© A S☫heil presentation

First posted 26 May 2022; Updated 17 OCT 2022

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Meteor airburst Updated 29 MAY 2022

3.1. Historical meteor airburst events Updated 29 MAY 2022

3.2. Advantage of asteroid WMD Updated 30 MAY 2022

3.2.1. Energy yield of asteroids Updated 29 MAY 2022

3.2.2. Atmospheric entry speed Updated 30 MAY 2022

4. Asteroid WMD in the pop culture Updated 17 OCT 2022

5. Modus Operandi

6. Flyby of an asteroid by a probe

7. Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with Kinetic impact Updated 12 OCT 2022

7.1. Deflection of an asteroid by an Assembled Kinetic Impactor

8. Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with conventional explosion

9. Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with nuclear explosion

10. Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with directed energy

11. Basic atmospheric reentry of a deflected asteroid

11.1. Mediatic campaign of disinformation

11.2. First report of 2012 DA14 asteroid

11.3. The 15 February 2013 test

11.4. Denial mode

11.4.1. Alternate reading


The use of asteroids as weapon of mass destruction has been considered by the U.S. military during the Cold War for decades.

The advantages being to bypass the limitations imposed on nuclear weapons by treaties signed with the Soviets.

Deniability being here the key word.


Both superpowers have tried to offset the balance of power, imposed by the many international treaties and conventions.

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans the stationing of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in outer space, prohibits military activities on celestial bodies.

Nonetheless, during the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan initiated the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an anti-ballistic missile program that was designed to shoot down nuclear missiles in space. Otherwise known as “Star Wars,” SDI sought to create a space-based shield that would render nuclear missiles obsolete.

Without Reagan to support it, SDI’s funding plummeted in the early 1990s. Although the program was never officially canceled, it was renamed under President Bill Clinton as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO).

In 2001, President George W. Bush announced his administration’s plan to withdraw from the ABM Treaty within six months. “A number of [rogue] states are acquiring increasingly longer-range ballistic missiles as instruments of blackmail and coercion against the United States and its friends and allies,” read an official statement. “The United States must defend its homeland, its forces and its friends and allies against these threats.” The anti-ballistic missile program was once again renamed, this time as the National Defense Agency (NDA). NDA, which still exists today, has studied the possibilities of space-based anti-ballistic missile technology, as SDI once did, although without any significant results to date. 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

Constellations of low Earth orbit satellites were first conceptualized in the mid-1980s as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative. These technologies led to numerous commercial megaconstellations using around 100 satellites that were planned in the 1990s such as Celestri, Teledesic, Iridium, and Globalstar.

In June 2004, the newly formed company SpaceX acquired a stake in Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) as part of a “shared strategic vision”. SSTL was at that time working to extend the Internet into space.

Starlink was publicly announced in January 2015 with the opening of the SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmond, WA. During the opening, Elon Musk stated there is still significant unmet demand worldwide for low-cost broadband capabilities.

Between February 2018 and 2022, SpaceX successfully launched 2,091 satellites into orbit. In March 2020, SpaceX reported producing six satellites per day.

In total, nearly 12,000 satellites were planned to be deployed, with (as of 2019) a possible later extension to 42,000 by 2027. 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

SDI renamed Starlink, means an anti-ballistic missile program designed to shoot down nuclear missiles in the atmosphere, but also any type of missiles, vehicle, infantry, building and aircrafts.

Furthemore, it will also provide the God-Eye view capability to the U.S. military.

Asteroids as weapon of mass destruction is another secret U.S. program started during the Cold War and that is expected to become operational by 2030.


A meteor air burst is an air burst resulting from a meteor exploding mid-flight as it encounters the thicker part of the atmosphere. These types of meteors are also known as fireballs or bolides, with the brightest known as superbolides. Before entering Earth's atmosphere, these larger meteors were originally asteroids and comets of a few to several tens of metres in diameter, contrasting with the much smaller and much more common "shooting stars" that tend to burn up quickly upon atmospheric entry.

The most powerful confirmed and recorded meteor air burst in the modern era is the 1908 Tunguska event, which was a ~12 megaton explosion of a stony meteoroid about 50–60 m in size at an altitude of 5–10 km and flattened an estimated 80 million trees over a 2,150 km2 sparsely populated forest area. Extremely bright fireballs traveling across the sky are often witnessed from a distance, such as the 1947 Sikhote-Alin meteor and the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, both in Russia. If the bolide is large enough, fragments may survive such as the Chelyabinsk meteorite. 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

3.1. Historical meteor airburst events

The Ching-yang event of 1490 (also Ch'ing-yang meteor shower) is a presumed meteor shower or air burst in Qingyang in March or April 1490. The area was at the time part of Shaanxi, but is now in the Gansu province. A 1994 study in the journal Meteoritics tentatively explained this event as a meteor air burst.

One surviving account records: 'Stones fell like rain in the Ch’ing-yang district. The larger ones were 4 to 5 catties (about 1.5 kg), and the smaller ones were 2 to 3 catties (about 1 kg). Numerous stones rained in Ch'ing-yang. Their sizes were all different. The larger ones were like goose's eggs and the smaller ones were like water-chestnuts. More than 10,000 people were struck dead. All of the people in the city fled to other places.' 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

3.2. Advantage of asteroid WMD

The use of asteroid WMD presents several advantages over the conventional nuclear arsenal.

As a first strike weapon, unlike ICBMs it can not be detected long in advance, because the deflection operation of an asteroid may take months or years, in remote area of the Solar System such as the asteroid belt with distances measured in Astronomical units (150 million kilometres), absolutely out of range of Cold War era traditional military early warning space radars.

The trajectory can still be modified at the last minute making the prediction for the defender even more difficult.

Very high deniability possibility for the attacker, as proving that an incoming asteroid has been deflected by an enemy will be near impossible before the actual impact.

The destructive effectiveness of the asteroid WMD is near hundredfold that of the nuclear WMD, assuring a clean, quick and total incineration of any enemy and at a continental scale.

Deep underground bunkers and shelters, such as the Underground Pentagon known as Raven Rock Mountain Complex burried 650 feet beneath the 1,529 foot summit of Raven Rock Mountain (2'179 feet or 664 meters of granit overburden), or the Kremlin underground leadership bunker adjacent to Moscow State University with 985 feet depth (300 meter overburden), are no match for any asteroid WMD.

Indeed, a 130 m asteroid with a 103 Mt energy yield would create after impact a transient crater of 1.77 km in diameter and 627 meters depth.

While a Bennu size asteroid of 565 m diameter with an energy yield of under ~9 GigaTons would create after impact a transient crater of 6.73 km in diameter and 2.38 km meters depth.

It is unstoppable, conventional ballistic missile defence are useless.

In nuclear strategy, a retaliatory strike or second-strike capability is a country's assured ability to respond to a nuclear attack with powerful counter retaliation against the attacker.

An asteroid WMD can be used effectivelly as a second-strike mean, because even if the defender is already obliviated by a nuclear first strike, military space-based asteroid deflectors, orbiting hidden in deep space around Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) that can not be destroyed in advanced unnoticed, would then conduct the powerful retaliatory asteroid strike in automated mode. It is similar therefore superseding SSBNs in this role, at the exception of an incomparable much higher stealth and survivability.

An asteroid WMD is the 21st century ultimate second-strike strategic deterrent.

3.2.1. Energy yield of asteroids

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On Oct. 30, 1961, the Soviet Union dropped the most powerful nuclear weapon ever exploded on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, north of the arctic circle. Yielding an explosion of 50 megatons the "Tsar Bomba," as it is sometimes called, was about 3,300 times more powerful than the 15 kilotons nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima. The hydrogen bomb, designated as the Soviet RDS-220, was also dubbed "Big Ivan" and "Vanya," though "Tsar Bomba" (translated to King of Bombs) is its most popular moniker.

Ironically, the bomb could have been much more powerful. It was designed to have an explosive yield of up to 100 megatons, but it was detonated at 50 megatons.

This is roughly what a 130 m diameter stony asteroid could yield.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military HAMMER WMD could deflect asteroid with the size of 101955 Bennu, a near-Earth object (NEO) whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth, with a diameter of about 565 m × 535 m × 508 m and that could yield over 8'170 MegaTons that is 81 times more destructive power than the "Tsar Bomba".

3.2.2. Atmospheric entry speed

What is presented as the world most powerful ICBM, Russia's Sarmat is claimed to reach an unmatched 25'749 km/h and can deploy 10 or more warheads on each missile.

That is a top speed of Mach 20.8. But an average asteroid with a relative speed to earth of 17 km/s is reaching Mach 49.5, that is 2.5 times faster.

Indeed, typical impact velocities are 17 km/s for asteroids and 51 km/s for comets. The maximum Earth impact velocity for objects orbiting the sun is 72 km/s, or a maximum speed of Mach 210.

No existing ballistic missile interceptor can stop such WMDs.

Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath was released on 24th March 2008, and is an expansion pack for the 2007 real-time strategy video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

A newly-encountered support power in the Scrin arsenal, the Overlord's Wrath is an immensely destructive attack using Tiberium meteors.

When the power is activated, two small Tiberium-laced meteors crash into the target area, followed by a much larger one. The damage dealt is staggering, rivalling that of a weapon of mass destruction, and leaves a small patch of Tiberium in its wake. As with any Tiberium, infantry can easily be killed if they remain near the patch and buildings cannot be constructed on top of it. If used in coordination with the Rift superweapon, it is capable of wiping out an enemy base.

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Videomancy

Battle Los Angeles (2011)[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]is a Hollywood propaganda 'alien invasion' movie with an 'asteroid strike' genre subplot masqueraded as a military science-fiction action film directed by Jonathan Liebesman.

The film is set in modern-day Los Angeles and follows a Marine Staff Sergeant played by Aaron Eckhart who leads a platoon of U.S. Marines, joined by other stranded military personnel, during a global alien invasion. The ensemble cast includes Michelle Rodriguez, Ramon Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, and Michael Pena.

The narrative of the movie is a preannouncement of what would be told a year later by February 2012 by all the official western media, despite all the obvious inconsistencies that amount to insulting the intelligence of the educated audience.

▲ Battle Los Angeles (2011) videomancy: Hollywood propaganda 'alien invasion' movie with an 'asteroid strike' genre subplot.[web.archive.org]
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Transcript

44-50 00:03:42,427 --> 00:03:57,316 To the Pacific for our next report, where it would appears to be a small cluster of meteors is predicted to enter our atmosphere sometimes in the early hours of tomorrow morning. They are expected to strike miles from land, far into the Pacific Ocean and with the... ______ 327 00:16:15,994 --> 00:16:19,994 These objects were completely undetected until they entered our atmosphere. 338-339 00:16:48,185 --> 00:16:52,791 This is not a meteor shower Marines. We are in Threatcon Delta.

Indeed, the allegation that 'these objects were completely undetected until they entered our atmosphere' is simply ridiculous, a gross disinformation that can only work on the 2.5 PB smaller brains.

Any object above ten centimeters (about the size of a baseball) that enters the space above Earth from a distance of 25,000 to 40,000 kilometers in range, is detected by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network. 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

In reality, detected, fully monitored, but only by the U.S. military. The description of multiple objects and not an isolated asteroid is another smoking gun.

And as stated, 'this is not a meteor shower', but of course a military live test of an asteroid strike.

The technological prerequisites have been secured by the U.S. military one after the other during the Cold War:

• Completion of an asteroid survey network (Minor Planet Center)
• Large database of NEA (Near Earth Asteroid) to select from
• Flyby of an asteroid by a probe
• Impact of an asteroid by a probe
• Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with kinetic impact
• Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with conventional explosion
• Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with nuclear explosion
• Deflection of an asteroid by a probe with directed energy
• Basic atmospheric reentry of a deflected asteroid
• Accurate reentry of a deflected asteroid
• Accurate reentries of multiple deflected asteroids
• Official status of asteroid deflection superpower

During the 9th step, the Basic atmospheric reentry of a deflected asteroid, to ensure total deniability in case of mishap, a massive mediatic campaign of disinformation was conducted worldwide and years before the test, to smoke the public opinion.


Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing 258 kilograms (569 pounds), that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.

On July 15, 1972, the spacecraft entered the asteroid belt, emerging in February 1973 after a voyage of about 271 million miles (435 million kilometers).

It passed within 5.5 million miles of an unnamed 0.5-mile diameter asteroid on Aug. 2 and the 15-mile wide asteroid 307 Nike on Dec. 2, 1972.

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Before any deflection of an asteroid by a kinetic impact, it is foremost necessary to know its composition, softness and interior layout.

Failing to do so could end up with the breaking up of the asteroid.

Once this threshold is known, forces should be applied to the asteroid with a series of smaller impacts.

The fist step to study this threshold has been conducted by the U.S. Deep Impact space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel), by releasing an impactor into the comet. At 05:52 UTC on July 4, 2005, the Impactor successfully collided with the comet's nucleus. The impact excavated debris from the interior of the nucleus, forming an impact crater. Photographs taken by the spacecraft showed the comet to be more dusty and less icy than had been expected. The impact generated an unexpectedly large and bright dust cloud, obscuring the view of the impact crater.

The second step is to use a small spacecraft to collide with the targeted asteroid with the aim to modify its trajectory.

To this end, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off 24th November 2021 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying the U.S. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).

The mission will deliberately crash the space probe into the minor-planet moon Dimorphos of the double asteroid Didymos to assess the future potential of a spacecraft impact to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth through a transference of momentum.

Assessment

Oct 11, 2022

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe was launched from Earth on 24 November 2021, and on 26 September 2022 intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos.

On 11 October, the U.S. military (through its mouthpiece NASA) declared DART a success, confirming it had shortened Dimorphos' orbital period by about 32 minutes, surpassing the success threshold of 73 seconds. 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

Dimorphos is only 170 meters across, but its tail stretches 10,000 kilometers into space. 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

Using the Earth Impact Effects Program, when directed against a terrestrial ground target, the energy lost in the atmosphere is 4.17 x 10^17 Joules = 9.96 x 10^1 MegaTons.

The impact energy is 5.50 x 10^17 Joules = 1.31 x 10^2 MegaTons. 1[web.archive.org]2[archive.ph]

130 megatons is 2.6x more powerful than the 50 megatons 'Tsar Bomba'.

Thus demonstrating the U.S. military's incremental progress in Asteroid WMD development, ten years after the 20 meter diameter micro-asteroid tested on Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2012 with an estimated yield of 200–470 kilotonnes of TNT.

To better fool the world sheeples, this military test is presented as 'a defense for all of humanity'.

Consequently all media have been tasked to participate in this worldwide cover-up propaganda campaign, including Google with a twisted page when searching 'NASA DART mission':

▲ Google contributing to the Asteroid WMD cover-up propaganda campaign. 2022.[archive.ph]
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The third step will be to use a massive spacecraft to collide with the targeted asteroid with the aim to modify its trajectory.

The final step will be to to use a series of massive spacecrafts to collide with the targeted asteroid with the aim to modify its trajectory.

Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER)

6 Jul, 2021

Now a new government-funded study says China can launch 23 Long March 5 (CZ-5) rockets – the largest in its fleet, weighing almost 900 tonnes on take-off – to break up the rocky objects in our solar system. Some asteroids are as small as pebbles but others are hundreds of kilometres across. An asteroid about 500 metres (1,640 feet) wide could kill millions.

To change the course of a giant asteroid hurtling towards us at terrifying speeds, a lot of kinetic energy would be needed.

In their proposal, the space centre team suggested launching 23 CZ-5 rockets from various sites across China, at the same time. The spacecraft would have to travel for almost three years to reach their target.

On top of each rocket would be a deflector, a device designed to avoid breaking up the asteroid. Each rocket would “hit” the asteroid, one after another, by way of a gentle nudge.

This would only change the course of a Bennu-sized asteroid slightly,

In the Icarus paper Li and his colleagues said fuel not used during the rocket launch could give extra thrust during the flight towards an asteroid, and the rocket fuselage also increased the total mass of the deflector. They said existing rockets only had to undergo small modifications such as adding a few small thrusters.

A similar mission proposed by researchers with Nasa and California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2018 would require the launch of 75 Delta IV heavy rockets, according to the two organisations and mentioned by Li.

Known as HAMMER (Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response), the US plan would deliver more than 400 tonnes of deflectors, nearly twice as many as in the Chinese proposal, but with a flight time nearly a year shorter, to achieve similar results.

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Assembled kinetic impactor for deflecting asteroids by combining the spacecraft with the launch vehicle upper stage

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:58:12 UTC

A kinetic impactor remains the most feasible asteroid deflection method.

However, due to launch capability constraints, an impactor with a limited mass can only minimally change the velocity of an asteroid.

To improve the deflection efficiency of the kinetic impactor strategy, this paper proposes the Assembled Kinetic Impactor (AKI), which combines the spacecraft with the launch vehicle upper stage.

After the launch vehicle upper stage sends the spacecraft into an Earth-escaping trajectory, the spacecraft-rocket separation is not performed, and the spacecraft controls the AKI to impact the asteroid.

By retaining the mass of the launch vehicle upper stage, the mass of the impactor is increased, thereby enhancing the deflection efficiency.

According to the technical data of the Long March 5 (CZ-5) launch vehicle, missions to deflect Bennu are designed to demonstrate the power of the AKI concept.

Simulation results of the AKI compared with the Classical Kinetic Impactor (CKI, with spacecraft-rocket separation) show that the addition of the mass of the upper stage increases the deflection distance by >3 times.

To achieve a given deflection distance, the addition of the upper stage mass reduces the number of launches to 1/3 that of the number of CKI launches.

The AKI concept makes it possible to deflect large Bennu-like asteroids with a nuclear-free technique with a 10-year launch lead time.

Additionally, with a single CZ-5, the deflection distance of a 140-m-diameter asteroid with a 10-year launch lead time increases from less than 1 to more than 1 Earth radius, representing an improvement in the reliability and efficiency of asteroid deflection missions.

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However massive a spacecraft, any kinetic impact produces pound for pound less momentum than a conventional explosion.

Extra caution must be taken so that such as blast doesn't break the target into several chunks.


Nuclear weapons might produce an even greater momentum, but such a blast could break the target into several chunks.

Initiating a nuclear explosive device above, on, or slightly beneath, the surface of a celestial body is a potential deflection option, with the optimal detonation height dependent upon the composition and size of the object. It does not require a lot of material from the NEO's surface to be vaporized to modify its orbit.


Once the asteroid break up force threshold is known, smaller level of momentum should be applied to the asteroid over an extended period of time to produce a significant orbital change.

Focused solar energy is proposed for deflecting an asteroid or comet by focusing solar energy onto its surface to create thrust from the resulting vaporization of material. This method would first require the construction of a spacecraft with a system of large collecting, concave mirrors similar to those used in solar furnaces.


Similar to the effects of a nuclear device, it is thought possible to focus sufficient laser energy on the surface of an asteroid to cause flash vaporization / ablation to create impulse.

This concept, called asteroid laser ablation was articulated in the 1995 SpaceCast 2020 white paper "Preparing for Planetary Defense", and the 1996 Air Force 2025 white paper "Planetary Defense: Catastrophic Health Insurance for Planet Earth".


To prepare for the first atmospheric reentry test, a mediatic campaign was conducted several years in advanced.

Hollywood being the propaganda arm of the U.S. military. The aim being that nobody among the popular masses, that is the lower IQs and science illiterates, could even think and least blame that the U.S. could be behind an asteroid strike, should the never tested before experiment go awry.

2012 phenomenon

The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012.[1] This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar,[2] and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala.[3][4][5]

Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae were proposed for this date. A New Age interpretation held that the date marked the start of a period during which Earth and its inhabitants would undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 21 December 2012 would mark the beginning of a new era.[6] Others suggested that the date marked the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world included the arrival of the next solar maximum, an interaction between Earth and the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy,[7] or Earth's collision with a mythical planet called Nibiru.

Scholars from various disciplines quickly dismissed predictions of cataclysmic events as they arose. Mayan scholars stated that no classic Mayan accounts forecast impending doom, and the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Mayan history and culture.[8][9][10] Astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience[11][12] refuted by elementary astronomical observations.

Other catastrophes

Author Graham Hancock, in his book Fingerprints of the Gods, interpreted Coe's remarks in Breaking the Maya Code[123] as evidence for the prophecy of a global cataclysm.[124] Filmmaker Roland Emmerich later credited the book with inspiring his 2009 disaster film 2012.[125]

Other speculations regarding doomsday in 2012 included predictions by the Web Bot project, a computer program that purports to predict the future by analyzing Internet chatter. However, commentators have rejected claims that the bot is able to predict natural disasters, as opposed to human-caused disasters like stock market crashes.[126]

The 2012 date was also loosely tied to the long-running concept of the Photon Belt, which predicted a form of interaction between Earth and Alcyone, the largest star of the Pleiades cluster.[127] Critics argued that photons cannot form belts, that the Pleiades, located more than 400 light years away, could have no effect on Earth, and that the Solar System, rather than getting closer to the Pleiades, was in fact moving farther away from it.[128]

Some media outlets tied the fact that the red supergiant star Betelgeuse would undergo a supernova at some point in the future to the 2012 phenomenon.[129] However, while Betelgeuse was certainly in the final stages of its life, and would die as a supernova, there was no way to predict the timing of the event to within 100,000 years.[130] To be a threat to Earth, a supernova would need to be no further than 25 light years from the Solar System. Betelgeuse is roughly 600 light years away, and so its supernova would not affect Earth.[131] In December 2011, NASA's Francis Reddy issued a press release debunking the possibility of a supernova occurring in 2012.[132]

Another claim involved alien invasion. In December 2010, an article, first published in examiner.com and later referenced in the English-language edition of Pravda[133] claimed, citing a Second Digitized Sky Survey photograph as evidence, that SETI had detected three large spacecraft due to arrive at Earth in 2012.[134] Astronomer and debunker Phil Plait noted that by using the small-angle formula, one could determine that if the object in the photo were as large as claimed, it would have had to be closer to Earth than the Moon, which would mean it would already have arrived.[134] In January 2011, Seth Shostak, chief astronomer of SETI, issued a press release debunking the claims.[133]

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Notice that the entire world was targeted by this brainwashing, Russia being no exception!

Three giant spaceships to attack Earth in 2012?

22.12.2010

UFO encounters became especially frequent in the middle of the 20th century, when it became impossible to disregard incidents of UFO sightings anymore. Special services started establishing special departments for air defense troops, secret laboratories were organized to study the phenomenon. It is not ruled out, that secret services have already had chances to study fragments of alien spaceships or even aliens themselves.
It is about time science should say its word regarding the problem, and it did. SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), an independent non-commercial organization, released a sensational statement.
Three giant spaceships are heading towards Earth. The largest one of them is 240 kilometers wide. Two others are smaller. At present, the objects are beyond the orbit of Pluto.
The spaceships were detected by HAARP search system. The system, based in Alaska, was designed to study the phenomenon of northern lights. According to SETI researchers, the objects are nothing but extraterrestrial spaceships. They will be visible in optical telescopes as soon as they reach Mars's orbit. The US government has been reportedly informed about the event. The ships will reach Earth in December 2012.
The date of the supposed space contact with extraterrestrial civilization brings up thoughts about the Mayan calendar, which ends on December 21, 2012. Is it just a coincidence? Most likely, though, SETI researchers mistake the wish for the reality: fifty years of constant monitoring of space have not yielded any results.
Nevertheless, mankind only begins to explore space. We are just newcomers in this huge and unexplored world. Many believe that there are many other civilizations in space beside our own civilization.

Rumor has it that the Americans classified a lot of information about findings on the Moon. In 1988, a prominent Chinese official, a member of the nation's space program, unveiled pictures of human footprints on the lunar surface. The official stated that he had received the information from a reliable source and accused the Americans of concealing that information. The photos were dated from August 3, 1969 - two weeks after Armstrong and Aldrin stepped onto the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969. Therefore, the materials of the lunar mission were studied and classified by NASA.
On March 15, 2009, The New York Times produced another sensation. The same Chinese official, Mao Kan, stated that he had obtained over than 1,000 secret NASA photographs depicting not only human footprints, but even a human carcass on the surface of the Moon. Some of the bones in the carcass were missing, the official said. The human corpse must have been dropped on the Moon from an alien spaceship, whereas the extraterrestrials kept some tissue samples for research.
The photos were taken by a lunar probe. The absence of air makes it possible to capture minute details from the lunar orbit. The pictures of the carcass were very clear.
Dr. Ken Johnston, former Manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, said that US astronauts had found and photographed ancient ruins of artificial origin on the Moon. Supposedly, US astronauts had seen large unknown mechanisms on the Moon. The data were classified by the US government.
Is all of that just spam or is it fantastic truth? Will we ever know?

https://web.archive.org/web/20101224014726/http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/22-12-2010/116314-giant_spaceships-0/
https://archive.ph/B4sJ

The 2012 DA14 micro-asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Aten and Atira group, approximately 30 meters in diameter was presented to the public as discovered on 23rd February 2012, that is one year before the 15th February 2013 test.

Tunguska-Sized Asteroid Homing in on Earth

18:29 GMT 26.02.2012

An asteroid of the same class as one that allegedly detonated over Tunguska River in 1908 will pass by Earth next year, flying closer than some man-made satellites, according to NASA.
The asteroid, 2012 DA14, will miss the planet by 26,900 kilometers on February 15, 2013, which is closer than satellites in the geostationary orbit of 35,700 kilometers, according to data on NASA’s website published Sunday.
The asteroid, first detected by the Spanish Observatorio Astronomico de La Sagra, is between 40 and 95 meters in diameter and belongs to Apollo group of near-Earth asteroids, many of which are potential collision hazards.
Astronomer groups around the world are continuing monitoring 2012 DA14 to determine its size and trajectory.
The estimated size of 2012 DA14 places it in the same category as the celestial body that, scientists say, exploded over western Siberia in 1908. Though many theories exist concerning the event on Podkamennaya Tunsguska River, the leading explanation is a space body over 50 meters in size blew up in the atmosphere, the blast being at least 1,000 more powerful than the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220315173240/https://sputniknews.com/20120226/171543660.html
https://archive.ph/TtkpK

Experts of the U.S. Minor Planet Center (MPC) would then claim that this asteroid would pose no danger to the earth inhabitants.

Clearing Up the FUD on 2012 DA14

By J.L. Galache on March 12, 2012

FUD, Fear Uncertainty & Doubt; that’s what surrounds NEA (Near Earth Asteroid) 2012 DA14 right now. As the organisation responsible for receiving, processing and cataloguing all observations of asteroids made around the world, we at the Minor Planet Center are in a unique position to understand the complexities of asteroid orbits and their possible encounters with our planet Earth. Hopefully I can distil our expertise and clear up all the false and misleading information regarding asteroid 2012 DA14 that’s floating around the internet and news lately.

Discovered by La Sagra Observatory (located in the province of Granada in Southern Spain) on February 23, 2012, asteroid 2012 DA14 is an NEA that gets as close as 134 million km (83 million miles) to the Sun, and as far as 166 million km (103 million miles) from it. This means it doesn’t cross the orbit of either Venus or Mars; this is important for reasons I’ll address later. Given its brightness (magnitude, as astronomers call it) we can estimate its size to be 25 – 75 m (82 – 246 feet) in diameter, which is another important factor. The folks at La Sagra have an article describing their discovery.

Let me start off by stating, in no unclear terms: asteroid 2012 DA14 will not impact the Earth next year. There will be a close approach on February 15, 2013 when the asteroid will pass some 40,740 km (25,320 miles) from the surface of our planet, just below the orbits of geostationary satellites and some 20,000 km (12,430 miles) above the orbits of GPS satellites. A week ago the distance being quoted everywhere was 27,000 km (16,736 miles); why is it now different?

When an asteroid is first discovered we usually only have a few days of observations to calculate an initial orbit with, which is accurate enough to allow for other astronomers to follow up the asteroid and send in observations, but nowhere near accurate enough to start crying Doomsday into cyberspace. Have you wondered why we at the MPC have been mostly silent about 2012 DA14? It’s because we were waiting for more observations. Right now we have 18 days worth of observations and we will continue to improve our orbit calculations as more come in over the days ahead, but we already know for sure there will be no Earth impact next year.

What about 2047?

Yes, it’s true, we currently have a scheduled close approach for the beginning of 2047, but it’s impossible to tell how close exactly it will be. Being the cautious astronomers that we are, we will wait until 2012 DA14 passes by next year and use the observations that will be made then to improve our orbit calculations. I’d like to note that it’s important to observe NEAs over long periods of time, many years, before we can start predicting their orbit decades into the future.

We’re lucky in one respect with 2012 DA14, and that is the fact it doesn’t approach either Venus or Mars (I told you I’d get back to this). Why is this important? When an asteroid passes close to a planet, the planet’s gravity will affect its orbit. The closer it passes, the more its orbit changes. We take this into account when calculating an asteroid’s position sometime in the future, but it’s always better if no wrenches are thrown into the cosmic gearworks. That said, our calculations indicate there is a possibility that after the February 2013 encounter the orbit will change enough for it to get closer to Venus than it currently does. We’ll know for sure in March next year!

All this said, while 2047 has been thrown around as the year of gravest danger, it isn’t even the closest approach we currently have scheduled. The JPL Earth Impact Risk page for 2012 DA14 lists 15 February 2054 as the closest of future approaches, and yet it only has a 1 in 59,000 chance of hitting us on that day. In 2047 the chances are less than 1 in 500,000.

Preparing for the worst case scenario

If this asteroid were to end up on a collision course with Earth on 2047, then what? My advice would be not to panic because, on a planetary scale, this is a small chunk of rock. Even if it were at the larger end of our size estimates, an object with a 75 m diameter would not survive its passage through our atmosphere and thus never reach the ground intact. What it would do is disintegrate some kilometers above the ground in a large explosion, which if it occurred over a populated area, would cause severe personal and structural damages. This isn’t something any of us want to see happen, which is precisely why the MPC performs the job it does. By watching this asteroid closely over the next few years we will be able to predict whether or not a 2047 impact is likely, and if it were, we would notify the scientific community and world at large; at that point we would have decades to work out how to avoid the catastrophe.

A year in the life of…

Click here (opens in new window) to see an animation showing a full year in the life of 2012 DA14 and Earth as they travel around the Sun on their way to the February 2013 flyby. The file is an animated GIF and rather big (55MB) so you might not want to open it if you don’t have a fast connection or are paying per MB downloaded. A smaller animation (click here, 1.2MB) shows a zoomed in area around the time of closest approach; the Moon is also included for scale. These animations are based on the latest orbit solution available and are updated as we receive new observations. As you can clearly see, there is no impact.

Ignore the media

Asteroid 2012 DA14 has made numerous appearances in the media since it was discovered. The MPC appreciates seeing possible asteroid impacts discussed in the news but we cringe at the incorrect and false statements being disseminated by some news outlets who we’d expect to be much better informed, some even going as far as to suggest there is the possibility of an impact. There is no debate amongst asteroid astronomers about whether 2012 DA14 will impact us or not in 2013—it won’t! 100% certainty. 0% chance. No debate.

We take our job very seriously at the MPC because we know the devastation an asteroid impact can cause and are committed to making sure we’re able to identify dangerous asteroids as early as possible. We also understand the damage generated by fear and mass hysteria brought about by false information. In the future, if you want to know what’s up with that asteroid they’re talking about on the news, come here to this blog to read an accurate report of the situation. And if we haven’t posted anything, feel free to contact us and ask. But whatever you do, don’t get your asteroid news from the News.

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Meteorite Hits Central Russia, Hurting Hundreds

14:43 GMT 15.02.2013

A hail of meteorite fragments fell in central Russia on Friday morning, hurting hundreds of people and damaging thousands of buildings, according to officials.

NB: This story has been updated. Please see new story here.

MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti) – A hail of meteorite fragments fell in central Russia on Friday morning, hurting hundreds of people and damaging thousands of buildings, according to officials.
As of late afternoon, around 1,200 people had been hurt, including more than 200 children, mostly in the Chelyabinsk Region, the Interior Ministry said. Figures on hospitalization in the region varied significantly, from 34 to 112, with two people reported to be in "grave" condition.
The majority of those hurt had suffered cuts from broken glass, but the region's governor said two-thirds of the injuries were very light.
President Vladimir Putin ordered emergencies officials to provide "immediate" assistance to people affected by the meteorite. Officials said gas supplies were cut off to hundreds of homes in the Chelyabinsk Region as a safety precaution. Some 3,000 residential buildings were also damaged, Chelyabinsk city administration officials said. An estimated 20,000 emergency response workers have been mobilized.
Background radiation levels reportedly remain unchanged. This was confirmed both by emergencies officials, and by the national nuclear agency, concerned because the area has a fair number of nuclear facilities.
Reports about whether this was one large meteorite or many smaller ones initially varied, but the national space agency, Roscosmos, confirmed by early afternoon that the object had been a single meteorite, a report given earlier by emergency officials.
“Verified information indicates that this was one meteorite which burned up as it approached Earth and disintegrated into smaller pieces,” deputy head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry press office, Elena Smirnykh, said.
Roscosmos stated the meteorite had been moving at a speed of 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) per second.
"All the city's residents saw blinding flashes, very bright ones," a teacher in the Chelyabinsk Region told RIA Novosti. "Suddenly, it was very, very horribly bright. Not like the lights got turned on, but as if everything was illuminated with unusual white light."
Officials are trying to determine where the fragments have landed.
The Chelyabinsk governor said one had fallen in a lake in his region, while others have been reported in the Tyumen, Kurgan and Sverdlovsk regions as well. Police said an eight-meter wide crater had been discovered near the Chelyabinsk lake. Radiation levels around the crater were reported to be normal.
Early in the day, emergency officials in neighboring Kazakhstan said they were searching for two unidentified objects that reportedly fell in the country's Aktobe region. But no meteorite fragments had been found by Friday evening, local time, leading to speculation that if meteors had entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Central Asian country they had been vaporized before making impact.
The European Space Agency (ESA) said there was no link between the meteorite and the 2012 DA14 asteroid which is due to pass close by the Earth later on Friday. NASA also said there was no connection because the asteroid and the "Russian meteorite" are on "very different paths."
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at an economic forum going on in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, called the meteorite “a symbol of the forum.”
“I hope that there will be no serious consequences, but it is a demonstration that it is not only the economy that is vulnerable, but our planet as well,” he said.

Clarifies latest figures for injuries.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220526205620/https://sputniknews.com/20130215/Meteorite-Shower-Hits-Russia-Kazakhstan-179481049.html
https://archive.ph/DYh4t

From this day of 15 February 2013 onwards, an omerta or a conspiracy of silence has been strictly enforced.

Because the test was obviously unsuccessful and initially probably intended to fall over some remote place such as the ocean, the tale of a second asteroid, unrelated and absolutely not discovered prior to the surprise atmospheric entry despite its similar size (20 m), and called the Chelyabinsk meteor, was shove down the public's throat.

2013-02-18 19:17

inaccurate data of JPL/SSD of 2012 DA14...formerly published data were uncertain (even 1 day before the event).

https://web.archive.org/web/20170221220220/http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_addon_details.php?addon_id=1626
https://archive.ph/qPiLh

As in the case of a meteor footprint does not apply, how can one explain the fact that no map of asteroid 2012 DA14 ground track can be found on google?
As a matter of fact, these maps were available prior to the 15 February 2013 event, and then censored from dedicated space forum worldwide!
The dedicated satellite trackers website Satflare.com used to show such a ground track at:
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Nevertheless, a GIF image taken from a screen of Celestia planetarium simulating the 15 February 2013 event confirms this ground track of the 2012 DA14 asteroid over Siberia.

▲ 2012 DA14 Asteroid ground track over Siberia on 15th February 2013 with Celestia.[archive.ph]
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By carefully comparing this ground track with the impact zones, it should be clear as noonday that the two perfectly overlap, thus the correlation between the two events!

11.4.1. Alternate reading

The 15th February 2013 test was a success, and indeed intended to explode over Russia's territory, as an open message to Moscow that the U.S. had entered the most elite club of asteroid deflecting military great powers.

Indeed, according to the Dystopian Empire's applied Marxist principle of 'history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce', the 15th February 2013 test was a demonstration aimed at intimidating the Russian leadership, the way the 1945 Hiroshima nuclear bombing was intended.

Did America Have To Drop the Bomb?Not to End the War, But Truman Wanted To Intimidate Russia

August 4, 1985

According to atomic scientist Leo Szilard, who met with Byrnes on May 28, 1945 -- 10 weeks before Hiroshima: "Mr. Byrnes did not argue that it was necessary to use the bomb against the cities of Japan in order to win the war . . . " Byrnes "was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior.
"Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania; Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade Russia to withdraw . . . and that Russia might be more manageable if impressed by American military might.
"I shared Byrnes's concern . . . " Szilard observed, "but I was completely flabbergasted by the assumption that rattling the bomb might make Russia more manageable . . . ."

https://web.archive.org/web/20211115190956/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1985/08/04/did-america-have-to-drop-the-bombnot-to-end-the-war-but-truman-wanted-to-intimidate-russia/46105dff-8594-4f6c-b6d7-ef1b6cb6530d/
https://archive.ph/Sczzs

A thesis clearly confirmed by top Russian lawmaker's public acknowledgement of the military nature of the U.S. test:

Russian Politician Denies Meteorite, Claims US Weapons Tests

15:37 15/02/2013

MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti) – Russian nationalist lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, long known for his flamboyance and outrageous remarks, said Friday that meteorite fragments had not rained down on Russia in the morning, but that the light flashes and tremors in several of the country’s regions resulted from US weapons tests.
“Those aren’t meteors falling, it’s the Americans testing new weapons,” Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, told journalists several hours after the Emergencies Ministry began issuing statements on the incident, which has injured hundreds and damaged scores of buildings.
He also said US Secretary of State John Kerry had wanted to warn Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the “provocation” on Monday, but couldn’t reach him – a reference to US State Department comments earlier this week that Kerry had spent several days trying to speak to Lavrov by phone to discuss North Korea and Syria.
Outer space has its own laws, Zhirinovsky went on.
“Nothing will ever fall out there,” he said. “If [something] falls, it’s people doing that. People are the instigators of wars, the provocateurs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130218014042/http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130215/179489080/Russian-Politician-Denies-Meteorite-Claims-US-Weapons-Tests.html
https://archive.ph/TPGUF