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stated that global warming may be due to changes in the Sun rather than to the so-called, ‘Greenhouse Effect.’ (Yes, this is the same guy I wrote about in the Cosmic Conspiracy; - the same one who in 1978 said he believed by 1993 Earth would be contacted by aliens.) If the Sun is shrinking, it may reach a point where it will col- lapse into a smaller star complete with a different spectral emis- sion signature. In the process it may produce violent magnetic field changes, massive shifts in the solar wind density, changes in the orbit of the planets and may even cause the ejection of its current surface layer as a ‘cooler’, fragmented shell of matter into the orbits of the inner planets. This could cause changes in the light levels from the Sun as well as changes in the visible solar spectrum; which might even cause the colour of the Moon to change for a short time. Debris may actually hit the Earth should the outer solar shell blow off; and the Earth may be moved to sway on its own axis due to solar gravitational changes. But then, maybe I am reading too much into the current debates. Have you ever read the prophetic warnings in Isaiah (13:10), Joel 2:10,31, Matthew 24:29, Ezekiel 32:7, Mark 13:24, Revelation 6:12, 8:12, 9:2, 16:18, 19 and Zecharaiah 14:4,5 which concern impending catastrophic changes in the Earth, the Moon and the Sun? Are these prophetic warnings really all just the result of various cultural psychoses? physicists from all over the world who met late last year in the US to try to figure out clever ways to avoid asteroid collisions - even though the official story is that no known asteroids will come closer than one million miles of Earth over the next thir- teen years. This is comforting when one remembers that even with all our modern tracking facilities, Toutatis which comes close to us every four years was only just discovered in 1989!!! The Comet Chunk Even as I got to press with this article, an article has just been dropped on my desk from THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper, dated Tuesday, 20 October 1992. It is entitled, “Comet Due to hit Earth in 2126.” The writer says the comet, “Swift-Tuttle,” appears to be on a collision course with Earth in just over a cen- tury. He also says that of the thousands of other known large objects in our part of the solar system, none will hit Earth for the next 200 years. This is probably correct as far as the state- ment goes. No KNOWN objects in our region will impact. The problem is still that most asteroids do not emit or reflect light very well which makes them difficult to track even at the best of times. Furthermore, our deep space tracking facilities are still limited by technological barriers to short range tracking in astronomical terms. It is of serious consideration that some of the full-blood abo- riginal Kadachi (feather foot) men have been seeking out their white brothers of this land to tell them of the impending “Great Wave” which will hit our East Coast with devastating effect on our major population centres there. From the reports I have been given, these warnings are coming more frequently than ever before. Perhaps a great earthquake(s) in the Ring of Fire which includes Indonesia, The Phillipines, New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan, The Aleutians and the West Coast of the Americas will cause such a tidal wave; or perhaps an asteroid impact will strike somewhere in the Pacific Basin causing the tidal wave(s). Whatever the first cause may be, I am certain the time for the secondary tidal waves, earthquakes and increased terrestrial axial wobble are at hand. Be prepared. You will not regret this. * HERE COME THE CHUNKS! As if the solar and earthquake problems weren’t enough, we seem to have another problem with about 2,000 trackable aster- oids wandering around the solar system in what could be Earth- coincident orbits in the near future. There was one such aster- oid which almost crashed into Canada in 1979. It was filmed quite by accident as it skipped into the atmosphere over Canada and then back out into space. It was only the size of a house; but at the speed it was travelling relative to Earth, it would have wiped out an area some 400 square kilometres as though an atomic bomb had been detonated there. regret this. * 1 Goldberg, Richard A. and Herman, John R., “Sun, Weather, and Climate”, National Aeronautics and Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, published 1978 under NASA SP- pls. 2. sce NIMBUS-7 and NOAA-9 satelite (SBUV and SBUV2) Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet in the pub- lication, “Solar Geophysical Data, Comprehensive Repos”, No. 542, part Il, pp. 82-91, Oct 1989. Donnelly, R. F., Solar UV Spectral Irradiance Variations, i Graslecticy. 43, Suppl. Is., 8 pp., 191. Donnelly, R. F., Solar UV Temporal Variations a =a Cycle 22 & The Twentieth Cemmury, it iability, NASA Conf. Publ. 3086, ed K. H. Schatten and A. Arking, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, 328-335, 1990. Heath, D. F., and B. M. Schlesinger, The Mg 280-nm Doublet as a monitor of Changes in Solar Untaviolet irradiance, Journal of Geophysics Research, 91, 8672-8682, 1986. 3. Eddy, John at 1978 conference, “I suspect... that the Sun is 4.5 billion years old. However, given some new and unex) results to the contrary and some time for frantic readjustment, | suspect that we could live with Bi Ussher's figure for the age of and sun (approximately 6,000 years). | don’t think we have much in the way of observational evidence in astronomy to conflict with tha.” Taken from an article entitled, “Is the Sun Shrinking?” in CREATION, Ex Nihilo, Dec 1988 w Feb 1989, Vol 11, No. 1, p. 15 written by Dr. Andrew A. Snelling. 4 Eddy, John A. and Boomazian, A. A., 1979, Secular decrease in the Solar Diameter, 1863-1953, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 11, p.437. 5 sediae, in “ma A,, Dec 1988/Feb 1989, Is the Sun Shrinking?, CREATION, Ex Nikilo, Vol 11, No. 1, p. 16-17. 6 Ten dates te dismnce tween Bact and ths Moon 7 Toutatis (more correctly, Toutates) is about 2 miles (3.2 km) in diameter, and passes Earth every four years, making it one of the largest objects to cross Earth's orbit on a rej basis. The next time Toutatis crosses Earth's orbit will be in 1996 and then in the year 2000. In , the asteroid will pass within 1 million miles of Earth. Officially, this year's near miss and the one in 2004 represent the two closest Earth passages of any known asteroid for the next 30 years. Toutatis was only just discovered January 4, 1989, by astronomer Christian Pollas in Caussols, France, and was named after a Gallic deity called “protector of the wibe.” “Toutatis” is the Gallic form of “Teutates" the Celtic name mean- ing, “God of the .” Teutates has been identified with the Roman Mercury (Greek Hermes) and (Greek Ares). The name is well chosen should this asteroid ever plunge into our little ball of water; because human sacrifices to Teutates were plunged headfirst into large vats of a liquid thought ‘w have been a form of ale. 8 See Revelation 8:7-12 Toutatis: the Small Chunk On December 7th, this year, an asteroid 3.2 kilometres in diameter with a volume some 13,000 times that of the ‘1979 skipper’ will come within 3.5 million kilometres‘ of hitting Earth. It has been aptly-dubbed, “Toutatis 4179” (or Teutates’). It will be travelling at over 70,000kph (19kps); and its maxi- mum visual magnitude will be 9.4; or about the same as that of Barnard’s Star 5.9 light years away. If it were to have hit the Earth on this passage, it would have created a crater half the size of America. Had it plunged into an ocean, the ensuing clouds of steam and debris from the impact would have launched us into a mini ice age; while the impact would have produced a major addition to the wobble of Earth on its axis of spin as well as tidal waves of unimaginable heights. The Great Chunk There are other interesting asteroids and planetoids arriving in our “neighbourhood” during the next decade. One is a small planetoid of some 480km diameter. The problem the Earth faces with these wandering rocks is serious enough for Dr. Edward Teller, the physicist who gave us the hydrogen bomb, to mount an urgent campaign for emergency funding before the US Congress. He wants to build super H-bomb missiles 10,000 times more powerful than any we have today to use to deflect incoming asteroids in the immediate future! I have videotape both of one of his appearances before the US Congress on this issue and of an emergency meeting of astro- 14eNEXUS DECEMBER-JANUARY '93