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Superfast Stars Have Five-Minute Orbits: Binary pair circle each other at 310 miles a second...
National Geographic News ^
| March 12, 2010
| James Owen
Posted on 03/14/2010 5:20:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Two white dwarf stars circle each other in an artist's rendering of the binary system HM Cancri. [Tod Strohmayer and Dana Berry, NASA]
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03/14/2010 5:20:16 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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03/14/2010 5:21:12 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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03/14/2010 5:21:25 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(http://themagicnegro.com/)
To: SunkenCiv
Que the star trek fight scene music.
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posted on
03/14/2010 5:22:32 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: SunkenCiv
Two extremely dense stars in an intimate dance are spinning around each other Pelosi & Obama?
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03/14/2010 5:25:25 PM PDT
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relictele
To: SunkenCiv
310 mps = A little over a million miles an hour. Spins about as fast as Gibbs for Prez Zero.
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posted on
03/14/2010 5:27:21 PM PDT
by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: SunkenCiv
Hard to imagine this setup is long-term stable (long-term in astronomical terms, of course). I wonder how long before the orbit decays and the stars merge with a supernova bang?
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03/14/2010 5:37:56 PM PDT
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dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: relictele
Can't be Obama. They're both
white dwarfs.
}:-)4
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03/14/2010 5:39:47 PM PDT
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Moose4
(Wasting away again in Michaelnifongville.)
To: SunkenCiv
And this week’s winner of “Dancing with the Stars” are “two albino, height challenged orbiting orbs of gas.”
Now that does sound like Pelosi circling around Al Gore, or Harry Reid circling a toilet bowl looking for Cling-ons.
To: SunkenCiv
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03/14/2010 5:57:42 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: dayglored
Hard to imagine this setup is long-term stable True. It is bound to become a Type Ia supernova. Because of its rapid rotation, it can exceed the Chandrasekhar limit for a while, but not for long.
If the distance to this pair can be established by parallax, it would be a nice calibration point for this standard candle.
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03/14/2010 6:34:51 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: JoeProBono
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03/14/2010 6:45:56 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(http://themagicnegro.com/)
To: dayglored
Apparently they are approximately equal in mass — and maybe the children of the same original star that went kablooey. But regardless, this is a terminal relationship they’re in.
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03/14/2010 6:48:07 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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03/14/2010 7:02:28 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(http://themagicnegro.com/)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Thanks Lonesome in Massachussets!
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03/14/2010 7:02:55 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(http://themagicnegro.com/)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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03/14/2010 8:40:54 PM PDT
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The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: SunkenCiv
Very nifty; thanks for posting it.
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03/14/2010 10:59:23 PM PDT
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OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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03/15/2010 4:07:58 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(http://themagicnegro.com/)
To: The Comedian
They’re makin’ ‘em nice now...
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03/15/2010 4:08:13 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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