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The Mysterious Disintegration
of Comet C/1999 S4 LINEAR

YOWUSA.COM, August 6, 2000
Marshall Masters

…Continued

A snippet from the following Hale-Bopp article begins to show why there is this strong difference of opinion in the  "official" science community.

Robert Roy Britt, explorezone.com, November 23, 1999
Hale-Bopp  May Have a Satellite

The suggestion that comet  Hale-Bopp might have a satellite orbiting its nucleus, based on Hubble Space  Telescope images, has resurfaced amid doubts.

Reporting in the current issue of Earth, Moon, and Planets, an international journal, Zdenek Sekanina of  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory writes about a Hale-Bopp satellite detected by applying theoretical modeling to images taken with Hubble's Wide Field  Planetary Camera 2 on five days during 1996.

Harold Weaver, a research  scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins  University, has doubts about the report, which is based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images Weaver has studied (and actually provided to Sekanina).

Sekanina agrees with Weaver  that the satellite (or second nucleus) does not appear on the Hubble images.  "I don't see it either," Sekanina said. But while Weaver is an observer, Sekanina is a theorist. He starts with the assumption that there is a satellite,  then he tries to find it in the data using a complicated modeling process that filters the light reflected by dust surrounding the comet.

"The only way to extract the nuclei (from the images) is to do a digital modeling of the central cloud,"  Sekanina said. He applied two different techniques to five separate images.  "I'm reasonably certain that something is there," Sekanina said, "because I see it on each of the five images using two different models of extraction of the dust cloud."

As they say in Hollywood, "cut to the chase." There point here is that the big difference between Sekanina and Weaver is that when Sekanina closes his eyes, he sees a universe  of possibilities and when Weaver closes his eyes, all he sees is the back of his eye lids. In other words, if NASA doesn't see it (or admits to seeing it), it doesn't exist.

I first posted this panel of images  on July 31, 200 in my article, Comet LINEAR Erupts and La Palma Burns.  Before drawing your own conclusions about Sekanina's theory, take a moment to study the Hubble Space Telescope images of July 5-7, along with Kidger’s  observation on July 26.

Harold Weaver at the Johns Hopkins University is of the opinion that Zdenek Sekanina of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, tries to find validation for his theories through extraordinary data analysis.

But on the flip side, isn't that what Weaver is also doing given that NASA has so much at stake with its Dirty  Snowball theory? The whole  debate boils down to what you think you see (Weaver) versus what you think you will see (Sekanina).

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For a different spin on this, let's turn to Tevia the milk man from the play Fiddler on The Roof. Tevia said, "when you're rich they think you really know."

So then, what about those with less money than NASA. What do they say?

Electric Comet Theory

Another theory that is studied and taught in Russia, is the Electric Comet Theory. It is mandatory reading in their leading universities, and offers yet another explanation. And here, is a possible connection with our wild fires and the disintegration of Comet LINEAR.

The violence of the current Solar  Maximum has exceeded all estimates and is now being called the "Solar Max-Max" by some and many see a direct link between the Solar Max-Max  and a present-day worldwide increase in fires, droughts, floods, volcanic  eruptions and tidal waves.

If the Electric Comet theory is right, some sort of "electric" event occurred between Comet LINEAR and  the sun and this was responsible for fragment eruptions of July 5-7, 2000 and the eventual disintegration of the comet.

In the case of Comet LINEAR and  the forest fires, there could a single unified underlying cause for both events,  which is wholly consistent with the Electric Comet theory. 

If NASA was absolutely sure they understood the nature of comets, why are they sending a fleet of space probes into space over the next five years to examine the very issues raised by this  theory.

But this is not the first time the American scientific community has ignored a idea that comes from outside the box.

In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky published Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky argues for his claim, however, on the basis  of cosmological myths of ancient peoples. In his book he described historical events that are correspond with the Electric Comet theory.

The American scientific community  gave Velikovsky a chance to present his theories as member of a 5-person panel.  The other four members, led by Carl Sagan, pummeled his work and yet it continues  to hold interest to this day. Was Velikovsky entirely right, most likely not.  But he was not entirely wrong either and it is unfortunate that his ideas never received a fair and impartial scientific analysis.

In 1983 Zecharia Sitchin published The 12th Planet in which he sites many examples of ancient Sumerian passages,  astronomical observations, archaeological finds, and technological coincidences to support his theories. Sitchin is also regarded with great disvavor by the  scientific community but his theories are far better documented that Velikovsky's and not so easily attacked.

What Sitchin and Velikovsky have in common is that they rely on the observations of our ancient forefathers to build a new vision of us, our planet, and our  universe.

What Zdenek Sekanina of JPL has  in common with Sitchin and Velikovsky is that they are all trying to interpret  existing data by filtering out noisy elements. Sekanina does this with astronomical images to prove the existence of Hale-Bopp's satellite as discussed above, and Sitchin and Velikovsky do it by carefully translating ancient manuscripts  in the context of the days in which they were written.

S4 Could Be A Warning

According to Kidger, Comet LINEAR  is unlike any of the comets it has been compared with, such as: Comet Ikeya-Seki, Comet Maccholz 2, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Comet Ichimura. In short, it  was a one-of-a-kind comet.

Up to now, there are three theories  on the table: NASA's Dirty Snowball, Sekanina's Fragment Collision Theory,  and (the unofficial runner-up) the Electric Comet Theory.

But there is a possibility these might be telling us that S4 LINEAR was not a "Fizzle" as Mr. Morris of NASA is telling us. Rather it may be telling us to wake up,  because something wicked this way comes.

Comet LINEAR may very well have impacted fragments from another long gone comet as Zdenek Sekanina of the  Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA theorizes, but where is that debris field headed? And more importantly, is that debris field headed towards us?

Space research, like most everything else follows the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. Right now, the rules are being made by Hubble Telescope head honcho, Harold Weaver. In  the final analysis this one man holds the key to the answer.

In the meantime, we need to set  aside these self-serving debates, and to pay head to the warnings of England's most prominent scientists.

YOWUSA.COM, July 26, 2000
Solar  Storms Heighten  Impact Event Concerns

UK SUNDAY TIMES: A group of  scientists known in government circles as "The X Files committee" has warned that the Earth is overdue for an asteroid strike serious enough to wipe out 10% of its population.

Animals deal with what they can  see, hear, taste, touch and feel. The genius of man is that he has the imagination to see further, and it is this genius that has enabled us to escape the genetic scrapheap of history. Yet, throughout history, individuals with great minds and imagination have been so quickly discounted and pushed aside when their selfless theories strayed  across the paths of powerful self-interests.

But times are changing thanks to the Internet. Before the Internet, this article would have had to run innumerable  hurdles and would most likely have wound up in the back of some old dusty  file cabinet because it ends by asking one simple question:

"What's out there Mr. Weaver,  or do you have photographic proof there isn't?"

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