Subj: Comet Lee Date: 7/14/99 2:28:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: RexAndRuth@email.msn.com (RexAndRuth) To: phikent@aol.com Glen Deen - 01:13pm Jul 14, 1999 MST (#123 of 124) The ether is real. Dayton C. Miller observed the ether wind in 1933. Comet Lee 1999 = SOHO Y1-1998 = Hale-Bopp 1997 = Hyakutake 1996 = ??? Dear Readers, I apologize for my brief absence, but I am trying to get my own comet ephemeris program working so I can make better predictions. My earlier elements for Comet Lee are wrong. In case there may be readers who already have the ability to produce orbital elements from observations, here is an insight that should not wait any longer. If anybody can take this ball and run with it, please do so with my blessing. Comet Approximate revised perihelion date Hyakutake May 5, 1996 Hale-Bopp May 6, 1997 SOHO J1-1998 June 26, 1998 Lee August 13, 1999 = IMPACT Note that none of these are the "official" perihelion dates, because in all cases, the publicized orbits are parabolic, not elliptical with a moderate eccentricity. I have yet to demonstrate this, but I believe that if I use only the observed positions, not the computed ephemeris, they will fit my one-comet nearly circular orbit model. As manyof you know, they disabled SOHO on June 24, 1998. >http://www.enterprisemission.com/oh_my_god.htm Now the reason why is crystal clear. (This is all conjecture, of course.) The powers that be (Brian Marsden?) understood that Comet J1-1988 could be the same comet as Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp. The bad news was that when they extrapolated the periodic orbit, they found the August 13, 1999 IMPACT. They realized that they could keep this fact a secret if they just disabled SOHO for a few weeks. But how would that help? Wouldn't other observers report their observations? Evidently, Comet SOHO J1-1998 passed extremely close to the Earth but inside Earth's orbital trajectory because Earth was near its aphelion (farthest distance from the Sun) in June of 1998. Earth observers could not have seen it because its near miss would have been in broad daylight, and it wasn't close enough to be seen in broad daylight. When did they revive SOHO? They must have waited until the comet was far enough away so that a parabolic orbit could be fit to existing and subsequent observations. That's the problem with determining orbits of comets that are observed near the Sun. Such observations can be ambiguous. If, on the other hand, at the time of observation a comet is within the teardrop-shaped zone that immediately surrounds the Sun, or lies in the region of conjunction outside the Earth's orbit, in principle two solutions to the orbit determination are possible. [O. Montenbruck and T. Pfleger, Astronomy on the Personal Computer, Springer-Verlag, 1989, p. 188.] They suppressed the observations which could have resolved the ambiguity (comet inside Earth's orbit but outside that teardrop-shaped zone) because if these were all the same comet, they could project the August 13, 1999 impact. Since they had the ambiguity-resolving data, this means they knew about the coming impact. They wanted to postpone the publication of the truth until the very last minute. Well, in a couple of weeks, the whole world will see Comet Lee naked eye in the daylight. But that action did reduce the panic to only a couple of weeks duration. I think they did the right thing. What would you have done if you were in their shoes? Objectors will say with a year's notice we could have tried to destroy the comet with an H-bomb, as in the movies Deep Impact and Armageddon. Here's why that wouldn't work. 1.. If you had an intercept craft ready to launch in June, 1998, you could not catch it from behind for a rendezvous. Its orbit is inclined about 135º to Earth's orbit, which means it is moving backwards relative to Earth. With zero payload you could not carry enough fuel to catch it from behind. You would need to accelerate to 100 km/s in zero time. That is 12 times the normal orbit speed. If you want some time to accelerate, you would have to go even faster. Our existing rockets are so slow that it is all they can do to reach the 11.2 km/s escape velocity. If they want to go faster, they have to swoop by Venus for a gravity boost. That would not be enough of a boost, and there wouldn't be time for it anyway. 2.. Your only hope would be to attempt a head-on collision. You would need to achieve a 16 km/s launch speed, but that may be doable in principle. But that won't work either. It would be like trying to throw a dart down the center of a fire hose from in front of the nozzle with the valve wide open. The slightest error in trajectory would cause you to be deflected, making impact impossible. If you were skilled enough to maintain a perfect head-on trajectory, fasten you seat belt. The ether outflow would slow you down and reverse your velocity. You would in effect bounce off the comet and head back to Earth on your own impact trajectory. That is, unless you were annihilated, because this comet is made of antimatter. 3.. Note. The above is true only for retrograde comets, the only kind that impact planets. If you flew into a prograde comet, you would be sucked into it, disappear from this universe, and pop out into the anti-universe. Prograde comets are mini-black holes, and retrograde comets are mini- white holes. This is my own theory. Traditional physics would say that is nonsense. But I tell you that this event will turn the tables on traditional physics. So, the drill is to get only observed celestial coordinates for these comets (don't use the published ephemeris), and fit one orbit to all the data if you can. If you can do it before I do it, more power to you. I welcome the help. Time is of the essence. Peace, Glen