axis of rotation with respect to stars is changing, straightening out for instance; this is one thing; while all the rest goes with the axis, the lithosphere and the magnetic field. Second, the axis stays where it is, maybe it shifts a little bit; the lithosphere stays where it is - maybe it wobbles - but the magnetic field changes: for instance reverses. Third, axis stays, magnetic field stays, but the lithosphere is moving. So that's three ways a pole shift can happen. And of course there are things that come together. The most dramatic one which is seen from outside is when the axis of rotation changes. The next dramatic one is probably when the lithosphere changes. And the third of unknown consequences is when the magnetic pole changes, okay? So, we want to have an understanding what will be the main change. (L) Well I guess we ought to ask an even more basic question: are we looking at a pole shift happening? That's starting at the beginning. (A) Alright. (L) In the next ten years. Is a pole shift possible in the next ten years?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Is a pole shift of the axis...(A) Honey, you ask if the pole shift is possible, of course it's possible. But suppose it's almost zero probability? 'Is it possible' is not the right question. 'Is it going to happen?' That's a question. (L) Okay you ask, carry on. (A) Are we looking at a pole shift during the next ten or so years with a high degree of probability?
A: Yes.
Q: (A) In this concept of pole shift, what would be the main feature of this pole shift, of all those which we were discussing?
A: New axial orientation, and magnetic reversal.
Q: (L) That's fairly dramatic. (A) Alright, now, change of axis or orientation of axis of rotation: can we say we would straighten up, getting almost perpendicular to the ecliptic? Or the other possibility is that it will fall down being almost parallel to the ecliptic. The third is that we'll flip completely by 180 degrees. We know it's highly unpredictable, but can we have a clue from which one is, so to say, dominate?
A: Perpendicularity will be restored.
Q: (A) We know the axis will change dramatically and magnetic reversal will happen. You didn't mention a change or shift of the lithosphere alone. Can we...
A: Lithospheric shift will feature to some extent.
Q: (A) But, that means eventually that the equator will almost not change because...
A: Correct.
Q: (A) So it will just shift a little bit, but its not going to go to Hawaii? (L) Oh rats! That was my theory! Well, it was a good idea. (A) What about changes in the lithosphere: can we predict a little bit of change in geography, coming from motions in lithosphere and changes in water level?
A: Chaotic features predominate but in general it will be safer inland and in mountainous areas since less folding occurs in such locations.
Q: (A) Now, the major, the change of the orientation of the axis, what would be the main trigger, force, or activity, or what kind of event will trigger this change of the axis?
A: Cometary bodies.
Q: (L) Are the planets of the solar system going to kind of shift out of their orbits and run amok? Is that a possibility?
A: Yes.
Q: (A) Due to cometary orbits alone?
A: Yes. Twin sun also.
Q: (A) When we speak about these cometary bodies, are we speaking about impacts?
A: Some will hit.
Q: (A) What would be - if any - the role played by electric phenomena?
A: Twin sun grounds current flow through entire system setting the "motor" running.
Q: (L) Does this mean that all of the different bodies of the solar system are like parts of some kind of giant machine, and once this electric current flows through them, depending on their positions relative to one another at the time this current flows, that it has some influence on the way the machine runs?
A: Yes, more or less.

I doubt, however, that the fundies promoting the end of the world in March will be quoting the Cassiopaeans any time soon.

Comet Elenin Update!

I've received updates on Comet Elenin from the astronomical insider who shall, as I said, remain anonymous for the moment.

The first item of note is that, with the update on the orbit of Elenin, which was made on 09 Jan 11, that is 9-1-11 (interesting, no?), it is scheduled to reach perihelion on the 9th of September, that is: 9-9-11; Another interesting numerical combo.

My friend has made a nice little animation of the calculated orbit:



An interesting alignment occurs right around the autumnal equinox where we have Earth, Comet Elenin, the Sun and almost Mercury lined up like ducks.

Now, have a look at this image:



I hope you can make out the yellow line of Elenin's orbit. (Click the image to see it larger.) In the image, Astronomical Insider has included the position of the asteroid belt as a big circle. He has also noted the position of the member of that belt, Schiela which is the asteroid that began to develop a comet-like coma back in December . The blue ellipse is an approximation of the southern Taurid meteor stream. Something may change, of course, when the comet crosses the asteroid belt in March/April.

Stay tuned for updates!