SMALL ASTEROID WHIZZED CLOSE BY EARTH

TINY ASTEROID ZOOMED CLOSE BY EARTH,
"IT WAS NOT PIECE OF SPACE JUNK", NASA SAID

WASHINGTON (AP) - Astronomers announced the discovery of the object, which they named 2010 AL30, on Monday. It is relatively small, about 36 feet (11 meters) wide, NASA researchers said. It made its closest approach yesterday at 12.48pm GMT, when it came within 80,000 miles (130,000 km) of our planet. That's nearly one-third the distance between the Earth the moon. If the asteroids had entered Earth’s orbit it would have likely burned-up in the atmosphere. At the beginning there was some early speculation that the object was a part of a derelict spacecraft, but NASA scientists have concluded that it is most likely a simple space rock flying near Earth. Experts were divided over whether the object is man-made or a small asteroid. Alan Harris at the US Space Science Institute said "Unlikely to be artificial, its orbit doesn't resemble any useful spacecraft trajectory". Paul Chodas, a scientist from NASA in Pasadena, Calif., said "the asteroid's trajectory is not the kind used to transfer spacecraft out of Earth's orbit, nor is the space rock followed by other objects that escaped from Earth or lunar space. The asteroid was also far from Earth during the Apollo lunar missions of the late 1960s and 1970s, when many spacecraft were launched into the space near the moon", Chodas said.

The asteroid was visible to seasoned amateur astronomers as it passed harmlessly by the planet. Expert astronomers were able to see it shining with a brightness of a 14th-magnitude star similar to that of Pluto. It appeared moving through the constellations of Orion, Taurus and Pisces, according to NASA's Solar System Dynamics website. The rock was not in danger of striking the planet and probably would have burned up in the atmosphere before hitting Earth’s surface, if it had headed our way. A team of astronomers from Italy captured images of the asteroid that passed by Earth Wednesday at a distance one-third that between the Earth and the Moon.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Vedic Cosmology can be confirmed by modern scientific findings and this is acknowledged by well known scientists and authors, who recognized that the cosmology of the Vedas closely parallels modern scientific findings. Carl Sagan stated, “Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology.” ... French astronomer Jean-Claude Bailly corroborated the antiquity and accuracy of the Vedic astronomical measurements as “more ancient than those of the Greeks or Egyptians.” And that, “the movements of the stars calculated 4,500 years ago, does not differ by a minute from the tables of today.”

Śrīpad Bhakti Bhāvana Vishnu Mahārāja :
“Science of the Sacred” (book) - Gosai Publishing - 2009
Chapter: “Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge”
http://www.vedicsciences.net/