| NASA scientists are monitoring a large near-Earth asteroid that tumbled past our planet on Halloween 2000. October 31, 2000 -- Most Halloween visitors are no more alarming than, say, an earnest-looking 3-foot vampire with an eye on the candy tray -- easily warded off with a bag of M&M's. But this year there's a more sinister Trick-or-Treater on our planet's doorstep: the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis. Listen to this story  (ctrl-click MacOS right-click Windows) Save as, and click on the file for player to start.
It's official: the Earth is at risk from falling asteroids.
Asteroid gives Earth a cosmic 'close shave'
Danger from outer space The 2000 QW7 asteroid, which originated in the belt between Mars and Jupiter, passed within 2.4 million miles of the Earth on Friday morning, astronomers said yesterday. It was detected at Cornell University's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, six days before it hurtled past the Earth.
Bright AsteroidA big and bright near-Earth asteroid will glide by our planet on Dec. 16th within easy range of powerful radars and backyard telescopes.Dec. 14, 2001: There's no danger of a collision, but astronomers are nevertheless keeping a watchful eye on "1998 WT24" -- a large near-Earth asteroid that will glide by our planet this weekend. Listen to this story  (ctrl-click MacOS right-click Windows) Save as, and click on the file for player to start. Friday the 13th, 2029Asteroid 2004 MN4 will come scarily close to Earth on April 13, 2029, but it will not hit.May 13, 2005: Friday the 13th is supposed to be an unlucky day, the sort of day you trip on your shoe laces or lose your wallet or get bad news. Listen to this story  (ctrl-click MacOS right-click Windows) Save as, and click on the file for player to start. Corkscrew AsteroidA tiny asteroid looping around Earth for the past seven years is about to leave the neighborhood.June 9, 2006: News flash: Earth has a "second moon." Asteroid 2003 YN107 is looping around our planet once a year. Measuring only 20 meters across, the asteroid is too small to see with the unaided eye—but it is there. Listen to this story  (ctrl-click MacOS right-click Windows) Save as, and click on the file for player to start. |
| Comet LINEAR did not become a spectacular naked-eye object as many stargazers had hoped, but it is intriguing astronomers with its peculiar dynamic behavior. Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. 
Comet 1999 S4 (LINEAR) July 21, 20001999 S4 (LINEAR) is yet another unusual (moving) 17th magnitude object discovered by LINEAR on September 27,1999. This comet, which was initially reported as asteroidal object, has since been confirmed as a comet by the NEO Page. D. Durig of Sewanee, Tennessee has been credited as noting the object's cometary appearance. Preliminary parabolic orbital elements suggest that this comet might become a naked-eye object next June and July. |
Are We Lambs to the Slaughter, Mr. President?
by Melody Mehta
Foreword by Marshall Masters
May 5, 2000 — As Mercury, Venus, Mars Jupiter, Saturn and the moon fall into alignment today, doomsayers are bunkering down for a possible series of natural disasters.
Astronomers say today's alignment is the tightest since 1962.
FRONTLINE special explores the impact of apocalyptic thinking from the early Middle Ages to the present and illustrates how the Book of Revelation and its visions and symbolism has shaped the course of Western history in the second millennium.
It's hard to find a year without a doomsday prophesy. Perhaps the time to start worrying might be when you stop hearing the end is near.
The news is out! There will be a series of planetary
alignments in the year 2000. Will the earth tilt over? No. Will tidal forces
trigger earthquakes? No. Will the polar ice caps melt? No. Will you even be able
to see the alignments? Not really. But a lot of people want to know what is
going on, so the Griffith Observatory has established this page with all the
details and links.
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Will Be Whatching Time Zones Around the World
for Sign of Trouble as they Pass Into the New Millennium.
Comet Lee is a newly discovered comet, which is today
(8-7-99) behind the sun but is scheduled to emerge into Earth's view exactly on
August 11—the very day of the much-publicized eclipse of the sun! According to
the Millennium Group scientists*, Comet Lee's effect on the Earth could vary
wildly between causing earthquakes, and hurricane-like weather to a cosmic
cataclysm scenario like Shoemaker-Levy's comet
fragments crashing into Jupiter should Comet Lee be captured in an
Earth-moon orbit.
"This will be preceded by a solar eclipse more dark and
gloomy than any since the creation of the world, except that after the death and
passion of Jesus Christ. And it will be in the month of October than the great
translation will be made and it will be such that one will think the gravity of
the earth has lost its natural movement and that it is to be plunged into the
abyss of perpetual darkness."
Nostradamus - Letter to the King Henri II
Big debate over a 'Little Big Bang' Real-life quest
for quarks sparks science-fiction speculation. Some have made it out to be a
"mad scientist" story: Using an experimental particle collider, researchers are
planning to create an exotic kind of matter they believe existed a millionth of
a second after the Big Bang. But in this case, the scientists are really mad —
about the doomsday talk that has overshadowed the experiment itself.
For some years now Global Psychics has
quite accurately predicted the global weather and environmental conditions year
by year, and in the process we noticed an escalation in the storm patterns
beginning back in 1991. By last year, we were convinced that we were heading
into a tumultuous time, a time of devastating storms and natural disasters
occurring so frequently that we would no longer notice that the entire planet is
being battered into a new kind of submission. However, we believe that it's
critical to be attentive and noticing of the changes occurring. The time
has come for us to take responsibility for what we are creating.
Stefan Paulus interpreted the 16th-century French
astronomer Nostradamus' prophecies as predicting a comet collision in September
— and wrote a book about it. But he's not disappointed that a catastrophe didn't
come to pass. "I dedicated the book to the hope that I'm wrong," he said.
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