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Hybrid Comet-Asteroid In Mysterious Break-Up
New Scientist ^
| 4-11-2006
| Jeff Hecht
Posted on 04/11/2006 3:06:42 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:06:44 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
I blame the breakup on Yoko.
2
posted on
04/11/2006 3:07:20 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
To: RightWhale
3
posted on
04/11/2006 3:07:30 PM PDT
by
blam
To: dfwgator
Well, it's usually Yoko, but I think this time it was "musical differences".
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:08:38 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(But even if he does not...)
To: dfwgator
5
posted on
04/11/2006 3:09:11 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: blam
Escape Pod leaving mother ship.
6
posted on
04/11/2006 3:10:31 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: blam
Global warming now affecting other planets. SUV drivers are destroying our solar system.
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:10:50 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
To: cripplecreek
Yup! It;s the Mothership pulling away from the comet. It saved fuel by hitchin' itself to the comet for a free ride. Musta known about Earth's gas prices!
To: blam
It might be mining, or it might be an Echeclusian splinter group leaving the Party.
Would it be a suprise to find somebody [a non-signatory to the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty] mining in the Solar System? Some people expect that. Most haven't thought about it.
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:11:48 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: blam
First Nick and Jessica break-up and now this???
Sounds like end times to me!!!
10
posted on
04/11/2006 3:11:53 PM PDT
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: dfwgator
Hybrid Comet-Asteroid In Mysterious Break-Up...... and I thought 'Breaking Up is Hard To Do'.
11
posted on
04/11/2006 3:13:57 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Oh, for the days when "disrespect" was just a noun.)
To: blam
"Alien mining?"
They may be using it as a back-stop for target practice.
12
posted on
04/11/2006 3:16:00 PM PDT
by
Deguello
(Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to play.)
To: KevinDavis; RadioAstronomer
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:16:22 PM PDT
by
FOG724
(http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
To: tet68
Escape Pod leaving mother ship. LOL!
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:20:46 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
To: blam
I blame the breakup on jealousy....you know those telltale red and blue circles around Uranus......hmmmmmmm
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:27:20 PM PDT
by
Kimmers
To: blam
Bush's
Fault!
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:27:56 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(In the end it does not matter if you win. All men die. What matters is how you lived. No surrender)
To: blam
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:32:27 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: blam
To: dfwgator
To: blam
The astronomers start out with an error... the "icy snowball" theory of comets has been disproved by the Deep Impact experiment. The break-up of this asteroid/comet is actually MORE proof that the cometary theory is deeply flawed... and in fact, is downright wrong.
Deep Impact—Where’s the Water? (1)
Deep Impact—Where's the Water? (2)
Deep Impact—Where's the Water? (3)
Nor is it the first time a comet has been observed breaking up or flaring a coma at an extraordinary distance.
Deep Impact">and Shoemaker-Levy 9
Below is a link to an article on the difference between asteroids and comets according to the Electric Universe Cosmologists:
Orbits of the three known main-belt comets (red lines), the five innermost
planets (black lines; from the center outward: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
and Jupiter), a sample of 100 main-belt asteroids (orange lines), and two
"typical" comets (Halley's Comet, and Tempel 1, target of the recent Deep
Impact mission) as blue lines. Positions of the main-belt comets and planets on
March 1, 2006, are plotted with black dots. Image credit: Pedro Lacerda
(Univ. Hawaii; Univ. Coimbra, Portugal)
When Asteroids Become Comets
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:14:31 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
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