NASA supposedly has limited info and no pictures. Oh, really? Not from the WISE satellite, designed specifically to look at low light objects like dwarf stars with high — sensitivity infrared? What about the South Pole telescope which has excellent IR detection capabilities? How about Hubble? Is this really the dwarf star that would end all life on earth? Answer: I am worried about the effects of the fear campaign about Comet Elenin that is being waged on the Internet.
I don't want anything like that to happen again, so I will answer this and the following questions about Comet Elenin. Perhaps I can also promote some critical thinking about these claims. In fact, most of the images that come up when you Google "Elenin images" are not of Elenin. I don't know how this particular photo of Comet Wild became associated with Elenin, except that Elenin is so faint that perhaps some people wanted to substitute a picture of a brighter comet.
This little comet, then in the asteroid belt, was probably too faint to be picked up by WISE. The South Pole would be one of the worst places to go to study this comet. Most astronomers will wait to study the comet when it is closer and brighter. I suspect this brown dwarf rumor started when someone who is not familiar with the sky turned a small telescope on Jupiter with its four moons.
The only people observing it now are amateur astronomers, who are tracking its orbit and its increasing brightness as it approaches the inner solar system.
There is a lot of craziness circulating on the Internet, from people who either don't know much about astronomy or are intentionally making up stories to frighten gullible people. Shame on them! I also read that "an inside source" from NASA is telling people that you guys are worried about the comet knocking the ISS out of orbit, which is why the space flights are being ended.
The comet was a faint ghost of its former self. Since then, the comet has been lost to view because of its faintness and its proximity to the sun in the sky. If so, the big question is: what will SOHO see about this comet? Most people look at the images from SOHO for the rich information they supply regarding the sun. However, the wide-field images also show the sun against the starry background on the far side of the solar system.
Careful comparison of the images in SOHO to the images in planetarium software allow you to identify the background stars, and watch the planets pass behind and in front of the sun.
This sky map of comet Elenin's path shows the situation on Friday, as the remains of the comet enter SOHO's field of view from the left. The bright stars Zaniah and Zavijava of western Virgo should be easy to see, but brilliant Mercury will dominate the images on the right. Elenin will pass Zaniah on Sunday Sept. At this point, no one can predict exactly what we will see through SOHO's eyes in the coming week, but everyone will have the chance to watch using one of NASA's brightest eyes on the solar system.
The body would quickly get sucked in or pushed out. Nonetheless, Sitchin's books have been translated into 25 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. Lieder's planetary collision theory has adopted the name of Nibiru for Earth's planetary nemesis. Many people who believe that doomsday will occur when the Mayan calendar ends in have adopted Lieder's Nibiru collision prophecy as the cataclysm that will bring us to that end.
The biggest missing link in the doomsday prophecy is Nibiru itself. Because no giant, rogue planet has been found in the outer solar system to play the role of Nibiru, some conspiracy theorists have decided that a small comet called Elenin, which will pass nearest Earth in October , is actually Nibiru. Even then, though, scientists say Elenin will come no closer than times farther than the distance from Earth to the moon.
It has become a catchword for almost any cosmic catastrophe. Internet rumors about Elenin began spreading earlier this year. Its approach to Earth was blamed for shifting the Earth's axis by 3 degrees in February, precipitating the Chile earthquake, then shifting the pole even more to trigger the Japan quake in March. When scientists pointed out that the comet is a mere 3-mile-wide glob of ice with no magnetic field and that it won't even pass very near Earth and that plate tectonics , not comets, cause earthquakes rumors began to circulate that NASA was withholding information about Elenin.
In fact, Elenin is a textbook comet; it has visible "coma," or nucleus, and a long tail made of vaporizing ice.
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