Video – March 30, 2011
Mysterious fireball filmed over Melbourne, Australia, March 30, 2011
A UFO video at Youtube is catching some buzz–video below. The title of the video:
Comet Elenin? A UFO Over Melbourne Sky? 30/03/2011 7:23:36 PM
Info from the video:
I took this picture on 30/03/2011 7:23:36 PMComet Elenin info from an exasperated, fed up with conspiracy theories NASA astrobiologist:
Is This Comet Elenin Over Melbourne Airport? a UFO? Tell us what you think it is.
C2010 X1 Elenin (to give its full name) is a long-period comet, which takes about 10,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun. It was discovered with a robotic telescope in New Mexico on 10 December 2010 by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin. When comets or asteroids are first discovered, their orbits are quite uncertain; usually it takes several months of observations to firmly establish the orbit. Elenin’s perihelion (closest to the Sun) is in early September 2011 at a distance from the Sun of 40-45 million miles. It will be closest to Earth on about 16 October, at a distance of about 21 million miles, which is nearly a hundred times farther than the Moon. The comet never comes close to the Earth, but it is expected to be visible in binoculars during August and October.The ‘fed up with conspiracies part’:
Part of the Internet chatter concerns its size. Comets are exceedingly small and enveloped in a tenuous cloud of gas and dust, so the only way to be sure of their actual dimensions is to visit with a spacecraft. Half a dozen comets have been the target of spacecraft missions, and all of them (even Comet Halley) are less than 10 km in diameter. There is no reason to think Elenin is any different. This means its mass is less than one billionth the mass of the Earth. Needless to say, we will not be aware of the tiny gravitational pull from Elenin. In spite of these simple facts, some websites (such as godlikeproductions) are making wild claims that Elenin will hit the Earth, or disturb our orbit, or cause tides, or interact with our magnetic field. Such claims are pure fiction. One of the worst examples is a video that someone posted on the NASAbuzzroom website that claims that the magnetic field of the comet will cause a large shift in the rotation axis of the Earth and produce mega-earthquakes on March 15, 2011. It is hard to imagine anyone would take this seriously. Comets don’t have magnetic fields, and magnetic fields can’t change the rotation axis or cause earthquakes no matter how large they are. Adding to the craziness is a claim that this same comet caused the Earth’s axis to shift by 3 degrees in February 2010 and caused the Chile Earthquake. These are simply lies; the comet was far away a year ago, and there was no change whatever in Earth’s rotation axis. The Chile earthquake was a normal slippage in an active fault that has produced many previous earthquakes, including the one witnessed by Charles Darwin in 1835. Please remember that just because someone says he or she is from NASA doesn’t make it true. Many people who post YouTubevideos lie about their affiliation. Incidentally, only NASA is allowed to use the NASA logo, the blue circle with the word NASA and a satellite orbiting around it.Did you get that? It’s illegal to use the NASA logo!!
Here’s the video:
Some of the comments:
I saw this same object in the western sky the previous day on the 29th march 2011 at approx 7:30pm from Adelaide? South Australia
This could be (2001 AD2) Asteroid, it is pretty close to Earth right now at a distance of? 0.1033 AU. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001%20AD2;orb=1
No I’ve researched into this and it is not behaving like space junk. It is moving too slowly, no burn up debris trail behind it and the size is too large for something like? space junk entering into our atmosphere. Also space debris is tracked by an agency so this would be reported as a hazard.
On June 5, 2010, a ‘spiral’ light was sighted by hundreds of witnesses from central Queensland up the coast to Melbourne. The explanation for the spiral light, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral.
On March 6 we posted UFO Mystery in Australia: Strange Glowing Balls of Light Show Up Four Nights in a Row.
On March 24, reports of a fireball in the sky over Nebraska.
News report of a ‘Beam of light’ over Oklahoma on the same night.
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If one comet turns blue and the other red, the Hopi prophecy will be fulfilled. I haven’t compared this event to any other ancient religious prophecy yet but Elenin won’t be the problem comet. Comet 2005 YU55 is the one we have to keep an eye on because it will be between the Earth and Moon at a distance of only .0022 AU on November 9th. That’s only 204,502 miles from earth. Hope it doesn’t effect any satellites.
Check the comet trajectory for yourself at JPL…
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005%20YU55;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=1#cad