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NASA: Strange Object Debris Coming, Will Hit Earth December 13th and 14th

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The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th when Earth runs through a stream of debris from a strange object that some astronomers are calling a “rock comet.”

 
The 2012 Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, The Geminids are a unique meteor shower in that their identified parent body is not a comet, but what seems to be an asteroid! Of the meteor showers with known parent bodies studied by meteor scientists, the Geminids are the only shower to have an asteroidal parent body; all others have a cometary origin. 3200 Phaethon measures 5.10 km in diameter which increases the ‘unique’ factor; considering the amount of debris we see, we would expect Phaethon to be a much larger body! 
Artist’s Concept of a Rock comet
 
Phaethon was discovered on October 11, 1983 using the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, and named after the Greek myth of Phaethon, son of the sun god Helios, due to its close approach to our Sun. 

Phaethon is technically classified as an asteroid — the first to be discovered via satellite. But how could an asteroid produce meteoroids that cause the Geminids? One theory is that Phaethon broke apart from another object, ejecting meteoroids as a part of the breakup. This doesn’t agree with other things we know, however. Another theory is that a collision with another object thousands of years ago could have produced debris that Earth now travels through. This theory appears to be unlikely as well, based on other evidence. Another theory assumes Phaethon to be a dead comet (the spent nucleus of a comet whose ices had been sublimated away) that produced debris in the past that now intersects Earth’s orbit. But no evidence for mass loss from the object has ever been reported…. until recently.
 
In 2009 the NASA spacecraft STEREO-A observed 3200 Phaethon to brighten by a factor of two, quite unexpectedly. This brightening at perihelion was likely due to a release of dust from the object, possibly due to heating and cracking of the surface rocks as Phaethon came close to the Sun. That brings us to the fourth theory, that Phaethon is a rock comet. The problem with this theory is that it doesn’t account for the amount of dust in the Geminid stream.

So what it comes down to is that the Geminid parent object is a mystery.

 
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    Total 33 comments
    • shtfirbrains

      it’s poop from the space station.

    • jerdawgee

      :lol: These guys are just guessing. They don’t know much of anything.

    • Anonymous

      NASA knows perfectly well what is approaching and causing so many meteors and fireballs: Planet X!

      • Anonymous

        dream on. if nibiru was as close and as powerful as the zombies believe? its effects would precede it by years. more NWO deception and ET space rubbish psyop

        • killuminati420

          Actually CNN did a short piece earlier this year saying NASA has found a large planet,dwarf star,or brown dwarf “Far beyond Pluto”That might explain the increase in Asteroids and Meteors.I fail to see why people think Nibiru has to be “close” to effect us the mass of something like a dwarf star is immense

    • Anonymous

      This is why there shouldn’t be nuclear energy. If you don’t understand why, go to ENENEWS dot com

    • AliensofAtlantis

      why does some idiot say this has anything to do with nuclear energy on this article?enenews.com is scam site and connected to rense.com and his endless fukushima fearporn.

      • whitebear

        i fail to see where anything of fukushima could be remotely considered fearporn

        • Reality Today

          Rense is a controlled opposition disinfo shill.He is in big oil’s back pocket and that is why he posts a bunch of recycled bull on Fukushima and enenews is a scam period…since you askedBTW Rense does any use a real photo and gericurls went out decades ago. :grin:

    • Anonymous

      Because if an asteroid hits earth and affects the power grid, a nuclear power plant could shut down, or many nuclear power plants could shut down, and if they can’t get energy back up to be “cooled” then they can melt down.

      That’s why YOU should read Enenews, because you’ll LEARN.

      Enenews is an excellent site, for people with an IQ and who can connect dots.

    • watertiger

      They are getting you ready for a major announcement folks………..its coming!!

    • JustinNightWolf

      Nasa is so full of kaka ………..they lie all the freakin time,its really the debris field that surrounds nibiru.

      • RJ

        Remember, Obama changed NASA’s mission to Muslim Outreach.
        http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/nasas_muslim_outreach_106214.html

      • TheJeffness

        Doubt it…..If niburu exists why havnt I seen a picture? The government really has the ability to censor every single person that has a telescope and a camera? I see supposed pictures, but they are nothing….usually just lens flares or object so big that anyone looking up in the sky would see it.

        A lot of stuff on this website is true, and I wouldnt be suprised if their is a massive solar flare and/or poleshift within the next couple years. But this planet X stuff is just so ridiculous….Use your brain! I bet people that believe in Nibaru are the same people that believe a hologram hit the world trade center and Obama is a reptilian. The gullibility is so rampant in the alternative/paranormal/ufo/conspiracy/etc community, that it is literally discrediting the entire movement because outsiders see massive retardation and assume everyone is alike.

    • Lilith

      The seedbank in Svalblad, the underground bunkers, execs resigning in droves, skies chemtrailed to oblivion, somethings coming, the powers that be are screwing the last pennies out of us, the gold and wealth have vanished (Stashed away for the returning ???)

    • Gorja

      Yeah yeah yeah. Still not scared. What else is happening in December… Anything nice? :lol:

      • #1 Jaded in DFW

        “Santa Claus is coming to town”

    • OBAMAbinBIDEN

      yawn

    • HIDDENTEXTOR

      December 13th
      That is St Lucy’s Day

      Bit of a coincidence
      Mother Shipton & Nostradamus BOTH say that events will begin that date

      Mother Shipton said the dragon’s tail would be seen for six nights following St Lucy’s Day

      Now let me count… that takes us to the EVE of the winter solstice
      another name for that is YEW TREE DAY

      an oft mentioned date in the Hidden Texts
      in relation to Canary Islands – Japan – Bahre and Peru

      it was also the date for Sandy (the Halloween period).

      • Justthinkalready

        Peru! It rhymes with NIBIRU!

        CONSPIRACY!!!!!

    • whitebear

      @Reality Today – you said, “Rense is a controlled opposition disinfo shill. He is in big oil’s back pocket and that is why he posts a bunch of recycled bull on Fukushima and enenews is a scam period…since you asked BTW Rense does any use a real photo and gericurls went out decades ago.”

      All you have done is raise questions as to your validity. When pressed for proof of your assertions I wonder if you would disappear.

      Frankly I needn’t look any further than Chernobyl to see the devastation and waste laid down by nuclear ignorance and how said ignorance can have devastating effects to survivability and security concerns. So call it fearporn or what you like but Fukushima nuclear waste will or already has circled the northern hemisphere. I know it’s already made its presence known in the NW of the US.

    • Anonymous

      What I kinda find sad about this story is that it perpetuates the myth that comets are dirty snowballs. Comets are actually mostly rock and are the solar systems capacitor’s. The tail is created through electrolysis as it discharges electrical energy as it speeds through the cosmos. You can confirm this when you look at a comet that has started on it’s way out of the solar system just after it passes the sun. The tail is sometimes pointed in the opposite direction of travel, i.e. ahead of the comet itself. For those of you who are interested in learning what really governs or universe, search for “The Thunderbolts Project” on youtube, also watch mr2tuff2′s video’s, and follow Supicious0bservers’ daily weather forecasts (the “0″ in observers is a numerical zero). I’ll give you a little hint to what’s really going on. The sun is really an electric entity, not a convection heater via a nuclear reaction. Gravity is not governed by mass either. For the naysayer’s, tell me how many times they have documented convection on the sun and explain to me to corona and why it is so hot. Once you do that through conventional methods I will recant my statements here, until then, you know nothing about how our solar system works.

      • Spuffmunki

        It’s worth checking out this guys blog

        http://www.DarkMattersAlot.Com

        He has some interesting theories on Comets and Dark Matter.

        In it’s early stages, but still…

        Worth a look.

    • VC OF THE NFE

      Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That was needed. Bashing one out to fearporn has never been so good ;-)

    • Uncle Ben

      Yaaah fire balls are a coming :twisted:

      :roll:

    • BlueKey

      What get’s me is how all the same people who leave comments on this website, make a sport of talking down to each other, in nearly every article’s comments section.

      Yes, it would become a little redundant for everyone to offer their own opinion, without reading the other comments first, but it would be a heck of a lot more worthwhile to read comments, if they are only unmarred opinions. Then go back and read what others wrote, comparing our thoughts like humans, not competitors.

      Yes, to actually read what people think, of the article, and not what they think of each other, or each others’ opinions. Wow, novel idea huh?

      Come on people, giving opinions on each others’ opinions? Yes, this is what I’m doing now, but I’d like to be the last.

      So, I challenge all who read this, to from now on, use your freedom of speech in a more succinct, clean, and worthwhile manner (imo) and just post what you think. No back and forth banter, fighting, or bashing each others’ opinions.

      What say ye? If you agree, just up-vote this, and more importantly, be the example.

      Thanks for tuning in.

    • Anonymous

      Phaethon has multiple, clumped dark matter nuclei. Very dangerous and unstable

      Darkmattersalot.com

    • Mellissa

      They shower happens every single year, and there is nothing in the video saying ” there may or will be an impact, of some kind on earth”

      Its a neat shower with the position it holds normally they streak across the sky but these ones come from a center point and spread out. Its rather neat. I hope its not to cold this year.

      • Ravyn

        Actually, Melissa, the colder it is the clearer the sky is. I live way out in the country, in the western NC mountains. I have no light pollution, so stargazing is one of my hobbies. The winter skies are always far more brilliant than the summer ones, so you should actually hope it’s as cold as possible. just bundle up with layers and bring some soup or hot chocolate. As long as it isn’t raining, I’ll be doing the same thing, enjoying the show! Hope you do too!

    • Anonymous

      There are thousands of videos and pictures of Planet X or its moons, including satellite images, you know, satellites owned and operated by the U.S. government.

      So stop pretending there is no evidence. We are seeing deniers and doubters galore now because the word is out, that Niibiru/Planet X is real and approaching. Such news and realizig Planet X has been covered up is simply too much for some immature souls to handle.

      So they attack the messengers, attack the so-called lack of evidence, and make themselves feel better while denying YOU the truth.

      It is selfish, what the PAID and unpaid shills/trolls going after any mention of Planet X online.

      Almost every single person, known or unknown, who is currently sure Planet X is not real will disappear after NASA announces Planet X is real. They will slink off into the night and hope you forget that they insisted Planet X is not real.

      I just hope all the debunkers, doubters, and deniers learn something from the experience of either being wrong without knowing it or being wrong and knowing Planet X is real but taking money to convince YOU it is fiction.

      We shall see. That announcement from NASA is pending!

    • Anonymous

      Sorry: Forget to mention.

      The only debris heading our way is from the tail of Planet X. NASA knows this and is covering it up with nonsense like this, putting out a false, alternative explanation for the huge increase in space debris, fireballs, and meteors. That is all this story is. Don’t waste your time with such lies, please.

    • Chris Thomas

      Look at the amount of views, people are afraid or gullible or both. Read ZetaTalk, if you want the real goods, less exciting as in less drama, but true, none-the-less.
      I blog ZetaTalk information here:

      http://survivingthepoleshift.wordpress.com/

    • Anonymous

      Chris Thomas just cannot stop trying to ride on the coat tails of Nancy Lieder!

      Yes, ZetaTalk is telling the truth about Planet X, but you DO NOT need Chris Thomas to rehash or “interpret” ZetaTalk for you. Simply read it yourself.

      It is pathetic that he is using this popular site to try and get views and readers for himself.

      I don’t see where Chris Thomas mentioned these facts:

      1. He was contacted by the local police because of the many online death threats he posted about Nancy Lieder and others. What?!
      2. He had a website where he claimed to be doing “ZetaSpeak.” What? There is only one person who is in telepathic (not channeling) communication with the Zetas and that IS Nancy Lieder. Chris Thomas only pretended he was in communication with the Zetas after he was suspended from the PS ning for plagarizing his now defunct newsletter. He got all the material, almost without exception, from ZetaTalk. com and the poleshift.ning.com. I am willing to bet that is what you fill find at the site he is desperate for you to read.

      Take a hike, Chris! Go back to whatever it is you did before you discovered ZetaTalk, tried and tried and tried to get attention for YOURSELF using the work and efforts of others, and stop stealing from Nancy Lieder! Enough is enough!

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