Astronomers who have the job of detecting natural objects
which come close enough to the earth possibly to collide with it usually detect
asteroids and comets, but they have been baffled recently by something that
they have given the catchy little name A10bMLz. What makes A10bMLz unusual is
that it is moving very near to the earth indeed, in fact within the orbit of
the moon. Its own orbit is highly elliptical and its perigee, it closest point
of approach to the earth is just 372 miles. It could be natural, which would
make it earth's second natural satellite, but its consistency makes this
unlikely. It has a high area-to-mass ratio which means that it is very tenuous
like a rubbish bag, which is why it has been nicknamed the "trash bag in
space". It is about ten feet across. It is probably part of an old
spacecraft or satellite. This has reignited the debate about "space
junk". The earth is surrounded by a cloud of fragments that are the debris
of space exploration. Some are large, such as rocket stages or broken
satellites, but some are tiny and undetectable like nuts or bolts. Some of this
junk is in stable orbit and will remain circling the earth for a long time,
possible for centuries, until the miniscule drag of the exosphere finally brings
them down. Space junk is a major hazard for spacecraft. In fact the Space
Shuttle's window was once cracked when it was struck by a tiny fleck of paint.
At astronomical speeds of many miles per second, the fleck had the kinetic
energy of a rifle bullet. Some people are even suggesting that space missions
will have to be suspended until a solution to space junk is found. Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/mysterious-empty-trash-bag-object-13926868.
Regular readers will probably guess what I'm going to suggest now; could the "trash
bag in space" be artificial but not man-made? In other words, is it an
artefact of an extraterrestrial intelligence? This is certainly possible and it
is probably more likely seeing as we have been visited already recently by 'Oumuamua
which I am sure is some kind of interstellar spacecraft, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/07/oumuamua-livestream.html.
Prof. Avi Loeb has recently restated his courageous position that 'Oumuamua is
artificial, see: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/astronomer-avi-loeb-on-the-interstellar-body-oumuamua-a-1246803.html.
We also have the strange case of the "black knight", see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/02/ben-emlyn-jones-on-kev-baker-show-6.html.
If anything happens that reveals that any of these objects are truly made by aliens
then it will be impossible for the authorities to cover it up, as I explain in
the background links below. There can be no cover-ups in astronomy.
See here for
background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/02/seti-and-ufos.html.
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