May 19, 2013

  • Signs in the Sky

    Bunch o’ things coming down the pipe:

    NASA: Meteor slams into Moon, explosion visible on Earth

    A massive explosion from a meteor which crashed into the Moon was visible to the naked eye on Earth, NASA says. A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright anyone looking up at the right moment would have spotted it, NASA said. NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office is reporting the discovery of the brightest impact seen on the Moon in the eight years the monitoring program has run the National Geographic reports. About 300 lunar impacts have been logged over the years but this latest impact, from March 17, is considered much, much brighter than anything else observed. It is understood the space rock left a 20m-wide crater after it slammed into the Moon’s surface at 90,000km/h. “We have seen a couple of others in the ‘wow’ category but not this bright,” said Robert Suggs, manager of NASA’s Lunar Impact Monitoring Program at Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The blast lasted only about a single second and shone like a 4th magnitude star—making it bright enough to see with just the unaided eye. –Herald Sun
    aNNa’S NoTe:  That’s symbolic of a warning.  FYI.  The moon is symbolic of mankind in the heavens.  This is a wake-up call.

     MASSIVE ASTEROID FLY-BY ON MAY 31st
    It’s 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth, it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest pass to Earth on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. PDT. Scientists are not sure where this unusually large space rock, which was discovered 15 years ago, originated from. But the mysterious sooty substance on its surface could indicate it may be the result of a comet that flew too close to the sun, said Amy Mainzer, who tracks near-Earth objects at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. It might also have leaked out of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, she said. We will know more after the asteroid zips closer to Earth … There is no chance that asteroid 1998 QE2 could collide with Earth this go-around, and its next close approach won’t be until 2119. Still, Mainzer said the size of the asteroid, and its potential for mass destruction, should remind us that there are some scary things flying around in space. –LA Times
    aNNa’S NoTe:  The last time we had a ‘near pass’, there were other untracked meteors with it, one hitting Russia.  And it wasn’t that long ago.  So… heads up.

     THAT BIG SUNSPOT AND WHAT’S COMING
    As Earth’s magnetic field reverberates from one CME strike, a second more potent CME is on the way. It was propelled in our d;irection by sunspot AR1748, which unleashed an M3-class solar flare on May 17th (0858 UT). Although this is not the strongest flare we’ve seen from AR1748, it could be the most geoeffective; the sunspot was almost-squarely facing Earth when the blast occurred. NOAA forecasters estimate a 75% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when the cloud arrives. In the video, the CME appears to hit Mercury, but it does not. It is merely passing in front of the innermost planet. The planet in the line of fire is actually Earth.
    aNNa’S NoTe:  It’s actually aimed right at the Plieades – the seven stars representing the seven church ages of Revelation.  And this sunspot is the same one giving of X-class flares last week.  It still isn’t quite facing us, yet.  Wonder what a CME coming our way at the same time as the meteor coming our way would do…

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