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Pluto's Craterless Plains Look Young
Institute for Creation Research ^
| Dec. 2015
| Brian Thomas
Posted on 11/30/2015 12:31:32 PM PST by fishtank
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posted on
11/30/2015 12:31:32 PM PST
by
fishtank
To: fishtank
Pluto is ready for its closeup, Mr. DeMille.
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posted on
11/30/2015 12:38:09 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
To: fishtank
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posted on
11/30/2015 12:46:20 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: fishtank
To: fishtank
Once again: just because you don’t instantly understand something doesn’t mean it’s proof of a conspiracy (or other crackpot theory).
The fact that Pluto suffers violent tidal effects with it’s “moon” Charon is enough to explain why ancient impact sites have been wiped.
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posted on
11/30/2015 12:49:15 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
To: onedoug
The rain on Pluto falls mainly in the plains.
To: ctdonath2
The fact that Pluto suffers violent tidal effects with itâs 'moon' Charon is enough to explain why ancient impact sites have been wiped.Are you suggesting that tidal forces from gravitational interactions with its moon creates enough frictional heat to cause volcanism there? Because this does appear to be the case with other planets' moons.
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posted on
11/30/2015 12:59:54 PM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
To: ETL
Tides pushing all the ice around!!
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:01:34 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: fishtank
Earlier this year, New Horizons flew past dwarf planet Pluto and its sister Charon, rapidly capturing data. That information continues to trickle in, revealing a surprisingly smooth heart-shaped plain called "Tombaugh Regio." The countless craters expected from billions of years' worth of impacts are nowhere to be found.And there are other regions of Pluto that are cratered. What a stupid article.
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:01:55 PM PST
by
dirtboy
To: fishtank; SunkenCiv
Young? It could be a year old or a millenium or and eon...............
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:03:47 PM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: ctdonath2
“.....a conspiracy (or other crackpot theory)....”
Creationism is neither.
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:05:35 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: dirtboy
And there are other regions of Pluto that are cratered. What a stupid article.
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Stupid article from a stupid source.
Scientists have said all along that the region is young, and by that they mean several million years. And as you brought up, the cratered regions are much older.
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:06:19 PM PST
by
Moonman62
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To: SaveFerris
"Tombaugh Regio is a large, light-colored region about 1,590 km (990 mi) across.[1]
The two lobes of the feature are geologically distinct. The western lobe, Sputnik Planum, is smoother than the eastern, and they are of slightly different colors.[10]
Early speculation was that the western lobe may be a large impact crater filled with nitrogen snow. Bright spots within the region were initially speculated to be mountain peaks.[11]
Photos, released on 15 July 2015, revealed 3,400 m (11,000 ft) mountains made of water ice in the feature; they also revealed no craters in this same region, suggesting that the 'heart' is less than 100 million years old and thus that Pluto is probably geologically active.[12]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombaugh_Regio#Description
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:10:34 PM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
To: fishtank
Tombaugh Regio, nicknamed The Heart after its shape,[2][3][4] is the largest bright surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto.[5][6][7] It is just north of the equator, to the northeast of Cthulhu Regio and to the northwest of Krun Macula, both dark features.[8] Its western lobe is named Sputnik Planum.[9] --Wikipedia
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:17:20 PM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
To: fishtank
Creationism isn’t.
Young Earth ism is.
Nothing in Scripture demands God created everything within 10,000 years.
Just looking up at night and thinking about what you see demands a universe larger than 10,000 light-year radius (i.e.: what you see can’t fit in a space 20,000 light-years wide).
And just because parts of Pluto are smooth doesn’t detract from other celestial bodies being very much not.
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:24:23 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
To: ETL
Scouring by ice flows and wind erosion wiped out any trace of craters.
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:25:26 PM PST
by
goldstategop
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To: Red Badger
On that note, I challenge any “young Earther” to explain why God didn’t make the universe 20 minutes ago.
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:25:47 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
To: fishtank
The countless craters expected from billions of years' worth of impacts are nowhere to be found. A late arrival, maybe?
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:39:48 PM PST
by
JimRed
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To: Red Badger
It gets a makeover from long years of warmer periods due to slightly closer proximity to the Sun. Also, it probably gets refaced a little from tidal interactions with Charon and its other moons. I’d be surprised if it doesn’t endure impacts from space debris as well.
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posted on
11/30/2015 1:40:43 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SaveFerris
Tides pushing all the ice around!OK, I actually hadn't known Pluto was largely covered in ice, or that it had an atmosphere, although a very thin one. In any case, the volcanism created by tidal forces on those moons I referred to around other planets all involved giant/massive planets like Jupiter and Saturn and their moons. I doubt the tidal forces between Pluto and Charon would create much if any frictional heat.
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11/30/2015 1:45:14 PM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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