TEMPLE OF HORUS

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SEVEN CITIES OF MARS

FORGOTTEN CITY

ARMAGEDDON

ANCIENT SAGA

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FIRST TAKE:

NEW COMET

"Then other questions came to mind; could this be Hale Bopp? It has been a particularly strange comet changing paths and such. "

Is this the comet, Saturn, something mysterious?

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Editor: we are not sure of comet location, but above is May 3 coronagraph; we notice that the number of frames is far fewer than posted on other dates.

ANNOUNCEMENT

See: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/06800/06894.html#Item1

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/J98/J98J13.html

C. St. Cyr, Naval Research Laboratory, on behalf of the SOHO-LASCO Consortium (cf. IAUC 6685), reports the discovery by S. Stezelberger of a bright comet in the northwestern corner of the field of view of the C3 coronagraph, some 8 deg from the sun:

1998 UT R.A. (2000) Decl. May 3.779 2 10.2 +19 35 "Estimated by St. Cyr at mag 0 and possibly brighter"

"Computations by the undersigned show that the observations are represented rather unequivocally by the following parabolic orbital elements and suggest that the comet might become observable from the ground, particularly later in the month at solar elongations favoring the southern hemisphere."

ASTEROID 1997 WB21: Apollo Earth crossing asteroid (IMAGE)

COMMENTS:

THE CONTROVERSY:

"That object bothers me as being Saturn, because unless you purposely oriented the frame so that the rings were horizontal, Saturn's rings are not horizontal to the ecliptic, as far as I know. Secondly, the enlarged and enhanced image implies several separate nuclei, each separated by thinner streams of debris. These brighter objects outside the main object are too bright in my opinion to be rings. And the central object appears to be composed of several smaller objects either still joined or which have not separated a great distance from each other. In other words, what we may be looking at is something like Shumaker-Levi-9 after it was pulled apart by gravitational forces. And yet there does not seem to be a tail. But then again, Shumaker-Levi-9 did not have a tail either once the nucleus was pulled apart." Bruce Cornet, PhD.

Sorry, I don't know what the funny-looking object is. It is probably an object in the instrument, perhaps a calibration marker. It is not something in the sky. If it were, the IAU astronomers would have mentioned it and sent out notice to astronomers all over the world to get more observations. The comet described in the IAU Circular is not apparent in the image you posted, but "the northwest corner" cannot be the left side, since that must be either east or west. The funny object is at least an order of magnitude too large to be Saturn, provided everything in the photo is part of the same image and to the same scale. Dr. Tom Van Flandern

Regarding the strange object seen near the Sun in the SOHO photo, I believe this object is the planet Mars. The new comet is above and to the right of the Sun, outside the edge of your image. Check out the following hyperlink:http://medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/1998j1.html Dean Dupree

Editor's note: we appreciate the incoming comments. If anyone has pics of this bright comet, allegedly 0.0-1.5 mag and to be seen on ground-level by end of May (Marsden) please forward to us.

MORE OPTIONS:

Options	Left, (Stonehouse) discovered by Patrick L. Stonehouse, April 27, 1998 Right detail C3 coronagraph, May 3, 1988, S. Stezelberger
Which is now the correct image?	This C3 Image obtained: 1998 May 4.90
	Questions still remaining: anomaly above was taken from May 3, C3 (not May, 4, C3 left) coronagraph as indicated by Marsden. Van Flandern and others indicate the Saturn-like anomaly is too big for Saturn, let alone Mars. Opinions needed.
FINALLY THIS MUST BE IT, BUT MAY 12!	BINGO?
	Suddenly appearing on the NASA webite is this image, NASA's official SOHO photo of the 1998 comet. (12th May 1998) Now this seems to vary with above announcement (bright comet in the northwestern corner of the field of view of the C3 coronagraph, some 8 deg from the sun: 1998 UT R.A. (2000) Decl. May 3.779 2 10.2 +19 35 "Estimated by St. Cyr at mag 0 and possibly brighter") What a run around! It is our best guess that this image was edited out of May 3 C3 chronagraph for delayed release.

EDITOR's QUESTION: C'mon, astros, we had pics of Bopp a year ahead of time. Why the run around and delay, as well as a possible edit; the new comet is allegedly bright, even brighter than Hale Bopp. Also can we really define the blip to the left of the sun as Mars; is it not way to big and bright even for Saturn? Furthermore, what happened to the May 2nd and 3rd LASCO images; why is the May 3rd only 154k instead of the usual 1000+? And How in blazes did the Millennium Group know about Comet before Marsden announced? Are the Stonehouse and the Stezelberger comets the same? We assume no, but yet uncertain. Please help us get a handle on this mystery.

THUS WE GRASP FOR ALTERNATIVE THEORIES

"As far as I can honestly say, there is a base positioned under the corona of the sun. It has been there for a very long time and there are regular maintenance missions to it about every four years. This I know as a fact based upon my own experiences. Whether or not you take my information seriously is entirely up to you. As for the pictures of the unknown object that you have so beautifully displayed, I have no idea as to what it could be. It does resemble a ship in having running lights of different colours on each 'wing' and it is also curiously and significantly aligned with the up and down that we see in the pictures.

Of all of the astronomical pictures I have seen, it takes some manipulation to align an object so precisely to our own level of perspective. I do assume that you did not purposefully align the object in question. I hope this helps somehow."

MILLENNIUM GROUP original message that started our search

HALE BOPP ARCHIVES

"WHAT IS APPROACHING US" Father Malachi Martin

ORBIT MOTTO: "In an infinite Cosmos all dreams are true."

From Nevada Belle, ORBIT Seer:

"Ok...it was not a very long dream...but it was very 3D you know?

An asteroid the size of a small moon is hurtling through space...comes from deep space...as it passes the outer then inner loop of our solar system...it begins to fracture...it passes Mars...which for some reason I recall that from Earth vantage point was in retrograde...and I seem to recall that some of the planets were moving into alignment...and a chunk fractures from the main body...main body misses the planet but the chunk doesn't.

It lands in the Pacific Ocean...center...causing major coastal damage to North and South America (western side), Australia (eastern seaboard)...the Polynesian Islands gone. Japan was devastated as well as the outer islands...tremendously increased volcanic activity, plate tectonic activity in the Ring of Fire...a new volcano is formed in the Southwest region of the US...El Nino goes wild...wreaks havoc everywhere...major flooding of the continental US as well as Central America...severe weather changes planet wide...major earthquakes in Tibet, China, and India...basically worldwide devastation...no one listened to the warnings..."

SOLAR BURSTS

NASA's recent report, a/o Nov 21 thru 24, '97 from plutonium powered Ulysses satellite noted that the phenomenon, first reported by TRW observatory circa Jan 12, 1962 (start of present condition) had since 1991, when the outer mantle finished blowing off and the diameter was 200 miles less in diameter, begun to swell and was getting mucho caliente, the sun is NOW a HELIUM STAR (NO MORE H2) and that there are NO poles--just total instability. Editor: can anyone point us to the actual report?

ATTACK ON SOL?

COSMIC BLAST

SOLAR EVENTS DISRUPT RADIO SPECTRUM

GEOS 8&9 MAGNETOMETER (animated)

VULCAN (animated quake maps, Mammoth, CAL-NEV, world)

ENCHANTMENT (Bear and Leah, save the world)

I've always been intrigued by the SUN=SON equation. It seems that throughout history the identity of ol Sol has been regarded through the existing cultural screen.

For instance the ancients defined the sun as GOD, almost universally. Then during the early industrial age the sun was a ball o' fire like the fire in the steel mill furnaces. In the nuclear age the sun became a thermal-nuclear-exchange machine. Now some whisper that the sun is an opening between multiple dimensions, the flip-side of a black hole.

What next!

Several years ago myself and friends were all arguing over the identity of God. Stan, a Native American elder, began smiling.

"What's up?" queried we to Stan.

He said, "you cowpokes are always arguing over God, when that Great Mystery hangs in the sky for all to see!"

He pointed to the sun.

Cycles.

Kent Steadman

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