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THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES North America’s ONLY Paranormal / Parapsychology Newspaper North America’s ONLY Paranormal / Parapsychology Newspaper VOL 8, NO 5 ISSN 1203-0201 MAY 2002 P R I C E : $ 4 . 9 5 STEALTH ASTEROID STEALTH ASTEROID NEARLY NEARLY BLINDSIDES EARTH BLINDSIDES EARTH STEALTH ASTEROID said. EM7 could do serious damage by PROOF OF ALIEN STEALTH ASTEROID PROOF OF ALIEN NEARLY BLINDSIDES "If it were over a populated plunging into the ocean and unleashing VISITATIONS NEARLY BLINDSIDES VISITATIONS EARTH area, like Atlanta, it would have monster tsunamis on coastal cities, he LINKING PERU, EARTH LINKING PERU, basically flattened it," said Gareth said. Williams, associate director of the According to NASA's Jet MEXICO AND By Richard Stenger International Astronomical Union Propulsion Laboratory, 2002 EM7 MEXICO AND EGYPT IN EARTHS Minor Planet Center in Boston, could smack into Earth in 2093. EGYPT IN EARTHS A sizable asteroid zipped near Massachusetts. But don't tell the grandchildren PAST our planet this month without anyone The rock is considerably to head to the hills just yet. The odds of PAST noticing because it traveled through an smaller than dozens of potential planet a collision are currently 1 in 10 million astronomical blind spot, scientists killers 1 kilometer in size or larger that and could become even more remote AN AN said. lurk in the inner solar system. with more refined calculations. ‘X’ CHRONICLES The space boulder passed Like its larger siblings, ‘X’ CHRONICLES Earth within 288,000 miles (461,000 asteroid 2002 EM7 follows an MAYBE SCIENCE IS NOT MAYBE SCIENCE IS NOT kilometers) -- or 1.2 times the distance elliptical orbit with an extremely low ALL IT’S CRACKED UP TO ALL IT’S CRACKED UP TO to the moon -- on March 8, but since it risk of Earth collision in the coming BE?!?!? BE?!?!? came from the direction of the sun, decades or centuries. scientists did not observe it until four Nonetheless, astronomers In the April 2002 edition of days later. maintain that constant surveillance is The ‘X’ Chronicles, we asked several The object, slightly larger than necessary to identify more killer rocks members of the scientific community one that flattened a vast expanse of in our neighborhood and ensure that what their thoughts were on the stories Siberia in 1908, was one of the 10 none take our planet by surprise, in surfacing about the 10th planet Nibiru. closest known asteroids to approach particular those traveling near the All those asked laughed, chuckled, Earth, astronomers said. blinding light of the sun. rolled their eyes back and said, “yeah... "Asteroid 2002 EM7 took us "If one comes from the sure... as if we (the scientific EXCLUSIVE by surprise. It is yet another reminder direction of the sun, we're not going to community) would not see it coming!” EXCLUSIVE of the general impact hazard we face," see it," Williams said. Ah..... sorry guys. You blew it! said Benny Peiser, a European "Often these objects are By not seeing the asteroid that nearly Story on Page 3 scientist who monitors the threat of outside of the Earth's orbit for a blind sided us until four days after it Story on Page 3 Earth-asteroid collisions. significant amount of time. The key is had passed us does not do anything but If it pierced the atmosphere, to detect them when they are outside question the confidance that the public the approximately 70-meter-long rock the Earth's orbit and predict whether has put in you. could have disintegrated and they might hit us in the future from the If you can miss an asteroid unleashed the energy equivalent of a sun side." with all your high-tech gizmos... what 4-megaton nuclear bomb, researchers Even lesser rocks such as 2002 else have you missed over the years?