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by
Mitch Battros (ECTV)
And
you thought you were imagining things! The Reuters article
below as reported by a consortium of scientist, suggest
the NEAR (near earth asteroids) in other words, near misses,
have increased due to the Sun, rather than cosmic collisions.
Wow, if this holds true, it would give cause to the sharp
increase we have witnessed in NEO's (near earth orbits)
this year.
As
most of you already know, we are at the apex of what NASA
calls "Cycle 23". NASA claims we are at the highest point
of a natural eleven year cycle. My research however, suggest
we are in a much larger cycle that supersedes the known
eleven, twenty two, and even twelve hundred year cycle.
Many have called this a "Mega Cycle". What this could
mean, according to this new press release finding, in
relation to solar activity with increased asteroid/meteor
NEO's, we are in for a hell of a ride.
November
'99 Article:
http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/November/1114newsolar.htm
December '99 Article:
http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/December/1208sun.htm
I
would suggest, rest assured, you are not imagining things.
There indeed has been a sharp increase in celestial activity,
which raises the possibility or (probability) of a collision
with Earth. The question still stands, not if, but when,
and now how big!. Let us all hope the rock that does come
our way will be only meteors in size, and not kilometers.
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LONDON
(Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday revealed the way meteorites
reach the Earth, saying their paths were influenced more
by the sun than cosmic collisions.
How
meteorites, or asteroid fragments, come to collide with
the Earth has been the subject of scientific debate for
some 200 years. Previous theory held that asteroids, which
exist in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, collided, ejecting
meteorites into regions in the asteroid belt called orbital
resonances. Within those regions the gravitational fields
of Jupiter and Saturn acted on the meteorites, sending
them into new paths that might intersect the Earth.
But
Paolo Farinella, who died in March, and David Vokrouhlicky
said in the journal Nature that differential warming and
emission of heat by asteroid fragments in the asteroid
belt caused them to drift into orbital resonances over
time.
``Essentially,
the 'afternoon' side of the rotating body (asteroid) is
warmer than the 'morning' side, so the re-radiation of
the Sun's heat produces a small net force across its path,''
Clark Chapman, of the Southwest Research Institute, Colorado,
said in an accompanying article.
``The
simple billiard-ball analogy of collisions between rocks
knocking each other around the solar system does not stand
up to elementary scrutiny,'' he added. ``It is no easier
to 'bump'...objects...with finite material strengths than
it is to hit eggs around the fairways with a golf club.''
Problems
Of Age And Origin
Farinella,
from the University of Trieste in Italy, and Vokrouhlicky,
from the Charles University in Prague, say the heat differences
-- so-called Yarkovsky forces -- explain problems of meteorite
age and origin that have until now confounded scientists.
The
collision model implies the swift ejection of an asteroid
fragment into an Earth-bound trajectory and would result
in relatively young meteorites. However analyzes of Earth
meteorites have shown they are tens of millions of years
old.
Yarkovsky
forces cause a gradual drift into orbital resonances over
tens of millions of years and explain why meteorites are
so much older than the collision model would suggest.
Collision theories would also imply that meteorites are
derived from relatively few asteroids which are located
near the orbital resonances.
However,
studies of the make up of meteorites on Earth would be
more understandable if meteorites came from asteroids
located further from the orbital pathways, and not just
from the few asteroids at the edges of the resonances.
The
drift theory, which was validated by computer simulations,
implies that meteorites can come from a larger pool of
asteroids located both close to and far away from the
orbital resonances.
Mitch
Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangestv.com/
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