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Spitzer Sees the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision
Universe Today ^ | Jan. 10, 2005 | Dolores Beasley and Gay Yee Hill

Posted on 01/13/2005 8:50:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a dusty ring of material orbiting nearby Vega which was probably the result of a series of protoplanets smashing into each other. Vega is the fifth brightest star in the sky, located only 25 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra. This dust is constantly being blown out by Vega's intense radiation, so it's unlikely that the star has had this much dust for its entire lifetime. Instead, this ring must have been formed recently, perhaps when a Pluto-sized object was pulverized within the last million years or so.

(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; immanuelvelikovsky; rogueplanet; rogueplanets; science; space; spitzer; spitzertelescope; telescope; velikovsky; worldsincollision; xplanets
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1 posted on 01/13/2005 8:50:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: KevinDavis; FairOpinion; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; chilepepper; ckilmer; ...
Ping!
2 posted on 01/13/2005 8:59:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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other versions of the image. CAUTION, the third one is 2.2 megs, and the TIF files are about four times larger than that.

http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2005-01b_small.jpg
http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2005-01b_medium.jpg
http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2005-01b.jpg
http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2005-01b_mac.tif
http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2005-01b.tif


3 posted on 01/13/2005 9:00:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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To: SunkenCiv
Spitzer Sees the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision; Threatens Lawsuit.
4 posted on 01/13/2005 9:01:02 PM PST by ScottFromSpokane
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To: ScottFromSpokane

Rove.


5 posted on 01/13/2005 9:01:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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Titan: The New World
CBS Worldwide Inc
Jan. 19, 2005
"The rings are no older than about a few hundred million years. They're young. They are basically geologically young," says Porco. "It means that rings, Saturn's rings, were not in there in the early days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth... [made of] Billions and billions of particles. Countless numbers of particles. Varying ice particles. Varying size from the sizes of houses, large houses or small apartment buildings, down to the sizes of stones and pebbles," says Porco. "And although they're screaming around Saturn at speeds of 40,000 miles an hour, they are very gently jostling each other. They are the delicate wreckage of a moon, or maybe a comet that was ripped apart and captured by Saturn's gravity. Being in charge gives her the privilege of naming the pictures. "Ring World Waiting" was taken more than 17 million miles away. "Side Swiping Saturn" is a view of the seemingly paper-thin ring level view. And "Nature's Canvas" captures Saturn's tiny moon, Mimas. Cassini has discovered three new moons. Now Saturn has 34.


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6 posted on 01/19/2005 11:54:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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bttt
7 posted on 01/31/2005 11:01:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
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To: Swordmaker; Fred Nerks; mmercier; USF
Did I ever show you this topic? Anyway, here's a sort of related story link, which might even make a good topic of its own:
Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found
by Stuart Clark
New Scientist
23 July 2005
IN THE dark reaches of the solar system lurk swarms of hidden worlds. Too small and too distant to reflect sunlight, they have remained under the cover of darkness for billions of years. But now the outer solar system is giving up its secrets. And with them comes an astonishing claim: "It's quite possible that there is a halo of planets surrounding our solar system, just waiting to be found," says Eugene Chiang, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.

What makes Chiang's claim so surprising is the sheer number and size of these planets. Weighing more than Mars, they dwarf Sedna and Quaoar, the largest rocky bodies spotted circling the sun beyond Pluto.

8 posted on 07/20/2005 10:41:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Thank you for the post and the links. This is why some of us do not sleep.

How cool is this.

Discovery's countdown starts Saturday, launch Tuesday morning.

Godspeed to our team.
9 posted on 07/20/2005 11:00:36 PM PDT by mmercier (and my desire has flown like a dream)
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To: SunkenCiv
2:00 am, and I am freeping, watching the X-files and now digging for Immanuel Velikovsky's "worlds In Collision".

The wife is going to beat my arse if I wake her up.

Like I need to read it again...

I do though.
10 posted on 07/20/2005 11:08:52 PM PDT by mmercier (and my desire has flown like a dream)
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To: mmercier

;')


11 posted on 07/21/2005 6:20:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
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To: mmercier

I hope they send the Shuttle this time, the suspense is boring me. :')


12 posted on 07/21/2005 6:21:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
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Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found
New Scientist | 23 July 2005 (issue date) | Stuart Clark
Posted on 07/20/2005 10:54:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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13 posted on 01/01/2006 8:25:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/pledge)
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Catastrophism

14 posted on 03/26/2006 7:58:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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15 posted on 01/07/2007 8:40:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("I've learned to live with not knowing." -- Richard Feynman)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

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16 posted on 03/15/2007 10:26:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Sunday, March 11, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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17 posted on 03/15/2007 10:26:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Sunday, March 11, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Appreciated.


18 posted on 03/15/2007 11:32:44 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

:')


19 posted on 03/16/2007 10:28:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Sunday, March 11, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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a really cool image first posted on FR by NormsRevenge, topic at the pic-click.
An artist's rendering of what the environment around Pleiades star HD 23514 might look like as two planets collide. Small, rocky planets that could resemble the Earth or Mars may be forming around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, astronomers reported on Wednesday. (Gemini Observatory/Lynette R. Cook/Reuters)
Small planets forming in the Pleiades: astronomers

20 posted on 11/24/2007 10:31:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Sunday, November 18, 2007"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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