Posted on 09/22/2024 10:37:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
New measurements performed by the European Space Agency's Herschel infrared space telescope indicate that a comet may have hit Neptune, the outer-most planet in our solar system, two centuries ago.Image credit: NASA
Breaking news?
Hey, that's right, the SL-9 impacts on Jupiter happened 30 years ago.
AND ???? This is relevant to ? How can one guestimate when an asteroid hit a planet via a telescope? What is the point of this!? This hurts my brain!
Scarred by Comets: Rings of Saturn and Jupiter Show Signs of Impacts
By Mike Wall published March 31, 2011
https://www.space.com/11269-comet-impacts-saturn-jupiter-rings.html
A cometary origin for CO in the stratosphere of Saturn?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2010/02/aa12909-09/aa12909-09.html
LOL. 214 years in the time scale of the universe, so, yeah. ;^)
At least it didn’t smack.....that other planet out there...
Reading these articles written for elementary students you get an impression of a collision between planets and comets, smacked, smashed, slammed. Hyperbole words. The planet is just orbiting along and a comet comes out of nowhere and hits the planet. But really planet and the comet are passing each other in space and the smaller object gets caught in the gravitational pull of the larger planet and then basically falls into the atmosphere of the larger object. It might make a loud noise and cause some atmospheric disturbances but it is trivial to the planet. Like a rock thrown into a pond. Comets are tiny and insignificant compared to planets. They are like meteors to us. Super tiny. I don’t think this news is very exciting at all.
They always use words like suggests, indicates, could might and possibly. They are speculating like stoned hippies.
Obviously caused by Neptunians driving SUVs without catalytic converters.
No, it’s not breaking news. Why is this even being posted?? Use the search feature on Free Republic and you can see this was posted right here 198 years ago. it was big news then . .
Well, it is news that a comet was breaking. I’m not sure that counts.
:^) I was surprised that it didn’t turn up in various searches I tried. The article didn’t seem familiar, but as I now live on Failing Memory Lane, it could have been posted back when.
No one cares.
Does anyone think this comet created Neptune’s big blue spot?
And I don’t care about Uranus either!
Witnessed, recorded at the time?
I'm sure it occurred to someone before the two of us. :^D
:^) Hey, nice job!
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