Telescope shoots video of heavenly halo ("mystery flash" filmed from Mauna Kea, Hawaii)

Star Advertiser ^ | July 2, 2011 | By Jim Borg

[Islander7]

The pre-dawn phenomenon, which looks like a huge bubble expanding and then popping, was recorded June 22 by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Subaru Telescope.

Since then, speculation has run rampant about the source of the early morning flash.

Ichi Tanaka, a support astronomer at Subaru Telescope, describes it as "a huge halo of light above the eastern horizon," adding, "It was slowly expanding to over 45 degrees in five minutes or more."

[bunkerhill7]

EMP weapon test; anti RE-ENTRY MISSILE defense

[SunkenCiv]

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"Given the reality of the dark spots, which soon became known as "atmospheric holes" because of their appearance in the images, there is only one explanation which has endured over all these years to present. That is, the holes are due to the shadowing of the atmospheric light by an object above the atmosphere. This object simply cannot be a stony or iron meteor because the holes are very large, tens of miles in diameter. A rock of this size would provide a disastrous impact on the Earth's surface. As it turns out, water vapor is very good at absorbing the atmospheric light and thus appearing as an atmospheric hole in the images taken by the spacecraft camera." -- Louis Frank

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Thanks Islander7.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KoRn (and whoops).

[SunkenCiv]

I wholeheartedly agree.

Small Comets and Our Origins
University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
Posted on 10/19/2004 11:13:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1250694/posts

[fanfan]

This could be interesting.

Have a good weekend! ;-)

[Mike Darancette]

Speculation is that the bubble was a shock wave as the missile flew through the upper atmosphere. Or maybe it was fuel expanding in space from the separation of the third stage.

A passenger jet taking off from San Diego.

[Windflier]

"Small Comets and Our Origins"

I was just talking to my kids about that the other night. I'm a firm believer that this planet was seeded with organisms from other worlds in the distant past.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Obviously, the Big Kahuna had a bean burrito for a late-night snack. Happens every time.

[SunkenCiv]

Glad I’m not the only one. :’) I probably should ping the X-Planets list.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, and you and yours too.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Panspermia ping.

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[decimon]

Have we been exchanging FReepmail tonight?

[SunkenCiv]

Uh, some.

[decimon]

It’s been a strange night.

[raybbr]

What causes the comet to "break up" 800 miles from earth?

[SunkenCiv]

Friction and deceleration. A click on the link up there may be helpful and interesting as well.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, well, that’s what I’m here for. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, and the Roche limit of the incoming object. [blush]

[mewzilla]

Don't laugh...

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