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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I am not forecasting the end of the world...
BUT ..... 
.....in the last week of Sept, amateur astromoners are forecasting global geological upheaval
due to an incoming dwarf star,(only visible using infra red), which will pass between Earth and the sun.
(allegedly)This dwarf star is being described as 'comet Elenin' by government astronomy sites in order to conceal the fact that it is not a small harmless lump of ice but actually has a mass the size of Jupiter (allegedly)
I do not know whether it is true - I am not an astromoner.
I suggest you get on with living, because, if true, there is nothing we can do to change it.
If it worries you, you need to work on your knowledge of what life and death are,
so that you won't fear it (or anything else for that matter) |
Nice try for the doomsayers (and no disrespect to you, Margaret) but if a dwarf star for some bizarre reason decided to scythe through our system it would cause absolute chaos and would not simply surprise us all one morning. The planets would be pulled out of their orbits one by one and in order to get here by the end of September it would have to be moving at a collossal lick, something I wouldn't expect something the size of Jupiter to be capable of without a few ripples. I would be more mindful to consider that any astronomical body that moved in such a manner was either a comet or a meteor, stars just do not behave in this way.
Where do people get these crackpot ideas? An elementary understanding of physics debunks almost every single one of them without lifting a finger.