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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon.That's because that question is more general and itself just a part of the even more general issue of asymmetric ejecta, and not subject... -
m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines.You are confusing the solar cycle with the motion around the centre of mass. The 22-year solar cycle is a cycle in the pattern of the...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines.The mainstream view is that (1) brown dwarfs have masses between 13 and 80 Jupiter masses, (2) brown dwarfs formed by cloud collapse...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon.This is as good a place as any to talk about how giant impacts in fiction cannot fully show how extreme conditions are. In Armageddon...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon.I never said anything about uniform distribution, in fact, quite the opposite. I never said there weren't. I only countered your idea...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon.By the time it hits a solid body, it doesn't matter what the impactor is composed of - it can be solid iron or it can be a dense cloud...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon.On Mercury, the Caloris Basin has an antipodal chaos region. Given that the Moon is smaller while the South Pole-Aitken basin is larger...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon.There was no breaking into pieces, and inhomogeneity of the impacted surface also can only have little influence. This was an impact by...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Hubble Space Telescope spots a spectacular Bullseye in deep space (image).The language is a bit imprecise. Those "star-filled rings" are the new regions of star formation. This is because heavier stars are...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon.Interesting article, and the paper it is based on is even more interesting. Craters have the paradox that they are almost round...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread How much did SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 explosion pollute the atmosphere?.I repeat that contrary to the claims of Elon Musk fans in this thread, Space.com (and not just Space.com - practically all space media)...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Roasting marshmallow' exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?.The article says that the study determined the ratio of rocky matter to icy gaseous matter, so I wondered whether, on one hand, the loss...
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m4n8tpr8b reacted to George²'s post in the thread When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out. with
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I've read articles about this and I'm not convinced that this is a discovery of a new form of magnetism. It's probably just that... -
m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread How much did SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 explosion pollute the atmosphere?.All the commenters protesting bias but not reading the article properly show their own bias. Scare mongering? This is reporting on...
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m4n8tpr8b replied to the thread Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis.You clearly did not understand anything I wrote, in spite of what you call "teaching babytalk", and it appears you have no idea what...
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