Posted on 06/07/2012 6:40:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Youtube user planetkrejci, who has investigated other anomalies on NASA pictures, claims the object -- found using the Google website which transports the heavens to desktop computers and smartphones -- is an asteroid which is heading towards Earth.
He says the asteroid -- which, if real, has not been spotted by other scientists or astronomers -- has only appeared recently on Google Sky, which receives updated images every few months.
Announcing his find on YouTube, he says the black object, mottled with green spots, is so clear that it must be within the solar system.
The user had been exploring the region a few months earlier, and had 'bookmarked' a spot just to the left of the asteroid -- so he is certain the object was not there previously.
There are other explanations -- this could be a simple technical glitch, either on Google Sky's end or within the original photograph.
The earthbound Google Maps regularly has glitches where pictures have been incorrectly sewn together.
One thing that planekrejci does not substantiate is his claim that the object is moving towards the Earth, as it is not apparent how this calculation could be obtained without more information than the image provides.
However, if planetkrejci has found a new object, it will be quite an achievement for an earth-bound Internet user to discover a new object in our solar system before NASA or other observatories.
The object is easy to find on Google Sky, by typing in the co-ordinates 5h 11m 33.74s -12 50' 30.09" -- although conspiracy theorists might read something into the fact that the search function on Google Sky is currently down...
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Slap dab in middle of the Persian Gulf would be interesting.
Then JPL has to recognize it.
Infant Superman is in there.
i have no idea what it is, or how the image got there, but it is there... open google sky and cut and paste this in: 5h 11m 33.74s -12 50' 30.09"
it's there so either google has been punked, or NASA has some splainin to do...
I vote for mecca.
Looks like a green eyed gator to me. Someone call Troy! “Shoot!”
Or pretty damn big...
It needs to crash into water for maximum tsunami damage; also, we can live with two months of rain but not a year of soil particles in the atmosphere.
Hmm.. I think I might be turning into a horrible person, plotting asteroid collateral damage.
Well, depending on what exactly you mean by "big," it wouldn't really matter where it hit. If it was big enough, we'd get such massive atmospheric and geological disturbances that, if you couldn't spend the next hundred years or so on an R&R planet, you'd be toast along with the rest of the biosphere.
“I’m bored, Clytus”.- Emperor MING
You can say that again.
Thanks!
LOL!
Thanks.
Hmmmmm, maybe we should call it .......
Time to send in the Enterprise...
...despite the poor redshirt morale.
welcome... now what is it???
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