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Mystery Spot On Jupiter Baffles Astronomers
10/23/03

Posted on 10/23/2003 5:41:53 PM PDT by Davea

Maybe Galileo morphed:-) http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/jupiter_dark_spot_031023.html


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KEYWORDS: catastrophism; greatredspot; jupiter; littleredspot; xplanets
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To: ThinkPlease; Physicist; VadeRetro
ping
61 posted on 11/22/2003 6:40:24 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: Joe Hadenuf
thank you kindly, and may I return the compliment on your profile page as well. May I also say that...

I AM INCREDIBLY JEALOUS!!!!

I have always coveted a telescope like you describe, but have never felt it worth the investment given the state of my vision. I haven't learned to fly for the same reason. I always used to love to hang out in the Nature Company Store in the Stamford Mall because they always had the telescopes that I coveted.

Where in California are you located? My wife and I spent five years, '77 to '82, on the pennisula in the SF area. We loved it, but couldn't afford it and couldn't think of raising our kids in an earthquake zone where overpasses and the like would probably separate us in an emergency. Of course, we're now in the Memphis area, only 70 miles from the largest recorded earthquakes in US history, plus we have tornadoes, but that's besides the point (g)

62 posted on 11/22/2003 8:12:34 PM PST by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Joe Hadenuf; Phsstpok
We got's a couple of them thar 'shtronomer types in FR?!

And here I thought I was all alone.

63 posted on 11/23/2003 12:54:10 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
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To: Phsstpok
Currently in S, Cal.

Sorry to hear about your vision. The scopes I'm using can be fitted with small video cameras and you can see what the scope sees on a monitor, or you can operate the scope remotely with a CCD camera and images come up on the computer screen. That could really help for someone with bad eyesight.

I always wanted to fly but never got around to it. My Dad was bomber pilot in the big one, and one of the first LAPD chopper pilots.

64 posted on 11/23/2003 1:12:25 AM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: PoorMuttly
,,, Galileo? Maybe we should name it the G Spot?
65 posted on 11/23/2003 11:17:30 AM PST by shaggy eel
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To: edwin hubble; RadioAstronomer
Thanks for the ping! For comparison, here's shot of the impact sites of fragments D and G from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The black spot in question appears to have at least one plume associated with it, but not halos, as demonstrated by the impacts of fragments D and G in this photo.

ESA-Science

Impact sites of fragments 'D' and 'G' from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

66 posted on 11/23/2003 1:49:54 PM PST by Aracelis
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To: Piltdown_Woman
This is interesting. We don't see in the current 'dark spot' the structure or pattern of the earlier comet impact discoloration.

So, is the darkness just a result of a 'lesion', looking deep into lower layers... or turbulence... or something else? Is there a temperature factor?
67 posted on 11/23/2003 2:57:39 PM PST by edwin hubble
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To: Davea
It's a zit.
68 posted on 11/23/2003 2:59:29 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: edwin hubble
My guess is, because of the plume, that we are seeing colder and/or dense gas that has been brought up from lower layers. Although, not being an atmospheric scientist, my opinion really isn't worth much.

Sure wish Galileo was still lurking about...we might have some answers.

69 posted on 11/23/2003 7:07:02 PM PST by Aracelis
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To: Davea
Did NASA Accidentally “Nuke” Jupiter?
70 posted on 11/23/2003 7:21:09 PM PST by Species8472 (No Courage - Without Fear)
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To: shaggy eel
You're SUCH an eel.

Just like I'm such a Muttly, in my particular way.

I guess that's what makes us such a good intergallactic team.

Well...regardless of what people say. They can't deny it, though. Guess we're stuck with it.

I sure would like a Telescope. It would be nice to see our stuff from far away...even just to keep an eye on it. Good thing for us our nice Astronomer friends here are so prompt with reports !

I bet you've got some wonderful New Zealand skies to ponder. Where I am now, we seem to be right under the Milky Way (almost), for some reason, and it would be SO nice to somehow fabricate a proper optical device and hook it into the MuttlySuperIBM-Brain here. It's definitely right up on my list. I think that I should do SOME things myself though, since Santa has been so kind to me with so many things of late. Evidently, "a Santa Bribed is a Santa Earned" too...not only so for Muttlys ! It'll be hard to equal or out-do my gift to him for last year...he still has the new-old-stock Webley grips...but then again...they're still making SCOTCH, I hear !
71 posted on 11/23/2003 7:50:01 PM PST by PoorMuttly (DO, or DO NOT. There is no TRY - Yoda)
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To: Piltdown_Woman; mewzilla
Great Pic....and its' not a ZIT!.... ( @ least I hope not) :)
72 posted on 11/23/2003 8:55:49 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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from 2003.
 
X-Planets
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73 posted on 10/10/2007 9:55:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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from 2003.
 
Catastrophism
 
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74 posted on 10/10/2007 9:56:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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