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Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury (Mercury)
The Sideshow ^
| December 7, 2011
| Eric Pfeiffer
Posted on 12/07/2011 3:29:16 PM PST by decimon
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12/07/2011 3:29:25 PM PST
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decimon
To: SunkenCiv
Seeing is believing ping.
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:30:34 PM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
Geez. Everybody wants to copy the History Channel.
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:31:18 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: decimon
That's no moon.....
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:31:51 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: decimon
To: decimon
Romulan warbird on main viewer...
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:33:02 PM PST
by
RitchieAprile
(Beck is on a tear again..)
To: decimon
hummm... crispy baked alpha centurions
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:37:04 PM PST
by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: decimon
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:37:28 PM PST
by
LaybackLenny
(All hail Her Royal Highness Sarah, Queen of The Hobbits)
To: USNBandit
It's the Debt Star.
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:37:39 PM PST
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KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: decimon
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:38:15 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
To: decimon
They said Pluto is not a planet because of it’s size. Mercury is a small planet. Compared to Mercury the object is much smaller. So that small object isn’t anywhere near the size of Pluto.
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:38:38 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
( If you can't laugh at your self, I will for you.)
To: decimon
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:38:38 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
To: decimon
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:42:46 PM PST
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MichaelP
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
To: decimon
Attention, Mr. Fwank white phone Uranus is calling! I know that this has nothing to do with the post, but just had to get the U word out there!
To: decimon
Have to admit the sideshow link to yahoo left me fascinated.
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12/07/2011 3:44:42 PM PST
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no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: USNBandit; All
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posted on
12/07/2011 3:45:09 PM PST
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musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: decimon
Explanation from the Naval Research Lab:
Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And what we're seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury's wake, "where the planet was on the previous day," as it travels through the solar system on its natural gravitational path: To make the relatively faint glow of a coronal mass ejection stand out against the bright glare of spacecaused by interplanetary dust and the stellar/galactic backgroundthe NRL scientists must remove as much background light as possible. They explained that they determine what light is background light, and thus can be subtracted out, by calculating the average amount of light that entered each camera pixel on the day of the CME event and on the previous day. Light appearing in the pixels on both days is considered to be background light and is removed from the footage of the CME. The remaining light is then enhanced.
The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off objects such as stars, which don't move much relative to the sun. But for moving objects, especially planets, the process is a little more complicated. And making matters even trickier is Mercury's staus as the closest planet to the sun.
"When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark (negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image," Rich explained in an email.
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12/07/2011 3:46:21 PM PST
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Jeff Head
(Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: KarlInOhio
Dammnit. The Death Star of David has been located. Our secret Zionist base must move!
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12/07/2011 3:47:06 PM PST
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Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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12/07/2011 3:47:41 PM PST
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Las Vegas Dave
(The DemocRATic party preys on the ignorant!)
To: decimon
Please come and take your pre-sent resident back to wherever he came from.
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12/07/2011 3:47:57 PM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(WE ARE AMERICA! Vote Economic Freedom. Vote third party— we keep 0Mao. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT?)
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