Is Earth safe from asteroids like 2019 CN2 ?

The asteroid is written in the center of this photograph in gold letters. Go to the interactive map and it can be enlarged to provide better visual understanding.

Interactive star map of the sky visible from: Greenwich, United Kingdom
Time: 11-Feb-2019 16:25 Europe/London
Object: 2019 CN2 (click here)
Right Asc: 06h 54m 20.9s Decl: -56° 36' 35.2" (J2000) [HMS|Dec]
Magnitude: 19.01 Altitude: -35° Solar Elongation: 101.5° Constellation: Leo 

Sun distance: 147.80 Million Km Earth distance: 0.61 Million Km
Below the horizon

The world is watching.

February 11, 2019

NASA's Asteroid 2019 CN2 (click here) determines the asteroid today. Earth's close approach. NASA's astronomers have narrowed the course just before 11 days of GMT (UTC), and the uncertainty is about four minutes. As NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California varies, Asteroid CN2 estimates that it is almost losing ground between Earth and Moon. The incredibly close flyby comes exactly one week after JPL first discovered the space rock in its radar.

According to NASA Research Center, Asteroid CN2 was first detected on Monday, February 4, 2019.

NASA has since calculated that the orbit of space rock has been defined as CN2 approaches the country at least after October 1901.

This is because the asteroid is so-called. Middle Earth Object – An asteroid or comet on an orbit that crosses the Earth.

NASA explained: “NEO targets are comets and asteroids that have been hidden by the attraction of nearby planets to orbit....


NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The 2019 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario (click here)

February 11, 2019
By Sebastian Kettley

TWO monstrous asteroids (click here) will barrel past the planet within hours of one another tomorrow, NASA’s asteroid trackers have revealed.

Both asteroids are expected to make a so-called “Earth Close Approach” on Tuesday, February 12. The first of the two space rocks, Asteroid 2019 CY2, will zip by in the wee morning hours around 3.34am GMT (UTC). Asteroid 2017 PV25 will follow soon after, shooting past our home world around 12.42pm GMT. Neither of the two rocks will slam into the planet but their near-miss trajectories are being keenly monitored by NASA’s asteroid-tracking systems.

Asteroid CY2 is the smaller and faster of the two space rocks and is also the most recently discovered one....

FACTS. Just the facts, please.

The corruption of the Michigan Republican legislators is obvious. If they sincerely cared about the citizens of the state they would have passed a bill that upheld the Governor's directives, not destroyed them.

To be crystal clear; the Michigan Republicans are grandstanding on the process and not the will of the people.

We already have the facts regarding the MDEQ. They were complicit in the Flint Water Crisis. Governor Whitmer needs a new slate of state employees until the corruption is completely removed from the Michigan DEQ.

The state government of Michigan was corrupted by Snyder and there is no way of knowing the extent of the corruption without building a co-government structure that PLAYS BY THE RULES. If Governor Whitmer NEEDS people she can trust to assist the citizens of Michigan while simultaneously there is a complete review of MDEQ ADHERENCE to laws and STANDARDS to protect the people of Michigan, then that is what is required.

Enforcement by the MDEQ has been destroyed. It is completely obvious. Governor Whitmer knows what she is doing for the people of Michigan. The Republican majority in the legislature is acting against the will of the people and continue to put them in peril.

Reform of any government has to be handled by TRUSTWORTHY people. The Michigan State Republican majority is proving to be "power players" rather than "governance" to benefit the people of Michigan.

The corruption MUST be ripped out by the roots and the Michigan State Legislature is proving they can obstruct the will of the people. They are just as complicit as the Snyder MDEQ.

I believe Governor Whitmer has the EXECUTIVE power to instill the AGENCY of her office to form regulatory structures to carry out the laws to benefit the people. She has the right to have people she can trust. Her ideas are good ideas and I believe she has the right to take her directives to the courts for enforcement to benefit the people of Michigan.

January 7, 2019

Flint - Another Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (click here) employee has pleaded no contest to charges related to the Flint water crisis.

Liane Shekter-Smith, the department's former chief of drinking water and municipal assistance, originally was charged in July 2016 with two felonies and one misdemeanor charge.

She pleaded to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing a lawful meeting, which carries a possible penalty of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. The other charges were dropped in exchange for her plea.

As part of the plea agreement with Special Prosecutor Todd Flood, Shekter-Smith must testify against other government officials charged in the Flint water cases. She likely will be a witness in the upcoming preliminary hearing for former Emergency Manager Darnell Earley and former Flint Water Department Manager Howard Croft.

If she provides misleading statements or fails to cooperate with prosecutors, Flood said a guilty plea to a five-year felony charge of misconduct in office will automatically be entered on her behalf. A review to determine whether she complied with the plea agreement is scheduled for April....

The Democrats facing another government shutdown need to scale back their immigration ambitions with a funding bill.

I think the initial focus on oversight will result in the best outcomes for the detainees. The extent the Trump administration has broken the laws of the USA and expanded its plans to control border crossers through detentions has to be known. To simply legislate to try to obtain control at the cost of the federal employees is wrong.

The fact finding has to be the focus of the Democratic majority in the US House. It won't be easy simply because the Trump administration are obstructionists as demonstrated by the Acting Attorney General Whitaker. He had no intention of being transparent. He exhibited profound disrespect for the USA democracy in his recent testimony with the US House. Committee Republicans tried their best to provide cover for his irreverent attitudes.

The idea the Democrats could be responsible for adding to the next government shutdown through demands on a funding bill is inappropriate. If the Democrats and the American people find Mr. Trump's demands political and wrong, the new demands by the Democrats to add for government funding are not appropriate either. There needs to be a bill that limits the political spending by Trump, but, also needs to be free of Democratic demands that belong in legislation for immigration reform.

If the Senate Republicans and Trump refuse to pass immigration reform after the fact finding is on the Congressional record, then attaching "asylum detainee relief" to a funding bill will have better standing with the country. The Democrats need to make it clear to the public their bills to provide better health care and relief for immigration detainees are passed and before the Senate or in need of a presidential signature.

The Democrats need to build a strong base of facts that will make any House legislation strong. Legislation is supposed to be based in fact and need, not politics that make the USA weaker.

I thank the US House for it's ambitions. They have the best interest of the country at the center of their legislative efforts. Unfortunately, the president has invoked horrible and inhumane demands of our Border Guards, the National Guard and the USA military. The American people know that and they know it needs strong legislation that ends it. The current state of affairs at the USA southern border is not the problem of the US House, but, if it continues after legislation is passed then the ownership of such insults to law and human dignity will be placed on those directly responsible.

The USA democracy needs to work the way it was intended to work. If it doesn't then the corruption is obvious and needs to end.

December 6, 2018
By Suzanne Gamboa and Gwen Aviles

Democrats poised to hold committee positions in Congress (click here) that will give them jurisdiction over agencies in charge of keeping immigrants in custody, especially children, said Thursday they plan to step up scrutiny of immigration detention next year.

Democrats won control of the House in November, which means they take over leadership of committees and subcommittees in the next Congress, which opens in early January.

"There's a lot of work to be done," said Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard of California, who as the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations' subcommittee on Homeland Security is in line to become its chairwoman.

On her to-do list: provide better access to legal counsel; use alternatives to detention, particularly for families; ensure that immigration facilities are more regularly inspected; and secure more funding for the hiring of social workers to work with unaccompanied child migrants.

"Mainly it's going to be oversight, pushing for fairness and justice for these immigrants," Roybal-Allard said....

This is an excellent example of institutionalized corruption and how difficult it is to get rid of it.

"Morning Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

There are many newly elected state representatives in Michigan that ran on cleaning up the waters of the state. The Governor vowed to have clean water and environmental justice for the state.

What exactly doesn't the majority Michigan Republicans understand? I say they CAN'T even begin to understand the brevity of water and clean air when it comes to the State of Michigan.

The obvious answer to the brevity of clean air and water in Michigan are the Great Lakes. That is only part of the picture.

The State of Michigan has over 11,000 inland lakes. They are the source of great pleasure for Michiganders and it's resort and vacation economy. Governor Whitmer wants to end the pollution that results in contamination as the Flint River. The people of Michigan want these bad habits to end as well. There are many methods to remove dangers for air and water and Governor Whitmer is correct; Michigan needs a strong oversight through the government to bring pollution in Michigan under control.

The majority Republicans in the Michigan Congress got used to a Governor that put one man in charge of deregulation of the state's laws. He eliminated protections at every turn and the Flint Crisis is one of them. No one considered the "Snyder Regulation Czar" was also at the heart of the switch to the Flint River without proper controls in place to protect people? Wow.

Then, of course, the corrupt Rich Snyder administration conducted their traditional post election power grab.

December 11, 2019
By Emily Lawler

Lansing – The House of Representatives (click here) on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill limiting the ability of the state to set stricter rules than any federal standard, sending it to Gov. Rick Snyder for consideration.

The bill, HB 4205, sponsored by Rep. Triston Cole, R-Mancelona, would make it so that, in most cases, state agencies could not set rules that were stricter than what the federal government has in place....

This is the level of corruption that still exists with the Michigan legislature. The Snyder Administration and his Republican state congress has always disregarded the voice of the voter. Instead, he destroyed vital regulation that is indicative of Republican administrations since Reagan. The profit taking is simply dangling there in the air for Republicans to tap to pretend to understand what the meaning of an economy actually means.

This is the mess Governor Whitmer has inherited. The changes in the laws to benefit the citizen is going to be a challenge to her and others, but, it needs to go forward. The REAL Michigan economy demands it.

February 6, 2019
By Beth LaBlanc and Jonathan Oosting

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, environmental department director Liesl Clark and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist on Feb 4, 2019.

Lansing — House Republicans (click here) voted Wednesday to overturn Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order revamping the Michigan environmental department, arguing she usurped their power by abolishing oversight panels they created last year.

In her first partisan feud with lawmakers, Whitmer countered by asking Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel for a formal opinion on the legality of the panels. They “create unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles that get in the way of our state government responding to problems with drinking water quickly," she argued.

The concurrent resolution approved by the House in a 58-51 vote and now headed to the GOP-led Senate would nullify Whitmer's executive order to create a new Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. The order would also eliminate new commissions Republicans created to give businesses a greater say in environmental rule-making and permit reviews.

"The governor exercised her constitutional authority; the House has now exercised its constitutional authority," House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, said after Wednesday's vote. "I look forward to finding a compromise to ensure the people of our state are served.”

"Good Night, Moon" (click here for NASA's recordings and article of the same lunar eclipse - thank you)

The waxing crescent

5.7 days old

32.3 percent lit








This is some of the footage i got from NKY of The 2019 Total Lunar Blood Moon Event. The Totality is said to last around 1 hour. If you have any images or video you want me to share, let me know a dahboo7@yahoo.com.