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Two Planets Collide in Deep Space
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| 8/10/2009
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Posted on 08/10/2009 6:39:12 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
I wonder of the debris will be harmful to Superman...?
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:40:25 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Red in Blue PA
I wonder if the debris will be harmful to Superman...?
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:40:38 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Slings and Arrows
Did anyone catch it on film?
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:42:36 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Anyone seen Michael Moore lately?
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:42:38 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(What came first? The word, or the thought behind the word?)
To: Red in Blue PA
This will have a devastating effect on the poor.
To: Red in Blue PA
The distance from Earth and the energy involved in such a collision is truly mindboggling.
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:43:48 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: Red in Blue PA
I hope they had insurance.
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:43:55 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:48:10 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://unitedcitizen.blogspot -Guilty of deviationism- http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: Red in Blue PA; GnL
I saw a program that explained how this happened to the Earth. As a result, the core of the Earth was shot out and eventually became the moon. Amazing stuff.
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:49:49 PM PDT
by
MattinNJ
(DeMint/Palin 2012)
To: Red in Blue PA
What, no pictures of this happening? Sucks.
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:50:01 PM PDT
by
cranked
To: cranked
I was expecting world shattering pics, too!
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:50:43 PM PDT
by
new cruelty
(Shoot your TV. Torch your newspaper.)
To: cranked
The two-planet pileup occurred within the last few thousand years or so - a relatively recent cosmic timeframe. One of them was probably busy "texting".
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:51:27 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: sand lake bar
Women and minorities hardest hit.
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:51:53 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:52:09 PM PDT
by
TexasGreg
("Democrats Piss Me Off")
To: Red in Blue PA
We all know this is Bush’s fault!!!!
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posted on
08/10/2009 6:53:57 PM PDT
by
Springman
(Rest In Peace YaYa123)
To: Red in Blue PA
To: Red in Blue PA
It sounds like a similar, but smaller,collision to the one that is believed to have created Earth's Moon.It will be interesting to continue to see how common these events are.
To: Red in Blue PA
“I am Kirok!
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posted on
08/10/2009 7:02:14 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
(Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
To: GeronL
What star system?
"Infrared detectors on Spitzer found the traces of rocky rubble and re-frozen lava around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The system is about 100 light-years from Earth. One light-year is the distance light travels in a year (about six trillion miles).
A similar fender-bender is thought to have formed Earth's moon more than 4 billion years ago, when a body the size of Mars rammed into Earth.
"The collision that formed our moon would have been tremendous, enough to melt the surface of Earth," said co-author Geoff Bryden of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "Debris from the collision most likely settled into a disk around Earth that eventually coalesced to make the moon. This is about the same scale of impact we're seeing with Spitzer - we don't know if a moon will form or not, but we know a large rocky body's surface was red hot, warped and melted." In fact, such violent encounters seem to have been common in our own solar system's early history. For example, giant impacts are thought to have stripped Mercury of its outer crust, tipped Uranus on its side, and spun Venus backward.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538815,00.html?test=latestnews
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posted on
08/10/2009 7:15:04 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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