Posted on 01/23/2015 7:39:21 AM PST by BenLurkin
Researchers working with Rosetta have found that the comet harbors organic compounds, carbon-based molecules that are sometimes known as the chemical building blocks of life. This marks the first time organic molecules have been detected on the surface of a comet's nucleus, according to Fabrizio Capaccioni, the principal investigator of the VIRTIS instrument on Rosetta.
The northern hemisphere of the comet's nucleus is also filled with dunes and ripples that look somewhat like geological markings on Earth, Mars and Venus. Comet 67P/C-G doesn't have a robust atmosphere and high gravity like those planets, and yet it still has structures resembling sand dunes, according to Nicolas Thomas, the co-investigator of the OSIRIS imaging instrument on Rosetta.
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Rosetta has also been studying the atmosphere (coma) around the comet's nucleus. The probe has detected dust grains orbiting the comet, and scientists are hoping to learn more about how they form and why they remain in the comet's orbit. As the comet gets closer to the sun and more dust is released from the cosmic body, it's possible that the Rosetta team will have more opportunities to learn about the dust-to-gas ratio of the comet, Rotundi said.
Researchers working with the program aren't yet sure if the comet is what's known as a contact binary — two lumps of different cosmic bodies stuck together.
Comet 67P/C-G appears to be dehydrated on its sunlit side, according to Thomas, but as the sun starts to hit the southern hemisphere of the comet it's possible that that side of the comet will begin to become active and heat up. The shifting sunlight could give the team a chance to understand more about the comet's origins.
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Here we go with the Evolution crap again. Yeah we know...comet hits a lifeless planet and eventually goes from amoeba to man in a few million years. Such BS. They try to sneak it in wherever they can.
So it’s not just spinning, it’s tidally locked with
the Sun, like our moon?
Interesting stuff.
Actually the time scale is more like a few billion years.
I don’t know what really happened, either. But I’ll keep searching, that’s the human in me, I guess.
That’s not in the article.
Or maybe not, they seem to indicate it will turn, my
mistake. Seemed to me that with a odd dumbbell shape
like that the larger mass would be effected more?
Those dunes look like they are made of sand or material worn off the larger rocks.
What holds the sand to the surface as it blasts through outer space at 500 KM a second?
Comet Ping!
Whenever they use this type of phraseology - “chemical building blocks of life”, it’s implied...
You don’t find it interesting that there are organic compounds on the comet? Can you say with certainty the actual process God used to create the earth and the life upon it?
What do you think keeps you from flying off the earth?
Looks like a very large piece of shrapnel from an exploding planet, long ago.
Gravity.
But the article states that there is very low gravity and I assume no electro magnetic fields of the type earth has.
And the spin of the earth has a lot to do with it but that rock has little spin
Too fast by an order of magnitude and more.
But more importantly: No wind resistance in outer space!
Regards,
Because chemistry has nothing to do with life.
Regards,
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>> What holds the sand to the surface as it blasts through outer space at 500 KM a second?” <<
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Gravity.
What other force is involved?
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The comets were all ejected from Earth at the beginning of the eruptions that produced the Genesis ‘flood.’
So they should have life source material.
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Oh it has lots to wiithout life but I’m sorry, one compound doesn’t completely morph into another different compound; maybe a derivative if you combine them. Same as kind in species; maybe an adaptation but not a completely different species...
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