• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
• Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
• Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
• Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
• Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
• But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

- Gautama Buddha

• WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A MASSIVE OORT CLOUD COMET STIKES EARTH?
  ANSWER: VENUS
  After several million years, the planet would cool down and a crust would form. The crust creates an insulation barrier between the hot magma and the atmosphere. Surface temperatures would drop below 1,000^o F. The average temperature at the surface of Venus is 865^o F.
• METEORITE COLLISION
  Here is a Japanese dramatic simulation of what would happen to Earth if it were hit by a gigantic meteorite as is anticipated to occur 1800 years from now. This event, according to Vedic prophecy (see List 5), is actually a series of about 12 (or 7, or 3) smaller, but similar impacts.
• Go to the YouTube website and sign in (or register). Then search for the term "Meteorite Collision". The missing Japanese video in the above hyperlink should be the first or near the first one listed.
• THE SURFACE FEATURES OF VENUS
  Much of the surface of Venus appears to be rather young. The global data set from radar imaging reveals a number of craters consistent with an average Venus surface age of 300 million to 500 million years.
  
  "The Oort Cloud contains many large comets, some in the order of 200 miles in diameter. If one of these behemoths were to impact Earth, it would turn Earth into a sea of fire, of lava. There would no longer be any oceans. It seems logical that one of these large comets hit Venus a few hundred million years ago. The surface of the planet shows signs of massive vulcanization. The surface is young, not older than 800 million years. The atmosphere is 90 times denser than Earth's. The atmosphere at the surface is 96 percent carbon dioxide. But above the surface the clouds are composed of sulfuric acid droplets. The surface temperature on Venus is 900 degrees F. Scientist theorize this high temperature is due to a runaway greenhouse effect. That theory does not make a lot of sense. Venus is one of the brightest planets in the nights sky. Sunlight rather than being absorbed by the planet is being reflected back into outer space. Therefore the atmosphere is not in a condition of runaway greenhouse effect. On Earth, magma contains compressed gases of water vapor, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. These gases are released when the magma hits the surface. We have experienced a large lava flow a few hundred years ago. Temperatures were depressed for a few years because the sulfur dioxide restricted some of the sunlight from heating the Earth's surface. The heat on the surface of Venus is internally generated heat not heat from solar radiation. The heavy gas cloud surrounding Venus is like an insulation blanket that traps the surface heat. An impact from a 200 mile diameter LPC produces a tremendous amount of heat. It is off the scale. The crust of the planet would be destroyed. Magma would release massive amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide and produce a super dense atmosphere. The planet would over millions of years reconstitute a hard crust that would further insulate the surface. The heat would be trapped inside the magma deep within the planet. The heat would be slowly released through the insulated crust and very dense atmosphere over the next several hundreds of million of years." - Private communication James A. Marusek - 4 Jun 2003
  Should Vulcan exist, as this web site suggests, meteorite collisions with Earth may be more frequent than is currently believed.
• WAS VENUS ALIVE? 'THE SIGNS ARE PROBABLY THERE'
  AM: Did some huge impact melt the surface? Or was it the last gasp of volcanic activity?
  DG: Clearly, whatever this second great transition was, it involved massive amounts of volcanism. You can see these flows that appear to be flood basalts all over, covering 80 percent of the planet. The remarkable thing is that they seem to be all the same age. The crater density is relatively uniform and random around the planet. So the planet seems to have been flooded with basaltic lavas in a geologically short period of time, simultaneously around the planet.
  Now, you talk to some geologists and they argue with that and they say, well, it wasn't simultaneous. But looking at the map of craters on Venus, all of them seem relatively pristine, and there are no older ones. You can't escape the conclusion that something dramatic changed on Venus at that time that had the effect of re-paving the surface.
• VENUS HAS 'HEAVY METAL MOUNTAINS'
  Detailed calculations suggest that lead and bismuth are to blame for giving Venus its bright, metallic skin.
  • The temperature on the surface of Venus is 894^o F (480^o C).
  • The boiling point of Lead at one Earth atmosphere pressure is 1740^o C
  • The boiling point of Bismuth at one Earth atmosphere pressure is 1560?^o C
• VENUS
  These clouds completely obscure our view of the surface. This dense atmosphere produces a run-away greenhouse effect that raises Venus' surface temperature by about 400 degrees to over 740 K (hot enough to melt lead). Venus' surface is actually hotter than Mercury's despite being nearly twice as far from the Sun. The pressure of Venus' atmosphere at the surface is 90 atmospheres (about the same as the pressure at a depth of 1 km in Earth's oceans). The impact of a massive meteorite could easily vaporize most of the Lead and Bismuth in Venus's curst and later it would be deposited on the "cooler" mountain peaks.
• (6) GIANT IMPACT ON VENUS COULD HAVE HALTED ITS ROTATION
• AEON _ The Youthful Atmosphere of Venus
  Charles Ginenthal offers some evidence challenging the conventional portrait of Venus: the evidence implies Venus is either a new planet or has experienced a most unusual history. - Page 5
• EARTH-LIKE VENUS
  ESA's Venus Express has revealed Venus as never before. For the first time, scientists are able to investigate from the top of its atmosphere, down nearly to the surface. They have shown it to be a planet of surprises that may once have been more Earth-like, and still is, to a certain extent.
• ATMOSPHERE AND WEATHER OF VENUS
• VENUS UNVEILED
• DOUBT CAST ON VENUS CATASTROPHE
  But craters on Venus are distributed randomly over the whole planet. This has led some scientists to the conclusion that most of the surface is of similar age.
• THE SOLAR SYSTEM II
• The mysterious ridges at the mouth of Tiu Valles
  The mouth of Tiu Valles is an estuary-like landform. On Earth, an estuary is the tidal mouth of a river valley, or the end that meets the sea and fresh water comes into contact with seawater. In such an area, tidal effects are evident.
  Tiu Valles is located at approximately 27?North and 330?East. The sun illuminates the scene from the North West, the lower left-hand side in the image.
• NEW EVIDENCE POINTS TO OCEANS ON MARS
  Any major shift of planetary mass—on the surface, within the mantle, even an impact from outer space—could cause a shift of the rotation axis because a spinning body is most stable with its mass farthest from its spin axis. Accordingly, the Tharsis rise, the planet's biggest feature, is situated at the equator between both today's poles and the two ancient poles.
  The question remains: What caused Mars' rotation axis to move relative to the crust"
• FIRE AND ICE: MARS IMAGES REVEAL RECENT VOLCANIC AND GLACIAL ACTIVITY
  Glaciers moved from the poles to the tropics 350,000 to 4 million years ago, depositing massive amounts of ice at the base of mountains and volcanoes in the eastern Hellas region near the planet's equator.
  These climatic changes are associated with a major meteorite impacts, and are known to have occurred 2.15 million years ago. The Pleistocene/Pliocene boundary is suggested to have occurred at 2.6 million-years ago and corresponds to the Gauss/Matuyama (paleomagnetic) boundary and loess/red clay boundaries. Paleomagnetic reversals and paleoclimate changes appear to occur hand in hand. Comets from the same comet swarm that threatened Earth and reformed the surface of Venus (Now cooling after several million years) apparently hit Mars as well during these times. These comet swarms disappear in a few tens of million years unless new comets are drawn in by Vulcan from the Kuiper belt.
• BROKEN WHEEL REVEALS WATER ON MARS
  Analysis of soil uncovered when a wheel jammed on Spirit, one of Nasa's two Rover buggies, has revealed that it contains 90 per cent silica - a concentration only likely to have formed when water is present.
  Experts said last night that the finding showed that water had flowed on the surface of Mars within the last tens of millions of years.
• MARS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN WARM OR WET
• RADAR SEES ICE DEEP BELOW MARS
  I guess they never heard of the Viking Lander radar experiments.
• MARS POLE HOLDS ENOUGH ICE TO FLOOD PLANET, RADAR STUDY SHOWS
  Mars's southern polar ice cap contains enough water to cover the entire planet approximately 36 feet (11 meters) deep if melted, according to a new radar study.
• WATER ICE IN A MARTIAN CRATER
  The ice pocket was found in a 35-kilometer wide crater that resides 70 degrees north of the Martian equator. There, sunlight is blocked by the 300-meter tall crater wall from vaporizing the water-ice on the crater floor into the thin Martian atmosphere. The ice pocket may be as deep as 200 meters thick. Frost can be seen around the inner edge on the upper right part of the crater, while part of the lower left crater wall is bathed in sunlight.
  Water left over from rain after comet impacts?
• (2) COMET IMPACT ON IO IN 1983? - 24 May 2000
• BIZARRE BOULDERS LITTER SATURN MOON'S ICY SURFACE
• WHY AREN'T THE MARTIAN CRATERS WORN DOWN? The Martian surface should be worn down by wind-driven sand and dust (at 2 centimeters/century). The Martian craters (estimated to be hundreds of millions of years old) would have been worn level long ago. The craters are of more recent Phaeton related comet strikes.
• A MARTIAN ICE AGE? Ice, rather than water, may have created the Martian channels
• WHEN MARS HAD LAKES The "event" that deeply eroded the Martian deposits may have been similar to the catastrophic emptying of Lake Missoula, which carved out the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington state as the Ice Ages waned.
• CATASTROPHIC FLOODING ON MARS?
• WATER COURSED THROUGH MARTIAN HILLS
• MARS ROVER FINDS "PUDDLES" ON THE PLANET'S SURFACE
• SCIENCE ; MARS COULD BE QUAKING
• OLD COMETARY SCARS ON THE MOON? caused by one at least 0.5 kilometers in diameter.
• LUNAR CRATER CHAINS indicating comet strike. See Figure.
• HBCC UFO RESEARCH RECENTLY REPORTED SIGHTINGS
  Did Long-Destroyed 5th Planet Cause Lunar Cataclysm?
  Planet V's close encounters with the inner belt of asteroids stirred up a large fraction of those bodies, scattering them about. The perturbed asteroids evolved into Mars crossing orbits, and temporarily enhanced the population of bodies on Earth-crossing orbits, and also increased the lunar impact rate.
  After doing its destabilizing deeds, Planet V was lost too, most likely spinning into the Sun, the NASA team reported.
• GOING OVER THE WALL ON THE MOON
  It's possible that the moon once did have a global magnetic field when it still had a liquid core and was spinning enough to get that magnetism thing going.
• NEW 'MOON' FOUND AROUND EARTH
• NASA TEAM SEES EXPLOSION ON MOON
• SCIENTISTS FIND SOURCE OF SATURN RING
  An international team of scientists has found that the source of Saturn`s outer ring is water vapor from the planet`s moon Enceladus.
  In an article in the journal Science, the researchers say that a plume of water vapor from Enceladus`s south pole has also given the moon a water-based atmosphere. They believe that internal processes within the moon are generating heat to produce the vapor.
• EARTH COULD SEED TITAN WITH LIFE
  Terrestrial rocks blown into space by asteroid impacts on Earth could have taken life to Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have announced.
• SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THEY FOUND EVIDENCE OF RECENT WATER ON MARS
  In January, while looking at a 2004 image, Edgett spotted a crater that hadn't appeared in earlier images that the team's satellite started taking in 1999, its first year of operation. That spurred a search for fresh craters, which turned up 20 in all. This establishes an estimated rate of about 12 small comet or meteor impacts a year on Mars.
• HAS JUPITER FLASHED BEFORE? - 24 May 2000
• THE STRING OF PEARLS A comet cluster or swarm resulting from the fragmentation of a 2 kilometer comet. The individual fragments were no larger than one kilometer, and each produced Earth size black spots on Jupiter. Such comet swarms have struck before, producing a
• CHAIN OF CRATERS ON CALLISTO, one of Jupiter's moons indicating a comet strike.
  None of Phaeton's anticipated comets possibly impacting Earth are expected to produce an impact crater the size of the K-T Event Crater that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
• JUPITER'S COMET IMPACT LEAVES MYSTERY
• JUPITER CHANGES ITS STRIPES
  Jupiter's cloud patterns are undergoing dramatic changes, reveal new images by the Hubble Space Telescope. Similar transformations of the giant planet's clouds have been witnessed before, but never in such detail ?and they have never been explained.