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scpg02
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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: Dealing with threatening space rocks |
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Dealing with threatening space rocks
20 September 2007
| Quote: | Every now and then a space rock hits the world's media – sometimes almost literally. Threatening asteroids that zoom past the Earth, fireballs in the sky seen by hundreds of people and mysterious craters which may have been caused by impacting meteorites; all make ESA's planned mission Don Quijote look increasingly timely.
The uncertainty surrounding whether a meteorite impacted in South America recently highlights the need to know more about these pieces of natural space debris and their trajectories. ESA has always been interested in such endeavours and conducted a number of studies into how it might best help.
Those studies showed that it is probably the smaller pieces of rock, at most a few hundred metres across, rather than the larger ones that we should be more worried about for the time being. A worldwide network of astronomers is currently cataloguing most of the larger objects, those above 1 km in diameter. A number of survey telescopes have taken up the challenge to detect as many as 90 percent of all near Earth objects down to a size of 140 metres by around 2020. Only after this time will we know whether space-based observatories will be needed to find the rest. |
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8SUB1S6F_index_0.html
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Andre
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These craters are likely subject of double groupthink.
http://www.latimes.com/news/print...6554.story?coll=la-news-a_section
| Quote: | Meteorite causes a stir in Peru
The explosion near Carancas frightened and awed residents and (they say) made them sick.
By Liubomir Fernandez and Patrick J. McDonnell, Special to The Times
September 21, 2007
CARANCAS, PERU -- -- When she heard the explosion, Isabel Junquilla said, she was sure that war had broken out.
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"So the people picked up a few little stones and went home to rest and take a matecito," Villala said, referring to coca-leaf tea, a common cure-all here.
Since then, hundreds have reported maladies, including headaches and nausea. But experts said the reactions probably were imagined. There is no evidence of radiation at the site, officials said.
"Those who say they are affected are the product of a collective psychosis," said Jorge Lopez Tejada, health department chief in Puno, the nearest city. |
But was is a Russian Scud attack?
http://www.digg.com/space/Peruvia...act_might_have_been_a_Scud_Missle
Was it really a meteorite?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5isWWHSxCh_u0yUNU9Gpk1qfg996A
Or perhaps a hydrothermal geyserlike feature
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297369,00.html
I say that there are several things to say for the latter
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Baywax
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Location: Pacific West Coast
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Or was it some jet dumping its payload of barium and/or alumninum?
| Quote: | Chemtrail Ban Sought In Congress
“Chemtrails” also appear in House Resolution 2977. Introduced last October by Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, this bill called for the peaceful uses of space, and a ban on “exotic weapons”. Section 7 of the “Space Preservation Act of 2001” sought specifically to prohibit “chemtrails”.
Kucinich recently told the Columbus Alive newspaper (Jan. 24, 2002) that despite official denials, as head of the Armed Services oversight committee he is well acquainted with chemtrail projects. “The truth is there’s an entire program in the Department of Defense, ‘Vision for 2020,’ that’s developing these weapons,” Kucinich told reporter Bob Fitrakis. The U.S. Space Command’s 2020 vision calls for “dominance” of space, land, sea and air.
The unusual white plumes reported by Air Canada pilots, police officers and former military personnel over Canada and the U.S. during the past three years are often contrasted by brief, pencil-thin contrails left by commercial jets flying above them. |
http://www.weatherimages.org/forums/showthread.php?t=754
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