So here is more on the somewhat newly discovered Toutatis - they might
call this the Presidential Election asteroid - near misses.....like a
peregrine wandering star (thought Sirhan meant wandering star or knight
- like black knight)......anyway, this think comes during the burning
bright tiger star Antaras....burns September, October, and November
burning brighter and brigher - Scorpio is the heart of Antaras.
Just a though - after all this is a conspiracy list, is it not - maybe
the astrologers Mark of Doom (find that in Job) which is the old cycle
of Presidents dying in office or being murdered since the - well we had
Lincoln, JFK, etc., and almost Reagan etc.......this sounds like the
beginning of the preparation for a kill.
Where ....Sagitaurus the Archer took aim on November 22, 1963.......and
the sun god lay at his feet.....ever see a masonic clock?
Note the appearance of this thing - every election of President it will
be on near collision.....they ought to call it the "Dump Truck"
Asteroid, etc......wonder if it is really real or something else?
Chamish believe Barak might be in serious trouble as an appointed CFR
man......maybe it is his star?
Saba
4179 Toutatis - THE OFFICIAL TOUTATIS HOME PAGE !
(4179) Toutatis
Epoch 1996 Apr. 27.0 TT = JDT 2450200.5 (M-N) Williams
M 311.08435 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.24700936 Peri. 274.42840 +0.73025062 -0.68314964
a 2.5157093 Node 128.66202 +0.62999636 +0.66976649
e 0.6340399 Incl. 0.46751 +0.26426995 +0.29106600
P 3.99 H 14.0 G 0.15
>From 153 observations at 4 oppositions, 1934-1992. Ref. MPC 21085.
Copyright the IAU MPC.
Click here for a plot of the orbit of Toutatis in the Solar System.
This plot was prepared by Gareth Williams of the Minor Planet Center.
This plot show how small the inclination of the orbit of Toutatis is.
Toutatis turned out to be one of the most interesting objects found
recently.
It is an Apollo object ( Earth Crossing ).
It has a record low inclination ( less than half a degree ).
Its orbit is one of the most chaotic in the Solar System.
Its rotation is also very peculiar since the precession period is quite
high while its rotation period is quite slow.
It is also one of the very rare asteroids for which we have radar
images. These images have been obtained in 1992 using the Arecibo and
Goldstone radar by JPL/NASA scientist Dr. Steve Ostro. You can find much
more interesting information and images of Toutatis on Dr Hudson's web
page. These radar observations have made Toutatis a "celebrity".
With its nearly 4 years rotation period, Toutatis has made close
approaches to us in late 1988, early 1989 when we discovered it, then in
1992, when it was obswerved by dozens of Observatories on Earth and from
space. The following table has been obtained at the IAU MPC server
courtesy Gareth Williams and Brian Marsden.
Toutatis close approachesDateDistance in AU1996 Nov. 29.960.03542000
Oct. 31.190.07392004 Sept.29.50.01042008 Nov. 9.500.0503
The 2004 approach is particularly interesting. 0.0104 Astronomical Unit
equals about 1.5 millions of kilometers from us. Seen from Toutatis, the
Earth will be as large in the sky as the Moon is from the Earth, and
from Earth it will be large enough that the best telescopes will start
resolving its apparent size. By then, radar images will be much better
than the 1992 observations.
Conditions of discovery :
In January 1989, O.C.A. astronomers Odile Calame and Derral Mulholland
had requested a series of plates on Jupiter, using the Schmidt telescope
in order to derive astrometry of the faint satellites of Jupiter. Since
it was the first time we were using Tech Pan emulsion on Jupiter ( a
much better emulsion than other Kodak plates ), I wanted to see whether
or not new satellites of Jupiter could be detected. Instead of taking a
single plate as would have been necessary for the astrometry program, I
took two in succession. I took a first couple of plates the night
before, and scanned them briefly during the following afternoon, without
finding any interesting satellite or asteroid.
The following night, i.e. on Januray 4th 1989, I took another couple of
plates, together with Derral Mulholland, and since I knew there wasn't
any interesting objects on it, processed the plates without taking a
look at them. I did put the two plates in the dryer and went to bed.
The following morning, Christian Pollas removed the plates from the
dryer and discovered a very bright fast moving astetroid.
When I woke up at noon, Robert Chemin had already started reducing the
asteroid's position, which was announced at the beginning of the
afternoon and given a temporary number by the IAU. Toutatis at the time
was moving so fast that it had traveled more than 2.5 degrees in a
single day, and was just outside of our field of view the night before.
As can be seen on this 33k jpeg image, the trail left by Toutatis was
very near the overexposed image of Jupiter. The discovery plate was
taken on 153-01 plate ( 2415 Tech Pan emulsion on glass ), on Januray
4th, 1989, and started at 19:30:00 UT and lasted one hour.
On this image, you can also see that the plate had been tracked using
Jupiter's motion in order to obtain round images of Jupiter's
satellites. This image of the discovery plate was scanned at the MAMA
densitometer at the Observatoire de Paris by Jean Guibert. m Since
it was the third asteroid reported in the first 15 days of the year, it
was given the number 1989AC ( A being the first letter of the alphabet,
for the first 15 days of the year, and C for the third letter for the
third asteroid reported ).
We soon learned that Eleanor Helin at JPL had taken the same field as
us, but had not had the time to look at her films.
After a few nights of observations, orbital elements came out which told
us that the asteroid was an Apollo object.
A few weeks afterwards, a former observation made by Eugene and Carolyn
Shoemaker in the summer of 1988 was reported. At the time, 1989AC was
far from Earth, and looked like yet another main belt asteroid.
This observation greatly extended the observed arc, which allowed to
find a much older observation made by the belgian astronomer Eugene
Delporte in 1933. This gave us a very long arc, providing a very good
precision on the orbital elements
The IAU numbered the asteroid before the end of 1989, and we named
Toutatis.
Behind the name :
By 1989, I had already started numbering Apollo objects using gaulish
gods. One which I had not used was Toutatis since I thought it was an
invention of Goscinny and Uderzo, authors of the well known comic book
series "Les aventures d'Asterix". There are several dozens sites about
this comic book series, you may want to look at few of them :
Stephane Riviere Asterix's page
Page on asterix in different languages
The international Asterix homepage which contains many more links to
Asterix pages elsewhere
One of their constant saying is "By Toutatis", another one is that their
only fear is that the sky may fall onto their heads.
I discovered my ignorance of gaulish culture when I learned that
Toutatis was ( or had been ) a real God.
I also learned that the citation in Asterix was not a joke, but that it
had been reported by some historians of Alexander the great who had met
some gaulish warriors ( who had once invaded Italy and Great Britain ).
One of the first thing we learned about Toutatis was its record low
inclination. This meant that it is indeed ( in a remote future ) a good
candidate to fall onto our heads. The name stuck almost immediately at
the telescope when I proposed it.
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Toutatis, also sometimes spelled "teutates" is a totemic deity, to which
human sacrifices were made.
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Don't be misled, very few french persons do know about the cruel god
Toutatis, but most will talk to you about Asterix and his friends if you
come to swear " By Toutatis ! ", provided you get the right accent...
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A. Saba
Dare To Call It Conspiracy
A. Saba
Dare To Call It Conspiracy
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