Suzuki Hayabusa:
Posted on 06/03/2006 12:34:15 AM PDT by neverdem
Japanese asteroid team reports on ball of rubble - Itokawa
Reuters on Yahoo | 6/1/06 | Maggie Fox
Posted on 06/02/2006 1:21:27 AM EDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642153/posts
Thanks for the link.
TVF is a very smart guy, but claims that unassisted capture is impossible, which is not true, but nice for his EPH; he also hasn't got a mechanism for the occasional exploding planets that have been necessitated by his own theory (because Jupiter will, he says, clean out the debris from such an explosion after about 10 million years, either ejecting it from the Solar System, or swallowing it). He also persists in his support for the idea that the "Face on Mars" is artificial, and that makes him look pretty foolish.
My pleasure.
Asteroid Juno Has A "Bite" Out Of It
SpaceDaily | Aug 11, 2003 | unattributed
Posted on 06/03/2006 2:16:51 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1642711/posts
I think TVF takes comfort in knowing that for forty years meteorologist Alfred Lothar Wegener's continental drift theory made him seem foolish to geologists who knew better, too.
Now plate tectonics is gospel and dogma to the orthodox. But perhaps evidence suggesting that the earth is expanding, and at an even more rapid rate in the past 200 MYA, might provide a vehicle for the planetary disruptions that TVF hypothesizes.
Basic science advances have seemed to me to be visibly slowing in the course of my long lifetime. I personally believe that the virtues of orthodoxy have begun to sharply limit our willingness to pursue breakthroughs.
My hat's off to folks like TVF, Halton Arp, and the incredible Fred Hoyle, who were and are willing to take risks.
In that connection, TVF states in "Dark Matter, Missing Planets, & New Comets" that continental drift a.k.a. plate tectonics (prostitute a.k.a. sex worker), in a footnote (p 269 of either edition), "[t]he continental drift scenario and the lunar fission origin as I have described it contain incompatible predictions about the origin of the Atlantic basin... This leads me to make the following prediction. Modern techniques that measure the locations of observing sites on different continents with a precision of 1 cm or better, such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry... will show no secular tred to spread apart at nearly the rates predicted for the sea floors."
I read that first line from the article and it hit me like a ton of bricks:
It wasn't all that long ago that this type of thing was the stuff of Sci-Fi.
In fact, the first sentence from the above article reads like the opening of a science fiction novel.
We live in a fascinating age. It's a great time to be alive.
Also, does anybody have a page with all the asteroid pictures in one place? I've seen maybe 3 and that can't be the actual data. Where are they? The official site is a useless collection of press releases and orbit diagrams.
I have a very bad feeling about this.
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Japan’s asteroid explorer begins voyage back to Earth
A small Japanese asteroid probe riddled by a streak of bad luck began its slow limp home Wednesday, but officials still face a myriad of challenges to bring the craft back in 2010.
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