Leonid Elenin spent a great deal of time searching for a comet and finally found one! That is quite an exciting achievement these days when there are so many eyes looking for comets every night, including robotic eyes! And then even more exiting, to learn that your comet could end up being what's known as a great comet. Great comets are comets that get bright enough that it is plainly visible without even trying to look for it. Comet Hale Bopp was an example of a great comet. But, the excitement faded somewhat as software for predicting the brightness of comets was showing that we might not be able to see it at all with the unaided eye. Well that just changed! The latest calculations are now predicting a brightness of magnitude 4, which means that it will easily be visible to the unaided eye. The scale of brightness used in astronomy is a logarithmic scale from magnitude -27 for the sun to magnitude 32 for an object so dim that not even the Hubble space telescope can image it. So magnitude 4 is great considering that magnitude 6 is just barely bright enough for the unaided eye to see in optimal conditions, a moonless night and in a location far away from city lights for example. And around the 27th of September we would normally not be able to see it because it will be between the earth and the sun, so if you looked in the direction that it is supposed to be in you would also be looking in the direction of the sun and the sun of course is so bright that only the sun can be seen. However, comet Elenin MAY get bright enough at this time that we might be able to see it in the day time in addition to the sun. A conservative estimate is that it may get to magnitude zero at this time. Magnitude zero is very bright for a night time object, but not bright enough to see in the day. Yet if it can get up to several magnitudes brighter at this time, say magnitude -13 for example, the brightness of the moon, you would be able to see it the same way you can see the moon in the day time. Also, depending on how active it gets, it MAY even appear for a few days as though there are two suns in the sky! It would need to approach magnitude -20 or more for this to occur. This is a very exaggerated suggestion, but not completely improbable. This jump in brightness is because all of the reflected sunlight of the tail will be concentrated in one spot as we will be looking down the tail, which will be very nearly pointed in the direction of the earth. To learn more, go to Leonid's article announcing the news on his web site at the following link. Comet Elenin may be brighter than expected
Monday, May 2, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Comet Elenin alignments and earthquakes
In regards to recent discussions about the alignments of comet Elenin and major earthquakes, I find it very interesting. This all mainly started when an astute Youtuber noticed a correlation of alignment as related to the Chilean earthquake of 2010. She had been evolving her theory for weeks and I remember seeing her refined video the day she posted it as I was and still am following everything about this comet. The video on her Youtube page is here.
As you can see, it was march 8th when she posted this and she plainly states that between march 11th and the 15th to be prepared if you are living near a fault zone because there is going to be a major earthquake. And there was an earthquake as we all know on March 11th when Japan got hit hard. And at that time comet Elenin, the earth and the sun were in close alignment on that day. It was also in alignment with our moon on February 27th, 2010 for the Chile earthquake and September 3rd, 2010 for the earthquake that happened in New Zealand. On these dates the earths moon is nearly lined up with the sun, earth and comet Elenin! This is interesting I'll have to admit! Not so much that the alignments coincide with major earthquakes, because major earthquakes happen all the time all around the world every year, but rather that these major earthquakes have occurred in heavily populated areas. Three alignments, three major earthquakes, all three in heavily populated areas. Yes very interesting! We know though that comet Elenin is just a comet because WE CAN SEE IT! It is not nibiru, a brown dwarf, planet x or anything like that! Yet, there may very well be something within the realm of the unknown happening here. As we have come to know by the well tried laws of physics there is no way whatsoever that a mountain size chunk of ice hundreds of millions of miles away from earth can have much affect on tectonic movements in relation to large populations. It would have to be something along the lines of some kind of unknown hyper dimensional physics that we know nothing about. Or even, gulp, astrology! =D Astrology, being that the significance is related to heavily populated areas being effected by these earthquakes. So in other words, not so much that these alignments are related to earthquakes, but rather the people composing large populations in conjunction with the earthquakes, which would definitely have an astrological correlation.
Consequently, come this September 26 or thereabouts when the next alignment occurs, if another major earthquake occurs in a heavily populated area, then we are going to have to begin to consider rethinking the whole of modern science!
As you can see, it was march 8th when she posted this and she plainly states that between march 11th and the 15th to be prepared if you are living near a fault zone because there is going to be a major earthquake. And there was an earthquake as we all know on March 11th when Japan got hit hard. And at that time comet Elenin, the earth and the sun were in close alignment on that day. It was also in alignment with our moon on February 27th, 2010 for the Chile earthquake and September 3rd, 2010 for the earthquake that happened in New Zealand. On these dates the earths moon is nearly lined up with the sun, earth and comet Elenin! This is interesting I'll have to admit! Not so much that the alignments coincide with major earthquakes, because major earthquakes happen all the time all around the world every year, but rather that these major earthquakes have occurred in heavily populated areas. Three alignments, three major earthquakes, all three in heavily populated areas. Yes very interesting! We know though that comet Elenin is just a comet because WE CAN SEE IT! It is not nibiru, a brown dwarf, planet x or anything like that! Yet, there may very well be something within the realm of the unknown happening here. As we have come to know by the well tried laws of physics there is no way whatsoever that a mountain size chunk of ice hundreds of millions of miles away from earth can have much affect on tectonic movements in relation to large populations. It would have to be something along the lines of some kind of unknown hyper dimensional physics that we know nothing about. Or even, gulp, astrology! =D Astrology, being that the significance is related to heavily populated areas being effected by these earthquakes. So in other words, not so much that these alignments are related to earthquakes, but rather the people composing large populations in conjunction with the earthquakes, which would definitely have an astrological correlation.
Consequently, come this September 26 or thereabouts when the next alignment occurs, if another major earthquake occurs in a heavily populated area, then we are going to have to begin to consider rethinking the whole of modern science!
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