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Stars Passing Close to the Sun
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| Paul Gilster
Posted on 01/02/2015 11:41:56 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
If a star were to pass in between the earth and the sun ... it would be bad.
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posted on
01/02/2015 11:47:18 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
To: LibWhacker
I’ll be 61 next month, with a billion things to worry about before I worry about a passing star, but I’ll put it on my list.
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posted on
01/02/2015 11:58:08 AM PST
by
pallis
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:01:12 PM PST
by
ConservativeMan55
(In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:01:34 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:01:39 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:06:03 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: LibWhacker
Speaking of a star here or there for a steller close encounter is one thing, but....
What about a trillion star encounter? Such WILL happen, with Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way making a beeline for each other. One trillion stars will “collide” with the 100 billion Milky Way stars.
Timeframe for any concerned.... About 3 billion years.
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:09:24 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: LibWhacker
"Stars Passing Close to the Sun"
Sounds like an Obama fund-raising bash in Tinsel Town.
Leni
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:10:44 PM PST
by
MinuteGal
To: LibWhacker
As I see it, everything in that article, plus $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee most places besides Starbucks.
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:12:41 PM PST
by
Tucker39
(Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:12:41 PM PST
by
Bullish
(He's just NOT presidential material.)
To: LibWhacker
The galaxy is nothing more than a giant bumper car track and one day the ride will be over.
To: LibWhacker
Further analysis will be needed using upcoming Gaia data We'd better be nice to the Erf so Gaia is willing to give us her data ....
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posted on
01/02/2015 12:55:52 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Astro BUMP)
To: ClearCase_guy
Bad, but also very unlikely. The nearest star is 4 and a quarter light years from us, so coming within earth-sun distance would be like shooting a beer can from 15 miles away.
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posted on
01/02/2015 1:18:05 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: LibWhacker
Pretty interesting stuff. I hadn’t heard about the close approach of Gl710. Unfortunately, I won’t be around to make observations.
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posted on
01/02/2015 1:53:36 PM PST
by
zeugma
(The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
To: ClearCase_guy
The Sun is a star. But if one did pass between Earth and our sun, yeah, it would be very, very bad.
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posted on
01/02/2015 2:04:21 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away and the kids are in charge.)
To: pallis
ill be 61 next month I agree with you, I'm 75.
To: LibWhacker
I didn’t know stars were going in the “wrong” direction. I thought with the big bang everything was expanding? Unless it is traveling from the center going faster than our system. Sorry if I sound confused, just not visualizing how this is happening. I’m a visual learner.
To: C210N
Timeframe for any concerned.... About 3 billion years. Excuse me? But did you say that'll be 3 million or 3 billion years?
:)
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posted on
01/02/2015 4:58:44 PM PST
by
Does so
(SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
To: Does so
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posted on
01/02/2015 5:24:49 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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