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Comet C/1999 (LEE) Comet? THE NOSTRADAMUS If a Grand Cross and total solar eclipse weren't enough in August, a wild-card comet has now appeared, perhaps just as Nostradamus prophesied. emember those dramatic photos of 20 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter during 16-22 July 1994? Well, scientists at the Millennium Group are worried that Comet Lee, a wild-card (non-periodic) comet first discovered by Australian Steven Lee on 16 April 1999, may pass discomfortingly close to Earth, some time starting in mid-August 1999 and continuing through early 2000. At the very least, they say, Comet Lee may cause solar explosions (coronal mass ejec- tions or CMEs) in our solar system and earthquakes and hurricane-like weather on Earth. At the worst, well, Shoemaker-Levy's comet fragments crashing into Jupiter could be a pictorial warning for Earth if Comet Lee is captured in Earth-Moon orbit. What has Millennium Group scientists and researchers James B. Ervin, Jim McCanney, Alexey Dmitriev, Gary D. Goodwin, Ray Ward, Hal Blondell, Don Carros and Wayne Moody worried is that Comet Lee's behaviour is defying all predictive models by NASA and other supercomputers. Independent researcher Colonel James B. Ervin says: "The truth of the matter about [Comet Lee] is that nobody can project its path.. I believe there is ample evidence to sug- gest that it will pass much closer to Earth than originally anticipated...especially if Comet Lee is hit by a [solar explosion] during its perihelion passage." Earl L. Crockett, another Millennium Group scientist, says we may already be experi- encing the effects of Comet Lee. "I would personally add that it may in fact already be responsible for the very weird actions we have been seeing from the Sun over the last sev- eral months; i.e., the appearance that something has been ‘pulling’ energetic charges away from the Sun in the opposite direction of Earth, producing large CMEs/{solar]flares that for the most part have had little electromagnetic effect here on Earth." Scientist Jim McCanney adds: "[Comet Lee] is truly a lawless comet, and with the erratic brightening happening it is certain to be far off course every day. This could be a doozey! August is now looking like a time for the first possible trouble." Disturbingly, scientist Ray Ward says tight military security has been mounted around official tracking of Comet Lee, impeding public knowledge and scientific study. "The word is ultra-tight security on Comet Lee. The military side of NASA is running this show now, so forget any type of cooperation." Ward adds: "Too bad NASA has destroyed the [Comet] Hale-Bopp data that we could really use to help provide the correc- tion factors needed on Comet Lee." Comet Hale-Bopp's closest Earth approach was on 22 March 1997. According to McCanney, planetary alignments in mid-August and September 1999 may make Comet Lee particularly hazardous. "The big key here is the upcoming planetary alignments, and that it will be the electrical plasma alignments, not gravity, that will be the potential harm-givers. Most critical is the September 6, 1999 alignment of Venus and Earth with the new Moon. I have even considered that if the comet orbit is ‘hooked’ enough, we could see a close enough encounter that the Earth and Moon could capture this thing as a permanent new member of the Earth-Moon system—or worse: that it would flip out into a future collision course with us again and again, like Venus did to Mars some 4,000 years ago." Researchers have raised concern about the potentially catastrophic effects of two other space events in mid-August 1999, which may be compounded by Comet Lee. One is the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999. The other is the 18 August Earth flyby of the Cassini spacecraft, carrying 72 pounds of plutonium—equivalent to over 50 per cent of all the radiation released since the beginning of nuclear testing. (Source: EcoNews Service) Contributions from 2 EcoNews Service & = Colonel James B. Ervin The Millennium Group © 1999 Website: www.millenngroup.com Contributions from 2 EcoNews Service & - Colonel James B. Ervin The Millennium Group © 1999 Website: www.millenngroup.com NEXUS - 13 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1999