So What's Next For Us Mere Earthlings?

THOSE DOOMSDAY THEORISTS must have been wallowing in their gory this week. And somehow this unstable planet did survive. Barely. And it's only Wednesday.
As an investigative journalist of everything planetary, I kept a close watch on the sky; considering it was layered with snow from here to the Arctic circle.
And my mind was cluttered with immediate thoughts of wayward asteroids, a growing problem with space debris, a disabled spy satellite threatening the earth and even snowstorms in such semi-tropical places as Jerusalem
Then came the words of Ernie Mauck, who now calls himself Elijah, who pushes his theories in which he calls everyone from President Bush to Prince Charles corrupt. He's also someone who looks skyward for the appearance of Planet X, aka Nibiru and even Wormwood from Revelation, which will annihilate us all.
Pass the Bromo-Seltzer. Even Alka-Seltzer might help.
So, fellow earth-bound mortals, let's go down the list:
* Wayward Asteroid 2007 TU24. I don't know about you, but I missed it; all that snow and another thing it was dark around the Ol' Homestead in the middle of the night. According to the solar scientists it was between 150 and 600 metres in diameter and came within 334,000 miles of Earth. Apparently, a strong telescope would have picked it up.
In quoting Chee Chee Leung in the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, 2007 TU24 was "one of an estimated 7,000 near-Earth objects of its size or larger, which comes close to Earth on average about every five years." One of these giant rocks smashed into this planet in the ancient past, wiping out the dinosaurs.
Believe it or not, I wasn't around back then.
* Space debris. That's plain ordinary junk and it's lodged between 550 and 625 miles above us, according to a report from AP science writer E. Schmid. Now, I'm no expert, but being plunked from that distance, would give you a severe headache, whether it weighs an ounce or a ton.
* Disabled Spy Satellite. This one troubled me, for this spacecraft, which is out of control, weighs in the neighbourhood of 20,000 pounds and is the size of a small bus. It's headed our way in late February or early March, according to AP's Eileen Sullivan.
On the GlobalSecurity.org website, the main concern from an uncontrolled re-entry is not the debris which will reach the Earth's surface, but the spacecraft's secrets might be recovered by "a hostile intelligence agency."
* Snow, snow and even more snow. Perhaps, it means little to North Americans, but to a former newsman living in Israel, it's significant. It rarely happens, but Tuesday there was a report of a man frozen to death on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem was shutting down in advance of an Arctic blast.
Frigid temperatures in our part of the world is understandable, but in the semi-tropical weather of the Middle East it is almost unheard of.
Also the conspiratorial experts were at work, for surrounding the icy conditions was the news that the Winograd Report concerning the recent Lebanon war could be enough to oust the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Some say it would be an Act of God.
* Prophet Elijah. While some would sneer at the words of Ernie Mauck, who gets his "messages" across through the Internet, this bearded man, who resides in Cyprus, details the world's fate, particularly, with the Planet X (Nibiru) and its effect on our planet's orbit.
In the June 19, 1982 New York Times, it read: "Something out there beyond the reaches of the known solar system is tugging at Uranus and Neptune. A gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object, the long-sought Planet X." It could make it our way, at least Elijah thinks so.
So what's next? After all, there's been 9-11; a Pacific earthquake and tsunami; Hurricane Katrina; Avian flu and global warming looming on the horizon.
It's time to pull the covers over our heads in my opinion.