[meteorite-list] Harvey Award Nomination: Pravda

From: E. L. Jones <jonee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Dec 23 18:58:39 2004
Message-ID: <41CB5BAC.6070805_at_epix.net>

Ok!!! This is serious folks Pay attention the fate of the world is at
stake. I read it in Pravda so it must be true.- Our Souls are all go
ruin for sure!
What we have all suspected has been confirmed in the press and by the
Jakartanese Air Forces: Someone is sending meteorites toward earth.
According to Pravda, meteorites "prefer" to land in rural areas and
oceans. I assume that this is to avoid capture by the likes of Farmer,
Lang and Haag as well as members of a Secret Meteorite Defense Front
also known as the International Meteorite Collectors Assoc. We should
infer that New Orleans and Park Forrest were just registration shots for
the bombardment to come. NWA is apparently an artillery practice
range. Does this mean people who are found with meteorites in their
possession will be sent to a POW stalag on Io?

We should have not scoffed at the loonie who deciphered the Peeksill
meteorites message by decoding the numbers on Michelle Knapp's Malibu
registration tags and street address.

I'd write more but I am following the secret conspiracy of a Super
Secret American Military Team that goes in after battles to remove
transplant organs from Iraqi cadavers as reported by another Super
Secret European Military Organization. At $40 for a kidney and $25 for
an eye-- Organs are cheaper than meteorites but there is profit in
volume. Neither Super Secret Organization was available for comment.

Merry "Politically Corrected Rredesignated National Holiday Observation
Period of 25 December (? 30 calender days) With Associated and Lesser
Cultural Customs Excluding Public Sector Religious Designations and
Including but not limited to Festivus, Boxing Day, and Dolly Parton's
Birthday"--Formally known as CHRISTMAS. (Say it in one breath!)

Elton


  Meteor showers to devastate planet Earth


*Someone in deep black space deliberately bombards the Earth with meteorites

*<http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/14754_asteroid.html>

Text:

Residents of Jakarta and two other neighboring Indonesian towns were
frightened with a series of loud explosions on December 18th overnight.
Western special services warned Jakarta of possible terrorists acts in
the country on Christmas Eve. The police, however, did not find any
destruction either in Jakarta, or near it. Local television channels
reported that several people had seen some objects, possibly meteorites,
falling down from the sky. There were no meteorites found in the area
either.

The Indonesian Air Force confirmed the meteorite origin of the
above-mentioned explosions in Jakarta: radars registered an unidentified
flying object, which was falling down on the ground at a very high
speed. Astronomers supported the space version too: they said that
eyewitnesses had seen meteorites, not a crashed spacecraft.

The mystery of December blasts in Jakarta has not been unveiled yet. If
it was really a large meteorite that fell into pieces and exploded in
the Earth's atmosphere, one may say that it was not a "timely" meteorite
at all.

December is the time of meteor showers, especially the Geminids and the
Ursids. The Geminids light the night sky as they fly from the
constellation of Gemini on December 14th. The mysterious explosions in
Jakarta occurred on December 19th - it was too late for the Geminid
meteor shower, as it had flown away already on December 17th. There is
another meteor shower called Ursid - these meteorites are considered to
be fragments of 8P/Tuttle comet, which, as scientists believe, neared
Jupiter and exploded 600 years ago. December 19th was not a good date
for the Ursids either, for they appear in the sky at night of December
22nd. If there was a meteorite in Jakarta, it must have been a very
unusual meteorite.

As a rule, meteorites do not fall down on inhabited localities. They
prefer to hit seas, lakes, fields and even the Antarctic. There can be
exceptions from the rule, of course. A large meteorite blew up above the
village of Boqate Ha Sofonia in Lesotho, South Africa, two years ago.
The space rock burst into thousands of small fragments (400 of them were
found afterwards) and showered down on village houses. One of the pieces
flew into a kitchen window and burnt a plastic container there. Local
residents had to experience the invasion of scientists later, who
determined that the meteorite originally weighed about one ton. It was
orbiting the Sun for 4.6 million years, until it broke into the Earth's
atmosphere at the speed, which exceeded the sound speed 50-100 times.

A recent research showed that the number of meteorite collectors
considerably increased owing to the Internet. It is noteworthy that the
black market of meteorites has been very active in 2004. Meteorite
trafficking and robbery has become much more frequent; the prices on
space rocks started growing too. Lunar and Martian stones are especially
expensive - the prices on them can reach $30,000 per gram, which is
3,000 times as expensive as gold.

Reports about meteorites falling down on Earth appear almost every week.
A strange object was seen flying across the Australian sky shortly
before the above-mentioned Jakarta meteor. Unusual luminescence and
roaring sounds have recently been registered in the sky above several
German towns. Scientists said that those phenomena had been caused with
fragments of asteroids in the Earth's atmosphere.

Doctor Valeri Rudakov from the Institute of Earth's Physics believes
that one should not underestimate the meteor danger. "Meteorites might
cause considerable damage to our civilization. They can destroy
enterprises, level electric power stations, not to mention nuclear power
plants. In addition to it, meteorites can cause tremendous earthquakes
and volcano eruptions," the scientist said.

Reports about meteorites appearing in the sky of planet Earth have
become much more frequent indeed. It was generally believed before that
small meteorites hit the Earth once in a hundred years whereas large
meteorites, the Tunguska meteorite, for example, fall down on the planet
once in a thousand years. It is clear now that it was a wrong
assumption. One may recollect the large Vitimsky meteorite, which fell
down two years ago in Siberia - it has become the second "gift" from
space in 100 years. The need in space protection programs is becoming
more obvious. Russian and American scientists were going to create a
joint space interception system several years ago. The governments of
the two countries, however, preferred not to assign any money for the
program, and the question went into the background.

The international symposium dedicated to the asteroid security took
place a week ago in Tenerife. Doctor Sergei Gusyakov represented Russia
at the conference - the scientist took part in the mission to explore
the phenomenon of the Vitimsky meteorite. "The pictures that we took in
the Siberian woods in the north of the Irkutsk region produced a
sensation. It became clear that it was a huge meteorite, which could
have caused a monstrous devastation in Europe, for example," Gusyakov
said. When the researcher returned home from the symposium, he was
informed about another incident in the Irkutsk region: a large 10-ton
celestial body fell down in the northern part of the region again.

Experts do not know why incidents with meteorites have become so
frequent nowadays. One of the versions says that someone in deep black
space deliberately bombards the Earth with meteorites.

Spacecraft Impactor is to collide with Tempel-1 comet on 4 July 2005.
Flyby spaceship, which carries the Impactor to the target, will observe
the first-ever collision between the man-made craft and the celestial
body. The goal of the 300-million-dollar program called "Deep Impact" is
to obtain the inner substance of the comet. Scientists believe that the
comet substance will be the source of extremely important information
about space, for the substance has remained unchanged since the time,
when the Solar System was formed.

The Flyby spacecraft is to be launched on 28 January 2005. Impactor will
fly to the comet at the speed of 37,000 kilometers per hour. Flyby's
scientific equipment and telescopes of astronomic laboratories on Earth
will analyze the cloud of the comet substance after the impact. It is
not ruled out, though, that someone will wish to explore our planet with
the help of such a barbaric method too.







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12/23/2004 15:01

*Someone in deep black space deliberately bombards the Earth with
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Received on Thu 23 Dec 2004 06:58:36 PM PST