SpaceWeather and other space stuff... (Page 2)

August 19, 2011 - Earth Creatures Moving to Escape Global Warming.

At least 2,000 species are moving away from the equator at an average
rate of more than 15 feet per day, and some are climbing mountains.


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U.K.'s comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) has moved
more than 135 miles northward in 21 years. U. K.'s University of York
scientist Chris Thomas, Ph.D., says, —The speed is faster than we thought.??
Yellowstone National Park's American pika, a rabbit like animal, has climbed
nearly 2,000 feet higher, observed at 9,500 feet in 2004, but was never
seen above 7,800 feet back in 1900. See current journal: Science.

August 17, 2011 - Huge Sand Formation Reported
Southwest of Xining, China.


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—... very quite regular, straight lines form the perfect circle
and the diameter of a rough estimate of 1 to 2 kilometers (.62 to 1.24 miles).??

- Chinese traveler on Qinghai Highway southwest of Xining, China


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August 17, 2011

Huge Arrow-Shaped Cloud On Titan.


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—These atmospheric waves are somewhat like the natural,
resonant vibration of a wine glass. Individual clouds might —ring the bell,??
so to speak, and once the ringing starts, the clouds have to respond to that vibration.??
- Jonathan L. Mitchell, Ph.D., UCLA Earth and Space Sciences



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The white —arrow?? on Saturn's moon, Titan, is about the size of
Texas and is one of several observed —stenciled?? clouds that result from
planetary-scale waves in the Saturnian moon's atmosphere. The resonating
atmospheric vibrations create sharply defined clouds in the thick
nitrogen and methane atmosphere that rains down natural methane gas.
Titan is the only other rocky body in our solar system beyond Earth
that is known to have rain.

August 20, 2011

JUPITER-CONJUNCTION-MOON
and THE RETURN OF THE ARCTIC AURORA:


Around the Arctic Circle, the night sky has been missing for months. "The midnight sun is a sore trial for amateur astronomers in the high North," says Fredrik Broms of Kval??ya, Norway.

"But now, after a long summer without stars (save one), darkness is falling again. Last night when I was watching the beautiful conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon, the first auroras of the season suddenly appeared!" He recorded the scene with a 1-second exposure on his Nikon digital camera:


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"I am looking forward to a great season with lots of activity on the sun!" says Broms.

Even brighter Northern Lights could appear in the nights ahead. A solar wind stream is heading for Earth, due to arrive on August 23-24. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

Did a Coronal Hole cause the East Coast Earthquake?

AUGUST 31, 2011

JUNO PHOTOGRAPHS EARTH-MOON SYSTEM:

On August 26, 2011 NASA's Juno spacecraft, en route to Jupiter, has turned and photographed the Earth-Moon system from a dustance of million miles. "This is a remarkable sight people get to see all too rarely," says Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.



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This image of Earth (on the left) and the moon (on the right) was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Aug. 26, 2011, when the spacecraft was about 6 million miles (9.66 million kilometers) away. It was taken by the spacecraft's onboard camera, JunoCam. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech


"This view of our planet shows how Earth looks from the outside, illustrating a special perspective of our role and place in the universe. We see a humbling yet beautiful view of ourselves."

The image was taken by the spacecraft's camera, JunoCam, on Aug. 26 when the spacecraft was about 6 million miles (9.66 million kilometers) away. The image was taken as part of the mission team??s checkout of the Juno spacecraft. The team is conducting its initial detailed checks on the spacecraft's instruments and subsystems after its launch on Aug. 5.

Juno covered the distance from Earth to the moon (about 250,000 miles or 402,000 kilometers) in less than one day's time. It will take the spacecraft another five years and 1,740 million miles (2,800 million kilometers) to complete the journey to Jupiter. The spacecraft will orbit the planet's poles 33 times and use its eight science instruments to probe beneath the gas giant's obscuring cloud cover to learn more about its origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere, and look for a potential solid planetary core.

The solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) on Aug. 5 to begin its five-year journey to Jupiter.

I had a feeling we were getting hit with a pretty gnarly solar flare, what with all the shit going on today, such as this for instance:

September 23, 2011


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UARS SIGHTED OVER TEXAS:

UARS is still in orbit. Observers in central Texas saw it streaking overhead (but not disintegrating) at 8:18 PM CDT on Sept. 23rd (1:18 UTC on Sept 24th). images: from Adrian New of San Antonio, Texas

NASA STATEMENT: NASA has just issued a new statement on the re-entry of UARS: "As of 10:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 85 miles by 90 miles (135 km by 140 km). Re-entry is expected between 11:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 12:45 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3:45 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. GMT). During that time period, the satellite will be passing over Canada and Africa, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The risk to public safety is very remote."

FAA STATEMENT: A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) has been posted by the Federal Aviation Administration: "Aircraft are advised that a potential hazard may occur due to reentry of satellite UARS into Earth's atmosphere. FAA is working with the Department of Defense and NASA to ensure the most current re-entry information is provided to operators as quickly as possible. Further NOTAMS will be issued if specific information becomes available indicating a United States airspace impact. It is critical that all pilots/flight crew members report any fallinf space debris to the appropriate ATC facility. The Domestic Events Network telephone 202-493-5107 is the FAA coordination facility. CREATE😱 23 SEP 18:33 2011"

September 18, 2011 -

Fly Around Earth At 17,398 mph
in Time Lapse Video of ISS Images

Same Vid in H😱

September 16, 2011 -

Mysterious, Ancient Stone Circles in Middle East
Visible Only from Air.

—In Jordan alone, we've got stone-built structures that are
far more numerous than the Nazca Lines, far more extensive
in the area that they cover, and far older.??

- David Kennedy, Ph.D., Univ. of Western Australia



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The area near the Azraq Oasis a little south of Azraq ed Duruz,
Jordan (east of Amman) has hundreds circular structures made of stone
that date back at least 2,000 years old - and perhaps even 9,000-years-old.
None of the stone patterns can be seen from the flat ground,
only from the air. All aerial images by David L. Kennedy, Ph.D.,
Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East (APAAME).

October 2, 2011 -

Mysterious Mercury:

Lopsided Magnetism, Strange Hollows and Lots of Surface Elements Scientists
Thought the Sun Had Burned Off.

—Mercury was considered an old, burned out cinder,
but to find some landscape modification apparently taking place today,
and producing these spectacular and unique features, is a first.??

- David Blewett, Ph.D., Planetary Scientist, Johns Hopkins University APL



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Large Mercury crater Tyagaraja, (60 miles or 97 km diameter)
has many unexplained cyan blue —hollows.?? The cyan is caused by high
reflectance and a bluish color relative to other parts of the planet. The large pit
in the center of the crater might be a volcanic vent, from which the
orange material erupted. Image courtesy Science/AAAS.


The Messenger spacecraft orbiting Mercury since March 2011 has discovered the magnetic field is shifted 300 miles north of the equator. There is a surprisingly large iron core that is still actively churning, has periodically flooded the surface with lava and could be lopsided inside the planet causing the lopsided magnetic field. Larry Nittler, Ph.D., Cosmochemist at Carnegie Institution of Washington, says, —The origin of Mercury's large iron core is still a mystery.?? Another mystery - as the closest planet to the sun, scientists figured Mercury's large iron core was the residue of a once-larger planet that lost a lot of its surface in burn off to the solar heat. But Messenger's gamma-ray and X-ray spectrometers show the northern hemisphere surface has lots of the radioactive volatiles potassium, thorium and uranium that might have been deposited by chondritic meteorites. Also mysterious are the —cyan hollows?? inside Mercury's craters (image above).

November 5, 2011

ASTEROID FLYBY:


NASA radars are monitoring 2005 YU55, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier, as it heads for a Nov. 8th flyby of the Earth-Moon system. There is no danger to our planet. At closest approach on Tuesday at 3:28 pm PST, the 400m-wide space rock will be 324,600 kilometers away, about 85% the distance from Earth to the Moon.

Professional astronomers are eagerly anticipating the flyby as the asteroid will present an exceptionally strong radar target. Powerful transmitters at Goldstone and Arecibo will ping the space rock as it passes by, revealing the asteroid's shape and texture in crisp detail, and pinpointing its orbit for future flyby calculations. A movie from JPL explains:


Asteroids this big have passed by Earth at similar distances many times before, but this is the first time astronomers have known about the flyby in advance. For instance, a similar encounter occurred in 1976 when 2010 XC15 split the distance between Earth and the Moon. Researchers didn't discover that space rock until 24 years later! The Nov. 8, 2011, passage of 2005 YU55 thus represents a rare and valuable opportunity for asteroid research.

NOVEMBER 2011

REMARKABLE SOLAR ACTIVITY:

In terms of solar flares, the sun is quiet today. Nevertheless, some impressive activity is underway on the sun. For one thing, an enormous wall of plasma is towering over the sun's southeastern horizon. Stephen Ramsden of Atlanta, Georgia, took this picture on Nov. 11th:


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"Solar forums all over the world are buzzing with Sun-stronomers proclaiming this to be the biggest prominence that many of them had ever witnessed," he says.

Remarkably, though, this is not the biggest thing. A dark filament of magnetism is winding halfway around the entire sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture during the early hours of Nov. 14th:


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From end to end, this twisted fiber of magnetism stretches more than a million km or about three times the distance between Earth and the Moon. If the filament becomes unstable, as solar filaments are prone to do, it could collapse and hit the stellar surface below, triggering a Hyder flare. No one can say if the eruption of such a sprawling structure would be Earth directed.

"I cant help but wonder what could possibly come next since we are still over a year away from the forecasted Solar Maximum," adds Ramsden. "There's never been a better time to own a solar telescope than now!"

December 24, 2011

CHRISTMAS EVE ERUPTION:

A filament of magnetism connected to sunspot AR1386 erupted during the early hours of Dec. 24th. Extreme UV-wavelength cameras onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the picturesque blast:


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The C5-class eruption hurled a billion-ton coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, but not toward Earth. With the cloud sailing wide-left of our planet, Christmas geomagnetic storms are unlikely. Nevertheless, this active region merits watching as it turns toward Earth in the days ahead, possibly positioning itself for the first storms of 2012.

COMET LOVEJOY FROM ORBIT:

Veteran astronaut Dan Burbank has seen many amazing things. Once, he even flew through the aurora borealis. So when Burbank says "[Comet Lovejoy] is the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space," it really means something. Currently serving onboard the International Space Station, Burbank photographed the sungrazing comet on Dec. 21st, an experience he describes in this NASA video:

January 1, 2012

NEW YEAR'S FIREBALL:


The first bright fireball of the New Year streaked over the southwestern USA on Jan. 1st at 03:15 UT. It was visible from Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. "I was able to see it out my window," reports amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft from his rural observatory outside of Santa Fe. "It was brilliant turquoise blue." Ashcraft operates a combination all-sky camera/forward-scatter meteor radar system, which captured the fireball's flight. Click on the image to play the movie--and don't forget to turn up the volume to hear the ghostly radar echo:



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Cameras belonging to NASA's All-Sky Fireball Network also recorded the fireball from multiple locations. An orbit calculated from those data show that the fireball was a random meteoriod hailing from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It hit Earth's atmosphere at 26 km/s (58,000 mph), which is relatively slow compared to other meteoroids, and disintegrated 82 km above Earth's surface.

"This was an auspicious start to 2012," says Ashcraft. "Clear skies and Happy New Year!"

February 8, 2012

Russian Drill Reaches Lake Vostok
2.4 Miles Under Antarctic Ice.


—There is no other place on Earth that has been in isolation
for more than 20 million years. It's a meeting with the unknown.??

- Lev Savatyugin, AARI Researcher



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Russian drilling machine 5-G at work in Antarctica to bore down to the gigantic
freshwater Lake Vostok that has been under deep ice for more than 20 million years.
January 9, 2009, photo released by Arctic and Antarctic Research Inst. (AARI),


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St. Petersburg, Russia. Map of Antarctica showing Lake Vostok.Map by Alyson Hurt, NPR.

—It's like exploring another planet, except this one is ours,?? Prof. Robin Bell, a glaciologist from Columbia University told Associated Press. Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg has been drilling for more than two decades to reach the surface of Lake Vostok, about the size of Lake Ontario, and finally got there on Sunday, February 5, 2012. The scientists knew the drill reached the lake because 50 cubic feet of kerosene and freon poured up to the surface from the bore shaft, sent upward by a surge in pressure from the lake water.


That gush froze in the drill hole and will be removed for analysis in December 2012, when Antarctica's summer returns. This breakthrough occurred right before the scientists were preparing to leave as the harsh Antarctic winter sets in now. Lake Vostok has been under 2.4 miles of Antarctic ice for more than 20 million years. The lake is warmed from below by geothermal heat, so the primeval water could contain ancient bacteria for comparison to Earth's surface bacteria and life. If the Antarctic Treaty organization approves, Russian scientists want to explore Lake Vostok with an underwater robot that can videotape as water samples and sediments are collected from the bottom of the lake.

....pretty cool. 20 million year old ice....probably makes some delicious icee pops.

March 4, 2012 -

NASA Confirms Asteroid 2012 DA14 Could Hit Earth Next February.



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Asteroid 2012 DA 14's closest approach to Earth
will be February 15, 2013, when it will be about 16,700 miles
(27,000 km) from our planet if its orbit does not change.
Asteroid moving toward Earth illustration by NASA.


—We could paint it.??

- David Dunham, NASA JPL Engineer


NASA scientists are concerned enough to suggest the asteroid either be blasted with big guns - or painted to change how sunlight reflects off its surface in order to alter the asteroid's temperature, spin and orbital path. If we shoot at the asteroid, it could break into pieces that could still hit Earth. Painting DA14 to change its orbit slightly could backfire in 2056 when asteroid DA14 returns near Earth. If DA14 hits Earth, estimates are the impact would be similar to the Tunguska, Siberia, blast of 1908 that knocked trees down over an 830-square-mile area.

MARS AND THE SUPERNOVA:
March 18, 2012


"On March 18th, I photographed the planet Mars among the galaxies of Leo," reports amateur astronomer Oscar Mart?_n Mesonero of Salamanca, Spain. "The next morning, I learned that a supernova exploded in the galaxy M95. I quickly checked the photos and there it was!"


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"Unwittingly, using my ED80, I had photographed a supernova of magnitude +13.5 only two days after its discovery," says Mesonero. "I never expected the night to bring so many wonderful things."

The rapidly brightening supernova is an easy target for mid-sized backyard telescopes equipped with CCD cameras--and it's easy to find only a degree south of Mars. Astrophotographers, now is your chance to catch a supernova in the act.

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******If only the sky would put up yellow arrows pointing at things, cause i would have looked up at the sky and just thought that was another star and not an amazing supernova.

Posted by TasteOfChaosss
I wish I was an astronaught.

I think some already consider you a Space Cadet. LOL!!!!!

One thing you can bet Uranus on is that you are loved in here.

this thread is, is , is...like...SO AWSOME!!!:d

Posted by chemengin
this thread is, is , is...like...SO AWSOME!!!:d

All credit goes to our funky fresh universe.

Please feel free to contribute anything you find interesting.
I know there are many fascinating things in the world of chemistry.

Posted by DeadRingerr
Nice topic!! and they say Astrology is hog wash!! I think not!

When you consider that we are made of gases and chemical reactions that exist in the universe at scales that we cannot even imagine, I can see how certain planets can affect a person. I mean, its been studied that the moon's phases seem to affect living things. There is something to be said for that. Like when people say, when there is a Full Moon, people and animals act out. Sure its possible since whatever made the moon also made the earth and in that cauldron, we humans evolved.

But even if you dont believe or trust in evolution and subscribe to creationism, you cant argue that many of the same scientific elements we find on Earth are also found all over the universe.

Posted by wgamador2

Posted by chemengin
this thread is, is , is...like...SO AWSOME!!!:d

All credit goes to our funky fresh universe.

Please feel free to contribute anything you find interesting.
I know there are many fascinating things in the world of chemistry.

click to expand

yes! astrochemistry, it might seem boring to some. but i think its interesting. they study the different molecules and chemical compounds that are present in space. 🙂

now according to the arrhenius equation chemical reactions move faster as temperatures increase. so atoms and molecules have to overcome an energy barrier(low temperatures) to react with each other. (but this does not apply to all reactions) ISM (interstellar mediums) clouds have to be active chemically to become stars in the frigid vastness of space. the ionization potential of the alkenes present in this cluster of chemically active ISM clouds, if at the appropriate temperature, will aid the chemical reaction of alkenes and oxygen (both in gas form) to give......



the chemical reaction (in space) that starts the occurence of a falling star 🙂

Now Astronomy:
While this chemical process continues to react (alkenes +oxygen), the earth moves around the sun at record speeds. rocks (in the atomosphere) are caught up in the chemical reaction. heat builds up due to the earth surrounding the sun, eventually this makes the rocks start to glow and burn. as it continues to spin and spin the hotter it gets. and it forms this meteor aka shooting star.....

far away...


close up...


looks like a meat ball ...LOL anyway when they crash on earth they create

this..



i thought it was interesting how astro chemistry explained the beginning chemical processes of meteorites. so cool i didnt learn that in astronomy.

Posted by chemengin
now according to the arrhenius equation chemical reactions move faster as temperatures increase. so atoms and molecules have to overcome an energy barrier(low temperatures) to react with each other. (but this does not apply to all reactions) ISM (interstellar mediums) clouds have to be active chemically to become stars in the frigid vastness of space. the ionization potential of the alkenes present in this cluster of chemically active ISM clouds, if at the appropriate temperature, will aid the chemical reaction of alkenes and oxygen (both in gas form) to give......



the chemical reaction (in space) that starts the occurence of a falling star 🙂

Now Astronomy:
While this chemical process continues to react (alkenes +oxygen), the earth moves around the sun at record speeds. rocks (in the atomosphere) are caught up in the chemical reaction. heat builds up due to the earth surrounding the sun, eventually this makes the rocks start to glow and burn. as it continues to spin and spin the hotter it gets. and it forms this meteor aka shooting star.....

far away...


close up...


looks like a meat ball ...LOL anyway when they crash on earth they create

this..



i thought it was interesting how astro chemistry explained the beginning chemical processes of meteorites. so cool i didnt learn that in astronomy.

BRILLIANT!!!!
That crater is absolutley mind-blowing.

March 26th 2012

James Cameron reaches deepest spot on Earth
Associated Press — 2 hrs 27 mins ago


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HONOLULU (AP) — Hollywood icon James Cameron has made it to Earth's deepest point.

The director of "Titanic," ''Avatar" and other films used a specially designed submarine to dive nearly seven miles, completing his journey a little before 8 a.m. Monday local time, according to Stephanie Montgomery of the National Geographic Society.

He plans to spend about six hours exploring and filming the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island of Guam.

"All systems OK," were Cameron's first words upon reaching the bottom, according to a statement. His arrival at a depth of 35,756 feet came early Sunday evening on the U.S. East Coast, after a descent that took more than two hours.



******The scale of the trench is hard to grasp — it's 120 times larger than the Grand Canyon and more than a mile deeper than Mount Everest is tall.******



Cameron made the dive aboard his 12-ton, lime-green sub called "Deepsea Challenger." He planned to collect samples for biologists and geologists to study.

"It's really the first time that human eyes have had an opportunity to gaze upon what is a very alien landscape," said Terry Garcia, the National Geographic Society's executive VP for mission programs, via phone from Pitlochry, Scotland.

The first and only time anyone dove to these depths was in 1960. Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy Capt. Don Walsh took nearly five hours to reach the bottom and stayed just 20 minutes. They had little to report on what they saw, however, because their submarine kicked up so much sand from the ocean floor.

"He is going to be seeing something that none of us have ever seen before. He is going to be opening new worlds to scientists," Garcia said.


--Cont'ed---

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One of the risks of a dive so deep is extreme water pressure. At 6.8 miles below the surface, the pressure is the equivalent of three SUVs sitting on your toe.

Cameron told The Associated Press in an interview after a 5.1 mile-deep practice run near Papua New Guinea earlier this month that the pressure "is in the back of your mind." The submarine would implode in an instant if it leaked, he said.

But while he was a little apprehensive beforehand, he wasn't scared or nervous while underwater.

"When you are actually on the dive you have to trust the engineering was done right," he said.

The film director has been an oceanography enthusiast since childhood and has made 72 deep-sea submersible dives. Thirty-three of those dives have been to the wreckage of the Titanic, the subject of his 1997 hit film.


** You have to understand that only two other human beings have ever been that deep before in the Mariana's Trench. And just to show how difficult it is, the two other men did it in the Swiss-designed, Italian-built, United States Navy bathyscaphe Trieste reached the bottom at 1:06 p.m. on 23 January 1960, with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board.

Now, from my previous post I stated that stars are formed from a chemical reaction of alkenes and oxygen. well that was new information to me. because for years physicist and chemist claimed that sulfur was involved in the formation of stars. and there was proof found of this with super nova. They claim that sulfur particles are expelled from falling stars/meteorites when they land on earth. evidence of sulfur can be found in the stardust around and in the crater. This sulfur would have to be H2S, Hydrogen Sulfide, very toxic and flammable. Its basically in stink bombs, my college mates and I used to set off a stink bomb when we wanted to leave lab early. horrible smelling stuff...anyway on back on topic....

When I wrote that other post, I realized there was no mention of sulfur. When I read about the chemical processes and test of super nova i wonder how sulfur even got in the mix. I know that its everywhere. Its in our soil, chemistry, sometimes in water and food, but how did it get into the chemical composition of a meteor?

Well with isotopic analysis scientist like Max Planck (German Physicist, founder of plancks contant E=hv) and some other researcher discovered .1 to 1 micrometers of silicone carbide, which made more since than H2S. these samples where derived from super nova.
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According to Plancks:
"The stardust grains we found are extremely rare. They represent only about the 100 millionth part of the entire meteorite material. That we have found them is much of a coincidence - especially since we were actually looking for silicon carbide stardust with isotopically light silicon," says Peter Hoppe. "The signature of isotopically heavy silicon and light sulfur can plausibly only be explained if silicon sulfide molecules were formed in the innermost zones in the ejecta of a supernova." Afterwards, the sulfide molecules have been enclosed in the condensing silicon carbide crystals. These crystals then reached the solar nebula around 4.6 billion years ago and were subsequently incorporated into the forming planetary bodies. They finally reach the Earth by meteorites which are fragments of asteroids. Carbon monoxide and silicon monoxide were already detected in the ejecta of supernova explosions in infrared spectra. Although models predicted the formation of sulfur molecules, it has not yet been possible to prove this. The measurements on silicon carbide stardust now provide support to the predictions that silicon sulfide molecules arise a few months"

the sulfide molecules got into the stardust mixture AFTER the meteor landed. But Carbon monoxide (alkenes +oxides) and Silicon monoxide (vapors form Silicon Dioxide (glass)) were present prior to the meteor landing. So of course when a rock is exposed to high temps of heat you get glass and vapors.
So when you see this:


you will find pieces like these:




inside the crater and around the perimeter.

Sorry I cheapen the post here.
I should have said that when a rock is exposed to high temperatures, such as being exposed to the heat of the sun, it will cause it to crystallize.

I will download my program at work to show chemical reaction formulas in my next post.

thanks for allowing me to post Wgamador2. 🙂

Posted by chemengin
Sorry I cheapen the post here. 🙂

What is this bullshit? Cheapen? Are you crazy. There is no such thing!!!

No one can cheapen this thread. Its open to anything anyone finds interesting.

Posted by PotHeadVirgo22
Honestly I forgot this forum even existed until I read your advertisements lol
But don't mind me I'll just be reading along plus I got some catchin up to do.......****Packing Bong***

Hahahaha. Hotbox that chillum!!!!

Contribute stuff, please.

Posted by chemengin


you will find pieces like these:




inside the crater and around the perimeter.

Why doesnt that impact create diamonds? I mean, the pressure must be immense.
Is it because there isnt enough carbon found where it impacted?

The pressure is immense and the heat is substantial but.. that is not enough. these rock are only quartzite. they have silicon dioxide, meaning they are only glass, when manufactured they can become the glass on the face of your watch or something like that. but scientist have found microdiamonds or nanodiamonds from ancient meteorites, but that is due to them being exposed on earth for a long period of time. they do not have any value( because they are so small), you can crush them with 2 fingers. that is why scientist use these diamonds to determine the age of the meteorite. if they are left there to bare the elements of nature i would say in a billion years, it would be worth more. but with just one substantial thermal impact they cant become diamonds.

and you are absolutely right, they did not become diamonds because they do not have enough carbon also, quartzite is formulated with a chemical process using an alkene gas (2C). diamonds are not, they are created by carbon (solid)in the earth. also diamonds have a isotope of 13C. diamonds are exposed to high thermal temperatures repeatedly,(platetonics, magma, etc) most diamonds found today are over a billion years old..about the age of the earth. that is how long it takes for an authentic diamond to form. scientist work very hard to develop a faster way to develop diamonds. but diamonds are like fossil fuels, once they are all used up, there arent any more for another billion years.

Posted by chemengin
The pressure is immense and the heat is substantial but.. that is not enough. these rock are only quartzite. they have silicon dioxide, meaning they are only glass, when manufactured they can become the glass on the face of your watch or something like that. but scientist have found microdiamonds or nanodiamonds from ancient meteorites, but that is due to them being exposed on earth for a long period of time. they do not have any value( because they are so small), you can crush them with 2 fingers. that is why scientist use these diamonds to determine the age of the meteorite. if they are left there to bare the elements of nature i would say in a billion years, it would be worth more. but with just one substantial thermal impact they cant become diamonds.

and you are absolutely right, they did not become diamonds because they do not have enough carbon also, quartzite is formulated with a chemical process using an alkene gas (2C). diamonds are not, they are created by carbon (solid)in the earth. also diamonds have a isotope of 13C. diamonds are exposed to high thermal temperatures repeatedly,(platetonics, magma, etc) most diamonds found today are over a billion years old..about the age of the earth. that is how long it takes for an authentic diamond to form. scientist work very hard to develop a faster way to develop diamonds. but diamonds are like fossil fuels, once they are all used up, there arent any more for another billion years.

God, I love when you sexy talk!

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Posted by chemengin
The pressure is immense and the heat is substantial but.. that is not enough. these rock are only quartzite. they have silicon dioxide, meaning they are only glass, when manufactured they can become the glass on the face of your watch or something like that. but scientist have found microdiamonds or nanodiamonds from ancient meteorites, but that is due to them being exposed on earth for a long period of time. they do not have any value( because they are so small), you can crush them with 2 fingers. that is why scientist use these diamonds to determine the age of the meteorite. if they are left there to bare the elements of nature i would say in a billion years, it would be worth more. but with just one substantial thermal impact they cant become diamonds.

and you are absolutely right, they did not become diamonds because they do not have enough carbon also, quartzite is formulated with a chemical process using an alkene gas (2C). diamonds are not, they are created by carbon (solid)in the earth. also diamonds have a isotope of 13C. diamonds are exposed to high thermal temperatures repeatedly,(platetonics, magma, etc) most diamonds found today are over a billion years old..about the age of the earth. that is how long it takes for an authentic diamond to form. scientist work very hard to develop a faster way to develop diamonds. but diamonds are like fossil fuels, once they are all used up, there arent any more for another billion years.

God, I love when you sexy talk!

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VY Canis Majoris makes our SUN seem like a fly turd when you compare the two in size.
Amazing.


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^ that's amazing.

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VY Canis Majoris makes our SUN seem like a fly turd when you compare the two in size.
Amazing.


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wow!

Friday June 22, 2012


A 'super Earth' near a 'hot Neptune' in space
By Ned Potter | ABC News — 10 hrs ago


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Not very long ago, space scientists expected that if other stars had solar systems, they'd be much like our own - small, rocky planets (like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) orbiting close to their host star, with gas giants (think of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) farther out. There were good reasons for this, not the least of which was that any self-respecting star would tear a Jupiter-sized planet apart if it were too close. Everything made sense.


.............So much for that..................


Since the 1990s, astrophysicists report they have identified at lest 600 stars with planets circling them and found that solar systems like ours are a rarity.

Take Kepler 36, reported Friday in the journal Science. It's a solar system about 1,200 light-years from our own, with two very different planets right on top of each other. One is a rocky "super Earth," about 1.5 times as large as our world. The other is a gaseous "hot Neptune," about 3.7 times as large.

"They are the closest to each other of any planetary system we've found," said Eric Agol of the University of Washington, one of the researchers. He and his colleagues spotted the planets using NASA's Kepler probe, which has been planet-hunting since 2009.

Both worlds are probably infernos, so close to their host star that they zip around it in 14 and 16 Earth-days, respectively. That means they pass very close to each other - less than five times as far apart as our moon is from us. If you've ever been struck by moonrise on a summer night, imagine a world about 12 times as large.

David Aguilar, a space artist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has done us the favor of imagining the scene himself. The result is the conception above.

Which is good, because the two planets are so close to their sun (11-12 million miles, compared to our 93 million) that you wouldn't want to go there yourself.

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Posted by wgamador2
VY Canis Majoris makes our SUN seem like a fly turd when you compare the two in size.
Amazing.


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wow!

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9,261,000,000 (9.2) Billion sun can fit in VY Canis Majoris!!!!

FTW, literally!!!!!




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Was Biggest Canyon in the Solar System Scarred by Plasma?



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Valles Marineris, our solar system's biggest canyon, runs along the Martian equator
for 2,500 miles (4000 km)!!!!!!!! at depths up to 4 miles (7 km ). For comparison, Arizona's
Grand Canyon is about 500 miles long (800 km) !!!! and 1 mile deep (1.6 km). Valles Marineris
spans one-fifth of the entire distance around Mars! NASA 1980 global mosaic image by Viking 1.


The 19th Annual National Philosophy Alliance (NPA) conference is held July 25 - 28, 2012, at the Marriott Pyramid North hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Presentations range from quantum physics and relativity to the electric universe hypothesis.
Electric universe researcher David Talbott argues that Valles Marineris on Mars was sculpted by large bolts of plasma, not by water or continental drift forces seen on Earth. Further, Wallace Thornhill from Canberra, Australia, will present new evidence that hourglass-shaped and filamentous galactic nebulae are linked to electrical behavior more than gravity.

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Cool!

Very cool. I mean, can you even wrap your mind around that depth?
Its truly amazing.

Yip I like.

-Opens up a package of Skittles-

NASA's rover Curiosity lands on Mars

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
Mon August 6, 2012


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(CNN) -- NASA's $ 2.6 billion rover, Curiosity, carried out a challenging landing on Mars early Monday after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space in order to explore the Red Planet.

The SUV-sized Curiosity made its dramatic arrival on Martian terrain in a spectacle popularly known as the "seven minutes of terror."

This jaw-dropping landing process, involving a sky crane and the world's largest supersonic parachute, allowed the spacecraft carrying Curiosity to target the landing area that scientists had meticulously chosen.

The mission control in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California burst into cheers as the rover touched down. Team members hugged and high-fived one another as Curiosity beamed back the first pictures from the planet, some shed tears.

"Rationally I know it was supposed to work all along, but emotionally it always seemed completely crazy," said James Wray, assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, who is affiliated with the Curiosity science team of Curiosity. "So to see all those steps being ticked off and actually working, it's a huge relief."

The spacecraft had been traveling away from Earth since November 26 on a journey of approximately 352 million miles (567 million kilometers), according to NASA.

The vehicle, which will be controlled from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has a full suite of sophisticated tools for exploring Mars. They include 17 cameras, a laser that can survey the composition of rocks from a distance and instruments that can analyze samples from soil or rocks.

The aim of its work is "to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms," NASA says.

If all goes according to plan, Curiosity's first stop will be Gale Crater, which may have once contained a lake. After at least a year, the rover will arrive at Mount Sharp, in the center of the crater.

Was going to post pics it took on its descent but
all jpl and nasa sites are overladed at the moment.

Man I just realized that JPL is like 20 mins from my house...

Posted by SwimmingLioness
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Woooooooooooooooo!!!
Thanks for posting it.


People dont realize how important these missions are for the future colonization of Mars.