How everyone,
I could not find any info on comet Elenin on iceinspace so I thought I would post this thread.
I have found a lot of info on comet elenin on YouTube but have heard nothing of it in the media local or international.
What info do you guys know about it?
Unreal. I have seen some images, and a lot of speculation.
The web has me quite worried with "end of days talk" polar shifts, extreme solar flaring etc etc. The fact that the media hasn't talked about it or written about it also makes me worried.
Time will tell I suppose...
Mark
The web has me quite worried with "end of days talk" polar shifts, extreme solar flaring etc etc. The fact that the media hasn't talked about it or written about it also makes me worried.
Umm.... maybe the media has not caught on because nothing is going to happen... just a thought
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Originally Posted by From Wikipedia
On 16 October 2011, the comet will make it's closest approach to the Earth at a distance of 0.2338 AU (34,980,000 km; 21,730,000 mi) with a relative velocity of 86,000 km/h.
The media hasn't spoken about it because there is nothing to report.
It's just a comet passing by us.
And the Sun is just doing it's thing as it comes into Solar Maximum. Solar activity goes in an approx. 11 year cycle, swinging between high (maximum.) and low (minimum) activity. So we're all looking forward to seeing more sunspots and aurora over the next few years.
All the myths about this over-hyped (out in the interwebs among the conspiracy-theory websites) but generally under-performing comet are exploded here:
The truth is that this is a small (about 3km dia) intrinsically faint comet that just might barely make it to naked eye visibility around Sep-Oct. It will be a nice-ish comet for binoculars. The closest it passes to Earth will be about 35 million km (ie nearly a hundred times further than The Moon). That fact has been well established and known for nearly a year. This body presents no danger whatsoever to anyone living on Earth. Just a couple of days ago a similar-sized comet (45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková) passed much closer to the Earth (about 9 million km) than Elenin will, and ... nothing happened (as usual).
As jjj said, the reason why there hasn't been much in the media is because there is very, very little to report that the public would be interested in. There is no conspiracy on this. It is just one of 1000's of comets out there in our solar-system and there is nothing amazing or outstanding about it apart from the fact that it is going to pass closer to Earth than average. I have to stress however that every year, on average, at least one comet and many more (dozens of) asteroids of a similar size to Elenin will pass closer to the Earth than Elenin. You can safely ignore virtually everything you see on youtube about this comet.
"So you've got a modest-sized icy dirtball that is getting no closer than 35 million kilometers [about 22 million miles)," said Yeomans. "It will have an immeasurably minuscule influence on our planet. By comparison, my subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean's tides than comet Elenin ever will."
That’s not to say we won’t have a solar maximum in a year or so nor that we won’t have some strong solar flares and CME’s leading up to and during that solar maximum. Of course we will, but according to the best minds in the business, the Sun appears to be heading toward a quiet, if not dormant stage. This present solar maximum will probably be the quietest for about 100 years and the one after the present one may not occur at all. This comet, nor any others will have any effect on how the Sun behaves in this respect. Neither will they have any effect on the Sun's or Earth's magnetic fields or axis of rotation.
Neither is Elenin a "harbringer" of Nibiru -- which of course does not exist. If Nibiru existed and was passing through the inner solar-system within 12-15 months, it would currently be the brightest object in the sky save for the Sun and the Moon.
is at least partly speculative but it seems Elenin's performance is dropping off again and this *may* indicate the comet won't survive perihelion and *may" break up and disintegrate. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating -- over the next couple of weeks. Its further diminishing performance is not a good sign though ...
Well done to Ian and Michael on the images and comments in the item.
So much for the "great comet of doom" that's turning out to be a bit of a damp squib -- at least so far as the doomsayers predictions go.
