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Enigmatic object baffles supernova team
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| 19 June 2006
| Jeff Hecht
Posted on 06/19/2006 5:00:21 PM PDT by CurlyBill
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:00:24 PM PDT
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CurlyBill
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:00:40 PM PDT
by
CurlyBill
(Democratic Party Agenda ------> Emasculate America)
To: CurlyBill
At first glance, the object discovered on 22 February in the constellation Bootes resembled an ordinary supernova. But it kept growing brighter for much too long, and its spectrum was abnormal. Phasers were set to "vaporize?"
To: CurlyBill
If the strongest feature in the spectrum is a pair of calcium absorption lines, its red shift would be 0.54, corresponding to a distance of 5.5 billion light years.That's a heck of a ways. Amazing considering whatever even this was happened before the earth existed.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:02:17 PM PDT
by
ahayes
("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
To: ahayes
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:02:39 PM PDT
by
ahayes
("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
To: ahayes
That's a heck of a ways. Amazing considering whatever even this was happened before the earth existed.OK.....I'll bite.
....the Earth's age is an estimate or officially approved by the local Appraisal District?
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:06:13 PM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: Prince Charles
No, their beebers were set to "stune".
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:08:05 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: CurlyBill
"It's a very intriguing object," says supernova researcher Stefan Immler of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, US, but he will not rule out the possibility that it might be a supernova.scientists have ruled out ur-anus
To: CurlyBill
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:11:12 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
To: cbkaty
Planets under 5 billion years old get carded.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:12:15 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: ahayes
Amazing considering whatever event this was happened before the earth existed. Indeed! If the 5.5 billion years is correct, about a billion years before the formation of our own solar system.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:12:24 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: CurlyBill
Hubble saw nothing on 29 January at the point in the sky where the object appeared, so it must have brightened by more than a factor of 200. It has just begun to fade. Democrat hopes for the November elections.
To: CurlyBill
It is a starship driven by atomic engines of mind boggling power. It is either accelerating or decelerating.
And it is a lot closer than the astronomers think.
Just kidding.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:20:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: CurlyBill
This is one of the happy moments in science. Something never seen and thus never explained before has just popped up.
The race is on.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:20:22 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ...
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06/19/2006 5:22:44 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: cbkaty
The Local Appraisal District is in cahoots with the Local Crooked Politicians who boast that they have never raised taxes. They don't need to raise taxes when the Local Appraisal District scours every nook and cranny to keep the property's evaluation two steps ahead of raising taxes.
Taxing districts recruit nationwide to bring in Draconian Appraisal Professionals to bleed the homeowner out of every cent he has.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:24:16 PM PDT
by
Lacroix
To: VadeRetro
The happy news is it can't happen here.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:25:17 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: BenLurkin
It is a starship driven by atomic engines of mind boggling power. It is either accelerating or decelerating.
And it is a lot closer than the astronomers think.
Just kidding.Actually, that's what I was thinking.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:25:35 PM PDT
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
The happy news is it can't happen here.
......Yet.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:26:25 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: CurlyBill
I'm sure Al Gore will find some stupid way to blame this on Global Warming™ too.
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posted on
06/19/2006 5:29:26 PM PDT
by
Hexenhammer
(America for Americans.)
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