5 /31/ 2010 Update to this Post:
I plotted the locations of the planets on December 21 2012. If the comet/asteroid stream exists and is shifting as I have plotted, then Earth and Jupiter will be safely out of range by Christmas 2012. However Uranus would be crossing the stream. Saturn might cross the stream. The Rosetta spacecraft will cross the stream. By December 2012 Uranus may have some kind of weather event, comet capture, or comet/asteroid impact event. If Saturn catches up to the shifting stream by December 2012, it might have an impact event or a comet capture. In December 2012, the Rosetta Spacecraft might be damaged if it crosses the stream. This would happen a year and a half before it reaches its scheduled mission goal, Comet C-G ( 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ). It is scheduled to reach Comet C-G in May of 2014. Rosetta will be in the fifteenth month of its 30 month hibernation phase when it crosses the stream. NASA may not know anything has happened to Rosetta until it tries to awaken it fifteen months later.
Here are the plots for December 21, 2012. The first view is wide angle showing most of the solar system. The second view is a close up of the Solar System from Jupiter to the Sun:
Note how in this theoretical model, Jupiter and the Earth are moving away from the stream and stay “ahead” of it for the duration of the stream’s close approach. Unfortunately two planets and perhaps the Asteroid belt are in the way of this celestial stream. If the asteroid belt is in the path, then all bets would be off for continued safety from any asteroid or comet impacts after 2012. If the stream crosses the Asteroid Belt, the stream could scatter asteroids in many directions. Warning of an impending hit could be as short as the time it takes a comet or asteroid to come from “behind” the sun and fly into Earth’s path. Speed of the incoming asteroid or comet would depend on the energy boost it got when the stream “kicked” it out of the asteroid belt.
There could also be new comets being spawned or disrupted from their orbits in the Oort cloud by this stream shifting across the Solar System. These disruptions could have been happening for centuries.
If our Sun has a binary twin and if that binary twin is large enough to yank a comet away from Jupiter the way Comet 147P/Jushida-Muramatsu was mysteriously freed from Jupiter in 1962, then this binary twin has a gravitational field that penetrates into our solar system. If the binary twin is nearing its closest approach to our Sun in Dec 2012, then its gravitational pull on Earth might be perceptible. Earth might have its crust, oceans, and atmosphere “pulled” skyward during the binary twin’s close approach. We might experience an increase in earthquakes leading up to 2012. We might experience stronger tides when the moon and the binary twin are on the same “side” of the earth. Weather could be effected in the form of unusually severe low pressure regions forming as the atmosphere is “stretched” skyward. It would take a lot of gravity to make these things happen. Uranus seems to have been affected in this manner in 2004. If we observed unusual weather events on the gaseous planets during the next two years, or earthquake activity on Mars, that might be an early warning of similar events to come on Earth.
Under my theoretical scenario, all these events would likely cause panic. Governments will try to calm people by truthfully stating that there is no immediate danger of an end of the world event. Unfortunately, if my model is correct, the danger of impact from a disrupted comet or asteroid by the stream will increase after the stream recedes back into deep space and the earthquakes, tidal surges, and weird storms subside. Time frame for such an impact could be years, decades, centuries. None of the ancients give any clue to the date of the end of the so-called Fourth Age. All they say is that it ends in “Fire”.
Original Post:
I found a possible relationship between the impact on Jupiter by a comet in 1994, a large storm on Uranus in 2004, a comet or asteroid impact on Jupiter in 2009, the fading of the southern hemisphere red cloud band on Jupiter in 2007, and the recent loss of the same red cloud band in 2010.
In March of 1993 Comet Shoemaker Levi 9 was captured by Jupiter. It impacted Jupiter in the southern hemisphere in July of 1994. As mentioned in my previous post, Jupiter’s southern hemisphere red cloud band vanished that same year and later reappeared. I wonder if ammonia clouds formed after the impact of the comet, obscuring the lower altitude cloud band.
In March of 2004 Uranus was observed having unusual storm activity. Uranus was on the same “side” of the solar system that the Jupiter 1994 impact happened.
In 2007 Jupiter’s southern hemisphere red cloud band faded slightly, again on the same “side” of the solar system.
In July 2009 Jupiter was hit by a heavy object in the southern hemisphere. NASA believes it was either a comet or an asteroid. Jupiter’s southern hemisphere red cloud band vanished again this month. And it all happened on the same “side” of the solar system.
What’s going on?
There are other events in other years where Jupiter captured comets and then lost them. In one case, Jupiter captured a comet in the 1949, lost it twelve years later in 1962 and recaptured it in 1993. Here are the locations of Jupiter on May 14, 1949 and July 15, 1962: These images only show Jupiter’s accurate location. The other planets are not in their correct locations. The NASA simluator only went back to 1990.
Jupiter is on the same side of the sun again. But in order for my theory to work, I think Jupiter had to be at the bottom right of the screen, not upper right. 1979 is another year when Jupiter was on this side of the sun. But I can’t find anything significant that happened to Jupiter in 1979.
I wonder if there is a comet/asteroid belt trespassing across our solar system that is not orbiting the Sun? I wonder if this band is orbiting something different. Something big and nearby. Maybe a black hole or a brown dwarf , a large celestial body located maybe 1.8 trillion miles to the “right” of our Sun. If this body is in a binary orbit with the Sun, then it would be in motion, moving in a counterclockwise direction with the Sun. The blue line represents the theoretical track of the trespassing comet/asteroid belt. I am approximating the possible shift in the trespassing path as it obeys the binary orbital motion of the theoretical large celestial body.
I think there is something big outside the edge of our Solar system. I think it has stuff orbiting around it. Comets and Asteroids and maybe a few planetoids thrown in. All that stuff might be crossing our solar system like a giant buzz saw blade. When the planets Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter cross its track, they risk getting hit. They also risk capturing trespassing comets and asteroids that later get pulled away by the superior gravitational tug of the celestial body.
Theory not fact. Speculation not prediction.
Thanks for reading!
JFAlthouse