This guy makes a convincing argument that whatever Elenin’s path puts it in a straight line between the Earth and the Sun, megaquakes occur, such as the 8.8 Chile quake, the 7.2 New Zealand quake and the 9.1 Japan quake, which all occurred during such alignments.
Officially, the object known as Elenin was discovered in December 2010 by a young Russian astronomer, who was given remote access to a powerful telescope in New Mexico. Its size, orbital angle and speed have led to calculations that as a long-period comet, with an orbit of roughly 11-12,000 years…hmmm the last time Elenin swung around the Sun was about the time of end of the last Ice Age…
The gentleman narrating this clip does not believe that Elenin is a comet. He believes it’s a brown dwarf star, although he doesn’t say so, this is probably because a comet doesn’t have enough mass and gravitational pull to noticeably affect the Earth. So he’s probably thinking that a rogue high-mass body with enough gravity to potentially effect these quakes is careening through the solar system – unless these all haven’t been a series of coincidences.
Now, there is a big difference between a comet and a brown dwarf. Comets are supposed to be primitive, leftover stuff, largely composed of frozen water that orbit the Sun in extremely elliptical patterns that trace to the edge of the Solar system, to the area known as the Oort Cloud and then back around the Sun..
Brown dwarves are totally different. They’re “failed stars” that don’t emit any light and are usually not hotter than a cup of coffee, so they’re hard to detect, except with the most powerful infrared telescopes.
Brown dwarves are similar to gas giants, like Jupiter except they are more dense and massive. They’re not known to have the orbital patterns of comets. Usually, they’re in a binary orbit with another brown dwarf or sun. Twin stars orbit *around* each other. The movement looks a bit like giant a pumping heart.
Theories exist that our own Sun has an undiscovered brown dwarf twin, which is not out of the realm of possibility. Binary star systems are much more common than single stars but if Elenin were our Sun’s brown dwarf twin (and legitimate astronomers would find that idea to be ridiculous), it would be moving in a very different pattern.
Urban legends abound about Elenin; that the discoverer doesn’t exist, that the name is an acronym for an Extinction Level Event, involving the legendary planetoid of “Nibiru” of Sumerian myth. Nibiru is a name popularized by author Zechariah Sitchin, whose translations of ancient Sumerian clay tablets and his descriptions of Nibiru were the subjects of over a dozen of his books, which sold millions of copies.
Sitchin’s views are not accepted by either Near East historians or by astronomers.
But since a lot of people don’t believe anything coming from official channels anymore, they’re ready to believe anything kooky. The kookier, the better, it seems.
However, as shown with the past alignments between Elenin, the Earth and the Sun, the kook factor may be the least of our concerns.
At least it will be over soon. Elenin is expected to become visible to the naked eye around September 2011, it will swing around the Sun in mid-October and Earth will travel through Elenin’s trail of debris around November 5, 2011, so we might experience heavy meteor showers or at worst, a cluster of asteroid impacts around then…
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