Great Balls of Fire Over Canada: NASA investigates

Vatic Note:  Hmmm,  remember,  Planet X, when it comes this way every 3,600 years, it has to go through the ORT cloud and usually is preceded then, by asteroids and comets and meteors shaken lose by that massive body and flung into space.   Could that be the case here?   We simply won't know becuase they won't tell us even though we pay the bill.   We should be the first to know so everyone can prepare, but then the eugenicist, Rahm Emmanual says "A crisis is just another opportunity coincidence to take advantage of in our agenda" which means why bother warning them when we are trying to depopulate them anyway.   Its a sure fire way of meeting that goal of the fascist illums, isn't it?  And further,  "why" does NASA have to investigate,  the canadians have their own space program?  Oh, maybe just neighborly courtesy, ya think? 

Great Balls of Fire Over Canada: NASA investigates

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/MG1621.html
Published: Thursday, November 4, 2010 ,
Canadian Press Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Great balls of fire were reported swooping recently over Eastern Canada and several U.S. states and there are different theories about what caused the sightings.

Even NASA's on the case.

An agency spacecraft got a closer look at one of the possible sources when it made a scheduled flight past the Hartley 2 comet on Thursday. It took closeup pictures of the comet, which is roughly 1.2 kilometres wide and spews deadly cyanide gas.

The comet made one of its closest passes by Earth this week, flying by at a still-reassuring distance of 18 million kilometres from our planet.

Scientist Peter Brown says that, last month, his meteor group at the University of Western Ontario tracked one of two fireballs while the other was detected by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.

"Those two fireballs, which were seen by two separate networks, were fairly similar," he told The Canadian Press. "The position where they came from the sky, however, was a bit different and their orbit was only in a vague sense similar to Hartley 2." Hartley 2 is very bright, so the peanut-shaped comet can be seen faintly with the naked eye.

Brown says earthlings needn't worry about the cyanide gas it emits. "Even if the Earth was to go right through that (gassy) tail, there would be absolutely no effect," the physics professor said.

But there would be "very deleterious effects" if what's described as a small comet were to collide with the planet. Brown and his meteor group at the University of Western Ontario had a very tiny taste of such a risk just over a year ago.

The university's network of cameras tracked a meteorite that fell near Grimsby, Ont., and cracked the windshield of an SUV. Luckily, the vehicle was parked at the time. The university's automated systems detect at least one bright fireball every month.

The ones last month generated particular attention, given the relative proximity of Hartley 2 to the planet. NASA's unmanned, car-sized spacecraft — called Deep Impact — flew past the comet on Thursday morning.

The vehicle is described as one of the U.S. space agency's most successful deep-space exploration projects, with hopes it could help reveal new insights into the origins of our solar system. The vehicle got within 700 kilometres of Hartley 2.

The comet, which was discovered in 1986 by British-born astronomer Malcolm Hartley, is actually small when compared with the famous Halley's comet that comes around every 76 years. "(Halley's) 15 kilometres in size — or 10 times the size of Hartley 2," Brown said.

So what caused those mysterious fireballs that were sighted in mid-October? Brown thinks they were part of the Taurids meteor shower, coming from a comet called Encke.

"That shower produces very bright meteors so we're seeing fireballs almost every night from this shower," he said. The Taurids meteor shower — which are also known as the "Halloween fireballs" — typically peak around the end of October.

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