Rock and Discord Above Earth

There are many presidents that get quoted by conspiracy theorists over time. The heavy hitters are usually President Kennedy or President Eisenhower. Usually when Kennedy is quoted, it is all about the “secret societies.” Kennedy stated:

“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.

Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.”

Eisenhower before him has been quoted by most conspiracy theorists when they want to illustrate the encroachment of the world wide police state. Eisenhower’s warning to the world in his farewell address was direct when he said:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

Now, I am going to go out of the lines a bit and I am going to quote a president that barely gets a mention and that is Richard Nixon. In his inaugural address, he stated:

“Our crisis today is the reverse. We have found ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth.”

The sentence came to me in an epiphany of sorts as I thought that yes we are living in times where the crisis we are given by the mainstream is in reverse.

We now are barely holding on to the goods we produce. Our spirit is being worn down and while the raucous discord continues on this planet. Reaching out into space we find that the same discord exists and that most people caught up in the various crises on earth are being distracted from the chaos and real dangers that are above us now.

I must confess that the crisis in Ukraine – that has been manufactured and expanded by the media – has been a convenient distraction for what has been happening above us and I would not be able to live with myself if I didn’t tell you that we have had many cosmic close shaves that have failed to make the mainstream news.

While no one wants to shout “doomsday!” or extinction level shills about space we may feel a bit of space wind as large masses pass overhead quietly and without fair warning from NASA on the mainstream news. You just have to find out from Twitter if we are about to be brushed with a asteroid the size of a cross-town bus or one that is the spitting image of that rock in Gibraltar.

What is even more frightening about all of this near earth discord is that these rocks are called Apollo-class asteroids. These are earth crossing asteroids that are just a little shy of becoming ‘potentially hazardous asteroids‘. While PHA’s can be classified as such without even hitting the earth, the potential of doing so is far greater and the Asteroid cannot come any closer, if it does then we have a major problem.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids are currently defined based on parameters that are based on the asteroid’s potential to make an absolute threatening close approach to the Earth. To be specific this means all asteroids with an Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance of 4,650,000 miles.

An Apollo-class asteroid passed over the earth on March 5th. It was 98 feet wide, and passed within 218,000 miles of earth. The moon is 250,000 miles away. So this means the rock passed within 0.9 lunar distances from earth.

It whizzed by the earth at a speed of 32,076 mph. Now you may not know that nearly one year after the Chelyabinsk asteroid explosion, another massive asteroid sailed past the Earth. The space-rock known officially as 2000 EM26 had an estimated diameter of 885 feet, roughly the equivalent of three football fields. However, it only came within some 2,094,400 miles of Earth.

Last week, an 800-pound space rock slammed into the moon at a speed of 36,600 mph, leaving behind a nearly 200 foot wide crater. The explosion on the moon was incredible upon impact.

Now an even closer asteroid, another Apollo-class about the size of a bus passes within 38,000 miles of earth. That’s just 16 percent of the distance between our planet and the moon. Just thought I would mention that these rocks, these destructive rocks are getting closer and closer to the planet and those are just the ones that are being detected.

Many of these rocks are found by amateur astronomers and sometimes they show up without warning, exactly like the one that hit Russia in 2013.

The story that has been kept under wraps is the big one that is coming and will pass by the earth in a white knuckle affair on March 10th. We are being told that this asteroid will pass by at 8 lunar distances away at 43,173 miles per hour. However, the asteroid in question named 2014 CU13, has an estimated diameter of an 80 story building.

I have been looking at its PHA level and it has been classified with an uncertainty level. Since February 11th, the asteroid has been viewed over 230 times, but there still remains a lack of information in trying to pinpoint the space rock’s exact orbit. The distance so far has been calculated at 215,897 miles.

Due to its uncertain orbit it can be potentially hazardous and has caught the attention of the minor planet center.

What has my attention is that March has already become a huge month for detecting large near earth space rocks, There have been at least 13 detected so far all with a lunar distance of less that 10.

While the chances are slim that 2014 CU13 will hit us, the potential for danger and once again sweeper effects should present an increase in fireball sightings around the world and the accompanying flashes, earthquakes and sonic booms that accompany them.

The large fireball sightings should begin after March 11th and will peak through the 16th.

Now this does not come from any official space organization, this is what may happen as we are being visited with an inordinate amount of near earth objects.

So far there was a huge fireball seen over New Mexico. When it exploded it was brighter than the moon. In Vancouver, Washington it was reported that in March 5th, that small booms and bright flashes of bluish and pink light were seen flashing through the clouds. While some may say that this was lightening, those who saw the flashes said that it cast such a glow that everything appeared to be like an X-ray.

In Yellowknife, Canada there was a huge flash of light coming out of the aurora borealis.

Also local news stations received numerous reports of a bright fireball over Southern California.

It looks as if the sweeper rocks are making their way here and that there may be a whole group of rocks that are coming at us that may become potentially hazardous.

It has been a little over a year when we had two near earth objects pass near the earth. One exploded over Russia causing injuries and damage.

We were awaiting the verdict on whether or not an asteroid would hit us. NASA assured us that the one they were tracking would make a safe pass. They did not count on the one that got away and exploded.

This time a potentially hazardous rock the size of an 80 story building cannot be tracked effectively and can make its mark on the moon or hit satellites or even earth. In the meantime, we will get the old “earth is fine” line from NASA.

To put things into perspective this asteroid is not a civilization killer if it hits… those rocks have to be at least 60 miles in diameter to have NASA push the panic button and come within 30 million miles of earth.

NASA says that every 300 years we can expect a near earth event like what happened in Siberia. That event happened shortly after 7 a.m. on June 30, 1908 over Tunguska, Russia. The rock estimated to be about the same size as the one that is passing over earth on March 6th, 2014 streaked across the sky and exploded at an estimated height of 28,000 feet with a force equivalent to 185 Hiroshima bombs, leveling some 800 square miles of forest.

Also it must be stressed that odds are, space rocks have a better chance of falling over one of our oceans, which take up more than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface. There is still vast stretches of uninhabited lands as well and they can also handle the impacts without any chance of loss of human life or infrastructure.

Budget constraints have slowed NASA’s efforts to meet its goal of identifying all of the big rocks that may come our way. Especially those that are the same size as the one that exploded over Tunguska and Chelyabinsk.

According to a published report provided in 2008 by the New York Times’ Rusty Schweickart, “the Apollo 9 astronaut who heads a foundation advocating more research on identifying near-Earth objects and developing unmanned spacecraft that could nudge them off track like a tugboat.

Mr. Schweickart said progress so far had come through constant pushing against resistant bureaucracies and politicians focused on whatever is the issue of the moment. And he said there was still no significant effort to devise an international agreement, let alone a deflection technique, for dealing with the inevitable earthbound asteroid or comet, large or small, when it is identified.

“It may be subtle,” he said, “but failure of the international decision process is the most likely reason that we’ll take a hit in the future.””

That was 2008.

Six years later, with an anniversary of one bolide airburst still lingering in the collective memory of the entire world, these close brushes with space rocks give us a reason to break away from our regularly scheduled crisis and realize that, like Nixon once said, while there was raucous discord on earth, there seems to be a rock and discord above the earth.