----- Original Message -----

From: Mitch Battros

To: Breaking News

Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:32 AM

Subject: [prep2003discuss2] Earth Changes TV/Breaking News - Something's Up With Comet "C/2002 V1"

Something's Up With Comet "C/2002 V1"...02/23/03
by Mitch Battros (ECTV)

There is a great deal of noise circulating the newsrooms surrounding the arrival of comet "C/2002 V1". There is good reason it should be.

First I want to bring attention to the SOHO (solar and heliospheric observatory) photos made available by Nasa and JPL. It appears there may have been a grave mistake, or another cover up by the United States Space Agencies. First take a look at the photo which is circulating the internet. Photo: http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/swpod2003/21feb03/soho1.gif

Note: when viewing the SOHO photos, remember to reverse the east and west limbs. This does not affect north and south.

GD: Wrong.  North is up, East is left, and West is right.  Do not reverse East and West.

You can see comet "C/2002 V1" coming in from the north and coming around the western limb. As the comet heads down towards the western side, we see a tremendous CME (coronal mass ejection) explode from the Sun, directly towards the comet. No one disputes this fact. However, what we can see clearly in this next photo is the photo had been turned upside down.

That's right, upside down. Photo: http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_02_12/C2002_v1.gif

GD: Big Mistake!  This photo was taken one year earlier, as you can see from the date stamp in the lower left-hand corner: 2002/02/18 06:42.  NASA evidently used this one year-old photo as the background for the plotted comet ephemeris so the star background would be the same as it would be at the comet's perihelion.  I compared the star backgrounds in the two pictures, and they are the same (both right-side up).  You can tell that the 2002 picture is not simply the 2003 picture turned upside down by comparing them.  I printed one out and turned it upside down.  The coronal mass ejections have different shapes.

This means the CME is directly Earth bound.

GD: Nonsense.

If this is correct, watch for sudden windstorms to occur. Also watch for huge and spectacular Aurora's which may come down to 35 degree's latitude. Keep an eye on the Kp index and GOES for spikes in geomagnetic flux. http://www.maj.com/sun/noaa.html

Now, lets consider the size of this comet. I had to take a double look when I located the diameter of comet "C/2002 V". It is approximately 176,000 miles across. This is twice the size of Jupiter. Twenty two times the size of Earth. Remember, the size of the last known "planet buster" asteroid 65 million years ago was about 6 miles in diameter.

GD: He didn't say where he got that information, but it is wrong.

Any celestial orb 1 kilometer or (.6 miles) is considered a great danger to Earth. This would mean even a small particle from the tail of this comet could be devastating.

GD: All comet tail particles are the same size, no matter the size of the comet.  We see them whenever we have meteor showers.  They all burn up in the air.

Peace,
Glen