Even though most of their information was gathered from over the ice caps, I believe that it has a lot to do with the current weather disasters that are plaguing our world But more importantly, the great blue nova event that is detailed on the Maya Stelae and in the Mexican codices.

I attended several astronomy classes that tells us that a nova will arrive at the compression stage of "metallicity" before it explodes at its north and south poles. The teacher treated it as if there was no danger from this explosion to the Earth or to any other planet because it was just the super-compression of this nova billions of kilometers (miles) away and it all eventually will disappear into a "black hole."

However, as an explosion spews out debris, metallic, or otherwise, regardless if it is an earth explosion or a stellar one,that speeding debris has to go somewhere. It probably heads for a local asteroid belt, similar to Saturn's rings. If the explosion is more intense, the debris flies further as comets, meteors (segments of a comet) and fianlly meteorites (the smaller units of the debris from the meteors) until the pieces finally land somewhere. If the journey is a very long one, the pieces are nano-sized microns, if it is a short trip, the comets and meteors enter various planetary atmospheres; sometimes several with a few years.

Some comets acquired their own special orbits until they become meteors, such as "Halley's." Some beccome meteorite showers such as the Persieds and the Lionieds. Onver a 1,000 hit the earth every year. Most are not large and usuall are only seen at night, so few notice unless, as in one instrance at Lake Tagish in northern British Columbia On January 18, 2000, when a tourist had a video camcorder on hand and documented the whole sequence.

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Asteroid dust may influence weather, study finds

Naturepaper: Burning asteroids may play ‘more important climate role than previously recognized’ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth’s weather more than previously believed, researchers have found.

In a study to be published this week in the journal Nature, scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division, the University of Western Ontario, the Aerospace Corporation, and Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories found evidence that dust from an asteroid burning up as it descended through Earth’s atmosphere formed a cloud of micron-sized particles significant enough to influence local weather in Antarctica.

Micron-sized particles are big enough to reflect sunlight, cause local cooling, and play a major role in cloud formation, the Nature brief observes. Longer research papers being prepared from the same data for other journals are expected to discuss possible negative effects on the planet’s ozone layer.

“Our observations suggest that [meteors exploding] in Earth’s atmosphere could play a more important role in climate than previously recognized,” the researchers write.

Scientists had formerly paid little attention to asteroid dust, assuming that the burnt matter disintegrated into nanometer-sized particles that did not affect Earth’s environment. Some researchers (and science fiction writers) were more interested in the damage that could be caused by the intact portion of a large asteroid striking Earth.

But the size of an asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere is significantly reduced by the fireball caused by the friction of its passage. The mass turned to dust may be as much as 90 to 99 percent of the original asteroid. Where does this dust go?

The uniquely well-observed descent of a particular asteroid and its resultant dust cloud gave an unexpected answer.

On Sept. 3, 2004, the space-based infrared sensors of the U.S. Department of Defense detected an asteroid a little less than 10 meters across, at an altitude of 75 kilometers, descending off the coast of Antarctica. U.S. Department of Energy visible-light sensors built by Sandia National Laboratories, a National Nuclear Security Administration lab, also detected the intruder when it became a fireball at approximately 56 kilometers above Earth. Five infrasound stations, built to detect nuclear explosions anywhere in the world, registered acoustic waves from the speeding asteroid that were analyzed by LANL researcher Doug ReVelle. NASA’s multispectral polar orbiting sensor then picked up the debris cloud formed by the disintegrating space rock.

Some 7.5 hours after the initial observation, a cloud of anomalous material was detected in the upper stratosphere over Davis Station in Antarctica by ground-based lidar.

“We noticed something unusual in the data,” says Andrew Klekociuk, a research scientist at the Australian Antarctic division. “We’d never seen anything like this before — [a cloud that] sits vertically and things blow through it. It had a wispy nature, with thin layers separated by a few kilometers. Clouds are more consistent and last longer. This one blew through in about an hour.”

The cloud was too high for ordinary water-bearing clouds (32 kilometers instead of 20 km) and too warm to consist of known manmade pollutants (55 degrees warmer than the highest expected frost point of human-released solid cloud constituents). It could have been dust from a solid rocket launch, but the asteroid’s descent and the progress of its resultant cloud had been too well observed and charted; the pedigree, so to speak, of the cloud was clear.

Computer simulations agreed with sensor data that the particles’ mass, shape, and behavior identified them as meteorite constituents roughly 10 to 20 microns in size. . . . . . . . . .

More detailed papers are slated for the Journal of Geophysical Research and the Journal of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Pack says.

Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.

Sandia media contact: Neal Singer, nsinger@sandia.gov, (505) 845-7078

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