You can expect at any moment disaster in this material world, but the comet is the sign that there will be some great disaster.
[Posted
June 13, 2010]Comet indicates disaster
Like the acronym "BP" spells calamity...
Space June 8, 2010
- JOE RAO
New Comet Visible in Early Morning Sky
A recently discovered comet is surprising skywatchers by becoming brighter than predictions had first suggested and can now be seen with the unaided eye during the next few weeks.
Comet McNaught, officially catalogued as C/2009 R1, was discovered by Australian astronomer Robert McNaught last September using the using the 0.5-meter Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. It's the 51st comet that bears McNaught's name.
Although initially an extremely faint object, enough observations of the newfound comet were made to allow Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., to calculate an orbit.
Comet McNaught is expected to pass closest to the sun (perihelion) on July 2, at a distance of 37 million miles (60 million km). This sky map shows where to look in order to spot the comet in the morning sky.
The comet is visible now for people with dark skies away from urban and suburban lighting. By mid-June it may be an easy skywatching target for most people. go to story
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An omen of disaster
excerpt from Morning Walk, Los Angeles, January 3, 1974
PRABHUPADA: This dhumaketu is described in Dasavatara-stotra,
dhumaketum iva kim api karalam. Dhumaketum iva. Dhumaketum iva kim api
karalam. [1] As soon as there is comet, there will be some disaster. Very great disaster. In our childhood we saw the comet, not like this. That was small comet. Still, the first world war was there declared.
That we have seen in 1914.
NARA-NARAYAN: Halley's comet.
PRABHUPADA: Eh?
NARA-NARAYAN: I think they called it Halley's comet. Halley's comet.
PRABHUPADA: You can expect at any moment disaster in this
material world, but the comet is the sign that there will be some
great disaster.
1. Sri Dasavatara-stotra, Verse 10: mleccha- nivaha-nidhane kalayasi karavalam/ dhumaketum iva kim api karalam/ keshava dhrita-kalki-sarira jaya jagadisa hare: "O Keshava! O Lord of the universe! O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of Kalki! All glories to You! You appear like a comet and carry a terrifying sword for bringing about the annihilation of the wicked, barbarian men at the end of the Kali-yuga."
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