Meteorite Clues Point to a Huge, Unknown Object in The Early Solar System

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | PETER DOCKRILL | 22 DECEMBER 2020

[Bob434]

Anyone see the star of Bethlehem last night? Too cloudy in my neck of the woods

[Beowulf9]

“Ceres: the dwarf planet, which represents the largest known object in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt, in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter”.

If Ceres is the largest known object in the Solar System why is it called a dwarf planet?

[Seruzawa]

Ceres is the largest asteroid in the belt, but still small. It’s only about 240 miles in diameter and it’s gravity is about 3% of Earth’s. Our Moon for example is slightly over 1000 miles in diameter.

[BenLurkin]

“Naked eye” it looked like two stars close together.

Through binoculars, it looked like a big white dot and a little white dot.

[Mr. K]

"Anyone see the star of Bethlehem last night?"

Everyone should stop calling it that. It only comes round every 800 years so, so it was impossible for it to be there when Christ was born.

And it's not a star it's only two planets that appear to pass close by each other.

[Red Badger]

If Ceres is the largest known object in the Solar System why is it called a dwarf planet?

Because 'Midget Planet' isn't PC......................

[Red Badger]

Yes! We saw it at the Beach on the Gulf of Mexico!..............

[wildcard_redneck]

I did see it last night but many relatives around the country were diss appointed by cloud cover.

When I first saw it Wednesday, December 16 the conjunction was more spectacular because I was out in the desert. Jupiter and Saturn were directly above the waxing crescent moon and all 3 were hanging over a huge saguaro cactus which was back-lit by the glow of Phoenix 20 miles to the west. All around on both side of me the horizon was jagged blackness made by the peaks of the Superstition Mountains on my left and the McDowell Mountains on my right.

[ealgeone]

Everyone should stop calling it that. It only comes round every 800 years so, so it was impossible for it to be there when Christ was born.

Agree...it's no where near the star of Bethlehem.

The ancients were smart enough to know the difference between a star and a planet.

[TonyM]

Wormwood?

[wildcard_redneck]

"Because 'Midget Planet' isn't PC......................"

I've noticed over the years that the PC police are perfectly OK with a word when only the "intelligentsia" use it but then when it's picked up by the broader population it becomes vulgar. Idiot -> Imbecile -> Retarded -> Special -> Differently Abled -> Mentally Challenged -> ???

It never seems to stop.

[Red Badger]

Absinthe?....................

[Red Badger]

George Orwell told us about ‘Newspeak’, where words and definitions are constantly changing and mean only what the Party wants them to mean.....................

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

[Bob434]

Wow, that must have been quite a sight! Thanks for sharing

[Bob434]

Yeah because e eryone knows God wasn’t czpzb.e of issue specific decrees to the skies for special purposes

Impossible you say? Whatever

[Deaf Smith]

"With a tail as big as a kite"

No, I did not see it nor expect to.

[Bob434]

Must have been a good view over the ocean.

[COBOL2Java]

If Ceres is the largest known object in the Solar System why is it called a dwarf planet?

Maybe we can call it a jumbo shrimp planet.