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Icy World Found Inside Asteroid
Science News Magazine ^
| 9-30-2005
| Ron Cowen
Posted on 09/30/2005 8:19:40 PM PDT by blam
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"...the volume of ice on Ceres would be greater than that of all the fresh water on Earth."Might one of these smaller asteroids plunged into earth and flooded all the land?
The heat from entry would melt the ice...would it come down as rain, or?
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:19:45 PM PDT
by
blam
To: RightWhale; SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:20:40 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
An icy world.....sounds just like a normal day at the Hillary Clinton residence.
To: blam
ummm,... can you put a pipe on that? Arizona needs the water.
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:29:16 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: blam
To: blam
That's the biggest asteroid ever seen. It would crack the earth's crust, do more damage than 10,000 H bombs, and throw the earth of its axis.. Well that would be it for the humans
To: George Stupidnopolis
An icy world.....sounds just like a normal day at the Hillary Clinton residence.
I was just thinking maybe they found the origins of Hillary's heart....
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:33:18 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!!)
To: blam
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:35:23 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: Mount Athos
"That's the biggest asteroid ever seen. It would crack the earth's crust, do more damage than 10,000 H bombs, and throw the earth of its axis.. Well that would be it for the humans""Might one of these smaller asteroids plunged into earth and flooded all the land?"
I was thinking of a much smaller version as the source of water for the worldwide bibical flood.
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:37:08 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Let's crash Ceres into Venus.
To: blam; Felicity Fahrquar
The layering provides new evidence that Ceres is a case of arrested development. This is strange.
My doctor never said anything about layers when we were discussing MY arrested development...
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:43:36 PM PDT
by
Experiment 6-2-6
(Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)
To: Mount Athos
An impact on that scale would blast away most of the atmosphere, boil the oceans, and cover the world with boiling magma - even if the thing was composed mostly of water.
It would make the asteroid that slammed into Yucatan 65 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs look like a BB fired into a puddle from an air rifle.
The works of man (and the entire record of multicellular life) would be obliterated, absolutely and totally.
Judgement Day indeed!
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:53:45 PM PDT
by
FierceDraka
(The Democratic Party - Aiding and Abetting The Enemies of America Since 1968)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Let's crash Ceres into Venus.Nope. The impact would vaporize all that water and send it back into space.
Put a giant shade between Venus and the sun, and drop comets rich in water and organics.
Getting rid of all that CO2 and sulfur might be a biatch, though. As well as the retrograde rotation. And no real magnetic field...
Oh hell. Let's just terraform Mars - it would be a MUCH simpler job than Venus.
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posted on
09/30/2005 8:57:53 PM PDT
by
FierceDraka
(The Democratic Party - Aiding and Abetting The Enemies of America Since 1968)
To: rottndog
I was just thinking maybe they found the origins of Hillary's heart....(Cue Movie Trailer Voice Man)
It came from the cold, black depths of outer space to enslave mankind for all time...
Until ONE MAN decided it was time to make a stand for humanity...
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:00:16 PM PDT
by
FierceDraka
(The Democratic Party - Aiding and Abetting The Enemies of America Since 1968)
To: blam
"Using nanotechnology, a solar-powered mass-driver could be constructed on Ceres, placing it on a slow pathway to a gravitational resonance with Jupiter. From there, multiple encounters with Mars and Earth could place it on a trajectory towards Venus. Using multiple encounters at Venus to reduce its relative speed, part of Ceres would be converted in to a sun-screen to cool the blistering planet. Finally, the ice-rich remains of Ceres would be put on a colision course, supply the surface of Venus with much need-water.
"I envision millions of swimming pools, each inhabited by a heavenly body."
To: Experiment 6-2-6
My doctor never said anything about layers when we were discussing MY arrested development...Chances are he didn't take a core sample so he could count the rings, either. It's SO hard to find quality medical care these days...
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:27:58 PM PDT
by
Felicity Fahrquar
(counting down to becoming an official cranky old broad)
To: Graymatter
Yes it is.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:29:04 PM PDT
by
oyez
To: blam; KevinDavis; RadioAstronomer
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:32:31 PM PDT
by
FOG724
(It's ilk season!)
To: blam
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:34:34 PM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(America is to great for small dreams --- Ronald Reagan)
To: Mount Athos
That's the biggest asteroid ever seen. It would crack the earth's crust, do more damage than 10,000 H bombs, and throw the earth of its axis.. Well that would be it for the humansA small price to pay to make sure there is enough water in Las Vegas.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:38:17 PM PDT
by
zeugma
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