Copyright of Allan Webber May 2010

Great mutations caused by FIRE in the 21^st Century.

In my preceding works I have developed a character picture of Nostradamus, the author of  Les Propheties. In the course of this development I have shown how his own words make it clear that his interest is markedly different from popular perception.  He is not United-states centric and his interest focusses mainly on France and Europe . His prophecies don’t fit every minor disaster that will befall mankind, instead they focus on the the unprecedented changes that will make life for humans different to that which has ever gone before.  Nostradamus’ purpose is not to forewarn since it is impossible for him to do so; it is a scientific demonstration of a power to see the future.  The great mutations of interest to Nostradamus go beyond Napoleon, Hitler, J.F. Kennedy and their epochs since these have truly minor impacts on the long-term future of man. Of the great mutations Nostradaumus’ believed unprecedented floods will have the biggest effect on our future. I have also shown that Nostradamus sees a great war coming that involves religions. This war will be triggered by the interaction of fast changing technology held back by the glacial pace of evolution in man’s societal structures. Of these structures the ones most out of tune with science are those of religion and it is religious belief that is destined by its inbuilt dysfunction to change in the most cataclysmic way. In my next series I will be presenting Nostradamus’ work on mutations caused by fire and the comments I have made above about the nature of Nostradamus’ interest will also be important to this topic.

No ordinary act of fire is of itself worthy of being called a great mutation since there is no part of history that is free of changes wrought by fire. Even infamous names like Nero, Napoleon, Tamerlane and Hitler whose reigns were marked by infernos didn’t change the basic character of man. Pompei, Rome and London have all been razed by fire as has any city of worth. so when Nostradamus nominates Fire as a theme we have to see beyond the act of its burning to its impact on something that changes the nature of man. In this coming series I want to show the verses that highlight Fire as one of Nostradamus’ great themes and I aim to establish that it is two particular types of fire that are his interest.  I will also show my reasons for believing these fires are ones that affect the primary mechanisms of man’s evolution and that the impact of thes fires is once again outside the influence of mankind.

Nostradamus’ verses can be seen to have two distinguishing aspects based on their placement; one of these is located in the sky while the other is at the heart of human made devices. These two distinct themes are easily seen in the following two verses.

C.5 Q.98
A quarante huict degre climaterique……….. At the forty-eighth climateric degree,
A fin de Cancer si grande seicheresse……. At the end of Cancer very great dryness:
Poisson en mer fleuue lac cuit hectique…… Fish in sea, river, lake boiled hectic,
Bearn Bigorre par feu ciel en destresse…… Béarn, Bigorre in distress through fire from the sky
 

C.2 Q.65
Le parc enclin grande calamite……....The park inclined great calamity
Par l'Hesperie et Insubre fera………. To be made by Hesperia and Insubria:
Le feu en nef peste et captiuite…….. ..The fire in the ship, plague and captivity,
Mercure en l'Arc saturne fenera…….. Mercury in the Arc, saturn fenera.

The focus of this series is the fire in tn the sky.

FIRE in the sKY.

 In an earlier section I showed that Nostradamus’ own words and his verses set the timing for the great mutations as being the one hundred year period from 2000CE to 2100CE. In the year 2100CE the current Polestar reaches its closest point to the North Pole and from then on the great precession of 25,500 years will carry it away until another star replaces it as the Polestar. The second line of one of Centuries II Quatrain 46, involving fire from the sky, clearly ties in to this event.

 C.2 Q.046
Apres grat troche humain plus grad s'appreste…After great trouble for humanity a greater one is near
Le grand moteur les siecles renouuelle………....…The Great Motor renews the ages:
Pluye sang laict, famine, fer et peste……….....….. Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague,
Au ciel veu feu courant longue estincelle...……… In the heavens fire seen, a long spark running.

The ideas that underlie this verse in its anagrams support the message of the movement of the poles. For example the first line implies that the hidden prediction reflects the surface message. “Presage targets.echo separate.guards” and the guards are the Little Bear and the Great Bear, the two asterisms that were known throughout the last two millennia as the Guards of the Pole. I shall return to these and other hidden messages in a later section for they are quite important in understanding the links of the sub-theme of fire to that of great mutations. However some groundwork needs to be covered first.

It is true that Nostradamus declared an interest in some lesser events and it can be reasonably argued that in his verses he foretold some incidents surrounding people such as Hitler and Napoleon. These were people who affected France as he knew it in the sixteenth century but they didn’t change the nature of the human species. Fire is in a different class since it is a frequent sub-theme of the great mutations and it can be expected that the impact of fire from the sky is far more than a mere signal of an ill omen. It also can be anticipated that the effects Nostradamus reveals are far-reaching mutations. In order to gain insight into the scope of this sub-theme it is desirable that some of the various Fire-in-the-sky verses be gathered together so that patterns can be discerned.

C.1 Q.046
Tout au pres d'aux de Lestore et Mirande…… Very near Auch, Lectoure and Mirande
Grand feu du ciel entrois nuicts tumbera…….. a great fire will fall from the sky for three nights
Cause aduiendra bien stupende et mirande… The cause will appear both stupefying and marvellous
Bien peu apres la terre tremblera……….....…… shortly afterwards there will be an earthquake.

Hidden in the first line of this verse we have one of the two occurrences of an anagram for meteorites (estoretMir), a truly apt bit of additional information. But in the line is also found Meteorites rained spread to remotest.ordinate pasture. Both the visible and the hidden words are talking of the extent of an object that falls from the sky. so the first of these verses sets the time and the second tells us the origin and extent.  The next verse expands on the above.

C.2 Q.043
Durant l'estoille cheuelue apparente………… During the appearance of the bearded star.
Les trois grans princes seront faits ennemis… The three great princes will be made enemies:
Frappes du ciel paix terre tremulente………... struck from the sky, peace earth quaking,
Pau Timbre vn dans serpent sus le bort mis… Po , Tiber overflowing, serpent placed upon the shore.

Once again the hidden message in the first line ties the verse to the theme since Resultant constellatile.wheel.appear turned (w=uu) is found in line one and this fits easily with the turning point of the North Pole. The fourth line’s hidden content tells us more about the timing of the Fire in the sky sequence since it says it imparts.nvmber.and presents present.troubles.

These verses fit well into the template that I have already established where during this century, three religious leaders (princes/kings) will fall out causing a great war just before the onset of the greatest flood of all times. The verses also link together providing a framework for the order of the events which include fire in the sky, destruction of pastoral lands, earthquakes, pestilence and flood. And this is not an Armageddon event accompanied by the return of God’s emissaries but purely a sequence of natural disasters.

The order given by the last verse indicates that the bearded star is in the period from 2054 to 2065. Afterwards, at the the time that peace is shattered, earthquakes will strike to be followed by the overflowing of great rivers. These three verses establish the consistency of this sub-theme which I have already set out and they imply that a cosmic event in this century is very relevant to the great mutations.

 Mutation in the hinterlands from meteorites and radiation.

Although there are many verses which mention fire I am only going to present a few that give the dimensions of what this theme embraces. Once this is done it will become easier for those interested in Nostradamus’ verses to place each into the timetable that both Nostradamus and I set out.

In the previous section pasture was revealed as a hidden word.  There are similar concepts running through the hidden part of the following verse.

C.6 Q.97
Cinq et quarante degres ciel bruslera……... At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,
Feu approcher de la grand cite neufue….…. Fire to approach the great new city:
Instant grand flamme esparse sautera….… In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up
Quant on voudra des Normans faire preuue.. When one will want to demand proof of the Normans .

A.LARGE. CROP. FEUU.UNINFECTED.HERD is to be found in  a sequence of anagrams in the second line. And the third line says  FARMLAND.TREASURES.SEEM.SPARSE. In the same line there are also anagrams for Uranites and Nitrates while in the first line there is Uranate. These represent the themes that will be increasingly seen as I progress with my presentation.  What we see is that the great mutation begins in the countryside with those animals and crops constantly exposed to the effects of the fire from the sky being most affected. I will show in the next few sections that this fire is a combination of meteor showers and high dosage nuclear radiation released by man in the 2060’s which produces a new genetic allele out of the material found in the meteorites. Resulting from these two factors is the mutation of all living things that live outdoors, including the crops and animals that make up the human food chain. This in turn brings sbout the great mutations that affect mankind. Not only is the food chain affected but new diseases are created and the supplanter of mankind in the evolutionary hierarchy is also formed.  These things can be clearly identified through the choice of a few verses.

C.4 Q.082
Amas s'approche venant d'Esclauonie……. A throng approaches coming from slavonia,
L'Olestant vieux cite ruynera…………….. The Olestant will ruin the old city:
Fort desolee verra sa Romanie……..…….. He will see his Romania quite desolated,
Puis la grand flamme estaindre ne scuara… Then he will not know how to put out the great flame

The place where the major part of the action in these two verses takes place is most probably Novi sad in serbia . It was called Novi sad or the New Plantation when it was founded in the 17^th Century and is situated at 45 degrees 15 minutes N. It is one of the few cities in the World that is located at this latitude. The first line of the above verse has an anagram that immediately confirms its relevance since d’Esclauoni yields the word Deucalion’s. The line can be seen to say Deucalion’s heaven same-approaches.  But it is other anagrams that reveal how close my emerging pattern fits to this verse. In the last line there is Farm-land  (randflam) which only occurs in one other verse. In the third line the uniquely occurring word Deformation (omaniefortd) appears and there are also the anagrams for deforest (efortdes) and famine (manief).  Through these words the third line tells us clearly that the effects of mutation lead to deforestation and mass starvation. It is no wonder that Romania is quite desolated as stated in the verse. And in the first line there is an anagram for Nucleotidase (tdesclauonie) which is an agent that has an important function in digestion as it breaks down consumed nucleic acids. There are also anagrams for amines and amino in the verse which relate to essential biological chemicals found in all living things. From these two verses we begin to see the way that the fires produce an impact that can cause a great mutation of mankind.

The seeds of Fire. 

In the preceding section I revealed an anagram for a vital biological enzyme that is called nucleotidase. There is only one other verse where it occurs and it is presented below and its relevance to the tale should be immediately apparent.

C.2 Q.96
Flambeau ardent au ciel soir sera veu………… Burning torch will be seen in the sky at night
Pres de la fin et principe du Rosne……………... Near the end and beginning of the Rhone
Famine glaiue tard le secours pourueu…….……Famine, steel: the relief provided late,
La Perse tourne enuahir Macedoine………….… Persia turns to invade Macedonia .

Much of what I deduce is drawn out from several anagrammatic sequences running across each other. Undoubtedly this will be decried by some as a weakness in what I am revealing however I would argue that I am showing the associative nature of the word not their definitive order. What I am doing is like a word association game where you are asked to give the word you first think of when given a trigger. Given the word cat a valid response is milk or purr but not bone or bark. The point about the words in the Prophecies however is that I focus on ones that are quite rare and show that they are included where they have strong associations but rarely otherwise. And it goes beyond this since as I identify these words they build a picture that enhances Nostradamus’ text and provide links into a greater framework. This is particularly true in this and the next next verse in this section.

The line that is highlighted in the verse above above contains anagrams that say

NUCLEOTIDASE.FUEL.ARRIVES BLAME.RADIONUCLEATES.RISE. But the verse has much more to say since the third line contains POUUER.SOURCES.RELATED.MAGIAN-FUEL. so, not only does the word nucleotidase appear in another one of the verses talking of fire in the sky, but thatverse holds in its hidden messages direct indications that radioactive sources are at work. Although the word radionucleate is not found in many online dictionaries it is a term increasingly used in the medical and science fields to describe matter that has undergone exposure to radioactivity and become radioactive in the process. The reference to Magian-fuel is also pertinent for the Magians were Persians who followed Zoroaster andin his story is a tale of fire. In an incident where Zoroaster was demanded to provide proof he was the messenger from God he created a ball of fire that glowed without any fuel and did not burn anyone when held in the palm. A power source related to Magian-fuel is surely a reasonable allusion for radioactive luminescence associated with many radionucleates.

The next verse presented below also establishes its credentials as part of this fire-in-the-sky theme via its visible text but then it is confirmed by a distinctive anagram in the second line which forms the word Comets (setCom). There are only five other verses where an anagram for this word occurs.

C.5 Q.100
Le boutefeu par son feu attrape…………….... The incendiary trapped in his own fire,
De feu du ciel a Carcas et Cominge…….….… Of fire from the sky at Carcassonne and Cominge
Foix Aux Mazere haut vieillart eschappe…….. Foix, Aux, Mazères, the high old man escaped,
Par ceux de hasse des saxons et Turinge…….. Through those of Hasse some saxons and Turinge.

There is also an anagram for Genomic (Cominge) in the second line which brings us to the basic code of all living things. There are two strong sequences that arise within the second line and they say COMETS.ARC.FEEDING.ICE.DEUU GENOMIC.TRACES.FED.A.CAUDICLE(pollen). However there are far more startling sequences in two other lines. The last line carries on the themes relation to rural animals by stating RUTTING.OXENS.CAPER.SEED.HEAD.UXE. It also holds OX.NUTRIENTS.ASSESSED and ERUPTING.ARC.EXUDE. It is oddly accurate in that the plant called Caper has an ancient tradition of being an aphrodisiac. Whether or not that has relevance here is beside the point but it is clear this is a reference to those activities most loved by all animals; eating and rutting. such ideas cannot be dismissed as flippant since it is mutations in these beloved activities that can place the survival of humans at greatest risk. The first line carries an even more startling reference especially given that it appears that we are dealing with a mutation of the genome. Firstly it contains one of three occurrences of an anagram for fortunate (onfeuattr) and it is part of the sequence FUTURE-APES.FORTUNATE.APE. And it makes sense of the first line for the incendiary is trapped by the fires it has created in the sense that this new ape's evolution is partly a result of mankind's nuclear discoveries.

Of the other two verses that contain an anagram of fortunate one also focusses directly on the fire-in-the-sky theme.

 C.5 Q.032
Ou tout bon est tout bien soliel et Lune…….. Where all is good, the sun all beneficial and the Moon
Est abondant sa ruine s'approche……………Is abundant, its ruin approaches
Du ciel s'aduance vaner ta fortune…………. From the sky it advances to change your fortune.
En mesme estat que la septiesme roche……. In the same state as the seventh rock.

 The second line of this verse again contains quite evocative anagrams such as URANITES, APES.BOND.AS.THESE.RUIN.CROP and NO.BEASTS.STAND.IN.A.SEA.RUIN.  Nostradamus' text for this verse also implies that man’s destiny is about to change as shownbelow.

Once again greater meaning can be given to the visible text. Where all is good, the sun all beneficial and the moon is abundant is the wilderness and it is this region that has the greatest exposure to the fire from the sky. But the ruin of the habitat which then comes to these regions also generates the creature that will most affect man’s future. 

I could follow up this verse with some scientific research that shows that the best placed animal to survive this scenario is the one with the longest uterus and that this is also part of Nostradamus’s hidden message but I won’t do that now. I will state that there is a set of verses that infer the emergence of a super-ape based on its ability to survive the mutative change affecting the birth-survival rate of all species. The anagram for the term superape which occurs in five verses is found in some of the verses about fire from the sky (e.g.  C.1 Q.46 line 4). The term superape is also frequently linked to details of spermation and the uterus but to follow these trails immediately would be a diversion from the task in hand which is to establish the framework for mutations caused by fire.

 A Brief Diversion.

Although it is not my intent to follow the superape trail at this moment it is only proper that I show two lines of one verse that show that such ideas are embedded in Nostradamus and not a mere fabrication on my part.

C.1 Q.81 line 1
D'humain troupe au neuf seront mis a part…. Nine will be set apart from the human flock

D’humain xxxxxxxxx serontm is a part…....Monster is a part human’id
xxxxxxxxx pea uneu ufserontmis apart.…...New ape misfortunes apart
xxxxxxx intropeau neufseron tmispar x…....Unforseen anti-power imparts

xxxxxxxxxx opeaun eufs erontmispar x…...Weapon fuse spermeation

The second line offers a commentary on the construction of the verses hidden content

C.1 Q.81 line 2
De iugement et conseil separez …. ………. separated from judgment and advise
xxxxxxxxxxx tconseilsepa xxx…................Poeticalness

xxxxxx ent tconseilse  xxxxxxxx…............content selections

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx onseilseparezD…...........Depersonalizes

Deiug xxxxxxxxxxx nseilsepa xx.….….…Apeliness guide (apes lines)
Dei xxx men tetcons eil sepa rez …….... contest lie men dezire Apes

An examination of the lunatics at the wheel.

 My analysis of the great mutations of interest to Nostradamus temporarily requires a new path. For quite some time I have followed strong streams of interconnected ideas but by pursuing the straight course only the framework is shown. I have been increasingly finding a need to develop some of the detail and side issues so as to integrate this framework inro an even greater whole. The difficulty is that each one of these can become all-consuming of time and attention and that defeats the pupose of my raising them. Over the next period I am going to present some essential elements that I know are present but their presentation will not be as full as some of those that have gone before. I want to show for example that one set of mutations is focussed on genes. And at that time I wish to convey give some idea of the extent to which feasible technical terms from biology and chemistry appear. And once again my basis will be anagrams such as anthropogenic and neuroendocrine that we would not normally expect to find.

 I also want to show that Nostradamus work benefits when we no longer think of his words as being quaintly based on values of the 16^th century.   For example, I believe that when Nostradamus mentions the red, grey or black ones he is not always talking of religious orders. In many instances he is describing animals affected by genetic mutation and when he talks of malign influences he isn’t making an astrological point but is referring to actual affects in the real world.  Even when an image seems to refer to an astrologic context it doesn’t have to imply a belief in astrology; its use can be because well-known ideas make convenient coding symbols. Once such symbols are recognised they can provide unmistakable links for different themes.

 C.6 Q.006
ApparoiStra vers le Septentrion…………… There will appear towards the North
Non loing de Cancer l'eStoille cheuelue…... Not far from Cancer the bearded star
Suze Sienne Boece Eretrion……………….. Susa , Siena , Boeotia , Eretria ,
Mourra de Rome grand la nuict diSperue….. The great one of Rome will die, the night over.

This verse holds allusions such as Septentrion for the North and a bearded star for a comet. By referring these back to the consistent themes found in verses about fire- from-the-sky we can identify that the likely time period lies in the modern era. And this gains support from the anagrams within the verse for the first line’s anagrams tell us there are several severe meteor showers which disrupt airports and prevent people travelling. The hidden message may vary from what I show but its sense is based in the anagram sequences several.penetrations, airports.aver.less.pretention,  presentation.reveals, and travels avert. The second line adds somber thoughts via  genocidal.wheel.none.ill.selector. These anagrams imply that during the period when the comets appear people are culled on the basis of their ill-health. The rest of the verse’s messages indicate that the selection of who is to die seems to be based on a computer program developed in Bonne where the choice is made via a lottery or wheel-of-fate. The third line holds Bonne.seize routines while the fourth line says something along the lines of German.land computerised.Uni predicts armoured.lunatics.more.danger.  And by this means the text of the verse now takes on a new slant since the illness may well be cancer that comes shortly after the appearance of the bearded star.  

This verse is not just repetitious of earlier findings but adds considerable detail to that already narrated. For the first time we see that there is disruption to airports and that decisions are taken in Northern Europe that affect the lives of those further south no matter what their rank.

Asteroids and their impact on modern transport.  

The reference to disaster at airports is not confined to one verse and although it is a frequent anagram (occurring 22 times in all) it gains import in many of these verses from the supportive message of the text and the hidden reference points. These binding factors are once again strengthened by the interconnectivity of place and imagery. The following provides a good example of this and also gives detail of the wider and widening scope of the disaster.

 C.6 Q.044
De nuict par Nantes L ris apparoistra….... .By night Iris will appear near Nantes
Des artz marins SuSciteront la pluye…..… By marine arts the rain is aroused

Arabiq goulfre grand classe parfondra…... In the Gulf of Arabia a great fleet will plunge to the bottom
Vn monStre en Saxe naiStra d'ours et truye.. In Saxony a monster will be born of a bear and a sow

In the above verse we have a monster being born in the Saxony region of Germany at a time when there are events in the sky as well as notable rains. All these things tie in with the great mutations that will occur during the 21^st century and have close ties to the verse about comets in the previous section.  In the visible verse we see a linking of the Middle East to events in Europe . But underneath the verse there are anagrams that confirm the many links to previous verses including asteroids and the names of places in Northern and Central Europe such as Paris , Russia , Mons . And there is a significant amount of enhancing detail on the setting in the Middle East via the names Andar and Qabir.

 The first line for instance holds anagrams that can imply Asteroid ordinates Paris.airports.induce.lanterns.pact  realists induce Israel ’s.part.pact.  There are four other anagrams for asteroid in Nostradamus work and one for asteroids. Of these, two also involve anagrams for airports. Nostradamus’ text has what is considered by most analysts to be an unintentional printing error. The lettering L ris is usually interpreted to be l’Iris but in reality that is not what is there. Once again I would suggest that this supposed-error supports the idea of intentional code. However the error does involve a capital L followed by ris and it seems it is meant to have a special meaning. Knowing that an asteroid is mentioned allows us to make some judgement as to the meaning of the visible wording. It is possibly meant to represent a name for an asteroid. It could therefore be a reference to the asteroid named Iris which is found in the main belt of asteroids. So the only variation between that traditionally used is that I see it as not being the iris or rainbow but is actually an object called Iris.  In the second line there are distinctive anagrams which imply that the actions in European countries upset Russia . They say Russian.outcries Tzar countries.pall.  The reason for this alarm is revealed in the third line which suggests landscapes.of.Andar.Qabir Arabia.profaned radon.far. Now Qabir or Kabir is located near the lower end of the Gulf of Arabia and is just north of the Strait of Hormuz   in Iran . Iran is currently currently an ally of Russia  and as a rogue state by the Western allies  so there is once again unity in the hidden and visible words.  Andar is also in Iran near Tehran . The verse implies a great naval disaster involving radioactivity that takes place in the seas below Iran which triggers Russia ’s concerns. The last line can be seen to say Mons (in Saxony ).enter.radiants.axes.routes. So once again we have the involvement of a city in Germany in calculating the impact of a disaster following an objects appearance in the sky.  And the visible words describe the sort of event that accompanies nuclear fallout, that is a higher level of mutant offspring amongst the creatures of the wild and the pastures.

Asteroids, airports and disaster.

I have indicated there are twenty-two occurrences of anagrams of airports in Nostradamus’ Prophecies and this combined with the fact that ten of them come from Nostradamus’ frequent use of the term apparoistra diminishes their significance. In many editions the alternate spelling apparaitre is used but in the definitive Benoist edition of 1568 it consistently appears 10 times as apparoistra. However a higher frequency of occurrence doesn't automatically mean its a chance occurrence and when I select the verses that seem relevant I rely on a lot more than a words infrequency. The associations to othe text and the hidden content as well as the links to other similar verses helps me choose whether to include an anagram or not. And in addition I require significant words to have seuential support and not just exist as a single unconnected word. It is by this means I find the following two verses to be of interest and relevance.

C.10 Q.75
Tant attendu ne reuiendra jamais………. Long awaited it/he will never return
Dedans l'Europe en Asie apparoistra…… In Europe , it/he will appear in Asia :
Vn de la ligue yssu du grand Hermes……One of the league issued from the great Hermes
Et sur tous roys des orientz croistra…..… And it/he will grow over all the Kings of the East.

The above verse contains anagrams for both asteroid and airports and the second line offers a complete sequence which says lands.asteroid.appear.is.European but it also says airports.rule.sadden. There is another link to the previous verse provided by the word Hermes. This name is found in the text of the third line and it ties in with Iris for both are the names of Gods and they were brother and sister and both names have been used for asteroids. The significance of asteroid Hermes is boosted greatly by the nature of its orbit as set out in the follow report in NASA Science News.

• Hermes approaches Earth's orbit twice every 777 days. Usually our planet is far away when the orbit crossing happens, but in 1937, 1942, 1954, 1974 and 1986, Hermes came harrowingly close to Earth itself. We know about most of these encounters only because Lowell Observatory astronomer Brian Skiff re-discovered HermesÂ… on Oct. 15, 2003 . Astronomers around the world have been tracking it carefully ever since. Orbit-specialists Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have used the new observations to trace Hermes' path backwards in time, and so they identified all the unnoticed flybys.
  
  "It's a little unnerving," says Chodas. "Hermes has sailed by Earth so many times and we didn't even know it."
  
  "Hermes' orbit is the most chaotic of all near-Earth asteroids," he adds. This is because the asteroid is so often tugged by Earth's gravity. Hermes has occasional close encounters with Venus, too. In 1954 the asteroid flew by both planets. "That was a real orbit scrambler," Chodas says. Frequent encounters with Earth and Venus make it hard to forecast Hermes' path much more than a century in advance. The good news is that "Hermes won't approach Earth any closer than about 0.02 AU within the next hundred years." We're safe for now.

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