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‘Giant asteroid to hit earth in 2006’
PARIS: In 2006, Arnold Schwarzenegger will be
re-elected governor of California, Internet giant Google will
suffer a setback — and Brazil will hang on to the World Cup.
If a giant comet doesn’t wipe out Earth first, that is.
Maybe it will all come true and maybe not, but a legion of
soothsayers — from business gurus to Bible decoders — is
full of predictions for the year to come.
Some use elaborate computer programs like “Torah4U” to
ferret out remarkably precise predictions allegedly hidden
within the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and the Torah. One
website complete with diagrammed excerpts from Holy scripture,
exodus2006.com, foresees the November re-election of
Schwarzenegger along with the re-establishment of a military
draft in the United States.
It also predicts that August 3, 2006 will be a blood-drenched
day — yet just a mere shadow of the calamity that will befall
us in 2010..
Annie Stanton, one of countless psychics plying her trade on
the Internet, predicts that catastrophe will come this year in
the form of a massive asteroid crashing into the planet.
Another mystic seer, Anita Nigam from India, has extended her
powers of the paranormal into another realm — sports betting.
For a mere 50 pounds a week, you can get her insights into the
outcomes of English football’s Premier League matches. World
Cup rates are yet to be announced, but rumor has it she’s keen
on Brazil. Bill Gray of Colorado University uses turbo-charged
computer models that crunch data on global sea-surface
temperatures and atmospheric conditions to forecast the number
and intensity of hurricanes that will hit the US each year.
Gray, whose track record is startlingly good, says 2006 will be
no picnic — 17 named tropical storms, nine hurricanes and five
major, high-wind hurricanes, nearly twice the historical average
in all categories.
Meanwhile “Wired” magazine co-founder John Battelle, whose
crystal ball is closely watched by the Internet technology
faithful, says “Google will stumble” due to a bad
partnership or a legal setback.
He also predicts legislators in the United States and elsewhere
will take steps to protect citizens against “the perils of
unprotected Internet data mining” into their personal lives,
including credit and health histories.
Like many of his high-tech colleagues, he thinks 2006 will be
the year when mobile technologies plug into the Web — so get
ready for the first truly usable electroniic newspaper. Another
widespread forecast: by the end of the year, there will be a
one-in-three chance that you are making your phone calls,
especially long-distance ones, over the Internet. For free. With
the possible exception of the Apocalypse, no single event
inspires more fevered speculation that the Oscars — who will
be nominated, and who will win.
Odds-makers have cooled considerably on “King Kong” after
the release of “Brokeback Mountain,” but “Memoirs of a
Geisha” and “Jarhead” have loyal supporters too.
But even the most confident and qualified of forecasters are
advised to recall Yale economics professor Irving Fisher’s
infamous assessment of the US stock market. “Stocks have
reached what looks like a permanently high plateau,” he said
— on thee eve of the 1929 crash that sparked the Great
Depression. afp
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FROM: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2005%5C12%5C31%5Cstory_31-12-2005_pg7_7
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Asteroid Threat due in August?
18.12.2004 discovered Asteroid the Alh2804-c as "category
2" classified as "Beinahecrash", since he comes on
his erring course by internal
sun system of the earth very close and in approximately 100,000
km distance these should pass.
Newest computations show however that the course changed in the
letzen months easily and the Asteroiden still more near to the
earth will bring. According to estimations of the astronomers of
the kit peak Observatory a 98%ige probability exists that the
Asteroid collides in August 2006 with
the earth.
Asteroid Alh2804-c possesses a diameter of 2km and as "global a
killer" is classified. If it should hit on country, it will
release a global climatic disaster. If he falls into the sea, he
will release world-wide enormous Tsunamis, against which the Tsunami
of Southeast Asia was only a light wave. The wave combs would
probably reach a height of 100m and would move many hundred
kilometers in the interior whereby them everything in their way to
destroy.
N ASP , ESA and the Russian space agency have to advise-strike now a
conference of urgency called up over, which could be undertaken
against the Asteroiden.NASA possesses concepts for such emergency
and these concepts according to information of a speaker already
longer will now be discussed.
N och is unclear, to link where the Asteroid will hit and it
feverful searched for a solution around the Asteroiden of its
course. The space shuttle fleet is to play thereby a large role,
such a speaker of NASA .
All large telescopes world-wide pursue at present the Asteroiden and
measure its course constantly again.
Or to put it a different way -- The
above is what I got when I hand copied the URL into the address line
of the browser -- Virginia
From: "bmf512"
Subject: Possible Asteroid Strike in August 2006 ??
If the link is not live ... copy and paste to your browser making
sure there are NO SPACE between any of it.
anything in <> is mine as i tried to smooth out the translated
german text.
I dont know how true this is. I am calling on the research team to
start doing a comprehensive search immediately as will I and my
friends!
Spartacus
--- In earthchanges@yahoogroups.com, "shoedust"
wrote:
This might cause a few earth changes. I don't speak german so i had
to translate the page...
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=
http://www.wissen-news.de/news/65101042005.php&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAsteroid%2BALH2804-C%26hl%3Den%26lr%3
DD it to 18.12.2004 discovered Asteroid the Alh2804-c as
"category 2" classified as "Beinahecrash"
, since he
comes on his
erring course
by internal sun system of the earth very close and in approximately
100,000 km distance these should pass.
Loosely translated: they thought it would go by the Earth by
100,000KM
Newest computations show however that the course changed in the
letzen
months easily and the Asteroiden still more near to the earth will
bring. According to estimations of the astronomers of the Kit Peak
Observatory a 98%ige probability exists that the Asteroid collides
in August 2006 with the earth.
D it Asteroid Alh2804-c possesses a diameter of 2km and as
"global a killer" is classified.
If it should hit on country, it will release a global climatic
disaster. If he falls into the sea,
he will release world-wide enormous Tsunamis, against which the
Tsunami of Southeast Asia was only a light wave. The wave combs
would probably reach a height of 100m and would move many hundred
kilometers in the interior whereby them everything in their way to
destroy.
NASA and the Russian space agency have to advise - strike now a
conference of urgency called up over, which could be undertaken
against the Asteroiden.
NASA possesses concepts for such emergency and these concepts
according to information of a speaker already longer will now be
discussed.
N
is unclear, to link where the Asteroid will hit and it feverful
searched for a solution around the Asteroiden of its course. The
space shuttle fleet is to play thereby a large role, such a speaker
of NASA
.
A
Virginia: Will keep you posted on this.
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Newfound
Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in mid-August
By
Robert
Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted:
02:00 pm ET
23 July 2002
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In a rare event slated for mid-August, an asteroid will pass close
enough to Earth to be visible through binoculars and small telescopes.
The giant boulder, named 2002 NY40, was discovered about a month ago.
On Aug. 18, the asteroid will be 327,200 miles (526,600 kilometers)
from Earth, according to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass.
That will put it well beyond the Moon's
orbit. The asteroid's exact size
is not known but it is "somewhat smaller than 1 kilometer [0.62
miles] in diameter," said Gareth Williams, associate director of
the center.
Rough estimates by astronomers have put the asteroid at 500 meters
(547 yards) wide. A pair of Louisiana Superdomes would fit inside an
object this size with ample room leftover for parking.
Asteroid 2002 NY40 should brighten to about magnitude 9.3 on Aug. 18,
Williams told SPACE.com. The faintest objects visible to the
unaided eye are around magnitude 6.0, on a scale where larger numbers
indicated dimmer objects. The brightest stars in the sky are typically
categorized as zero or first magnitude.
An asteroid becomes as bright as 2002 NY40 from our terrestrial
vantagepoint only about once or twice a decade. However, a similar
event occurred last December. The
next time a known asteroid will appear this bright is in 2004.
Two days prior to its closest approach, the asteroid will achieve a
brightness of magnitude 12. By Aug. 19, a day after closest approach,
its brightness will drop off dramatically, to magnitude 21.
Asteroid 2002 NY40 presents no danger of hitting Earth on this pass
around the Sun. However, astronomers have calculated eight close passes
on future orbits, one of which in the year 2022 presents an extremely
low (but not zero) probability of an impact. Experts say an object this
large could cause regional destruction, change the world climate
temporarily, and kill millions of people if it hit a populated area.
Similar calculations for other asteroids have been made in the past,
however, and typically, the odds go to zero when more observations are
made and the numbers are refined. The chances of any asteroid as big or
larger than 2002 NY40 hitting Earth sometime in the next century are put
at about 1-in-400.
Asteroid 2002 NY40 was first spotted July 14 with the 1-meter
(3-foot) LINEAR telescope in Socorro, New Mexico. Its discovery
contrasts with that of another asteroid, 2002
MN, which had an even closer
brush with Earth in June but was not detected until three days later, by
the same facility.
Every few months, typically, an asteroid passing within the Moon's
orbit is noticed before or shortly after it makes its closest approach
to Earth.
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| All dates and times are Universal Time |
| Positions are geocentric J2000 and include planetary
perturbations / proper motion |
| Star positions from the Position and Proper Motions
catalog |
| Separations are in arcseconds, Position Angle is from
the star to the asteroid |
| Calculations by Brian D. Warner |
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| Asteroid < mag 14.5; Star < 7.0; Elong
from Sun > 45° |
| Stars in bold black
text are naked eye stars (< 6.0) |
| Stars in bold red
text are potential occultation candidates (Sep <
10") |
Date UT # Asteroid RA Dec Mag Sep PA Star Con Mag
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08/01 00:20 266 Aline 03 44.78 +24 20.2 13.8 171 352 16 TAU 5.3
08/01 15:44 266 Aline 03 45.83 +24 21.9 13.8 11 173 20 TAU 3.9
08/01 19:07 102 Miriam 14 47.94 -12 49.0 14.5 86 18 229299 6.6
08/02 02:58 593 Titania 01 41.71 -11 20.9 14.4 93 202 210523 5.7
08/02 12:39 232 Russia 16 48.34 -14 56.0 14.2 128 227 232182 6.2
08/02 12:47 84 Klio 13 54.50 -22 17.4 14.1 164 190 262237 6.6
08/02 17:14 543 Charlotte 02 06.64 +22 37.3 14.5 115 144 91364 5.1
08/04 00:04 161 Athor 05 04.65 +27 40.7 14.4 64 167 94035 6.5
08/04 21:44 570 Kythera 18 07.18 -21 24.3 14.2 140 357 267880 6.3
08/04 21:53 804 Hispania 12 15.17 -10 19.1 13.8 22 206 225575 6.1
08/04 22:51 971 Alsatia 21 18.95 -32 19.2 14.2 153 326 301250 6.9
08/05 02:03 3500 Kobayashi 21 09.42 -16 36.1 13.7 50 2 238453 6.9
08/06 03:40 480 Hansa 05 06.69 +22 32.0 13.7 84 7 94066 7.0
08/06 18:46 3103 Eger 02 13.00 -21 00.6 13.4 42 207 244777 5.8
08/06 22:48 312 Pierretta 14 47.76 -26 04.1 13.5 69 12 12 LIB 5.2
08/07 11:15 562 Salome 22 19.27 -28 11.3 13.9 88 321 273652 6.8
08/07 15:10 817 Annika 00 04.68 -10 30.4 14.5 154 86 3 CET 4.5
08/08 00:48 80 Sappho 12 31.65 - 5 03.1 13.5 2 22 195577 6.4
08/09 05:21 1116 Catriona 22 26.22 -23 43.8 14.2 171 168 273799 6.3
08/09 09:17 498 Tokio 05 52.38 +19 53.7 14.3 96 356 121513 6.4
08/11 01:04 196 Philomela 15 14.65 -17 43.5 12.2 174 25 26 LIB 6.6
08/11 14:17 480 Hansa 05 15.45 +22 16.1 13.7 62 189 108 TAU 6.2
08/13 15:47 447 Valentine 17 00.19 -24 57.7 14.3 104 15 26 OPH 5.8
08/14 00:53 480 Hansa 05 19.30 +22 07.9 13.7 126 10 109 TAU 4.9
08/15 19:10 20 Massalia 06 10.50 +23 01.1 11.1 75 1 4 GEM 6.7
08/16 08:00 217 Eudora 16 12.02 - 8 35.3 13.9 172 212 16 SCO 5.7
08/16 18:48 161 Athor 05 26.27 +28 38.2 14.4 107 348 Beta TAU 1.6
08/17 02:59 2675 Tolkien 22 30.04 -12 55.5 14.5 35 163 240361 6.8
08/17 04:50 372 Palma 06 21.29 +42 22.8 12.3 143 358 48982 6.7
08/19 06:46 717 Wisibada 22 52.66 - 7 36.9 14.3 133 162 Lambda AQR 3.7
08/21 00:42 209 Dido 17 39.89 -32 10.4 13.4 136 311 296640 6.7
08/21 17:16 41 Daphne 05 35.23 + 9 41.8 13.5 4 189 149169 7.0
08/21 19:20 793 Arizona 18 54.64 -45 28.6 14.5 105 75 324555 7.0
08/22 13:26 1467 Mashona 17 57.68 -41 42.7 13.7 82 278 323580 4.7
08/23 04:29 301 Bavaria 20 29.09 -17 54.7 13.9 144 152 237494 6.6
08/23 20:30 202 Chryseis 13 26.23 - 1 10.4 13.4 75 25 179046 6.0
08/23 23:02 219 Thusnelda 17 43.78 - 7 04.9 12.6 11 217 200979 6.7
08/24 22:13 161 Athor 05 39.34 +29 10.7 14.3 136 168 94619 5.9
08/25 17:18 1350 Rosselia 22 30.57 -10 38.4 14.2 150 333 Sigma AQR 4.8
08/26 00:43 562 Salome 22 04.34 -29 52.9 13.9 133 338 273320 6.3
08/26 01:33 1284 Latvia 20 50.70 -12 33.3 14.0 38 179 237993 5.9
08/26 07:10 731 Sorga 17 43.34 -35 15.1 14.4 178 334 296717 6.6
08/26 11:30 2131 Mayall 20 30.25 +10 52.7 14.2 75 213 1 DEL 6.1
08/27 09:15 97 Klotho 04 54.77 +11 23.7 11.9 110 185 6 ORI 5.2
08/27 15:31 121 Hermione 14 12.98 -10 13.8 14.1 171 26 Kappa VIR 4.2
08/29 14:48 22 Kalliope 05 27.64 +21 55.9 11.7 18 166 114 TAU 4.7
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From: http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/Misc/ppm_august_2006.htm
2006 BQ6
Current assessment: NO impact solutions
Diameter: 411 meters (JPL 11 Jan. 2006 estimate)
JPL: Orbit
Viewer NEODyS: object home
page [backup]
& observations
[backup]
Circulars: MPEC 2006-B32
Notes: 2006 BQ6 was discovered by the Mt.
Lemmon Survey on the morning of 22 Jan. 2006 and was announced two
days later, when it was posted by NEODyS as an impact risk. After
further observations had been reported for two days, JPL posted it early
on Jan. 27th with, like NEODyS, a highly-preliminary impact solution for
July 31st this year. On Jan. 29th both risk monitors removed all impact
solutions.
Packed designation: K06B06Q
FROM: http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/news/crt06obj.htm#2006bq6
2006
OBJECT ARCHIVE
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