The Russian Federal Space Agency is considering plans to deflect the asteroid. It seems odd that they may be trying to save the world from something that isn’t endangering the world in the first place. Or is it we don’t have all the facts? According to NASA the threat level is downgraded and the calculations say it’s not as bad as first thought. Is this supposed to garner more attention for the RFSA and ultimately salvage their failing space program or is it a serious attempt to protect our planet?
And if they’re successful in creating the spacecraft to deflect it, and if they are able to launch the craft, and if they are able to navigate the craft to the asteroid, what are the chances that this action will actually deflect it directly into Earth’s path?
Aliens may actually have existed on Mars, and according to NASA they may have visited Earth millions of years ago… What’s more amazing is that they are still here!
I’m not talking about little green men, or grays, Roswell, V, or even Area 51. I’m talking about ALH84001. If you haven’t heard about this you’ve been living under a rock. Actually this is about a rock. Not just any rock though, it’s about a space rock, a meteorite named ALH84001 after the mountains range it was found near in Antarctica, that is perhaps billions of years old. There is also a possibility that it has ancient fossils of microbial life forms embedded within it according to research performed.
It’s exciting! The ALH84001 Martian meteorite was found back in 1984 by a team of US scientists from the ANSMET project. In 1996 a group of scientists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center publish an article in Science magazine announcing possible evidence of an ancient fossilized life form found within the stone.
Recently a more advanced High Resolution Electron Microscopy was employed and more study was performed on the meteorite to get a better look. This technology has increased significantly over the past 13 years or so since the discovery was originally announced. Now scientists have found new evidence to support their original discovery and claim of ancient fossilized microbes being embedded within the ALH84001 meteorite.
Let’s see how this turns out. I’m curious to see what NASA’s official findings are.
If these are in fact ancient fossilized bacterial microbes, or left overs from their existence, this is perhaps the biggest most important discovery in the history of man.
NASA’s Mar’s rover Opportunity has imaged hate experts believe could be a meteorite.
July 31, 2009
The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.
The team spotted the rock called “Block Island,” on July 18, 2009, in the opposite direction from which it was driving. The rover then backtracked some 250 meters (820 feet) to study it closer.
Scientists will be testing the rock with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to get composition measurements and to confirm if indeed it is a meteorite.
Possible Meteorite Found On Mars By Opportunity Rover NASA Image: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2251
Mars Opportunity Rover Photo Of Possible Meteorite Found on Mars Surface
Amateur Astronomer Photograph Asteroid Impact On Jupiter!
An Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley captured an extremely rare event on camera yesterday. Something BIG smashed into Jupiter creating a huge ocean sized spot in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
To make things even more weird. This impact happened almost exactly 15 years to the day after the famous Shoemaker Levy 9 comets impacts (see video below) which blew huge hole in Jupiters atmosphere and created explosions larger than Earth!
If the impactor that struck Jupiter had impacted Earth instead, it would produce what scientists call and extinction event. Viewing the photo of this impact on Jupiter you can imagine the size covering the United States and then some. That’s how big this explosion is.
An impact of this size is most likely sufficient to destroy a large portion if not all life on Earth.
This image was taken at 1.65 microns, a wavelength sensitive to sunlight reflected from high in Jupiter’s atmosphere, and it shows both the bright center of the scar (bottom left) and the debris to its northwest (upper left).
“It could be the impact of a comet, but we don’t know for sure yet,” said Orton. “It’s been a whirlwind of a day, and this on the anniversary of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Apollo anniversaries is amazing.”
Shoemaker-Levy 9 was a comet that had been seen to break into many pieces before the pieces hit Jupiter in 1994.
Leigh Fletcher, a NASA postdoctoral fellow at JPL who worked with Orton during these latest observations said, “Given the rarity of these events, it’s extremely exciting to be involved in these observations. These are the most exciting observations I’ve seen in my five years of observing the outer planets!”
BBC NEWS RECORDED INTERVIEW WITH AMATEUR ASTRONOMER
Jupiter ‘hit by large object’
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An amateur astronomer in Australia has discovered that the planet Jupiter was struck recently by an object up to two kilometres in diameter.
Anthony Wesley noticed what he described as a black scar near the south pole of the planet last Thursday.
He reported his observations to Nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory in California, where astronomers were able to determine that it was caused by an impact, possibly a stray comet or a block of ice.
Nasa officials say the dent created in Jupiter is about the size of Earth.
Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark “scar” had suddenly appeared on Jupiter, this morning between 3 and 9 a.m. PDT (6 a.m. and noon EDT) scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, gathered evidence indicating an impact.
New infrared images show the likely impact point was near the south polar region, with a visibly dark “scar” and bright upwelling particles in the upper atmosphere detected in near-infrared wavelengths, and a warming of the upper troposphere with possible extra emission from ammonia gas detected at mid-infrared wavelengths.
“We were extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn’t have planned it better,” said Glenn Orton, a scientist at JPL.
July 16th, 2009 Yahoo! News Search Results for asteroid
Gas giant planets that migrated early in the history of the solar system could have violently knocked some of the asteroid belt's denizens into their current orbits, according to a new study that aims to solve a number of enduring space rock mysteries.
July 16th, 2009 Yahoo! News Search Results for asteroid
The so-called invaders are asteroids that seem more like primitive frozen comets than the baked rocks that make up the overwhelming majority of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
The Fourmile Canyon Fire continued to burn west of Boulder, Colo., in this image taken on Sept. 7, 2010, casting a long line of smoke to the east that was visible from NASA's Aqua satellite in its orbit around the Earth. MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of the fire at 2:40 p.m. local time (20:40 UTC) on Sept. 7. The red outline corresponds with the unusually high surface temperatures associated with an active fire. The thick smoke plume flows eastward. Over the plains northeast of Denver, the smoke plume casts a shadow to the north. By early morning on Sept. 8, thousands of people had abandoned their homes while the battle against the blaze continued. Image Credit: NASA/MODIS Read More
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