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Mysterious bright spot found on Venus
New Scientist Space ^ | 07/29/09 | Rachel Courtland

Posted on 08/02/2009 3:54:41 PM PDT by KevinDavis

A strange spot emerged on Venus last week, and astronomers are not sure what caused it. They hope future observations will reveal whether volcanic activity, turbulence in the planet's atmosphere, or charged particles from the sun are to blame.

Amateur astronomer Frank Melillo of Holtsville, New York, first spotted the new feature, which is brighter than its surroundings at ultraviolet wavelengths, on the planet's southern hemisphere on 19 July. That same day, an amateur observer in Australia found a dark spot on Jupiter that had been caused by a meteoroid impact.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; space; velikovsky; venus
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To: Mad Dawgg

“...mysterious brown spot on Uranus...”

That’s newsworthy? Most have brown spots from time to time, usually not mysterious :)


21 posted on 08/02/2009 4:41:15 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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22 posted on 08/02/2009 5:50:48 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: justa-hairyape
FYI - Here is the current planetary alignment. We should have seen any CME's directed toward Venus or Jupiter.


23 posted on 08/02/2009 7:07:44 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: KevinDavis
A strange spot emerged on Venus last week, and astronomers are not sure what caused it.

Yeah, and somebody stole her arms too. Damn vandals. ;)

24 posted on 08/02/2009 9:04:30 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: sr4402

Venus looks pregnant. Those may be amniotic gasses, she could be about to pop a moon. The heat is suffcient for incubation.


25 posted on 08/03/2009 12:38:28 PM PDT by budwiesest (Obama's parasitism is designed to kill the host. I wonder why?)
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