Comet ELENIN Close Encounter with Earth
August 2, 2011, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
During early November, 2011, the Earth will pass directly through the plane and debris field from ELENIN, an apparent long-period Comet C/2010 X1, only just discovered by amateur Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin during December 10, 2010. Some are predicting a catastrophic event while the November date 11/11/11 presents itself, while others laugh it off as a ridiculous fear mongering non-event.
Comet ELENIN is officially classified as a ‘PHO’, a Potentially Hazardous Object. Some say that the comets name, ELENIN, eerily stands for Extinction Level Event Notable Impact November. Others say the name is mysteriously encoded to mean Elevin Nine (Nov. 9).
How big is Comet ELENIN?
The nucleus (the core, the middle, or the solid irregular ball of ‘stuff’ itself) of a comet can range from about 100 meters to more than 40 kilometers across. They are made of rock, dust, water-ice, and frozen gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia.
As a comet approaches the inner solar system, solar radiation causes the materials of the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus. The streams of particles and gas form a huge atmosphere around the comet called the coma, and the force of the Sun’s radiation and solar wind on the coma cause an enormous tail to form, which will always points away from the sun.
Having said that, so how big is Comet ELENIN? Reports vary, ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 miles! Now before you dive into your underground shelter, these observations are based on the visible ‘coma’, the part which will leave behind a debris field which Earth will actually pass through during early November. Whereas the nucleus – core, will certainly be much smaller. However, even those estimates vary, ranging from 2 to 7 miles in diameter. The astronomer who discovered it is guessing around 4 km. NASA has apparently not offered a definitive number.
The fact is, they apparently don’t know for sure…
How close will Comet ELENIN come to the Earth?
The closest the comet will come to Earth will be during October 16 when it will be 0.23 AU (Astronomical Units), or 21 million miles from Earth (according to NASA). The Earth will then later pass through its comet tail debris field in early November.
How fast is Comet ELENIN going?
As ELENIN zips past Earth on October 16, it will be traveling more than 53,000 mph!
Will the Earth be at risk to collide with any of Comet ELENIN’s debris during November?
Well, yes it will. The question really is, how large (or small) will be the debris?
Most say that the debris field will be made up of such small particles that we won’t even know it here on Earth. However, there are others who believe that impact with larger debris is inevitable. Since their is not a clear definition as to the true size of the comet, it’s difficult to predict the extent of any potential collisions with debris.
In conclusion, there are mountains of controversy and conspiracy swirling about the internet regarding Comet ELENIN, some of which is intriguing to read, ranging from government-built underground shelters for the elite to survive the catastrophe, to the recent number of strong earthquakes, to being remotely controlled by an alien power, to having to do with a brown-dwarf star lurking within our solar system, to Planet X, Niburu…
Whatever the excuse, why not stock up on food, water, and supplies? Sounds like as good a reason as any at the moment 
Or, perhaps dig yourself an underground shelter to shield yourself from flaming debris raining down from the atmosphere on November 9… If nothing else, it will make for a good root cellar.
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I’ve seen the 3-dimensional work up of elenin crossing through our solar system. And though it appears that Elenin crosses the 2-dimensional plane of the earth’s orbit, in the third dimension it does not (i.e. the debris field will be 4 million km above the earth’s orbit).
See 3-d picture here: http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1968/elenindistance.jpg
I always worry about anything that comes into the pathways of asteroids out there and running into them. The pinball effect that sends a chunk of debris that was not going to the planet now is. Comets are not as predictable paths as people think because of the effect of the sun on them as they approach the warmth. Comets have been associated with bad luck omens for many reasons that do not make any sense, but some do, like impacting other objects.
Even though the “head” of the Comet will pass 4 million K’s from earth, in real astronomical distances this is very small. The earth may pass through parts of the tail.
Lots of conspiracy theories around about Elenin and The alleged “Black Star” – Niburu.
I am doing a lot of research on this. I will try and have a reply or post by Sunday. Lots of material on the net to weed through on this topic.
That’s depressing news! Better stock up while we can.
I have been stocking up with food for 6 months,garden tools ,seeds,water and fuel.If we get affected by Niburu then the world will be severely damaged.Better to be prepared!!
Quran chapter #55 has 31 repetitions of a 4-worded verse at 13, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77. Their sum is 1433.
Chapter #55 has 355 days. The Islamic year 1433 has 355 days. So expect 31 events each lasting 4 days in 1433 from 07-Jan-2012 to 07-Nov-2012 along 31 latitudes (the above numbers as they sit exactly in the middle of the range 0 to 90).
Full 31 dates and latitudes at http://www.heliwave.com
God knows best and controls everything in real-time.
how come they can tell you how big or small a planet is in a next galaxy, and this thing is in our neighborhood and you can’t get at least a descent guesstimate on this thing. why is the mystery.
The reason it is hard to estimate sizes of comets is because the coma (the gas and dust around them) obscures the nucleus. The comets are so small that you usually can’t actually resolve the size of the nucleus. In fact, even at its closest approach to Earth of about 22 million miles, even the Hubble Space telescope wouldn’t be able to resolve the size of the nucleus if it is smaller than about 10 miles (which would be very large for a comet). So astronomers have to rely on the apparent brightness of a comet to estimate its size, but if you have a glowing coma around the comet, getting a good measure of the brightness of the nucleus is very difficult at best. (FYI, we can’t measure the size of a planet in another Galaxy, but we can measure the size of some planets around other nearby stars because there are observational tricks you can use in some of those cases that don’t apply to comets.)
Regarding the paths of comets, they are actually quite predictable with sufficient observations to get positional measurements over time, and Elenin has way more than sufficient number of measurements to get a good knowledge of its orbit. There are “non-gravitational effects” that can affect a comet’s orbit, e.g., the jets of gas, but they are pretty low density and small effects – think of how much a blow dryer affects the movement of a house-sized boulder rolling down a hill.
The Earth passes through comet debris all the time: the annual meteor shows we see (e.g., the Persieds, Orionids, Leonids) are all due to the Earth passing through the debris of other comets.
There is no reason (nothing from observations of professional and amateur astronomers) to believe that Elenin will be significantly different in these respects from other comets.
How much truth is there to this apparent Brown Dwarf star passing through our solar system?
None whatsoever. The nearest star is the Sun. There is no brown dwarf anywhere within lightyears.
lol ok good hah I see so much BS on internet was hoping to hear that =p
Thanks for the Reply
My older brother keeps saying that elenin is going to hit the planet, people say its harmless but my brother says they are covering it up.Im really scared and i just want to know the truth about this.
Negative… it apparently will not. However, there is the possibility that some of the dust-debris from it’s ‘tail’ could impact the Earth soon – as the Earth crosses the ‘near’ plane of the Comet. The comet’s tail though is said to have been slightly above the plane of the Earth, which would mean that there may be no results at all. It has all been very interesting, but not apparently doomsday material
when is elenin due to come back around to earth? and is it predicted to be closer the next time?