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  • KoshN
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    Think of it as a B5 Rorschach test.

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  • Truth66
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    The larger picture also looks like the main guns of the Excalibar being fired? O.K. maybe I need to get out more(lol).

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  • Jan
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    I was expecting one of the asteroids involved to be the 8379 STRACZYNSKI.

    Jan

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  • KoshN
    started a topic Centauri Vorchan Cruiser with its head blown off?

    Centauri Vorchan Cruiser with its head blown off?

    NASA Spots Mysterious Space Debris

    Originally posted in rast and rat (not by me):
    > NASA scientists have spotted a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern with
    > trailing streamers of dust that is unlike any image astronomers have
    > seen before.
    >
    > The behavior is not typical of comets, UCLA investigator David Jewitt
    > explains, and researchers believe something unprecedented has been
    > spotted:
    >
    > Pic here: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen...3/original.jpg
    >
    > This is quite different from the smooth dust envelopes of normal
    > comets. [...] The filaments are made of dust and gravel, presumably
    > recently thrown out of the nucleus. Some are swept back by radiation
    > pressure from sunlight to create straight dust streaks. Embedded in
    > the filaments are co-moving blobs of dust that likely originated from
    > tiny unseen parent bodies.
    >
    > Across the vastness of space, chances are slim that scientists would
    > have a camera pointed in the right direction and set to capture images
    > at the moment two random asteroids collide. These conditions, it
    > seems, haven't been met until now.
    >
    > If what astronomers believe is correct, NASA's Hubble Space
    > Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 happened to be correctly oriented just
    > as two asteroids slammed into each other 90 million miles away from
    > the Earth.
    >
    > Scientists are guessing the collision happened at speeds over 11,000
    > miles per hour, which is what scientists believe the average speed of
    > asteroid collisions are. (see photo below)
    >
    > It seems that only one asteroid, named P/2010 A2, survived the impact
    > and is seen in the image glowing just outside of the X-debris pattern.
    > It is assumed that the other asteroid disintegrated fully.
    >
    > Astronomers have long assumed that these types of collisions are
    > common, but they've never been directly recorded until now. The join
    > of the X is thought to mark the location where the impact occurred,
    > while the distinctive X-shape was created by debris being swept into
    > tail formations by the pressure of sunlight.
    >
    > Scientists have long noted that the asteroid belt of our solar system
    > contains evidence of ancient collisions. They believe that a similar
    > such collision may have produced an asteroid fragment that became the
    > meteorite that struck the Earth 65 million years ago and caused the
    > mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

    Anybody else think the leading edge looks like a Centauri Vorchan
    Cruiser with its head blown off?
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