The comet Elenin will not destroy Earth

It approaches Earth at nearly 90,000 km. per hour and its closest approach to Earth will occur on 16 October. According to some, however, several weeks before that day the comet Elenin (officially designated C/2010 X1) planted in our world a wave of death and destruction as has not been known until now. Massive eruptions, major earthquakes, tsunamis, catastrophic solar flares, magnetic reversal of the poles and a whole string of disasters with an intensity never before seen by man. It will be between 26 and 27 this September. The reason for so much destruction, according to those who feed the idea is that, precisely during those days, the comet will be aligned with the Earth and the Sun Which, to understand, means that you could draw a straight line to play at a time the three celestial bodies. And it's the last two times I saw that lineup coincided with earthquakes of Chile (February 27, 2010) and Japan (March 11, 2011). Some "scientists" (including a certain Mensur Omerbashib) curl curl and strive to complete the list of astronomical alignments disastrous. And they have found all of them, when they occur, consistent with earthquakes of magnitude greater than 6. Omerbashib argues that, despite its small size (compared to a planet), the destructive potential of comets (and other celestial objects) when they are aligned with other worlds is due to "a phenomenon of resonance magnification" he himself has described and which has come to present to experts at Cornell University.

Without much success, indeed. To complete the picture, others have wanted to see this comet Niburu, the obscure and unknown "Planet X" Solar System, a mysterious world that just happens around us each many thousands of years, inexorably causing major disasters and mass extinctions. Or say that even this could be a companion star called the Sun (a small brown dwarf) star does not shine (and that has not been discovered) but its enormous mass, several times that of Jupiter, become a real harbinger of destruction. It all started a few months ago, when an Internet user, playing with an educational program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, which allows you to draw a diagram of the orbits of the planets known objects, noticed that precisely in the days when Elenin position aligned with the Earth and the Sun there were two earthquakes in Chile and Japan. During the first alignment (the February 27, 2010) the Elenin was about 630 million km. of the Earth. During the second (March 11 this year), was reduced to half that distance (about 300 million km), which would explain that the earthquake in Japan was much more destructive than that of Chile. What will be able to do during the next Elenin alignment, the 26 to 27 this month, when only be about 50 million miles away? With these premises, and as has happened on other occasions, the story spread like wildfire through the Internet and social networking. And a cloud of "experts" have been added to the virtual forums with new data and "scientific calculations" that demonstrate the inevitability of the catastrophe.

As the weeks pass and the d "day" approaches, the stories multiply and blend into each other: NASA knows what will happen and hides, several astronomers who wanted to reveal the truth have died in a within a few days victims of a rare disease, the comet is only the vanguard of an alien invasion that is hidden in its wake ... There is something for all tastes. In this situation, NASA in mid-August issued a statement calling for calm and explaining that none of this will happen. The comet is only 3.5 km. diameter is too small to alter the orbit of a planet or to remove the Earth's tectonic plates and cause earthquakes. In addition, during its closest approach to the Elenin will be more than 35 million km. away, 92 times what separates us from the moon and almost the same as that between the Earth and Venus. Not to mention that Elenin reached on September 10th point of closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) and scientists have found in recent days, a rapid decline in brightness, which suggests that, consumed by solar radiation, is a disintegrating comet. As it is, almost certainly, his last trip around the Sun. The images in these lines show how he saw the comet on 29 August and how, after its perihelion, no trace of him could be seen on 14 September.