Mistyeyeddreamer
21-02-03, 08:40 PM
Sorry I've not posted anything today, but this is about as off topic as you could get.
I've been gripped by the excitement of what has become of comet NEAT. Never heard of it? I'm not surprised, none of the mainstream media have covered it (to my knowledge). Well, NEAT approached perihelion (nearest approach to the sun) yesterday. There has been a lot of interest in various forums around the net. You see, NASA and other governmental agencies have been playing around with the satellite pics or not posting them when they were supposed to. Which has led to a HUGE conspiracy theory.
NEAT's size has been estimated to be anywhere from 2 1/2 times the size of Jupiter to half the size of the moon. It's effect on the sun has been quite spectacular, at least in the pics. When someone pointed out that some of the pics had been doctored almost all the forums where it was being discussed were hacked and went down. Add that to the fact that a week ago the press carried a story about not telling people if a earth-impacting asteroid were discovered and also the panic buying of duct tape and plastic sheeting in US. So you can see why the conspiracy people were running around like headless chickens.
Anyway, at best we should get some spectacular meteorite showers around the end of April and again in November when the earth passes through the trail of NEAT's passage. At worse.......well, some of the debris left behind might be a bit larger than usual and might cause some problems. Fingers crossed it's all dust.
If you want to see some pics of NEAT visit http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com
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I've been gripped by the excitement of what has become of comet NEAT. Never heard of it? I'm not surprised, none of the mainstream media have covered it (to my knowledge). Well, NEAT approached perihelion (nearest approach to the sun) yesterday. There has been a lot of interest in various forums around the net. You see, NASA and other governmental agencies have been playing around with the satellite pics or not posting them when they were supposed to. Which has led to a HUGE conspiracy theory.
NEAT's size has been estimated to be anywhere from 2 1/2 times the size of Jupiter to half the size of the moon. It's effect on the sun has been quite spectacular, at least in the pics. When someone pointed out that some of the pics had been doctored almost all the forums where it was being discussed were hacked and went down. Add that to the fact that a week ago the press carried a story about not telling people if a earth-impacting asteroid were discovered and also the panic buying of duct tape and plastic sheeting in US. So you can see why the conspiracy people were running around like headless chickens.
Anyway, at best we should get some spectacular meteorite showers around the end of April and again in November when the earth passes through the trail of NEAT's passage. At worse.......well, some of the debris left behind might be a bit larger than usual and might cause some problems. Fingers crossed it's all dust.
If you want to see some pics of NEAT visit http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com
Misty_off_to_dig_a_shelter http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif