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Red Planet's Ancient Equator Located
Scientific American (online) ^ | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham

Posted on 04/24/2005 8:18:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: Hegemony Cricket

"What tipped Mars off its' then axis?"

Could be Uranus.... (heh-heh)


21 posted on 04/26/2005 10:52:16 AM PDT by Nabber
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To: SunkenCiv
Yeah. Uhhh, well, Mars is a guy...
22 posted on 04/26/2005 10:57:27 AM PDT by null and void (The Republican Party is the France of politics - Lazamataz's Opus 4/26/05)
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To: Nabber

Maybe it happened while he was walking Pluto.

[dead silence, then crickets chirping]


23 posted on 04/26/2005 11:25:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: SunkenCiv

[dead silence, then crickets chirping]

aye-yup


24 posted on 04/26/2005 1:04:56 PM PDT by null and void (The Republican Party is the France of politics - Lazamataz's Opus 4/26/05)
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To: SunkenCiv

THE TWIN TILTS OF THE SPIN AXES OF MARS AND EARTH
Donald W. Patten and Samuel R. Windsor
http://www.kronia.com/symposium/patten.txt

"Mars experienced two fragmentations on its Roche Limit. One was the demise of the tiny planet Astra, which was about the diameter of Pluto, perhaps 1,500 to 1,600 miles in diameter. The demise of Astra provided an ancient ring of debris around Mars, of which Deimos and Phobos are vestiges. Other small debris almost surely is still there, but has escaped detection by unsuspecting astronomers. Some of this debris very likely ruined the recent, and very expensive Mars space mission."


25 posted on 04/28/2005 8:34:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: Swordmaker

Electric Arcs in Planetary Science
Thunderbolts Picture of the Day | 3/7/2005
Posted on 03/07/2005 11:19:39 PM PST by Swordmaker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1358256/posts

When Dust Storms Engulf Mars
Thunderbolts Picture of the Day | Mar 24, 2005 | Mel Acheson
Posted on 03/28/2005 10:19:07 PM PST by Swordmaker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1372800/posts

Scientists: The Latest Mac Converts
eCommerce Times | 2/14/2004 | Robyn Weisman
Posted on 02/16/2004 2:08:15 AM PST by Swordmaker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078971/posts


26 posted on 04/30/2005 6:40:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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Martian "Blueberries" in the Lab
Thunderbolts Picture of the Day | Mar 25, 2005
Posted on 03/28/2005 9:58:11 PM PST by Swordmaker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1372790/posts


27 posted on 04/30/2005 6:53:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: RadioAstronomer

Your expertise please.


28 posted on 04/30/2005 6:56:12 PM PDT by farmfriend (Send in the Posse)
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To: SunkenCiv

Weird. Thanks for the post.


29 posted on 04/30/2005 6:57:26 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say
SPACE dot COM | 18 March 2002 ,posted: 03:00 pm ET
By Leonard David, Senior Space Writer
Posted on 03/25/2002 2:42:10 PM PST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/653287/posts


30 posted on 04/30/2005 7:10:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: Sam Cree

My pleasure.


31 posted on 04/30/2005 7:10:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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If there were life on Mars wouldn't it pass gas?
Waterbury Republican-American | April 30, 2005 | AP Wire
Posted on 04/30/2005 6:34:08 PM PDT by Graybeard58
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1394490/posts


32 posted on 05/01/2005 2:38:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: RightWhale

reprise, and a bttt...

The Exploded Planet Hypothesis 2000
Evidence that Mars is a former moon
http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/eph/eph2000.asp

"Especially significant in this regard is the fact that half of Mars is saturated with craters, and half is only sparsely cratered. Moreover, the crustal thickness has apparently been augmented over one hemisphere by up to 20 km or so, gradually tapering off near the hemisphere boundaries. This 'crustal dichotomy' is also readily seen in Martian elevation maps"


33 posted on 05/03/2005 8:59:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars' Moons
space.com | 29 Jul 03 | Leonard David
Posted on 07/29/2003 8:56:47 AM PDT by RightWhale
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/954539/posts


34 posted on 05/03/2005 9:37:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The interesting thing is that earth has a similar structure. The Pacific Ocean is a huge, somewhat round, hole in the crust. That is where the material that is now the moon supposedly came from. If half of Mars' crust is gone, that might, assuming structure indicates history, be where the asteroidal material came from. If so, the present orbits of the main belt asteroids and Mars not be the same as the original main body since before that event but some kind of average.


35 posted on 05/03/2005 12:36:27 PM PDT by RightWhale (These problems would not exist if we had had a moon base all along)
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To: RightWhale

I wasn't sure that the crust was missing so much as the debris from the impacts altered the surface of the Hemisphere of Craters.


36 posted on 05/06/2005 7:46:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Half the surface is a kilometer or more lower than the other half. Like an ocean basin.


37 posted on 05/07/2005 7:29:28 AM PDT by RightWhale (These problems would not exist if we had had a moon base all along)
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ping with a related topic:

Scientist: Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2029
Yahoo/AP | 12/23/04 | JOHN ANTCZAK
Posted on 12/23/2004 8:24:16 PM PST by hole_n_one
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1307719/posts


38 posted on 05/12/2005 10:14:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

just a light ping for the early morning hours.


39 posted on 05/23/2005 10:28:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1250694/posts?page=26#26


40 posted on 05/29/2005 2:56:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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