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Astronomers just discovered a rare dwarf galaxy that's loaded with precious elements
Science Alert ^ | 5/23/16 | BEC CREW

Posted on 05/23/2016 5:24:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: zeestephen
The inner core is mostly iron, the outer core, iron and nickle with trace heavy metals.
21 posted on 05/23/2016 6:24:48 PM PDT by Slicksadick (We accept the love we think we deserve.)
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To: LibWhacker

This will most definately open up a can of worms. I can just see Little People of American filing suit for the use of the word dwarf. If the Indians don’t want the Washington Redskins, (and polls say they really don’t care), then just get ready for this suit.

red


22 posted on 05/23/2016 6:25:25 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: LibWhacker

23 posted on 05/23/2016 6:26:12 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Delta 21

They posit it as rare because they can’t even prove neutron stars - a physical absurdity - exist. This kind of hypothesis is what you get when you have grant-driven institutional science unaccountable for the divergence of its conclusions with observational evidence.

Thus, it is dogma that physical absurdities like black holes, neutron stars, dark matter/dark energy, and pulsars exist, because government money is spent to study them and no government money is spent on alternative theories that may better explain the phenomena we see.

Here’s an interesting discussion of neutron stars which may prove enlightening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiPmoFmBnN8


24 posted on 05/23/2016 6:34:07 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: DennisR

My thoughts exactly.


25 posted on 05/23/2016 6:40:29 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: LibWhacker

So the streets there are paved with gold?


26 posted on 05/23/2016 7:11:49 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: thoughtomator

Astronomers have identified thousands of them.

Unless you know of another way to explain what they’re seeing.


27 posted on 05/23/2016 7:15:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Proofess? Proofess? We don't have any proofess. We don't have to show you no steenking proofess!
28 posted on 05/23/2016 7:20:00 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Unless the star explodes distributing the materials, how is it that the materials are made available???


29 posted on 05/23/2016 7:24:20 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Renamed “Rectum II”.


30 posted on 05/23/2016 7:31:29 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: crosdaddy

Gold is a dangerous substance. If placed on a woman’s finger, it can short-circuit the nerves to her vagina.


31 posted on 05/23/2016 9:46:07 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Ozark Tom

It does explode. When neutron stars merge, they go supernova, throwing out quadrillions of tons of material. The rest collapses into a black hole. Or so I’ve read.


32 posted on 05/23/2016 10:31:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Pearls Before Swine
“I claim this star system in the name of Dorkbama.” /S

Claim it for yourself and sell shares ..... Can I be your partner?

Might do as well as selling "carbon credits" which are just as useless but made Gore and others really rich.

33 posted on 05/24/2016 3:10:33 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; disndat; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
Thanks LibWhacker, extra to APoD.

34 posted on 05/24/2016 4:26:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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“Because just one of these neutron star mergers produced so much gold, probably all of the gold atoms that are in the four of us in this roundtable discussion came from the same event,” said Ramirez-Ruiz. “So we’re not only linked by genetics, but by these exotic phenomena that happen in the Universe.”

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And now we’ve created gravity wave detectors that will be able to see these neutron star mergers.


35 posted on 05/24/2016 6:09:54 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: zeestephen
Ummm, the gold stays gold. But...

Don't read further if you are fond of sleeping:

What really sinks to the middle is the heavy metals, most notably uranium.

Yes, the core of our planet is a nuclear reactor.

And more uranium is sinking towards the core over time.

When enough arrives the core goes hypercritical and explodes.

Just like what happened to the planet between Mars and Jupiter.

Sweet dreams...

36 posted on 05/24/2016 7:41:43 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: null and void

Re: “When enough Uranium arrives the core goes hypercritical and explodes.”

That’s extraordinary.

I had no idea.

What’s the ballpark percentage of rocky planets that will explode, before their dying sun gobbles them up, anyway.

I’ll guess that even some gaseous planets are susceptible to this.


37 posted on 05/25/2016 12:31:45 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

In out system, about 10%...


38 posted on 05/25/2016 6:36:52 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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