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...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Smells like teen spirit...
Hoax, or he’s been punk’d, or just rank stupidity.
An “extra, extra” ping to the APoD list members, et al.
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Cool.
It’s the Zombie Apocalypse Death Star! Run! Hide!
Swamp gas, no doubt about it
It doesn’t even look real.
It doesn’t even look real.
I have a really hard time deciding who I want to take a big rock. Half the time I vote Beijing, then Putin says something crazy and I wish it on Moscow, but when I really meditate about it I want the object to crash right smack dab into the Red Sea.
Looks like a fish bowl full of M&Ms.
PING!!
Take a gander at this.
Maximum Overdrive. At least we’ll get to hear some AC/DC before we die.
It would have to be pretty damn close to get that good of a photo of it. We don’t even get photos that clear of the ones that pass inside of the moons orbit.
Booooooogggerrr.
i just looked at it, it's there in google sky...
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