Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
08-07-2016
Alien Sounds Recorded Near Jupiter by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
Alien Sounds Recorded Near Jupiter by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
Chilling, alien-like sounds have been recorded coming from Jupiter, and they could be made by enormous creatures living in the planet’s atmosphere.
The sounds were picked up by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, set to enter Jupiter’s orbit today [July 4th], after a five-year journey through interplanetary space.
The space probe is set to stabilize in a polar orbit and beam back information about the planet’s atmospheric composition, magnetic field and weather phenomena. It will also search for clues that could shed light on Jupiter’s formation, so the scientific community is pretty stoked about Juno’s arrival.
On June 24, Juno crossed the boundary of Jupiter’s magnetic field and that’s when the WAVES instrument aboard the craft started picking up a series of fascinating radio signals that sound otherworldly when shifted down into the audible spectrum.
NASA astronomers say this thunderous barrage is caused by a phenomenon known as the astrophysical bow shock. It occurs as a result of the interaction between a celestial object’s magnetic field and the flowing plasma that makes up solar wind. Traveling at supersonic speeds, these charged particles are slowed down and heated by the magnetic field they encounter, giving rise to the eerie, otherworldly sounds.
As majestic an explanation as this is, we know not to accept what we’ve been told as the irrefutable truth. We have little information about what goes on beneath Jupiter’s swirling clouds, and most of it comes from the data collected by a titanium probe dropped from the Galileo spacecraft into the gas giant’s atmosphere in July 1995. It survived for 57 minutes before being crushed by the rising pressure.
We know that earthly carbon-based lifeforms cannot survive on Jupiter but that doesn’t eliminate the possibility for Jovian life to appear and even flourish. Exobiologists believe exotic lifeforms could exist in Jupiter’s thick, 5,000 mile-deep atmosphere, which is composed mainly of hydrogen, but also contains ammonia, methane and water. These are the very gasses that were used in the famous Miller-Urey experiment, the one that demonstrated how the basic building blocks of life could be produced by reactions between the gasses in a planet’s atmosphere.
The experiment was simple: water vapor was added to a flask containing hydrogen gas, methane and ammonia. Miller then passed an electric current through the mixture and, lo and behold, after just one week of zapping the gas, the contents of the flask already showed traces of organic molecules and amino acids, the precursors of life. Jupiter has the gasses and it also has the lightning storms to perform its own experiments.
ARTIST’S RENDITION OF POSSIBLE LIFEFORMS ON A GAS GIANT
A number of scientists and writers have hypothesized the emergence of life in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, with the conditions on the planet leading to the evolution of bizarre, enormous creatures dubbed atmospheric beasts.
In the 1971 science fiction novella A Meeting with Medusa, writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke explored the possibility of future explorations of the giant planet and speculated on the characteristics of the lifeforms that might inhabit it. Clarke theorized that, alongside microscopic air plankton, Jupiter could be called home by large, jellyfish-like creatures the size of a small city. Held afloat by hydrogen-filled compartments, these rightly-called beasts would feed on the microscopic ones like the filter-feeders swimming in Earth’s oceans.
Even distinguished space scientists like Carl Sagan admitted this could be a possibility. With that in mind, listen once more to the sounds recorded by the Juno spacecraft on June 25, right after it passed Jupiter’s magnetopause. No, that’s not what happens to magnet-women later in life, it’s the area surrounding a planet where its own magnetic field is stronger than that of star it’s orbiting. Basically the planet’s home turf.
Could these incredible sounds have been made by something other than Jupiter’s astrophysical processes—its inhabitants, perhaps? The complexity of these rising and falling tones is something that needs to be taken into account and it’s been suggested before that this music of the celestial spheres strongly resembles the intricacies of intelligent speech.
VIDEO: Mysterieuze geboorte doet vrouw vermoeden dat ze een hybride is
VIDEO: Mysterieuze geboorte doet vrouw vermoeden dat ze een hybride is
Lisa voelt zich haar hele leven al ‘anders’. Ze gelooft dat ze een hybride is, zoals ze dat in UFO-kringen noemen. Hybrides worden vaak omschreven als kinderen van mensen die contact hebben gehad met aliens. Half mens, half alien dus.
Deze hybrides zeggen zich niet helemaal thuis te voelen op aarde. Ze hebben vaak indringende ogen, die diep in je ziel kijken, schrijft Earth Mystery News. Vaak hebben ze dromen waarin ze vliegen en buitenlichamelijke ervaringen waarbij ze de ruimte in gaan.
Hybrides zeggen ook dat ze zeer intuïtief zijn. Ze lijken op telepathische wijze te communiceren en lezen de gedachten van anderen. Lisa is naar eigen zeggen al vaak in contact gekomen met UFO’s. Bovendien zegt ze op mysterieuze wijze ter wereld te zijn gekomen.
“Ik ben hier met een reden. De meeste mensen zijn hier om andere redenen, maar toch zijn er denk ik veel mensen zoals ik,” zegt Lisa. “Er moet iets gedaan worden. We moeten dingen veranderen en dat is een zware last.”
Uitgerekend op 4 juli verscheen boven Colombia een wolkenformatie die rechtstreeks uit de film Independence Day leek te komen. Lokale bewoners legden vast hoe de reusachtige wolk over de stad Cartagena dreef.
De reuzenwolk, die sterk doet denken aan het ruimteschip uit de hitfilm uit 1996 met Will Smith, leek van binnen licht te geven. Mensen maakten met hun mobieltjes een aantal indrukwekkende filmpjes en foto’s.
Een aantal Colombianen belde uit angst de politie. Ook onder complottheoretici wordt er druk gespeculeerd over de wolk. Zo vermoeden sommigen dat achter de wolk een enorme UFO verscholen zit. Anderen stellen dat het een heel normaal weerfenomeen is.
De meteorologische dienst van Colombia liet weten dat de cumuluswolk is ontstaan als gevolg van ‘een verandering van luchtdruk’. De wolk zou niet gerelateerd zijn aan tropische golven in het noordelijke deel van het land.
Foto’s voeden theorie dat CERN ‘poorten naar de hel’ opent
Foto’s voeden theorie dat CERN ‘poorten naar de hel’ opent
Het Europese Centrum voor Kernonderzoek (CERN) ligt nu al enige tijd onder vuur. Sceptici menen dat er een duistere agenda schuilt achter de organisatie. Na publicatie van een aantal foto’s van de lucht boven CERN hebben sommige theoretici hun bezorgdheid geuit over de activiteiten die er plaatsvinden.
Het onderzoekscentrum, dat op de grens van Frankrijk en Zwitserland staat, bevat onder meer de Large Hadron Collider, ’s werelds grootste en meest krachtige deeltjesversneller. In 2013 ontdekten wetenschappers die ermee werken het Higgs-bosondeeltje.
Na deze wetenschappelijke doorbraak kregen François Englert en Peter Higgs, die het bestaan van het deeltje voorspelde, de Nobelprijs voor de Natuurkunde. Wetenschappers lieten zich lovend uit over de ontdekking, maar sommige internetgebruikers zijn minder te spreken over CERN.
au-dessus de Genève - 24 juin 16 - phénomène impressionnant qui est passé juste devant nous! Magnifique NO RELATION WITH THE CERN it was only a big cumulonimbus with rain and thundercloud over Geneva and its lake ! Ma photo et celles de mes amis ont été utilisées par certains pseudo-journalistes SANS AUTORISATION pour soutenir une théorie que JE NE CAUTIONNE PAS ! My picture and those of my friends have been used by some pseudo- journalists WITHOUT PERMISSION to support a theory that WE DO NOT ENDORSE !
Weermanipulatie
Op de website Freedom Fighter Times staan bijvoorbeeld meerdere artikelen over het onderzoekscentrum. In mei verscheen er een artikel op de site waarin werd gesteld dat CERN ‘poorten naar andere dimensies, mogelijk zelfs de hel opende’.
“CERN is verantwoordelijk voor weermanipulatie en het openen van poorten,” schreven ze. “Dit is onderdeel van het CLOUD-experiment. Rond CERN gebeuren vreemde dingen die je aan het denken zetten.”
Demonen
In een YouTube-filmpje uiten de mensen achter de Freedom Fighter Times hun zorgen over CERN en wat er mogelijk in het deeltjeslaboratorium gebeurt. “CERN staat erom bekend poorten te openen, ook al ontkennen ze het; er is onlangs iets vreemds vastgelegd in de wolken boven de Large Hadron Collider.”
Afgelopen jaar schreef de site dat er ‘demonen waren gezien op foto’s van de stralen van de Large Hadron Collider’. Ondertussen hebben onderzoekers van het lab een onbekende familie van exotische deeltjes gevonden. De deeltjes zijn uiterst instabiel en kunnen in de alledaagse materie geen rol spelen.
La nuit de vendredi à samedi fut exceptionnelle en Haute-Savoie. Extra-nuageux, petite supercellule prenant naissance au dessus de Genève, Cb isolés. Le tout accompagné par la lumière bienveillante de la lune. J'ai pris un plaisir incroyable à shooter en compagnie de Joëlle et Dean Gill ! 1-2 : Nikon Df & Zeiss 21/2.8 3-4 : Nikon D750 & Zeiss 50/1.4
The US military’s high-priority UFO reporting system
The US military’s high-priority UFO reporting system
The U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) official investigation into UFOs ended in 1969, and since then, the military has claimed they have no interest in the topic, nor do they investigate UFOs. However, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), investigators have uncovered several documents that would indicate UFOs have been of interest, and that the most important files were most likely never made public.
The USAF began officially investigating UFOs in 1948 as Project Sign. This evolved into Project Grudge, and finally into the well-known, Project Blue Book. The best behind the scenes look into these projects was written by Blue Book’s director, Captain Edward Ruppelt. It is titled, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, and can be read on the internet for free.
Edward Ruppelt (standing center) at July 29, 1952 Pentagon UFO press conference. Also pictured, Major Generals Roger Ramey (seated left), USAF operations chief, and John A. Samford (seated right), USAF director of intelligence. (image credit: Wikipedia)
Much has been made of the Blue Book investigations, and as Ruppelt admits in his book, there were many extraordinary investigations that have yet to be solved. However, what is perhaps more extraordinary is that the most significant military reports were not sent to Blue Book.
Blue Book was closed in 1969, after a study conducted by the University of Colorado and the USAF determined there was no merit to the project. The reasons Project Blue Book should be closed were outlined in a document dated October 20, 1969, prepared by USAF Deputy Director of Development Brigadier General C.H. Bolender.
To highlight his point that Blue Book was unnecessary, he wrote “reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book system (Atch 10).”
Bolender continued, “The Air Force experience therefore confirms the impression of the University of Colorado researchers ‘that the defense function could be performed within the framework established for intelligence and surveillance operations without the continuance of a special unit such as Project Blue Book.’”
So what is JANAP 146? JANAP stands for Joint Army, Navy, Air Force Publication, and documents such as the Air Force Manual 55-11 are based off of them. JANAP 146 details “Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings [aka CIRVIS].” According to a copy of JANAP 146 found on the NSA’s website, this includes reporting “Unidentified flying objects.”
Excerpt from JANAP 146 on NSA website.
A website hosted by the Library and Archives of Canada regarding Canada’s UFO files, includes a poster with images of UFOs used to demonstrate what was to be reported. The website says that Canada instituted a joint reporting system with the U.S. called CIRIVS/MERINT in 1959-1960. However, copies of JANAP 146 can be found dating back to the early 1950s. The most recent reference to the JANAP 146 instructions was found in an U.S. Air Force document called Air Force Instruction (AFI) 10-206 in 2011.
Section of poster showing what to report.
The circumstances surrounding the deletion of this reference are very peculiar. John Greenewald, creator ofThe Black Vault, often referenced AFI 10-206 in lectures and even included it in a History channel documentary on UFOs he helped produce. He felt it demonstrated that despite what they tell the public, the USAF is still interested in UFOs.
In 2011, Lee Speigel, staff writer for The Huffington Post, decided to write an article on the document. Greenewald helped him find the document on the USAF website, and sure enough, it still referenced reporting UFOs. However, a few days later, when Speigel went to get a screenshot of the document for his story, the chapter had been changed. He wrote about this coincidence in his article.
Greenewald sent a FOIA request to get information on what had changed and why the changes had been made. They sent him a report, and in it, they list CIRVIS as no longer existing or being required. Even so, the timing of its removal was extraordinary.
On his website, Greenewald also chronicles his effort to find the CIRVIS UFO reports. CIRVIS reports were to be sent to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). However, when Greenewald sent a FOIA request for these files, he was sent a response that stated: “NORAD is a binational command established by Volume 33, United States Treaties (UST), page 1277, subject to control of both Canadian and US Government agencies as defined in the Act and consequently is not subject to the US FOIA.”
Although, according to this statement, they were not required to send Greenewald their UFO files, Greenewald says, “The letter went on to state that in the spirit of the FOIA, they looked for UFO information but found no records.”
Greenewald finds that odd. Especially, after finding out that the Canadians were much more open with their files, and they did receive CIRVIS UFO reports.
Greenewald says in “circa 2000,” he decided to contact the Canadian government to inquire if he could get copies of any UFO reports they received via CIRVIS. Canada’s version of FOIA is the Access to Information Act (AIA). Greenewald called Canada’s Department of National Defense to find out if, as an U.S. citizen he could submit an AIA request.
He says he asked the person who answered the phone this question, and was told if the files were released to a Canadian, it should not be a problem to also get them to him. Greenewald then explained the types of files he was looking for, and to his utter amazement, the Canadian official said he had them laying right there on his desk. For $3 Greenewald was able to have the files shipped to him, and now has them on his website. There are several UFO sightings from the 90s in the documents.
Excerpt from a Canadian CIRVIS UFO file.
So where have the U.S. reports gone? It could be NORAD is being less than honest when they say they do not have any UFO reports, or they are playing games and their reports do not use the term “UFO.” Efforts to retreive these files are still underway. However, there is another avenue that is used to report important UFO events.
In the place of CIRVIS, AFI 10-206 now references what is called Operational Reporting (OPREP). In the past, UFO researchers have noted the term OPREP-3 on UFO documents. Australian UFO researcher Paul Dean, has been taking a closer look, and it appears this may be the way important UFO sightings are being reported by the military today.
OPREP excerpt from AFI 10-206.
(Credit: USAF)
The current AFI 10-206 states: “The OPREP-3 system provides CSAF [Chief of Staff of the Air Force] and intermediate commanders the information necessary for timely operational decisions. The main criterion for inclusion in the OPREP-3 system is essential information for command and control of aerospace forces.”
In other words, these are reports that are so important they need to be quickly communicated straight up to the top of command.
The instructions give guidance to different levels of importance and categories of reports that are identified by “flagwords.” For instance, an OPREP-3 PINNACLE (OPREP-3P) is a report that requires immediate notification to command and, among other things, is of “national-level interest.” NUCFLASH is used for missile launches and re-entering space debris. BROKEN ARROW is a nuclear weapon detonation or radioactive contamination. FADED GIANT relates to nuclear reactor or radiological accidents or incidents. The lowest level is BEELINE, which is an OPREP-3 report that is AF-level, but not national-level.
Navy “flagwords” for OPREP-3 reporting.
There are many levels of OPREP-3 reporting, but these are some that we will reference in this story. Dean has also found that OPREP-3 is used among all branches of the military, and some branches have their own flagwords.
Dean first noticed that OPREP-3 was being used to report UFOs when he was looking into UFO cases in the 70s, in particular a case from the Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range in Florida on May 14, 1978. The casemade it into the papers, including a newspaper covering the military called Pacific Stars and Stripes.
According to the OPREP-3 report, the incident began at about 10 pm local time when a woman called the Pinecastle Range to ask if they had any flares being dropped in the area. The duty officer said no, and she described seeing strange lights above nearby trees. She said they were red, green and white. Soon after she disconnected, another witness called saying he and around 18 other witnesses were also seeing the lights.
Naval personnel also saw the lights, and they were able to track the object on radar. According to the report, the radar operator said the object seemed to be “evading his efforts to lock and track it on the computer,” and at one point the object was moving at 400-500 knots (about 460-575 mph).
The report was marked OPREP-3 NAVY BLUE, a Navy flagword that means the incident is of Navy interest, but not national, and does not fit under another flagword.
There has also been at least one report that has garnered an OPREP-3 PINNACLE , which, as seen above, is a highly important report needing immediate attention. Dean discovered this file in a group of files that was released from a FOIA request by UFO researchers Barry Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett for the booksClear Intent and UFO Cover Up: What the Government Won’t Say.
This report was part of a string of sightings on the U.S. and Canadian border. This file can also be found on the Department of Defense (DoD) website. It is on page 39 of a DoD pdf of UFO files. The report reads: “A visual sighting of an unidentified object has reported at Loring CRC 4NM NNW of Loring AFB.”
This was likely rated PINNACLE because Loring Air Force base houses nuclear weapons.
Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, 1960s.
(Credit: Wikimedia/Library of Congress)
In another case, the OPREP-3 reports state that an unidentified helicopter or low flying aircraft flew over the weapons storage area at Wurtsmigh AFB in Michigan. The aircraft were never found or identified.
It is no wonder that these cases are deserving of a vital reporting system such as OPREP-3. It is alos now wonder that despite telling the public they are not interested in UFOs, that they are in fact investigating these shocking cases of unidentified aircraft violating our most secure airspace. Recently, we covered the story of the release of a documentary with military witnesses who had been present at nuclear bases when UFOs were spotted.
Dean says he and his UK based colleague David Charmichael, are still submitting FOIA requests for OPREP-3 UFO reports, but thus far, have been told they do not exist. As he notes in his article, it is likely a matter of getting the wording right. It is a sort of game.
The DoD has posted a document on OPREP-3 that was released due to a FOIA request by a man named Armen Victorian. Dean says Charmichael was in contact with Victorian in the past, and that Victorian had received a letter from the Office of the Secretary of Defence (OSD) that stated: “OPREP–3 reports containing information relating to unknown objects near US military installations are considered extremely sensitive, and thus not releasable.”
Joint Chiefs of Staff version of OPREP-3 reporting instructions found in DoD file released to Armen Victorian.
(Credit: JCS/DoD)
While that rings true, Dean has not been able to contact Victorian to get a copy of the letter, and they have not received a similar response to their FOIA requests. It would be shocking to have the military admit they have information on unknown objects, even though the OPREP-3 documents released thus far demonstrate unknown aircraft have been observed and tracked on radar.
Dean and Charmichael have received the response, “…the responsibilities of addressing unidentified aerial devices or objects fall directly under the control of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD)…”
Of course, NORAD is not subject to FOIA – isn’t that convenient, and the FAA has recently told Greenewald they have no UFO files, which is in contrast to earlier statements.
NORAD has also told Dean they do not study “unknown tracks” or “NORAD remaining unknowns.”
In an interview on Open Minds UFO Radio, Dean says NORAD has told him they do not study “unknown tracks” or “NORAD remaining unknowns.” He has been able to track those reports to an organization called the Center for Aerospace Analysis, but that the organization no longer exists.
Dean continues to pursue NORAD for answers, and we will be sure to update you on what he finds.
Project Blue Book includes thousands of reports, and many of them are very interesting and, according to the USAF, around 701 of them remain unsolved. Even more important is the fact that these did not include the most important cases. Those apparently went to CIRVIS and/or OPREP-3. The paper trail shows us UFO reports did go to OPREP-3, and the few reports that have been released, along with the credible testimony of military witnesses, demonstrate unidentified objects flew over bases with nuclear weapons, and the military did take notice.
Perhaps, the dogged pursuit of these files will result in further enlightening us on the facts of these cases, and adding to the evidence that something, or someone, with capabilities beyond our own, might be compromising our most secure military airspace at will.
Listen to the interview with Paul Dean on OPREP-3 below.
UFO Move Toward Jet Over Australia, Seen in Infrared, July 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Move Toward Jet Over Australia, Seen in Infrared, July 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 2016 Location of sighting: Mudgee, Australia This video was taken with a special infrared converted camera. All cameras have a filter in them to cut out the infrared. This camera he uses has had the filter taken out so it can see infrared, then he placed the IR filter over the lens so only IR light is seen. More about IR cameras here. This orb was caught flying past a passenger jet over Australia this week. The orb just appears out of nowhere and slows down near the jet as if it were scanning it. Orbs are often seen near jets and contrails. This is a very nice catch by ColourUFO of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
V Shaped UFO Behind Las Vegas, Nevada On July 6, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
V Shaped UFO Behind Las Vegas, Nevada On July 6, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 6, 2016
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Wow, Steven Barone is our eyes in the sky over Vegas. He's got some amazing catches of UFOs over the mountains behind vegas, where there is a USAF base called Nellis. Nellis is famous for having a alien Tall Whites base located underground behind the old firing range. This may be some of the Tall White technology in the hands of the USAF being tested at night. The lights, are the propulsion. Why not go there to investigate? Because its top secret gov property. You can't.
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of January 1, 2015. This video is a remake and I was torn as to whether or not I should speed it up because it is nearly twenty-three minutes long. I chose to show it at actual speed because I do get a lot of feedback and criticism saying I shouldn't speed them up. The problem is that very few people have the time to watch a long video and speeding slow moving objects up allows more people to watch and it makes it easier to see how they are moving. Also, some nights I end up with hours of footage. I already have three external hard drives where I save the video files and they aren't cheap. That's approximately eight terabytes of video. Despite all that, I wanted to run this one at actual speed. I try real hard not to say anything I am not sure about when I put out a video but in this case, after watching it again I must say that when the video begins it appears to be a V-shaped object with brighter lights on the front and sides. It levels off and you can't see the shape anymore but if you watch long enough you will notice a number of lights coming out of it and a couple going to it. If I have ever caught any motherships on video which I am not sure I have this could be one of them. It sat there for more than twenty minutes.
UFO Hunter Claims Webcams de Mexico Shows Convincing UFO Footage
UFO Hunter Claims Webcams de Mexico Shows Convincing UFO Footage
Another fleet of bright orbs flying around the active Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico has made rounds online as UFO hunters claim it is probably the most compelling video of UFOs in recent times.
UFO hunters believe a fleet of bright orbs emerged around the volcano during its eruption. In a video captured by Webcams de Mexico – live cameras monitoring major active volcanoes in the country including Colima and Popocatepetl – on June 19 at 12:12 a.m. local time, the said ball of lights become visible.
A lot of the same UFO videos have been caught for the last five years, but for some UFO enthusiasts the latest one is the most impressive video from the Mexican volcano cam ever emerged. They pointed out over 10 of these mysterious aerial objects flying around the volcano.
According to some observers, the camera had on its infrared mode, which is probably the reason these UFOs are only seen in the camera and not visible to the human eyes. However, a UFO investigator dismissed this claim of UFOs swarming around the active volcano.
Scott Brando, who runs Ufoofinterest website, explained that such so-called anomalies are typically caused by insects flying in front of the camera lens or just dust.
Brando continued that the infrared/night vision webcam is more sensitive to bugs on the camera lens or to the small light source, and eruption causes a similar effect. He said that dust near the camera lens tends to be brighter, and the furthest debris looks less bright.
Massive 'Lava Lamp' Blobs Deep Inside Earth Have Scientists Puzzled
Massive 'Lava Lamp' Blobs Deep Inside Earth Have Scientists Puzzled
By Greg Uyeno, Staff Writer
Mysterious blobs of distinct rock are imaged using waves from earthquakes (model from French and Romanowicz, 2015, Nature).
Credit: Ed Garnero, Hongyu Lai, Arizona State University
Two continent-size blobs of hot — and possibly molten — rock can be found deep underground, about halfway to the center of the Earth, according to a new study. These curious structures — each of which is so large that it would be 100 times taller than Mount Everest — could be made up of materials that may shed light on how the Earth formed, the researchers said.
One of the blobs is located beneath the Pacific Ocean, and the other can be found beneath the Atlantic. These underground structures start where the Earth's mantle meets the core, but they send "plumes" up through the rock like a Lava Lamp, the researchers said.
Scientists now think these masses differ from the surrounding rock in more than just temperature. They're also "compositionally distinct," meaning they could contain materials not typically found in the rest of the Earth's mantle. Yet even some of the most basic information about the blobs is still a mystery. [Photo Timeline: How the Earth Formed]
"To me, the big unanswered question is, what is it, and how did it form?" said the paper's lead author Edward Garnero, a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
Scientists have observed the blobs for decades by monitoring seismic activity in the two regions. Different types of seismic waves travel at different speeds, depending on the type of rock the blobs are moving through. And by comparing the timing and delay of signals from multiple locations, seismologists can build models of what's going on in the Earth's interior.
The blobs are characterized by slower wave speeds, which suggests they are a different temperature from the rest of the Earth's mantle, the researchers said. But at some of the edges, normal wave speeds transition abruptly to low wave speeds. A pure temperature difference would result in a more gradual change, the scientists said, which suggests the blobs are likely made up of something different from what makes up their surroundings.
Because they're big and characterized by the slower wave speeds, the blobs have been called large low velocity provinces (LLVPs). And when the speed of one type of wave, shear waves, is even slower than would be expected, scientists call the areas large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs). But beyond that, not much is known about the origin or composition of these strange rocky blobs.
"The LLSVPs are definitely there, but the terrible name they have been given reflects the fact that we don't really know what they are," Richard Carlson, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved with the new paper, wrote in an email to Live Science.
The Lava Lamp comparison is appropriate — except when this Lava Lamp blob reaches the top, it spills or explodes out of the Earth's surface, Garnero said.
If an especially large "superplume" of magma from one of these blobs were to make it to the surface, it would result in "massive eruptions where the lava will come out for millions of years at a time," Garnero said. There isn't much cause for alarm, though. "The next one could be on its way," he said, "but it could be a million years away."
Scientists aren't sure if the blobs are made of material from the Earth's crust or if the chemical difference dates back to the Earth's formation.
"If we understood these 'blobs' better, that would represent a huge step forward in understanding the deep workings of our planet," Wendy Mao, a geoscientist at Stanford University who was not involved with the new paper, wrote in an email to Live Science.
Secret World of Primeval Rivers Lies Beneath Greenland Glacier
Secret World of Primeval Rivers Lies Beneath Greenland Glacier
By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer
A secret network of rivers was recently discovered beneath the Jakobsvahn Isbrae glacier in Greenland. The primeval river network is mostly dry, but water may still flow through the riverbeds along the margins of the ice, researchers believe.
Credit: Cooper et al, 2016
A network of ancient rivers lies frozen in time beneath one of Greenland's largest glaciers, new research reveals.
The subglacial river network, which threads through much of Greenland's landmass and looks, from above, like the tiny nerve fibers radiating from a brain cell, may have influenced the fast-moving Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier over the past few million years.
"The channels seem to be instrumental in controlling the location and form of the Jakobshavn ice stream — and seem to show a clear influence on the onset of fast flow in this region," study co-author Michael Cooper, a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, told Live Science. "Without the channels present underneath, the glacier may not exist in its current location or orientation." [See Images of Greenland's Gorgeous Glaciers]
Fast-moving glacier
The Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier in Greenland is the world's fastest glacier; it races toward the sea at the breakneck pace of 11 miles (17 kilometers) per year. The speedy glacier is dumping huge amounts of ice into the sea and is Greenland's main contributor to sea level rise, raising levels about 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) between 2000 and 2010, researchers previously told Live Science.
Climate scientists have zeroed in on this fast-moving glacier in recent years because it may be a harbinger of climate change to come. It is melting quickly: The glacier has lost more than 9,000 gigatons of ice since 1900, according to a 2015 study in the journal Nature.
A secret world, locked in ice
As part of the effort to characterize Jakobshavn, Cooper and his colleagues used ice-penetrating radar to peer beneath the massive hunk of ice and analyze the height of the bedrock below.
The radar revealed a secret world, frozen in ice. Beneath Jakobshavn lies a stunning landscape of jaw-dropping canyons, some of which are roughly the size of the Grand Canyon; dramatic ravines; and a lacework of mountain streams. By analyzing the shape of the valleys and canyons beneath the ice, the team determined that these features were likely formed by rivers cutting the rock away over time, rather than by the glacier.
"The shape of the valleys was V-shaped, rather than U-shaped; the flow network had a dendritic or tree-like structure; and the long profiles showed a smooth, concave-up shape," Cooper told Live Science. These are good clues that the channel system was carved by rivers, not glaciers, he added.
Thus, the landscape must have formed at least 3.5 million years ago, prior to the ice sheet's formation. At that time, the area may have been much warmer and home to forests and shrubland, Cooper said.
"I imagine the landscape would have been home to a lot of life," Cooper said.
The glacier has had two effects. Near the interior, where the ice is the thickest, it has preserved the primeval landscape. At the edges, glacial ice has deepened some of the canyons through erosion, Cooper said.
The network of rivers that lies beneath the ice is now mostly dry, but some water does still flow.
"Near the margins, toward the outlet glacier, Jakobshavn Isbrae, the channels may well have water flowing through, as part of the modern-day subglacial drainage system," meaning water is seeping from the ice's surface to the bottom of the glacier, flowing along the edges of the ice-sheet bottom, he said.
Science and the internet have an uneasy relationship: Science tends to move forward through a careful and tedious evaluation of data and theory, and the process can take years to complete. In contrast, the internet community generally has the attention span of Dory, the absent-minded fish of "Finding Nemo"(and now "Finding Dory") — a meme here, a celebrity picture there — oh, look … a funny cat video.
Thus people who are interested in serious science should be extremely cautious when they read an online story that purports to be a paradigm-shifting scientific discovery. A recent example is one suggesting that a new force of nature might have been discovered. If true, that would mean that we have to rewrite the textbooks.
As a physicist, I'd like to shed a disciplined scientific light on the claim.
In an article submitted on April 7, 2015, to the arXiv repository of physics papers, a group of Hungarian researchers reported on a study in which they focused an intense beam of protons (particles found in the center of atoms) on thin lithium targets. The collisions created excited nuclei of beryllium-8, which decayed into ordinary beryllium-8 and pairs of electron-positron particles. (The positron is the antimatter equivalent of the electron.)
The Standard Model is the collection of theories that describe the smallest experimentally observed particles of matter and the interactions between energy and matter.
Credit: Karl Tate, LiveScience Infographic Artist
They claimed that their data could not be explained by known physical phenomena in the Standard Model, the reigning model governing particle physics. But, they purported, they could explain the data if a new particle existed with a mass of approximately 17 million electron volts, which is 32.7 times heavier than an electron and just shy of 2 percent the mass of a proton. The particles that emerge at this energy range, which is relatively low by modern standards, have been well studied. And so it would be very surprising if a new particle were discovered in this energy regime.
However, the measurement survived peer review and was published on Jan. 26, 2016, in the journalPhysical Review Letters, which is one of the most prestigious physics journals in the world. In this publication, the researchers, and this research, cleared an impressive hurdle. [What's That? Your Physics Questions Answered]
Their measurement received little attention until a group of theoretical physicists from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), turned their attention to it. As theorists commonly do with a controversial physics measurement, the team compared it with the body of work that has been assembled over the last century or so, to see if the new data are consistent or inconsistent with the existing body of knowledge. In this case, they looked at about a dozen published studies.
What they found is that though the measurement didn't conflict with any past studies, it seemed to be something never before observed — and something that couldn't be explained by the Standard Model.
New theoretical framework
To make sense of the Hungarian measurement, then, this group of UCI theorists invented a new theory.
The theory invented by the Irvine group is really quite exotic. They start with the very reasonable premise that the possible new particle is something that is not described by existing theory. This makes sense because the possible new particle is very low mass and would have been discovered before if it were governed by known physics. If this were a new particle governed by new physics, perhaps a new force is involved. Since traditionally physicists speak of four known fundamental forces (gravity,electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces), this hypothetical new force has been dubbed "the fifth force."
Theories and discoveries of a fifth force have a checkered history, going back decades, with measurements and ideas arising and disappearing with new data. On the other hand, there are mysteries not explained by ordinary physics like, for example, dark matter. While dark matter has historically been modeled as a single form of a stable and massive particle that experiences gravity and none of the other known forces, there is no reason that dark matter couldn't experience forces that ordinary matter doesn't experience. After all, ordinary matter experiences forces that dark matter doesn't, so the hypothesis isn't so silly.
There is no reason dark matter couldn't experience forces that ordinary matter doesn't experience. Here, in the galaxy cluster Abell 3827, dark matter was observed interacting with itself during a galaxy collision.
Credit: ESO
There are many ideas about forces that affect only dark matter and the term for this basic idea is called "complex dark matter." One common idea is that there is a dark photon that interacts with a dark charge carried only by dark matter. This particle is a dark matter analog of the photon of ordinary matter that interacts with familiar electrical charge, with one exception: Some theories of complex dark matter imbue dark photons with mass, in stark contrast with ordinary photons. [Gallery: Dark Matter Throughout the Universe]
If dark photons exist, they can couple with ordinary matter (and ordinary photons) and decay into electron-positron pairs, which is what the Hungarian research group was investigating. Because dark photons don’t interact with ordinary electric charge, this coupling can only occur because of the vagaries of quantum mechanics. But if scientists started seeing an increase in electron-positron pairs, that might mean they were observing a dark photon.
The Irvine group found a model that included a "protophobic" particle that was not ruled out by earlier measurements and would explain the Hungarian result. Particles that are "protophobic," which literally means "fear of protons," rarely or never interact with protons but can interact with neutrons (neutrophilic).
The particle proposed by the Irvine group experiences a fifth and unknown force, which is in the range of 12 femtometers, or about 12 times bigger than a proton. The particle is protophobic and neutrophilic. The proposed particle has a mass of 17 million electron volts and can decay into electron-positron pairs. In addition to explaining the Hungarian measurement, such a particle would help explain some discrepancies seen by other experiments. This last consequence adds some weight to the idea.
Paradigm-shifting force?
So this is the status.
What is likely to be true? Obviously, data is king. Other experiments will need to confirm or refute the measurement. Nothing else really matters. But that will take a year or so and having some idea before then might be nice. The best way to estimate the likelihood the finding is real is to look at the reputations of the various researchers involved. This is clearly a shoddy way to do science, but it will help shade your expectations.
So let's start with the Irvine group. Many of them (the senior ones, typically) are well- regarded and established members of the field, with substantive and solid papers in their past. The group includes a spectrum of ages, with both senior and junior members. In the interest of full disclosure, I know some of them personally and, indeed, two of them have read the theoretical portions of chapters of books I have written for the public to ensure that I didn't say anything stupid. (By the way, they didn't find any gaffes, but they certainly helped clarify certain points.) That certainly demonstrates my high regard for members of the Irvine group, but possibly taints my opinion. In my judgment, they almost certainly did a thorough and professional job of comparing their new model to existing data. They have found a small and unexplored region of possible theories that could exist.
On the other hand, the theory is pretty speculative and highly improbable. This isn't an indictment … all proposed theories could be labeled in this way. After all, the Standard Model, which governs particle physics, is nearly a half century old and has been thoroughly explored. In addition, ALL new theoretical ideas are speculative and improbable and almost all of them are wrong. This also isn't an indictment. There are many ways to add possible modifications to existing theories to account for new phenomena. They can't all be right. Sometimes none of the proposed ideas are right.
However, we can conclude from the reputation of the group's members that they have generated a new idea and have compared it to all relevant existing data. The fact that they released their model means that it survived their tests and thus it remains a credible, if improbable, possibility.
What about the Hungarian group? I know none of them personally, but the article was published in Physical Review Letters — a chalk mark in the win column. However, the group has also published two previous papers in which comparable anomalies were observed, including a possible particle with a mass of 12 million electron volts and a second publicationclaiming the discovery of a particle with a mass of about 14 million electron volts. Both of these claims were subsequently falsified by other experiments.
Further, the Hungarian group has never satisfactorily disclosed what error was made that resulted in these erroneous claims. Another possible red flag is that the group rarely publishes data that doesn't claim anomalies. That is improbable. In my own research career, most publications were confirmation of existing theories. Anomalies that persist are very, very, rare.
So what’s the bottom line? Should you be excited about this new possible discovery? Well…sure…possible discoveries are always exciting. The Standard Model has stood the test of time for half a century, but there are unexplained mysteries and the scientific community is always looking for the discovery that points us in the direction of a new and improved theory. But what are the odds that this measurement and theory will lead to the scientific world accepting a new force with a range of 12 fm and with a particle that shuns protons? My sense is that this a long shot. I am not so sanguine as to the chances of this outcome.
Of course, this opinion is only that…an opinion, albeit an informed one. Other experiments will also be looking for dark photons because, even if the Hungarian measurement doesn't stand up to scrutiny, there is still a real problem with dark matter. Many experiments looking for dark photons will explore the same parameter space (e.g. energy, mass and decay modes) in which the Hungarian researchers claim to have found an anomaly. We will soon (within a year) know if this anomaly is a discovery or just another bump in the data that temporarily excited the community, only to be discarded as better data is recorded. And, no matter the outcome, good and better science will be the eventual result.
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Researchers Spotted Something Very Strange in the Sands of Mars
Researchers Spotted Something Very Strange in the Sands of Mars
HiRISE image of the Bagnold Dunes (Image: NASA/JPL via Mathieu Lapotre)
No, it’s not aliens writing messages in the sand. But there is something weird happening on Mars’ surface—and it’s something that hasn’t been seen anywhere else in the universe.
Researchers looking at images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Curiosity rover spotted a strange combination of almost wave-like ripples forming in the sands of Mars. Over time, these formations often even solidified into rock, resulting in these strange landscape photos:
Wind-drag ripples in formation on High Dune
(Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech via Mathieu Lapotre)
The research into the unique Martian features was led by Caltech’s Mathieu Lapôtre and is detailed today in Science. The researchers say that the ripples are formed by the wind, and they owe their unique appearance to some peculiarities of the Martian atmosphere.
We see sand dunes formed by the wind here on Earth, too, of course. But these Martian sand formations are something completely different. The tiny peaks are not as big as the dunes we see form on Earth, and yet they’re much bigger and sturdier than the ripples that a breeze stirs up in the sand. In fact, the formations, which the researchers are calling “wind-drag ripples,” look like something on Earth—but not anything we see on land. Instead, they look remarkably similar to underwater currents.
Wind-drag ripples in formation at Nili Patera
(Image: NASA/JPL via Mathieu LaPotre)
The reason for the similarity, Lapôtre told Gizmodo, is Mars’ thin atmosphere.
“It is the low density of the Martian atmosphere that increases the viscosity of air on Mars,” he said, “and thus promotes the formation of the large Martian ripples through wind-drag.”
Although the feature has only been spotted on Mars so far, Lapôtre thinks it’s possible we’ll find similar features elsewhere—we just haven’t gotten close enough to see them yet.
“Comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko and Pluto come to mind,” he said. “While ripple-like features have been previously observed on the comet during the Rosetta mission, the spatial resolution of the beautiful images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft are likely too coarse to resolve possible wind-drag ripples on the grounds of Pluto.”
HiRise photo of wind-drag ripples in formation on Namib Dune
(Image: NASA/JPL via Mathieu Lapotre)
The formations don’t just look interesting—they could also reveal how Mars’ atmosphere, which was once more Earth-like, became the way it is.
“Because the spacing and size of wind-drag ripples vary with the density of the atmosphere under which they form, we can now look for preserved ‘fossil’ wind-drag ripples in ancient sandstones on Mars, and constrain past atmospheric conditions,” Lapôtre said.
He’s already used the technique on the 3.7 billion year old Burns Formation in Victoria crater, which Opportunity visited in 2007. Although the formation is incredibly old, the ripples are still present. That means that Mars probably lost its thick atmosphere sometime before that 3.7 billion year mark.
Astronomen hebben voor het eerst een planeet (buiten ons zonnestelsel) ontdekt met drie zonnen, zo heeft de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO vandagag bekendgemaakt, parallel met een publicatie in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science.
De thuisplaneet van Star Wars-held Luke Skywalker - Tatooine - is een vreemde wereld met twee zonnen aan de hemel. Maar nu hebben astronomen een nóg vreemdere wereld ontdekt.
Onder leiding van de Universiteit van Arizona stootten de astronomen met de VLT-telescoop van de ESO in Chili immers op planeet HD 131399Ab. Het is een uniek object: zijn omloopbaan om de helderste van de drie sterren is verreweg de wijdste die ooit in een meervoudig stersysteem is waargenomen. Zulke banen zijn vaak instabiel, vanwege de complexe en veranderlijke zwaartekrachtsaantrekking van de beide andere sterren in het systeem. Dat hier ook planeten in stabiele banen zouden worden aangetroffen gold als zeer onwaarschijnlijk, zegt de ESO.
HD 131399Ab staat op een afstand van ongeveer 320 lichtjaar in het sterrenbeeld Centaurus. Met een leeftijd van ongeveer 16 miljoen jaar behoort hij tot de jongste exoplaneten die tot nu toe zijn ontdekt. Bovendien is het één van de weinige planeten waar directe opnamen van zijn gemaakt. Binnen deze laatste categorie is hij één van de 'koudste' (580 °C) en 'zwaarste' (4 Jupitermassa's).
Gedurende ongeveer de helft van elke planeetomloop, die 550 aardse jaren duurt, zijn er drie sterren aan de hemel te zien. De zwakkere twee staan altijd veel dichter bij elkaar; hun schijnbare afstand tot de helderste ster verandert in de loop van het jaar. Op het hemellichaam is het dus soms gedurende meer dan een mensenleven de hele dag door licht en vinden er dagelijks drie zonsopgangen en -ondergangen plaats.
Hoewel de precieze baan die de planeet ten opzichte van zijn moedersterren volgt pas vast te stellen is als er meer langetermijnwaarnemingen beschikbaar zijn, wijzen simulaties erop dat de dubbelster, bestaande uit de wat lichtere sterren HD 131399B en -C, op een afstand van ongeveer 300 AE (300 keer de gemiddelde afstand Zon-Aarde) om HD 131399A cirkelt. Deze laatste - de helderste van het gezelschap - heeft tachtig procent meer massa dan de Zon. De sterren B en C wentelen om elkaar op een onderlinge afstand die vergelijkbaar is met de afstand Zon-Saturnus.
Volgens dit scenario beweegt planeet HD 131399Ab op een afstand van ongeveer 80 AE om de ster A - dat is ongeveer twee keer de afstand Zon-Pluto en ongeveer een derde van de afstand tussen ster A en de dubbelster B/C. Er zijn evenwel ook andere baanscenario's mogelijk.
De onverwachte ontdekking wijst er voorts op dat zulke systemen vaker voorkomen dan gedacht, zegt de ESO nog.
VIDEODe maan draait rond de aarde, de aarde draait rond de zon: we weten wel dat het zo werkt, maar dat echt mooi in beeld brengen, lukte niet echt (tenzij met technische trucjes). Dat is veranderd dankzij Juno.
Scott Bolton van het team dat de Juno-missie opvolgt, werd net niet lyrisch toen hij de beelden vrijgaf die de ruimtesonde Juno gefilmd heeft op weg naar Jupiter. "Eeuwenlang hebben we ons voorgesteld hoe de planeten en sterren bewegen. We konden dat enkel nabootsen via computeranimatie of dankzij de inspanningen van Hollywood. Vanavond verandert dat."
De video toont hoe de vier grootste manen van Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymedes en Callisto - rond de planeet draaien, als ware het een kosmische dans. "Vanavond kunnen wij voor het eerst de ware harmonie in de natuur zien", aldus Scott Bolton. "Zo zien de manen van Jupiter eruit, zo ziet ons zonnestelsel eruit, zo ziet onze melkweg eruit. Het is harmonie op elke schaal."
De Amerikaanse Marsjeep Curiosity heeft zichzelf in een "veilige modus" gezet, zo heeft space.com woensdag gemeld.
De robot schakelde vandaag om een nog onbekende reden over naar een laag pitje. De Marsverkenner communiceert desondanks nog met de vluchtleiding en is stabiel.
In 2013 gebeurde een zelfde scenario drie keer en telkens kwam de succesvolle robot weer helemaal tot leven, aldus space.com.
De 2,4 miljard dollar kostende Curiosity landde in augustus 2012 in de Gale-krater en heeft de kennis over onze buurplaneet grondig bijgespijkerd.
WETENSCHAPOnderzoekers op deeltjeslab CERN hebben een onbekende familie van exotische deeltjes gevonden. Die bestaan niet zoals gewone materie uit twee of drie zogeheten quarks, maar uit vier van zulke bouwsteentjes. Bovendien zijn dat niet de quarks die bijvoorbeeld protonen of neutronen in de atoomkern maken, maar minder gangbare en veel zwaardere quarksoorten.
Een de tetraquarks was al eerder gespot, maar nu zijn er dus nog drie ongekende varianten opgedoken
De gevonden deeltjes zijn uiterst instabiel en kunnen in de alledaagse materie geen rol spelen. Over exotische materie met vreemde quarks wordt geregeld gespeculeerd, onder meer dat die bijzondere eigenschappen zou kunnen hebben.
De nieuwe zogeheten tetraquarks zijn gevonden met de LHCb-detector, die de brokstukken bekijkt van botsende protonen in de grote LHC-versneller. Die draait sinds een klein jaar met de hoogste energie die ooit in een versneller is gemaakt. De hoop is om zo nieuwe deeltjes te vinden die op ongekende natuurkundige principes wijzen. Eerder bewees de LHC al het bestaan van het befaamde Higgs-deeltje, dat andere deeltjes massa geeft.
In de nieuwe LHCb-data doken vier tetraquarks op die bestaan uit verschillende combinaties van charm- en anti-charm quarks en strange en anti-strange quarks. Een de tetraquarks was al eerder gespot, maar nu zijn er dus nog drie ongekende varianten opgedoken. De LHCb-groep heeft ook hun massa kunnen bepalen: allemaal ongeveer viermaal de massa van een proton, maar onderling duidelijk verschillend.
Dat materiedeeltjes als protonen en neutronen inwendig uit combinaties van quarks bestaat, werd voor het eerst in 1968 geopperd door theoretici. Sindsdien is het bestaan van zes quarks aangetoond. Gewone materiedeeltjes bestaan uit drietallen up en down quarks, in exotischer deeltjes komen ook andere types voor. Daarnaast zijn er ook gangbare deeltjes die uit combinaties van een quark en een anti-quark bestaan.
De theorie voorspelde destijds ook dat er viertallen en zelfs vijftallen van quarks zouden kunnen bestaan. Vorig jaar ontdekten onderzoekers van het CERN ook al de eerste vijfvoudige pentaquark.
Archeologen hebben sporen gevonden van een cultuur in Machu Picchu die nog dateert van voor de Inca's. De onderzoekers vonden een rotsschildering die geen sporen van de Incakunst bevat. Dat schrijft de Peruviaanse krant El Comercio.
Het beeld, waarop een lamaherder met een van zijn dieren is afgebeeld, werd op een rots aangetroffen op 100 meter van de Incastad Machu Picchu en zou ongeveer 800 jaar oud zijn, zegt hoofdarcheoloog José Bastante.
Machu Picchu werd door de Inca's in de 15de eeuw gesticht. Deze tekening is het eerste bewijs van een cultuur die dateert van voor de Inca's. Om het onderzoek niet te verstoren, is de vindplaats voorlopig niet toegankelijk voor bezoekers.
VIDEODe onbemande ruimtesonde Juno van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA is met succes in een baan rond Jupiter geraakt, na een tocht van vijf jaar. Dat heeft NASA gemeld, die om 05.53 Belgische tijd bevestiging kreeg dat het manoeuvre geslaagd was.
De sonde ontbrandde vanochtend zijn motor voor een 35 minuten durend manoeuvre om in een baan rond Jupiter terecht te komen. NASA kwam via een radiosignaal van 3 seconden te weten dat Juno in zijn missie geslaagd was.
Bedoeling van de sonde is onder andere meer te weten te komen over de magnetische velden, de samenstelling van de atmosfeer en de kern van de planeet.
De wetenschappers hopen op basis van de bevindingen ook meer te leren over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel. Uiteindelijk zal de sonde, die met zonne-energie wordt aangedreven, zichzelf vernietigen.
Op twintig maanden tijd zal Juno 37 keer in een baan rond Jupiter draaien.
De twee kleine manen rond de planeet Mars zijn wellicht ontstaan als gevolg van een gigantische botsing met een protoplaneet. Dat blijkt maandag uit een onderzoek waar onder meer de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België bij betrokken was. De bevindingen zijn gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke magazine Nature Geoscience.
Rond de planeet Mars cirkelen twee kleine aardappelvormige maantjes: Phobos (oud-Grieks voor 'angst') en Deimos ('paniek'). Tot nu toe werd aangenomen dat deze manen asteroïden waren die door Mars zijn ingevangen. Maar een team van Belgische, Franse en Japanse wetenschappers, onder leiding van Pascal Rosenblatt van de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, plaatst nu duidelijke vraagtekens bij die theorie.
De onderzoekers stellen namelijk dat Phobos en Deimos ontstaan zijn uit het puin dat werd opgeworpen na een gigantische botsing van Mars met een drie keer kleinere protoplaneet. Die botsing zou 4 miljard jaar geleden het volledige oppervlak van de noordelijke hemisfeer van Mars vernield hebben.
"In het verleden meer manen"
"Dit scenario vereist dat Mars in het verleden meer manen had, die nu verdwenen zijn, maar ervoor zorgden dat het puin aangroeide tot de huidige maantjes Phobos en Deimos", zo stellen de wetenschappers. Volgens hun hypothese zou die derde maan na enkele miljoenen jaren naar Mars zijn teruggevallen. De natuurlijke satelliet zou meer bepaald uiteengevallen zijn in erg kleine deeltjes die ofwel in de atmosfeer zijn opgebrand ofwel kleine kraters hebben nagelaten.
Nog volgens de wetenschappers zou Mars door die botsing gaan roteren zijn en, net als de aarde, een dag-nachtritme hebben gekregen.
Nieuwe onderzoeken moeten nog meer inzicht brengen in de theorie. Het Japanse ruimtevaartagentschap JAXA wil in 2022 een ruimtesonde lanceren die bodemmonsters van het oppervlak van Phobos naar de aarde zal brengen. Het Europese ruimtevaartagentschap ESA heeft, in samenwerking met het Russische Roscosmos, gelijkaardige plannen voor 2024.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.