Posted on 07/05/2011 8:20:49 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
This video was posted a week or so ago on FR, I was wondering if anyone qualified watched this video and what their professional opinion is? The video is about a possible dwarf star they has and may have a huge effect on earth in September.
Unless that star is going to come as close as Jupiter is, it’s effect will be negligible.
If it’s a dwarf star, then it could be hard to see, but really massive. Or it might be a really small dwarf star?
I don’t know. I googled around, and I can’t really find any intelligent discussions about it. Although one paranoid site suggested that that’s why FEMA is buying up so much food.
Not enough to go on, and I confess that I haven’t the patience to sit through one of those lengthy videos.
but he left after the fireworks.
How about a marine biologist?
How about George Costanza?
I think his schtick was ‘architect’
Physics minor here. No way this is true. The gravity of any massive object would be visibly and measurably disrupting the orbits of a whole lot of local stuff in the solar system that we watch every day. For people who want to worry about something, Obama is destroying the country right here, right now. No waiting.
I don’t think there is an episode of Seinfeld that I have not seen twice. The golfball was a good writer’s touch, given Kramer’s penchant for teeing off into the ocean.
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A comet and a star, dwarf or otherwise, are two totally different kinds of objects which have no comparisons in mass, composition, or physical properties.
The Elenin object is essentially a cometary pile of rock, ices, and frozen gasses about 2 miles in diameter or the size of a small mountain on the Earth. It originates in the Oort cloud out on the edges of our Solar System, where countless objects of this and far larger sizes up to dwarf planets at least are in orbit around the Sun. Every so often these cometary and/or asteroidal objects are gravitationally perturbed out of their distant orbits by collisions with like objects and/or the slight gravitational influences of nearby stars.
A dwarf star or any other star is a very different kind of object measuring hundreds of thousands to millions of miles in diameter. It has enough matter and mass to achieve thermonuclear fusion at its center and emit light. Our sun is a medium sized star located about 93 million miles away from the Earth with a diameter of more than 800,000 miles and 109 times the approximate 7,600 mile diameter of the Earth. the Sun is 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. Even a dwarf star would have a mass which is a fraction of the Sun's mass or many times the mass of the Sun, in the case of a post-supernova dwarf star remnant. The nearest other stars are in a multiple star system of three stars. Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri orbit each other, while Proxima Centauri orbits the other two stars in their solar system. Proxima Centauri is a distance of about 4.2 light years from the Earth, Sun, and rest of our Solar system. That is a distance of about 24.7 trillion miles.
The efforts to describe Elenin as a star of any size is a laughable hoax.
Best estimate now is that it's a couple of miles in diameter with a mass one tenth that of Haley's comet. Its closest approach to Earth will be about 20 - 25 million miles. So, we can relax; it's a long-period comet and it might have enough volatiles on the surface to put on a little show for us to enjoy as it passes by.
Elenin is a comet smaller than an internatonal airport and its runways.
The Sun is a star some 109 times the diameter of the Earth. A dwarf star is going to be something ont he order of 10 times the diameter of the Earth or larger. A red dwarf star will have a fraction of the mass of the Sun, which is 333,000 times as massive as the Earth. A whicte dwarf star will have many times the mass of the Sun, because it is the remainder of a super-giant star after it blew off its outer atmospheres in a supernova explosion. Elenin is not red, not a star, not a red dwarf star, not a white dwarf star, and not a star of any sort.
Elenin is a comet. Asteroids of its mass pass within the quarter million mile space between the Earth and the Moon quite often with no notice or effect.
Dwarf Star?
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