Just for fun I thought I'd try to get an idea of who those claimed-evil people are who are keeping the supposed impact of 2007 TU24 a closely guarded secret.
Here's a recent observation note from
Tracking News, Jan 1:
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K07T24U 2007 TU24 (arc=81 days, H=20.1 ~323m) from Desert Moon Obs. (Dec. 31.06-08p3)
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Desert Moon Obs., eh? Never heard of it. Sounds like a real ultra-top-secret NASA operation, doesn't it? Black helicopters? Let's see...
Desert Moon. Cute. It's a mom-and-pop operation. Mom, on the left. 12-inch telescope middle. That'd be smiling Pop on the right. Unfeeling criminals? Or friendly, dedicated astronomy hobbyists just trying to help out?
I hope they Google their outfit name some day and find mention of it here. (Hi, folks! Thanks for pitching in!) I hope they don't take seriously Werfer's apparent insinuation that they might be the type of monsters that would let millions die in an impact event. Maybe they'll understand that some people get carried away sometimes. They look kinda kindly.
That was fun. Who else?
Tracking News, Dec. 6
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K07T24U 2007 TU24 (arc=54 days, H=20.1 ~323m) from Spahr/Whipple (Oct. 18.31p2)
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Why, that's no NASA-owned barbwire-surrounded facility either. That's the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics & University of Arizona
Whipple Observatory, staffed by some of those egghead ivory-tower astronomers. I wonder how NASA keeps that Tim Spahr quiet. Blackmail? Threats? Bribes? I doubt it.
Aw, one more...
Dec. 7
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K07T24U 2007 TU24 (arc=54 days, H=20.1 ~323m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (Dec. 4.09p1 & 4.13p1)
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Spacewatch. Now there's a government paramilitary-sounding name. Men in black, for sure.
Spacewatch Project. Well, shoot, it's another set of University of Arizona academics, this time at Kitt Peak:
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Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona
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The Spacewatch 1.8-meter and 0.9-meter telescopes on Kitt Peak, 45 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona.
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Spacewatch People: Professors and their students?
Help me out. How does this conspiracy of silence work again?
Edit: Later, I amused myself by looking early in the observation history:
Tracking News, 2007 October 12:
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K07T24U 2007 TU24 (risk-listed, Earth MOID=0.8 LD, H=20.1 ~323m) was discovered at 0626 UT on 11 Oct. by the CSS, which observed it at Oct. 11.27-29p4 and 11.34-35p4. The discovery was confirmed by Grasslands Obs. (Oct. 11.33p3), Powell Obs. (Oct. 11.34p4), Schiaparelli Obs. (Oct. 12.05-07p2), Jim Young via Table Mtn. Obs. (Oct. 12.25-26p4), MLS (Oct. 12.33-34p4), and Mt. John Obs. (Oct. 12.48-49p3).
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Just look at all those people and institutions able to observe the object, way back when it was farther away and dimmer! Anyone of them could alert those at risk -- if there was a risk.
And, I was just thinking: in the conspiracy mindset, what could make the US National Weather Service so very different from NASA? When a big hurricane is a few days from flattening Florida (can Florida be any flatter?), the NWS is on all the media, every hour, advising people to move their butts hundreds of miles, how, when, why, and providing constant updates. No fear of panicking people there: "Run for your lives, shelter up high, or drown!" But, supposedly, NASA sees an asteroid 3 weeks from flattening maybe some little country and they just sit there, mum, and somehow orders everyone who knows about it to remain silent, 'cause they don't want anyone to get upset? Why? How does one conceive of such nonsense?