First Interstellar Visitor From another Solar System Dazzles Astronomers

It is the first observed Alien object from another solar system, according to a study in the journal Nature. Preliminary calculations suggest that the alien visitor came from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, located in the northern parts of the constellation of Lyra.

A recent study has identified the shape of the first alien visitor that astronomers say, has come from another solar system.

Spotted for the first time on October 19 by the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, the asteroid named Oumuamua—which is Hawaiian for “a messenger from afar arriving first”—is around 400 meters long and is extremely elongated, making it look like a giant cigar.

This makes the object even more mysterious as astronomers revealed its aspect ratios is much greater than that of any other asteroid or comet that has been observed in our solar system.

In other words, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever spotted.

Astronomers note that its extremely elongated shape (which is surprising) may help provide new clues as to how other solar systems in our galaxy formed.

According to a study published in Nature, the alien visitor has been wandering through the Milky Way Galaxy for hundreds of millions of years.

“For decades we’ve theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now – for the first time – we have direct evidence they exist,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

“This history-making discovery is opening a new window to study the formation of solar systems beyond our own.”

Immediately after the comet was spotted, many observatories on Earth turned towards Oumuamua to study it.

Combined images from the FORS instrument on the ESO telescope found that Oumuamua varies in brightness by a factor of ten as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours.

And this is rather odd. Astronomers note how no other known asteroid or comet in our solar system varies so widely in brightness, having such a large ration between its length and width.

“This unusually big variation in brightness means that the object is highly elongated: about ten times as long as it is wide, with a complex, convoluted shape,” said Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii. “We also found that it had a reddish color, similar to objects in the outer solar system, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.”

Preliminary calculations suggest that the alien visitor came from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, located in the northern parts of the constellation of Lyra.

However, astronomers note that it so extremely long for Oumuamua to make the journey that Vega was nowhere near that position when the asteroid was there some 300,000 years ago.

Furthermore, the object which was originally classified as a comet isn’t one after observations from ESO and elsewhere revealed no signs of cometary activity after it slingshotted past the Sun on Sept. 9 at a blistering speed of 196,000 miles per hour (87.3 kilometers per second), notes NASA.

The object was reclassified as interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU),

“What a fascinating discovery this is!” said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. “It’s a strange visitor from a faraway star system, shaped like nothing we’ve ever seen in our own solar system neighborhood.”

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21-11-2017 om 17:31 geschreven door peter  

NASA STUDY REVEALS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS SURROUNDED BY A MASSIVE SPHERICAL ‘SHIELD’

Data from NASA’s Cassini, Voyager and IBEX missions suggest that the solar system is surrounded by a MASSIVE, SPHERICAL shaped magnetic field. In the past, experts thought that the heliosphere was in fact a comet-shaped structure, with a rounded head and an extended tail. But new data covering an entire 11-year cycle of solar activity shows that this may not be the case.

According to scientists, our Sun releases a constant flux of magnetic solar material—called solar wind—that fills the inner solar system, and extends beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Shown in a Hubble Space Telescope image, the “astrosphere” around the star L.L. Orionis approximates the heliosphere around our solar system.

IMAGE COURTESY ESA/NASA

This wind creates something that can be explained as a bubble, some 37 million kilometers wide, called the heliosphere. Our entire solar system, including the H, moves through interstellar space. Just as Earth orbits the Sun, our Sun orbits the galactic center –which from our vantage point is located around 25,00 light years— in an elliptic orbit. It completes a revolution every 225 million years approximately—called a Galactic year.
Anyway, getting back on track, this new discovery calls into question the alternate view of the solar magnetic fields trailing behind the sun in the shape of a long comet tail—almost like a kite. 

Until now, scientists thought that the heliosphere was in fact a comet-shaped structure, with a rounded head and an extended tail. But new data covering an entire 11-year cycle of solar activity shows that this may not be the case: the heliosphere is most likely rounded at both ends, making its shape almost spherical. An article featuring the results of the study was published in Nature Astronomy.

“Instead of a prolonged, comet-like tail, this rough bubble-shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field—much stronger than what was anticipated in the past—combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,” says Kostas Dialynas of the Academy of Athens in Greece, lead author of the study. Interestingly, Cassini—which has explored Saturn for over a decade—using its Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument discovered surprising new data about the shape of the heliosphere’s trailing end, the heliotail.

“Our Cassini instrument was designed to image the ions that are trapped in the magnetosphere of Saturn,” says coauthor Tom Krimigis, of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, an instrument lead on the Cassini and Voyager missions. “We never thought that we would see what we’re seeing and be able to image the boundaries of the heliosphere.”

Since these particles move only at a small fraction of the speed of light, their trip from the sun to the edge of the heliosphere and back takes quite a lot. Now, when the number of particles coming from the sun changes, it takes years before that is reflected in the amount of natural atoms shooting back into the solar system. As Cassini was orbiting Saturn, its instruments measured the neutral atoms revealed surprising details—the particles coming from the ‘tail’ of our solar system’s heliosphere reflect the changes in the solar cycle almost exactly as fast as those coming from the nose of the heliosphere.

“If the heliosphere’s ‘tail’ is stretched out like a comet, we’d expect that the patterns of the solar cycle would show up much later in the measured neutral atoms,” said Krimigis.

What does this mean? Well, since patterns of solar activity show just as quickly on one side of the heliosphere as the other, it implies that the tail of the heliosphere is around the same distance from us as the nose. In other words, the comet-like tail that scientists thought existed previously may not be there at all, as the heliosphere that wraps the solar system is nearly round. 
Scientists note that a spherical heliosphere may exist due to a number of reasons. First of all, data gathered by the voyager 1 probe shows that the interstellar magnetic field beyond the heliosphere is much stronger than scientists had expected.

“This data that Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini and IBEX provide to the scientific community is a windfall for studying the far reaches of the solar wind,” says Arik Posner, NASA’s Voyager and IBEX program scientist. “As we continue to gather data from the edges of the heliosphere, this data will help us better understand the interstellar boundary that the heliosphere, this data will help us better understand the interstellar boundary that helps shield the Earth environment from harmful cosmic rays.”

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21-11-2017 om 16:42 geschreven door peter  

Major earthquakes predicted for 2018 due to changes in the Earth’s rotation

According to scientists, the number of severe Earthquakes is likely to rise exponentially in 2018, due to a slowing down of Earth’s rotation. Minimal variations in Earth’s rotation speed could trigger intense seismic activity in 2018, especially in densely populated tropical regions, warn experts.

Although such variations in the rotation of our planet are small, changing the length of the day by one millisecond, these changes could set off a release of large amounts of underground energy.

The connection between Earth’s rotation and seismic activity is displayed in a study by Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Rebecca Bendick of the University of Montana at Missoula, presented in October during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.

“The relationship between Earth’s rotation and earthquake activity is strong and suggests there is going to be an increase in numbers of violent earthquakes next year,” Bilham told the Observer in an interview.

In the study presented by Bilham and, the two argue that by looking at earthquakes of magnitude 7 and greater that had occurred since 1900. “Major earthquakes have been well recorded for more than a century, and that gives us a good record to study,” explains Bilham.

The two researchers discovered five periods in which there were a significantly greater number of large earthquakes compared to other times.

“During these periods, there were between 25 and 30 intense earthquakes a year,” adds Bilham.

“The rest of the time, the average number was about 15 large earthquakes per year.”

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The researchers sought to find correlations between these periods of intense seismic activity and other factors and discovered that when the Earth’s rotation decreased slightly, it was followed by periods of increase in the number of intense earthquakes.

“The rotation of the Earth changes slightly – in a millisecond per day sometimes – and that can be measured very accurately by atomic clocks.”

Bilham and Bendick discovered that there were periods of about five years when the rotation of the Earth was reduced by that amount several times over the last century and a half.

Fundamentally, these time lapses were followed by periods in which the number of intense earthquakes increased.

“It’s simple,” says Bilham. “The Earth is offering us a five-year warning about future earthquakes.”

This link is particularly important because the rotation of the Earth began one of its periodic decreases more than four years ago.

“The inference is clear,” concludes the researcher.

“Next year we should see a significant increase in the number of severe earthquakes. We have had it easy this year. So far, we have only had about six severe earthquakes. We could easily have 20 per year starting in 2018.”

It is not clear exactly why the decreases in the length of the day should be related to earthquakes, although scientists suspect that small changes in the behavior of the Earth’s core could be causing both effects.

Regrettably, it is difficult to predict where these additional earthquakes will occur, although Bilham said they discovered that most of the intense earthquakes responding to changes in day length seemed to occur near the equator.

Around one billion people live in the tropical regions of the Earth.

Featured image credit: Shutterstock

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21-11-2017 om 16:01 geschreven door peter  

New study published in ‘the Journal Astrobiology’ says life on Earth may have come from ‘elsewhere’

The building blocks of life on Earth may be launching into space, perhaps seeding other worlds, according to a new study published in the journal Astrobiology and available in pre-print on arXiv.

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) have published a study in the journal Astrobiology in which they have proposed a hypothesis according to which life on planet Earth could have come from other planets in the cosmos.

According to calculations, the great flow of space dust that falls on the planet, in an amount of 105 kilograms per day and at speeds of 10 to 70 kilometers per second, is enough to boost, in the upper layers of the atmosphere, small living beings towards space.

This implies that life could be transferred from Earth to other places and that the same thing could happen, or have happened, in the opposite direction.

It is observed that hypervelocity space dust, which is continuously bombarding the Earth, creates immense momentum flows in the atmosphere. Some of this fast space dust inevitably will interact with the atmospheric system, transferring energy and moving particles around, with various possible consequences

“The hypervelocity space dust forms an immense and sustained flow in the atmosphere,” wrote the authors of the study, led by Arjun Berera. “For particles that form the thermosphere or above or reach there from the ground, if they collide with this space dust, they can be displaced, altered in form or carried off by incoming space dust.”

Berera believes that our planet’s organic material could have traveled as much as 30,000 light-years over the past few billion years, which is enough time to reach most parts of the galaxy.

Tardigrades may survive the journey through space.

According to Berera, this can have many consequences for the weather and the wind.

But, what is more interesting, in the opinion of the researcher at the University of Edinburgh, “is the possibility that this type of collision can give the particles of the atmosphere the escape velocity needed to escape from Earth’s gravity.”

In this way, the flow of small particles from space, whose masses range from one gram to one trillionth of a gram, would be like a space shuttle for living beings.

This means that resistant and extremely small organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, or tardigrades, could cross the space between solar systems or even beyond, thanks to the thrust of space dust, and perhaps survive their journey.

What if life on Earth was ‘seeded’ from elsewhere?

Image credit: Shutterstock

It also means that the impact of asteroids and comets would not be the only mechanism capable of transferring life between planets, as Svante August Arrhenius theory of panspermia indicates.

Experts note how “Hypervelocity space dust is a unique entity in planetary systems like our Solar System, which is able to go past and enter the atmosphere of planets, collect samples of those planets and deposit samples of other planets. The entire system of fast space dust in a planetary system thus contains the atoms, molecules and possibly even microbial life, from all the planets and provides a means to mix them up amongst the different planets.”

“The proposal that space dust collisions could propel organisms at enormous distances between planets opens some interesting perspectives on how life and the atmospheres of planets originated,” Berera said in a statement.

“The currents of space dust present in planetary systems could be a common factor in the proliferation of life.”

The next decades of space exploration through powerful telescopes will perhaps clarify numerous questions and whether or not, hypervelocity space dust may have acted as a transport system for microbial life spreading across space.

Source:  Space dust collisions as a planetary escape mechanism

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21-11-2017 om 15:52 geschreven door peter  

By: Nidhi Goyal 

Image by NASA Goddard on Youtube

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21-11-2017 om 15:41 geschreven door peter  

Supercomputers and advanced physics made the stunning new simulation possible

BY 

CAROLYN GRAMLING 

 

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND  Hurricane Ophelia (its core appears here as a white dot at the lower right) dragged in dust from the Sahara and smoke from wildfires in Portugal as the storm spun northeast toward Ireland in October 2017.

NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

How do you observe the invisible currents of the atmosphere? By studying the swirling, billowing loads of sand, sea salt and smoke that winds carry. A new simulation created by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reveals just how far around the globe such aerosol particles can fly on the wind.

The complex new simulation , powered by supercomputers, uses advanced physics and a state-of-the-art climate algorithm known as FV3 to represent in high resolution the physical interactions of aerosols with storms or other weather patterns on a global scale (SN Online: 9/21/17). Using data collected from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites, the simulation tracked how air currents swept aerosols around the planet from August 1, 2017, through November 1, 2017.

In the animation, sea salt (in blue) snagged by winds sweeping across the ocean’s surface becomes entrained in hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria, revealing their deadly paths. Wisps of smoke (in gray) from fires in the U.S. Pacific Northwest drift toward the eastern United States, while Saharan dust (in brown) billows westward across the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. And the visualization shows how Hurricane Ophelia formed off the coast of Africa, pulling in both Saharan dust and smoke from Portugal’s wildfires and transporting the particles to Ireland and the United Kingdom. 

CURRENTS GALORE Smoke, sand and sea salt interact with hurricanes and other weather patterns from August to November 2017 in this supercomputer-powered visualization of atmospheric currents.

Citations

M.R. Radcliff et al. 2017 hurricanes and aerosols simulation. NASA. Posted online November 13, 2017.

Further Reading

C. Gramling. Intense storms provide the first test of powerful new hurricane forecast tools. Science News Online, September 21, 2017.

T. Sumner. Central American fires may intensify U.S. tornadoes. Science News Online, January 28, 2015.

J. Raloff. Salt clouds relieve some Arctic warming. Science News Online, April 22, 2011.

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21-11-2017 om 14:44 geschreven door peter  

It’s the 1st known interstellar asteroid

By Deborah Byrd in SPACE 

It swept nearest the sun in September, then sped away again, back to interstellar space. Astronomers named it `Oumuamua. It’s dark red, very elongated and unlike anything in our solar system.

A few weeks ago, we reported on a small object visiting from beyond our solar system. Now astronomers have scrutinized data from this object, which has been given the name `Oumuamua, and which must have traveled through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. The conclusion is that it’s a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object. And, indeed, it is the first known asteroid from interstellar space. These new results were published today (November 20, 2017) in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Some astronomers thought the object was a comet when the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i first picked it up on October 19, as a faint point of light moving across the sky. Others thought it looked like a typical fast-moving small asteroid. As they tracked its motion through space, astronomers began to be able to calculate its orbit, showing beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside our solar system, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed.

Instead, this object was doubtless from interstellar space.

Observations revealed no signs of cometary activity after it passed closest to the sun in September 2017. It has now been reclassified as an interstellar asteroid – the first ever observed – and named 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua).

A statement from the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii described the intricacies of naming this object:

Originally denoted A/2017 U1 (with the A for asteroid), the body is now the first to receive an I (for interstellar) designation from the International Astronomical Union, which created the new category after the discovery. In addition, it has been officially given the name `Oumuamua. The name, which was chosen in consultation with Hawaiian language experts Ka`iu Kimura and Larry Kimura, reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (`ou means “reach out for”, and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means “first, in advance of”).

The object’s full official name is 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua), and can also be correctly referred to as 1I, 1I/2017 U1, and 1I/`Oumuamua.

View larger. | This animation shows the path of `Oumuamua, as it passed through our inner solar system in September and October 2017.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

But all of that – name, designations, characterizations of the object – came later. First, astronomers had to observe it and try to understand just what this speedy visitor to our solar system might be. And they had to do it quickly. By the time earthly telescopes first noticed it, `Oumuamua had already passed its closest point to the sun, and was heading back into interstellar space. An international team lead by astronomer Karen Meech of IfA observed the object. They gathered data from telescopes around the world, including the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and the Keck Telescope on Maunakea, the Gemini South telescope, and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. These observations led to detailed measurements of the visitor’s properties. Meech commented:

This thing is very strange.

What we found was a rapidly rotating object, at least the size of a football field, that changed in brightness quite dramatically. This change in brightness hints that `Oumuamua could be more than 10 times longer than it is wide – something which has never been seen in our own solar system.

`Oumuamua does have some similarities to small objects in the outer solar system, especially the distant worlds of the Kuiper Belt – a region of rocky, frigid worlds far beyond Neptune. While study of `Oumuamua’s colors shows that this body shares characteristics with both Kuiper Belt objects and organic-rich comets and trojan asteroids, its hyperbolic orbit says it comes from far beyond.

Meech also said the object has:

… a dark red color, similar to objects in the outer solar system, and [we] confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.

The astronomers said these properties suggest that `Oumuamua is dense, possibly rocky or with high metal content, lacks significant amounts of water or ice, and that its surface is now dark and reddened due to the effects of irradiation from cosmic rays over millions of years.

It is estimated to be at least 400 meters long.

Many comment on stories like this one that they don’t want to see artist’s concepts; they want to see the real thing. Here you go. This deep combined image shows the interstellar asteroid `Oumuamua at the center of the picture. It is surrounded by the trails of faint stars that are smeared as the telescopes tracked the moving asteroid. This image was created by combining multiple images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope as well as the Gemini South Telescope. The object is marked with a blue circle and appears to be a point source, with no surrounding dust.

Image via ESO/ K. Meech et al

At first – by looking backwards along the orbit that had been calculated for `Oumuamua – astronomers might have said the object had come from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, in the northern constellation Lyra the Harp.

Things aren’t that simple, though, in our Milky Way galaxy, where everything is always moving. Although it’s travelilng about 60,000 miles/hour (95,000 km/hour), `Oumuamua has taken so long to journey to our solar system that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there (about 300,000 years ago). According to astronomers:

`Oumuamua may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the solar system.

In fact, astronomers were expecting to find an object like this one. They estimate that an interstellar asteroid similar to `Oumuamua passes through the inner solar system about once per year. We haven’t seen them before because they are so faint and hard to spot. But recent survey telescopes, such as Pan-STARRS, are powerful enough to discover them.

That’s why team member Olivier Hainaut of European Southern Observatory commented:

We are continuing to observe this unique object, and we hope to more accurately pin down where it came from and where it is going next on its tour of the galaxy. And now that we have found the first interstellar rock, we are getting ready for the next ones!

This artist’s impression shows the 1st interstellar asteroid, which has been named `Oumuamua. Data analysis reveals that is is a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 meters long, unlike anything normally found in our solar system.

Image via ESO/ M. Kornmesser.

Bottom line: Astronomers report on the first known interstellar asteroid, which swept nearest our sun in September, then sped away again. Astronomers have named this object `Oumuamua and say it is dark red and very elongated.

Via ESO and IfA.

Source: A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid

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21-11-2017 om 14:33 geschreven door peter  

BLACK PROJECT? Bizarre 'TR-3B triangle UFO' seen tailed by 'three military helicopters'

A STRANGE-LOOKING triangle UFO was followed by US military helicopters, it has astonishingly been claimed.

21-11-2017 om 14:21 geschreven door peter  

WAS HET WEL EEN METEOOR DIE ITALIAANSE ASTRONAUT FILMDE ( VIDEO )

Een astronaut in het ruimtestation ISS is erin geslaagd om een meteoriet die richting aarde gaat vast te leggen op beeld. 

Was het echter wel een meteoor wat de Italiaanse astronaut Paolo Nespoli zag of was het iets heel anders? 

Iets dat zelden of nooit gebeurd, is dat nu wel. Een Italiaanse astronaut in het ISS ruimtevaartstation is erin geslaagd een meteoor die onderweg is naar de aarde vast te leggen op beeld.

Het voorval gebeurde op 5 november jongstleden en de autoriteiten waren heel snel met het vrijgeven van de zogenaamde timelapse opname waarop te zien is hoe een meteoor door de lucht schiet richting aarde.

Hier volgen de beelden:

 
Was het echter wel een meteoor of misschien iets heel anders.

Tyler van Secureteam heeft de tijd genomen om de beelden uitgebreid te bestuderen en hij komt tot de conclusie dat er hier wel eens sprake kan zijn van heel iets anders.

Wat hij vreemd vindt, is dat ruimteorganisatie ESA zo snel is met het vrijgeven van beelden in de trant van: als wij als eerste dit verhaal brengen en vertellen wat het is, zal niemand verdere vragen stellen.

De enige andere keer dat men erin slaagde een opname te maken van een meteoor vanuit het ISS was in 2011 en toen zag het beeld er zo uit:

Wanneer je beiden naast elkaar zet dan ziet de recente opname er heel anders uit en lijkt het in de verste verte niet op die uit 2011.

Wanneer je het recente object verder uitvergroot, ziet het er zo uit.

Er wordt gezegd dat deze meteoor met een snelheid gevlogen zou hebben van ongeveer 150.000 kilometer per uur, maar volgens Tyler klopt die berekening niet omdat er sprake is van een timelapse opname (aaneengesloten reeks van beelden waar telkens een kleine pauze tussen zit) en zou het object in werkelijkheid veel langzamer hebben gevlogen.

Heeft hij gelijk? Of is het toch gewoon een meteoor. Kijk en oordeel zelf. 

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21-11-2017 om 14:04 geschreven door peter  

Nibiru heeft ons wéér niet geraakt: “Logisch, Planeet X bestáát gewoon niet” - HLN.be

Bron: Science Alert

WETENSCHAP & PLANEET NASA-wetenschapper David Morrison heeft zo stilaan zijn buik vol van de complottheorieën over Nibiru of Planeet X. Voor de derde keer in een paar weken tijd zou die het einde van de wereld inluiden, door een apocalyptische botsing met de Aarde. Maar: de bewuste planeet bestáát gewoon niet, herhaalt Morrison voor de zoveelste keer.

De vraag is ditmaal wél naar Morrison geluisterd zal worden, nu hij nog maar eens in een podcast heeft uitgeschreeuwd dat Planeet X een verzinsel is. “U vraagt mij een logische verklaring voor een compleet onlogisch idee”, zei Morrison als reactie op de derde aankondiging van het einde van de wereld in evenveel maanden. “Er is zo geen planeet, die is er ook nooit geweest, en waarschijnlijk zal die er ook nooit zijn, maar toch blijft die telkens opnieuw opduiken”, verklaarde hij stellig.

De frustratie bij Morrison is hoorbaar. Nibiru zou ons volgens de ‘believers’ al in 2003 moeten verwoest hebben. Daarna in 2012, en vervolgens op 23 september, dan op 15 oktober en... gisteren. Terwijl we dit schrijven, is de aarde er nog.

Al in 2008 schreef Morrison: “Ik ging ervan uit dat Nibiru het soort internetgerucht was dat snel zou passeren”. Mis dus. Ook toen kreeg Morrison dagelijks bezorgde vragen van mensen - vaak kinderen - die in paniek waren. Vandaag is dat nog altijd zo. “Ik kreeg onlangs nog een telefoontje”, zei Morrison in de podcast. “De wereld zou zaterdag vergaan. De man vroeg mij: ‘Zou ik gaan werken of beter bij mijn gezin blijven?’”

Nog één keertje dan. Mocht Planeet X wél bestaan, dan zouden astronomen ze al lang gespot hebben. Een planeet als Nibiru zou de positie van alle planeten verstoren en zelfs de “maan uit de baan van de aarde ejecteren”. Bovendien kwam er tot nu toe nooit iets in huis van de voorspellingen over de komst van Nibiru.

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21-11-2017 om 13:52 geschreven door peter  

Uniek: rotsblok van buiten ons zonnestelsel bereikt ons na reis van 300.000 jaar - HLN.be

Jules van der Leeuw 

Bron: AD.nl

WETENSCHAP Ons zonnestelsel heeft voor het eerst bezoek van buiten gekregen. Een asteroïde die afkomstig is uit de eindeloze ruimte tussen de sterren, is in de afgelopen weken opgedoken in onze omgeving.

Het rotsblok heeft de naam ‘Oumuamua’ gekregen. Dat is Hawaïaans voor ‘boodschapper van ver die als eerste aankomt’, omdat een telescoop op Hawaï hem als eerste zag.

De onderzoekers denken dat de asteroïde al honderden miljoenen jaren door de Melkweg zwerft, niet gebonden aan een ster. Waarschijnlijk heeft hij er 300.000 jaar over gedaan om de oversteek te maken van de ster Vega naar ons zonnestelsel. “Tientallen jaren hebben we gedacht dat zulke objecten er zijn en nu hebben we voor het eerst direct bewijs van hun bestaan”, aldus de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.

Doordat de asteroïde in de buurt is, hebben Europese en Amerikaanse wetenschappers hem goed kunnen bestuderen. De uitkomsten daarvan staan maandag in het wetenschapsblad Nature. ‘Oumuamua’ is roodkleurig en heeft de vorm van een sigaar. Hij is ongeveer veertig meter breed en vierhonderd meter lang. Dat is opvallend, omdat de asteroïdes en kometen in ons zonnestelsel veel minder uitgerekt zijn.

Lees ook

We hebben net boodschap verstuurd naar mogelijk buitenaardse leven op ‘superaarde’ en over 26 jaar kunnen we al antwoord hebben

‘Rotsen en metalen’

Het rotsblok draait in iets meer dan zeven uur om zijn as. Er hangt geen stofwolk omheen, wat betekent dat hij waarschijnlijk uit rotsen en metalen bestaat en geen water of ijs heeft.

Oumuamua bevindt zich nu op ongeveer 200 miljoen kilometer van de aarde, tussen de planeten Mars en Jupiter. Hij vliegt met een snelheid van 138.000 kilometer per uur van ons weg en dat maakt het steeds moeilijker om hem te bekijken. Rond de jaarwisseling wordt hij waarschijnlijk te vaag om nog te zien. In mei 2018 vliegt hij langs Jupiter, in januari 2019 passeert hij Saturnus. Daarna zal hij ons zonnestelsel langzaam achter zich laten, op weg naar het sterrenbeeld Pegasus.

Wetenschappers sluiten niet uit dat er meer asteroïdes van buiten ons zonnestelsel langsvliegen, maar tot nu toe waren ze te klein en te vaag om te zien.

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21-11-2017 om 13:44 geschreven door peter  

Panspermia – the theory that life came to Earth on a comet or asteroid from another world – comes from the Greek words ‘pan’ (all) and ‘sperma’ (seed). That makes sense because the hypothesis suggests that the life form riding bareback on a space rock was microscopic, like the tardigrades which we already know can survive in space and that some panspermians propose may have indeed traveled here from abroad. Now a new theory proposes that not only were the microorganisms tiny, but so were their means of transit — space dust particles. Could it be true that all we are is space dust in the cosmic wind?

In a paper published in a recent edition of Astrobiology, Professor Arjun Berera of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh looks at “hypervelocity space dust” – the sneeze-worthy massive cloud of particles that are constantly blowing into our atmosphere and quite possibly blowing right back out again with some passengers from Earth. The escape velocity is achieved by a sort of billiard ball effect of incoming particles slamming around the atmospheric table and knocking others in all directions – down, up and corner pocket.

This effect is nothing like the cloud you kick up when blowing the dust off of your tables before your parents visit. Berera and his researchers determined that space dust travels at 70 km a second (156,585.5mph). Assuming that tardigrades or other microorganisms could be carried by conventional winds or the cosmic billiard ball effect to a height of 70 km (43 miles) and that they can hang on to dust particles with their tiny feet or whatever appendages they have, they could be knocked out of the Earth ballpark and catch a ride on a cosmic wind shuttle to another planet, solar system or even a galaxy … assuming they can survive the trip. Based on how well bacteria survives on the outside of the International Space Station, don’t put it past them.

If you buy Professor Berera’s idea of hypervelocity space dust bearing gifts of life to Earth billions of years ago, then it’s safe to assume that it’s also happening right now. That big inhalation before blowing out your birthday candles could have started a colony of aliens deep in your lungs. You may not feel older but you may soon feel something worse than any flu congestion you’ve ever coughed up.

“The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated. The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life.”

While Professor Berera buys into this dustpan-spermia theory, there are both scientific and religious doubters. There’s only one way to find out. Get our your microscope, kick up some dust and eliminate everything that doesn’t look familiar.

{ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

21-11-2017 om 12:38 geschreven door peter  

Strange cigar-shaped ‘Asteroid’ is first interstellar visitor to our solar system!

Last month, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai'i picked up a very strange object moving across the sky. It was originally believed that the object was a comet but astronomers quickly realized it was something entirely different.

Above image shows an impression of cigar-shaped asteroid Oumuamua - European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser and a cigar-shaped UFO on the backside of the Moon. 

Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope and others have shown that the object is a rocky cigar-shaped asteroid and it has been confirmed as the first ever interstellar object to enter our solar system.

The object has been dubbed ‘Oumuamua’ by the International Astronomical Union. The name means “a messenger from a far arriving first” in the language of the Central Pacific Island.

According to a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Oumuamua is like nothing seen before. It is red, made of dense rock or metal, and is shaped roughly like a giant cigar measuring up to 400 meters long and around 40 meters wide.

Oumuamua varies dramatically in brightness by a factor of ten as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours. This unusually large variation in brightness means that the object with its complex, convolute shape, is highly elongated and may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the Solar System, reports RT.

It seems to come from the direction of the star Vega. However, Vega itself moves and was not in the area when Oumuamua was last there about 300,000 years ago.

As quickly confirmed by the astronomers the object is an asteroid which became the first ever interstellar object to enter our solar system; but given the very strange shape of the object it reminds me another huge cigar-shaped ‘UFO’ object on the backside of the Moon photographed by the crew of Apollo 15 which is very similar to the cigar-shaped ‘Messenger From A Far Arriving First’!

Cigar-shaped UFO Moon - Original Apollo

Image Atlas link: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-P-9625

This animation (annotated) shows the path of the interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 (`Oumuamua) through the Solar System. Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope and others have shown that this unique object is dark, reddish in color and highly elongated.

  

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21-11-2017 om 12:26 geschreven door peter  

CCTV Records Bright Flashing UFO Over Phoenix

A strange flashing UFO appears in security cameras in Phoenix, Arizona, reigniting claims the city is a hotspot for visiting beings from another world.

Many people believe it could be an alien spacecraft as it also reportedly observed from New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and California.

Experts said it was likely an object from outer space burnt up in the atmosphere or a meteor.

Phoenix is one of the most famous US cities when it comes to alien and UFO sighting after the notorious Phoenix Lights incident that became a phenomenon from March 13, 1997. The infamous incident involved massive sightings of huge triangular UFOs drifting above Arizona and the city of Phoenix.

Thousands of people saw five lights in a formation for over three hours from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm.

The military blamed the infamous event to flares set off during an exercise at the time, but UFO enthusiasts were not convinced of the official explanation.

The new footage was recorded with a Nest security camera.

The object in question appears above the city as a small orb of light.

It then blooms into a large flash and lights up clouds in the dark sky.

One witness Debora Lee Soltez said on Twitter that they noticed the sky light up not far from Flagstaff. She added that they were driving north, so they did not see the meteor, just the sky lightens up then the flash bright enough to see the trees along the road.

Another Twitter user said that they first thought someone shot a firework, but it got very bright and never popped.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

21-11-2017 om 12:11 geschreven door peter  

Unknown lights over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 16-Nov-2017

This footage was filmed over Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on 16th November 2017.

Witness report: 

UFO fleet hovering at sky.
A friend made two videos with a IPhone 7 showing an #UFO fleet hovering at Engenho Novo, Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil.
He described as pulsating changing colors lights from blue, green to red yellow and in formation of three, mostly.
They came from nothing and disappeared to nothing with five minutes approximate of duration.

Source: MUFON

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21-11-2017 om 12:07 geschreven door peter  

Contact With The Pleiadians

Television Producer, Researcher and Experiencer Bob Schultz digs into his personal archives and presents a never before seen one-on-one interview with the legendary UFO Contact researcher Wendelle Stevens. Topics include Wendelle’s personal history with extensive commentary on maintaining and flying WWII military aircraft and a rare 1994 presentation by Wendelle detailing his investigation of the historic Billy Meier/Pleiadian Contactee case. Recorded at the Minnesota Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Saturday, July 8, 2017.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

21-11-2017 om 11:57 geschreven door peter  

New scientific theory about life on Earth involves alien bugs hitching a ride on space dust

Previously, scientists have considered the possibility of asteroids and comets bringing life to our planet.

Space dust may have transported alien bugs to Earth – or terrestrial microbes to other planets, research suggests.

The theory comes from British scientists who have studied powerful flows of interplanetary dust that can travel through space at up to 43.75 miles per second.

They calculated that small bio-particles floating high in the atmosphere at an altitude of 93 miles or more could be knocked free of the Earth’s gravity by incoming space dust.

Eventually the tiny organisms could reach other planets in the solar system.

Some bacteria, plants and even hardy micro-animals called tardigrades are known to be capable of surviving in space.

The same process could occur in reverse, bringing extraterrestrial bugs to Earth and possibly helping to seed life on the planet, the scientists believe.

Study leader Professor Arjun Berera, from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy, said: “The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated.

“The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life.”

Previously scientists have considered the possibility of impacting asteroids and comets importing life, or the raw ingredients of life, to Earth.

The new research, published in the journal Astrobiology, was part-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

{ http://home.bt.com/news }

21-11-2017 om 00:14 geschreven door peter  

Earth Organisms May Already Live On Other Planets, Thanks To Space Transportation

21-11-2017 om 00:06 geschreven door peter  

Earth Organisms May Already Live On Other Planets, Thanks To Space Transportation

21-11-2017 om 00:06 geschreven door peter  

© Photo: NASA

Mysterious ISS Footage: Are Space Agencies Hiding Proof of Alien Life? (VIDEO)

When one of the crew at the International Space Station (ISS) captured footage of a mysterious object entering the Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists quickly concluded that it was footage of a UFO, despite claims by the European Space Agency’s that the object is just a meteor.

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured the clip, which shows a ball of light approaching the Earth's atmosphere, November 5. 

© YOUTUBE/ABAN TECH

‘Most Controversial UFO Photo on Record:’ UFO Sighting in California Desert (PHOTO)

Tyler Glockner, who runs the alien hunting YouTube Channel SecureTeam10, is convinced that the strange sighting is further proof the government is covering up the existence of aliens.

In a video uploaded to the SecureTeam10 channel, Glockner says, "I don't think it's a meteorite at all."

"You're seeing the Earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space. It does look to be moving at 85,000 miles per hour. But when you account how fast the Earth would have actually been moving, had this not been sped up, it would have been moving much, much slower."

In a statement released by the European Space Agency on November 16, researchers at the agency describe the object as a fireball.

"A fireball is basically a very bright meteoroid — a small bit of natural ‘space rock' — entering Earth's atmosphere and burning brighter than the background stars. This particular meteoroid was moving much faster than typical, with an estimated speed of about 85,000 miles per hour," the statement states.

SecureTeam10 is also suspicious about how fast the European Space Agency released a statement regarding the sighting.

​"They've never jumped on a story so fast," Glockner said. 

"Why are they claiming it to be a meteor if they aren't sure? Why aren't they going to the suspected location where this is meant to be falling, and recover it? Why does it look nothing like a meteor? Why are they only giving us the sped-up time lapse version and pretending it's just normal speed?" Glockner asks.

In his video, the YouTuber also compares the photo to one of a meteor taken during the 2011 Perseid meteor shower.

"If you compare this to what they are calling a meteor in this new footage, at no time does this so-called meteor look like anything that was captured back in 2011 — it just doesn't," Glocker explained.

{  https://sputniknews.com/ }

20-11-2017 om 23:49 geschreven door peter