[Mike Fieschko]

No images or video.

[Army Air Corps]

Space Ping!

[NormsRevenge]

“Astronomers have never seen anything like this before. Apparently, major catastrophic collisions can take place in a fully mature planetary system.”

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gulp (in honor of Oktoberfest)

Thanks! I’ll sleep so much better tonite knowing this. :-)

[februus]

Velikovsky ping!

[Doc91678]

Wow, maybe you people should read a little on theories of Earth.
Try Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval
Actually Emanuel Velakovsky wrote a series of three books on his theories on Earth. Many of his theories are now part of scientific fact. As an example the one large Continental land mass that has split to form the Continents of Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Unfortunately these books were written in the 50’s but you may be able to still get them
They are very interesting and give insight to the present theories of how and why?

[happinesswithoutpeace]

“This poses two very interesting questions,” Fekel said. “How do planetary orbits become destabilized in such an old, mature system”

No idea. Something to do with the binary star?

Also, older animation vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlYmO4S_Dkk

[Taxbilly]

Another catastrophe from the Bush foreign policy.

[Figment]

“UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of Technology’

How in the world did Tennessee State get in that mix? It just detracts from the credibility of the other two. Don’t flame, I’m from Tennessee and I know a bit about TSU

[Kevmo]

catastrophism and xplanet ping

[norwaypinesavage]

Planets are mostly balls of molten rock. Its not obvious to me that the collision of two balls of molten rock make dust.

[xJones]

It sounds more like the asteriod belt between Mars and Jupiter. That’s considered to be wannabe planetoids that couldn’t form due to Jupiter’s enormous mass.

[Paul R.]

I’m no expert in orbital physics. But, I thought it was generally regarded that planets orbiting around binary stars would likely get into trouble, sooner or later...

For one thing, it seems like it’d be a “natural” to build up oscillations in the system that could sling a planet a bit off course.

[cqnc]

Uhh.. that means that we are actually observing an event that occurred 300 years ago - 300 light-years away... This even took place ~260 years B.O. (Before Obamasiah)! Uhh.