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The Star That Ate a Mars
Scence News ^
| 07/18/09
| Charles Petit
Posted on 07/08/2009 6:28:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis
For several years, UCLA astronomers have studied GD 362, a peculiarly dirty white dwarf star 165 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. Now they are pretty sure why the atmosphere of this dense, hot but slowly cooling ghost of a once much larger star is so polluted. It ate a planet.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; gd362; immanuelvelikovsky; mars; science; space; xplanets
To: Zoe Brain; callisto; scottinoc; Movemout; markman46; AntiKev; wastedyears; ALOHA RONNIE; ...
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:29:39 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Can't Stop the Signal!)
To: KevinDavis
"The Star That Ate a Mars"
Like a Mars bar??
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:31:33 PM PDT
by
Longhair_and_Leather
(Don't send a boy to do a man's job, send a woman--Sarah 2012!)
To: KevinDavis
It ate a WHAT?
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:32:26 PM PDT
by
thecodont
To: KevinDavis
There's a remedy for that...
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:33:14 PM PDT
by
new cruelty
(Shoot your TV. Torch your newspaper.)
To: KevinDavis
I ate a planet?
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:35:59 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Only dead fish go with the flow...)
To: KevinDavis
Reminds me of Stargate SG-1 Episode entitled “A Matter of Time” where the episode about a black hole swallowing a planet.
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:37:46 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: KevinDavis
And I was hoping there would be a pic of Megan Fox eating a Mars bar.
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:53:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/08/2009 6:55:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: Eaker
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posted on
07/08/2009 7:14:19 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
To: KevinDavis
dirty white dwarfRelated:
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posted on
07/08/2009 7:16:23 PM PDT
by
Dysart
(It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong--Voltaire)
To: KevinDavis
UCLA astronomers have studied GD 362, a peculiarly dirty white dwarf star Meantime, ACLU astronomers are complaining that it should be referred to as a hygenically- and size-challenged star.
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posted on
07/08/2009 7:20:02 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
To: KevinDavis
Nope, it was a Baby Ruth, not a Mars.
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posted on
07/08/2009 7:22:11 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/08/2009 7:27:43 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: KevinDavis
Phasers are useless...
To: KevinDavis
Galactus?
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posted on
07/08/2009 7:44:04 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: KevinDavis
I thought Dr. Seuss was dead?
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posted on
07/08/2009 10:51:39 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
To: KevinDavis
Imagine the calorie count on that! Woof!
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