A second astronomical code at Avebury Manor in 2008: why was Pluto drawn in the “wrong place”?

Every new crop picture is a learning experience. As we proceed through what may be the last four seasons of English crop pictures in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, prior to an end of the Mayan Long Count calendar on December 21-23, 2012, it will be very important for us to understand correctly all that we can of what they have been telling us. Jaime Maussan has called this a period of “communication before contact”.

Two of the most important crop pictures from last summer appeared near Avebury Manor on July 15, 2008 (see aveburymanor2008a.html) or July 22, 2008 (see aveburymanor2008b.html).

The first of those showed our nine-planet solar system on a near-future date of December 23, 2012, when the Mayan Long Count calendar will end. Yet it contained two significant anomalies: (i) the orbital location of Pluto as drawn there was highly incorrect for any date within the year 2012; and (ii) its orbital symbol for Earth contained a small extra standing tuft of crop, that was seemingly not meant to represent Earth’s Moon, but rather some other small astronomical body which will make a close approach to Earth on December 23, 2012.

A second crop picture near Avebury Manor on July 22 showed a more detailed sketch of our solar system near Earth and Moon. It seemed to imply that a bright comet (or asteroid) will be seen easily in Earth’s sky around December 13, 2012, one week before the Mayan calendar ends.

Could those two anomalies from the first crop picture on July 15, have something to do with a comet or asteroid as implied by the second picture on July 22?

No one has yet figured out what either anomaly was meant to say

Unfortunately, no one has yet figured out what either of those two anomalies was meant to say! Regarding the first anomaly, some people have speculated that a ninth planet as drawn there was not really Pluto, but some other trans-Neptunian object (see Trans-Neptunian_object), or perhaps even the “twelveth planet” proposed by Zechariah Sitchin (see www.sitchin.com). Others have speculated that some incoming asteroid or comet will knock Pluto out of its normal orbit, thereby leading to an anomalous orbital location not predicted by current models.

There is currently no evidence to support any of those speculative claims. Thus, the elongated elliptical orbit which was drawn for a ninth planet at Avebury Manor seems quite characteristic of Pluto, even though its small planetary symbol appeared in the “wrong place”, for a date within the year 2012.

Regarding the second anomaly, Peter Sorenson discussed it with me over lunch in Glastonbury shortly after it was found. If that small standing tuft of crop near “Earth” were really supposed to represent Earth’s Moon, then it should show an orbital phase and location for December 23, 2012 as halfway between “new” and “full”. Instead, it seems to show what would be the Moon’s orbital location for December 28, 2012 as “completely full”.

Peter and I agreed that the second anomaly must have some meaning not yet deciphered. He also reaffirmed that he had begun to study crop pictures in the early 1990’s, because he was convinced that they were some form of communication between angelic beings and ourselves.

The first anomaly: an “incorrect” orbital location for Pluto

Having little or no access to angelic intelligences during this current period on Earth (apart from crop pictures), we will have to rely on purely human scientific logic to figure out what they mean!  Once again, the first significant anomaly as shown at Avebury Manor on July 15, 2008 was a highly “incorrect” orbital location for the planet Pluto:

Eight planets ranging from Mercury to Neptune were drawn correctly there for an upcoming date of December 23, 2012, but not Pluto (yellow or red arrows, left or right). When studied in closer detail, it seems that the planetary symbol drawn for Pluto corresponds to where it will be located in the year 2036 or thereabouts (see http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits or orbits):

What could this mean? I would argue that showing just one planet “wrong” out of nine is an easy way for them to future-date some other astronomical event, that might be scheduled to happen in the year 2036. In other words, “whatever happens in December of 2012, may also happen in the year 2036”.

Pluto hardly ever comes close to Neptune in its orbit, especially after any close approach to the Sun as in 1989 (see www.projectpluto.com/pluto.htm). So by showing Pluto close to Neptune at Avebury Manor, they were essentially “waving a red flag to a bull" for anyone conversant in astrophysics! The anomalous location of Pluto as shown there could only refer to some date in our future, significantly beyond 2012.

The second anomaly: an extra standing tuft of crop near “Earth”

Now the second anomaly as shown at Avebury Manor on July 15, 2008 was an extra standing tuft of crop within its symbol for Earth:

That small extra tuft could not plausibly be meant to represent Earth’s Moon, because it was drawn on the far side of Earth from the Sun, where our Moon will be located on December 28, 2012:

Yet the rest of the crop picture (except for Pluto) coded for a date of December 23, 2012! Our crop artist friends are not going to make a simple error like that. If they had wished to show Earth’s Moon, they would have drawn it approximately in line with Earth’s circular orbit, where it will be located on December 23.

In another part of the same picture (upper right), one can see the “rings of Saturn”.

The asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass fairly close to Earth in December of 2012

So if that small extra tuft of crop was not meant to represent Earth’s Moon, what could it signify? Perhaps some unknown comet or small asteroid, which might come close to Earth on December 23, 2012?

With that idea in mind, I made a careful study of many near-Earth objects. I did not find any known comet which fits the proposed description, but did find two asteroids. Thus, the small asteroid 99942 Apophis will come fairly close to Earth in December or January of 2012, reaching a distance of just 0.10 AU (40 times as far away as our Moon) on December 23:

Likewise, another small asteroid 4179 Toutatis (not shown) will also come close to Earth on approximately the same dates, reaching a distance of just 0.07 AU on December 14. How can we decide which one they were talking about?

Apophis will pass very close to Earth in 2029, before possibly striking Earth in 2036

Well, the asteroid Apophis will come even closer to Earth on April 14, 2029, so close in fact that at 0.0015 AU its orbit will be deflected by Earth’s gravity:

After that nobody is sure what will happen, because the calculations are not yet sufficiently precise. Yet Apophis does seem to have a low if finite probability to be deflected in 2029, so that it will actually strike Earth in 2036:

“On April 13, 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass very closely by Earth within the orbit of communication satellites. Such a close approach to Earth’s gravity will substantially alter its orbit, making further predictions about a possible impact on April, 13, 2036 uncertain” (see Apophis or www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9871982 or space exploration.research). 

Did those crop artists show us an “incorrect” orbital location for the planet Pluto, matching an upcoming year 2036 instead of 2012, in order to bring our attention to the possibility that Apophis will strike Earth in 2036?

The symbols used by NASA to describe Apophis in 2029 resemble those used by the crop artists to describe 2012

So much for the first crop picture which appeared at Avebury Manor on July 15, 2008. Its two anomalies may be explained in terms of a small asteroid which will approach Earth closely in both 2012 and 2036. Its second pass may be an actual strike, or else a near-miss.

Now what about the second crop picture which appeared at Avebury Manor on July 22? As explained last summer, one can find evidence in that second crop picture for some kind of bright comet or asteroid which will become visible in Earth’s sky during December of 2012, particularly around a new Moon of December 13: see aveburymanor2008 or time2007ml). That comet might fall into the class known as Kreutz Sungrazers, which come so close to the Sun that they become visible even during daylight hours on Earth (see Kreutz Sungrazers).

Interestingly enough, the symbols used by NASA to tell about a near-miss by the asteroid Apophis in 2029 closely resemble those used at Avebury Manor on July 22, to tell about a comet or asteroid being seen near our Moon in December of 2012:

Could the comet or asteroid shown in that second crop picture be 99942 Apophis? Possibly, but a better candidate might be 4179 Toutatis, which will approach Earth on a somewhat earlier date. Alternatively, it could be a bright comet not yet identified.

A summary of both crop pictures from Avebury Manor in 2008

To help the reader, we have provided a summary below of both crop pictures and their astronomical messages:

July 15, 2008

1.      The correct orbits and locations of eight major planets (Mercury to Neptune) were shown for a near-future date of December 23, 2012.

2.      The orbital location of Pluto was shown for a near-future date of ca. 2036.

3.      A extra standing tuft next to the symbol for Earth might represent some small asteroid, which will pass closely by Earth on December 23, 2012, and perhaps also in the (Pluto) year 2036.

4.      The most likely candidate seems to be 99942 Apophis, which will pass closely by Earth on December 23, 2012, and has a low but finite probability to strike Earth in 2036.

July 22, 2008

1.      Some wandering astronomical body (a comet or an asteroid) was shown entering our solar system.

2.      It will pass close to Earth and Moon in the twelfth month (December) of 2012.

3.      Our Sun will lie in the constellation Ophiuchus on that date (December 13), and it will be a new Moon (December 13, 2012).

4.      The wanderer is probably not Apophis (as shown on July 15), since its closest approach to Earth will be in early January of 2013.

5.      Yet it could be an unknown comet, or perhaps the asteroid 4179 Toutatis, whose closest approach to Earth will be on December 14, 2012.

Harold Stryderight

P.S. Many thanks to Andreas Muller, Peter Sorenson and Eva-Marie Brekkestø for some of the pictures used here.

Appendix. Recent scientific comment about the threat posed by asteroids or comets

“The International Academy of Astronautics will hold its first conference on protecting our planet from impacts by asteroids or comets during the week of April 27, 2009 in Granada, Spain. A focus of the conference will be Apophis, a 270-meter asteroid that is predicted to pass close to Earth in 2029, and has a low but finite probability of impacting our planet in 2036” (see www.congrex.nl/09c04).

“The danger of comets hitting Earth has not been adequately addressed, because we don’t know where most of them are! SOHO has discovered 500 new comets in the last eight years. There are a lot of comets out there, and we don’t know where they all are” (see www.earthfiles.com).

Harold Stryderight