Asteroid passed without affecting earth

Asteroid 2005 YU55 has passed between the moon and the earth without anything untoward happening. It was about the length of an aircraft carrier. I wondered, if it hit one of our satellites or some space junk, would that deflect it off its path? Would a hit like that be enough to make it change path enough so it would bounce toward earth?

Here’s a link to an interesting, informative, and entertaining video. Just click here.

Asteroid will pass closer than the moon’s orbit tomorrow!

Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass closer than the moon’s orbit tomorrow! NASA photo

NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth PASADENA — NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth.

The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer than the moon’s orbit on Nov. 8. The last time a space rock this large came as close to Earth was in 1976, although astronomers did not know about the flyby at the time. The next known approach of an asteroid this size will be in 2028.

The image was taken on Nov. 7 at 11:45 a.m. PST, when the asteroid was approximately 860,000 miles (1.38 million kilometers) away from Earth. Tracking of the aircraft carrier-sized asteroid began at Goldstone at 9:30 a.m. PDT on Nov. 4 with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) antenna and lasted about two hours, with an additional four hours of tracking planned each day from Nov. 6 – 10.

Radar observations from the Arecibo Planetary Radar Facility in Puerto Rico will begin Nov. 8, the same day the asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 3:28 p.m. PST.

The trajectory of asteroid 2005 YU55 is well understood. At the point of closest approach, it will be no closer than 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers) as measured from the center of Earth, or about 0.85 times the distance from the moon to Earth. The gravitational influence of the asteroid will have no detectable effect on Earth, including tides and tectonic plates. Although the asteroid is in an orbit that regularly brings it to the vicinity of Earth, Venus and Mars, the 2011 encounter with Earth is the closest it has come for at least the last 200 years.

NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., commonly called “Spaceguard,” discovers these objects, characterizes some of them, and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

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The significance of the Mayan god Bolon Yok-te in the 2012 Prediction

John Major Jenkins writes about the significance of the god Bolon Yok-te in the December 21, 2012 prophecy on Monument 6 at the Tortuguero Mayan ruins. As I understand it, Jenkins is saying that simply translating the decipherable text on Monument 6 is not enough. You have to also consider what the significance of Bolon Yok-te’s presence:

One thing about Bolon Yokte’s presence in the 2012 text should be emphasized. Apart from symbolizing war, conflict, and the underworld, Bolon Yokte is a god that is often present during Creation events, often referring to the Creation event of 13.0.0.0.0 in 3114 BC, and most notably on the Vase of the Seven Lords. So, what does it mean that a Creation Lord is present on the next 13.0.0.0.0, the one that falls in 2012 AD? Although some scholars have commented that the incomplete text on Tortuguero Monument 6 doesn’t tell us much, they have overlooked the obvious: Bolon Yokte’s mere presence suggests that 2012 was thought of as a Creation, a worldrenewal that, after all, makes perfect sense in the context of a World Age doctrine that sequences forward in intervals of 13 baktuns. This may seem to go without saying, but in fact my work has been criticized for characterizing 2012 as a “cosmogenesis.” Here the scholars are one step closer to understanding 2012 for what the Maya knew it to a be: a rebirth and the beginning of a new World Age.
Comments on the 2012 text on Tortuguero Monument 6 and Bolon Yokte K’u

Evidence for 2012/Galactic Alignment found at Izapa Mayan Ruins

In an article called In the Roots of the Milky Way Tree: The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012, John Major Jenkins says that:

The belief that we don’t have “direct statements” about 2012 in the archaeological record ignores the plethora of pictographic images at Izapa that portray a rare celestial alignment that appears in the skies in the years around 2012.7 This galactic alignment is the key to understanding 2012, and it involves the rebirth of the December solstice Sun Lord through the Dark Rift “cleft” in the Milky Way, located between Sagittarius and Scorpio.
The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012

Jenkins refers to Mayan ruins in Izapa, Mexico, which is very close to the Guatemala border. He says the Izapa were an intermediate step between the earlier Olmecs and the classic-period Mayans. They, like the Olmecs, used and understood the Long Count Calendar. According to Jenkins, they also understood the alignment between the start/end point of a 5,125 year cycle in the Long Count Calendar and the solar system with the Milky Way’s center.

2012 Movie Plans

I am happy, because today we (me and my editor-in-chief) decided to make a movie of the information I presented during Wednesday’s presentation: Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

2012 and the Mayan Shamans

I enjoyed speaking at the Edgar Cayce Forum last night. As usual, I met many wonderful people both those I had met before and also those I met for the first time. I am also happy because of all the fantastic feedback I received for my presentation, Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

I am excited about my presentation tonight at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum. I will be speaking on, “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” which will include a dynamic PowerPoint Presentation that includes videotaped interviews of Mayan shamans and Dr. Robert K. Sitler, an expert on the Maya. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. See you there!

What is a Mayan Daykeeper?

Since I’ll be presenting excerpts from my interview with Mayan Daykeeper Hunbatz Men, author of Secrets of Mayan Science/Religion at the Edgar Cayce Forum on October 26th, at 7:30 p.m., I wondered what a Mayan Daykeeper was. This how Wikipedia defines a Mayan Daykeeper:

A daykeeper was the name for a diviner in the pre-Columbian Maya culture. The Mayans are renowned for their advanced skills in the fields of mathematics and astronomy, and had come up with a complex system of tracking days. The Maya calendar actually consisted of three individual calendars, the most sacred of the three being the Tzolkin or divinatory calendar. It was a daykeeper’s task to keep count of the days with coral seeds according to this sacred calendar, as well as to perform divination rituals based upon the dates of the sacred calendar. In this respect, their role was not unlike that of a modern astrologer, in that they attempted to use the day of a person’s birth to divine certain traits they would inherit as a result of that day, as well as what might befall them in the future. Daykeepers, unlike astrologers, would not take into account the position of the stars.
Daykeeper

That’s pretty interesting considering that each of the days are ruled by both the number and god of two different calendars. So, who needs to consult the stars! There’s a lot of divinatory information simply through knowing about the meaning of the numbers and gods of the two calendars, the Haab and Tzolk’in.

My talk is called, “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” and it will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum.

Movie of Mayan Elder prophecy for 2012

I’ve had a very enjoyable day, because my video footage of interviews with Mayan Elders are inserting successfully into my Powerpoint Presentation. I will be speaking at the Edgar Cayce Forum on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 (2 days away) at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia. My topic: Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

An explanation of why the Mayan Tzolk’in calendar has 260 days

I have read that the reason the Mayan religious and ceremonial calendar called the Tzolk’in has a cycle of 260 days is because it refers to the gestation period of a human baby. According to Wikipedia’s Gestation, the average gestational age of a human baby is 40 weeks or 40 weeks x 7 days in a week = 280 days.

Since the human gestational age includes the two weeks before conception, the actual gestation period of a human is 260 days. BINGO! The length of the Tzolk’in.

But why make a calendar the length of a human baby’s development in the womb from conception to birth? Granted, that is a very important time for us. However, since the Maya were such astronomers and daykeepers, I wondered if there might be another explanation for the 260-day long Tzolk’in.

And, I felt hopeful when I saw the Ancient World Mysteries website, which at first seemed to say that the 260 days coincided with the orbit of the planet Venus. However, when I read the site’s article, The Mayan Calendar: 260 Days & the Venus Orbit, I realized it was much, much more complicated than that since the orbit of Venus is approximately 224 earth days. According to Keith M. Hunter, author of the above article, the 260 day cycle refers to a relationship between the orbit and the earth.

I’m interested in the Mayan calendars because I will be talking on “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” on October 26th at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum.