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Jupiter loses one of its stripes and scientists are stumped as to why
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| May 12, 2010
| Claire Bates
Posted on 05/12/2010 4:55:35 PM PDT by kennedy
Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as to why.
The largest planet in our solar system is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere, with one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.
However, the most recent images taken by amateur astronomers have revealed the lower stripe known as the Southern Equatorial Belt has disappeared leaving the southern half of the planet looking unusually bare.
The band was present in at the end of last year before Jupiter ducked behind the Sun on its orbit. However, when it emerged three months later the belt had disappeared.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1277734/Jupiter-loses-stripes-scientists-idea-why.html#ixzz0nlLRW5xQ
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; jove; jupiter; planets; solarsystem; stripes
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Bush's fault.
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posted on
05/12/2010 4:55:35 PM PDT
by
kennedy
To: kennedy; KevinDavis
Jupiter has been demoted!
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posted on
05/12/2010 4:57:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: kennedy
Man Made Global Warming.....
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posted on
05/12/2010 4:57:08 PM PDT
by
Nekman
(Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm, mmm, mmm! ..The Liar in Chief....and card carying communist!)
To: kennedy
Global Warming. We need communism now to put that stripe back on Jupiter.
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posted on
05/12/2010 4:57:21 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(END THE WAR ON LIBERTY!)
To: kennedy
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posted on
05/12/2010 4:58:46 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: facedown
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:00:34 PM PDT
by
Vasilli22
To: Nekman
Man Made Global Warming.....It's not just global any more.
Where is all the financing to pay for this evil human debacle that is tainting the milky way now?
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:01:02 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: HerrBlucher
Only Government can fix this. Only Government can hold the people that did this accountable.
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:01:02 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(www.jdforsenate.com)
To: kennedy
NOOOWW, will we stop driving our SUV’s?
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:01:03 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
To: kennedy
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:01:18 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: kennedy
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:01:47 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: HerrBlucher
You wrote “We need communism now to put that stripe back on Jupiter.” I agree. The time for debate is over.
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:01:54 PM PDT
by
duckworth
(Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
To: kennedy
Falling asleep on duty?
Maybe Jupiter and Pluto were awol and each got demoted.
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:02:20 PM PDT
by
x
To: kennedy
I remember when I lost a stripe. It took me months to get it back. And no, I can’t tell how I lost it here, at least not while the sun is shining.
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:03:26 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: kennedy
Maybe the band broke up when the lead singer decided to go solo.
To: eclecticEel
NOOOWW, will we stop driving our SUV’s?I'll do MY part and not drive on Jupiter anymore, damn strait!
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:04:50 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: kennedy
We must have forgotten to pay some bill.
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:05:10 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: kennedy
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:05:23 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: kennedy
It must have been insubordinate.
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:05:39 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
To: kennedy
“Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as to why.”
Well, this uneducated slack-jawed yokel will take a stab at it, Mr, Scientist!
Um, because SPACE is STILL forming, the planets have been CHANGING since ‘The Big Bang’ and our Universe (and beyond!) will continue to DO SO for the next million billion YEARS or so?
*Rolleyes*
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posted on
05/12/2010 5:06:07 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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