The Elenin article sounds like a lot of bogus to me... I checked the NASA page, but it shows the object moving through earths orbit at a considerable distance from earth.. Also i have no idea where the article gets the insane idea that it could be a neutron star.. If it was a neuron star and it was moving through the asteroid belt, we'd be fried right now from the radiation as the intense gravitational pull of the neutron star would pull asteroids crashing into its surface.

Also, a neutron star is seriously heavy, it should have considerable effect on the orbits of planets at the very least..

I also dont find the actual 'proof' in the article that the comet affects earth? Where exactly does nasa state there is a significant gravitaional pull from the comet?

I'm also still at a loss how exactly a passign comet is supposed to trigger an earth quake.. The quakes all occured at fold-lines between tectonic plates.

So unless there is something in the supplied mathematical model or even just a reasonably hypothesis of how gravity from a far away comet, combined with alignment of the sun and another planet creates movement amongst those tectonic plates, including an explaination of why this would have such a localized effect as opposed to something more global (considering the distances and the size of the gravitational fields involved)... I dont think its reasonable to assume this comet as the cause in favor of traditional theories about magma flows pushing the plates in various directions.

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