A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

Asteroids and comets are fundamentally the same
things, however, the typical locations and behaviour
of asteroids is different from that of comets.
The rubble strewn surface of asteroid Itokawa
Credit: ISAS and JAXA
Due to their locations and patterns of movement within
the Sun’s heliosphere, asteroids do not have the same
chance as comets to experience significant changes in
voltage with respect to the solar wind. They are large,
sometimes very large pieces of rock that drift around
the Sun in locations usually very far away from Earth
[6-52] . Occasionally, however, we do hear of some that
pass by us at relatively close distances. Asteroid ‘2009
DD45’ at almost 150 feet across passed by at a distance of 45,000 miles in 2009, and asteroid ‘2004 FU162’ at
around 20 feet across passed us by at 4,000 miles distance in 2004.
No concrete evidence has been gathered about any large asteroids having struck the Earth in our recent recorded
history, so it is understandable if we just accept, for now, that a large asteroid reaching the Earth’s surface will be
a rare event indeed. However, we should always remember that humans have only been around for an extremely
short time, so what do we really know about asteroids? Therefore on the face of things, there has been no actual
opportunity for significant asteroid impact events ever to be recorded in scientifically acceptable terms.
According to the EU model and just as with short-term comets, the place of origin of asteroids is out where
violent electrical discharges during inter-planetary encounters have taken place in the past. In the long term,
there remains potential for this to happen again, where undoubtedly, comets and asteroids would be products of
those awesome events [6-53] . Asteroids range in size from a few metres to many kilometres and their typical speed
of travel around the Sun is 40,000 miles per hour. It is notable that many asteroids have rubble-strewn surfaces
that look to be in a real mess. Contrast this with the much smoother surfaces we see on comets where it is
obvious there is no great amount of debris lying around. This observation has a plausible electrical explanation
if we again consider the ‘scouring and cleaning effect’ that comets undergo when they are subjected to plasma
discharge action. Asteroids, not being significantly different in electrical charge from their environment, will
not undergo this process akin to ‘surface cleaning’ so they tend to retain items of rubble of all sizes. Again, we
have a logical, simple explanation.
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