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Originally posted by timelike
I agree science doesn't know everything, but it doesn't know nothing! When it comes to gravity (this is my research area) we don't use Newtonian gravity for gravity waves- it makes no such predicition!!!!
We must use general relativity for gravity waves. If there was such an object there, larger than the Earth it would cause a gravitaional pertubation of the ring system. Much of the fine structure would be dissrupted, not to mention the effects on Satellites in the Saturn system!
The Hubble space telescope is not the only telescope that looks at objects in the infra-red. I suspect the reason none of these effects have been observed is, not because these craft are obeying "new laws of physics", it's because they're simply not there.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Well, Paul, I never related gravity waves to Newtonian’s universal law of gravitation! They are discoveries in an entirely different time line. And a different approach to the conundrum of what gravity actually is!
What we’re up against is technology probably a million years ahead of ours!
You must have gone through some of the papers from LANL (Los Alamos) on ‘gravity shielding’ and ‘anti gravity’. Apparently they’ve already got a little of this technology up and running
A solitary clump-like feature in Saturn's F ring orbits past in this movie sequence made from Cassini images. This feature is seen magnified at the bottom right in PIA07716.
Scientists are trying to determine whether these features are solid moonlets that help control the ring or just loose clumps of particles within the ring.
The images in this sequence were acquired in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 13, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is about 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.
The Clump/Moon Mystery
Scientists have long suspected that small moons hiding among Saturn's ring strands might be producing some of the unusual structure observed in the F ring. While the shepherd moon Prometheus is the main culprit behind the strange behavior of Saturn's F ring, it cannot explain all observed features. The current dilemma facing scientists is that Cassini is detecting extended objects like those pictured here -- that may be either solid moons or just loose clumps of particles within the ring.
This montage of four enhanced Cassini narrow-angle camera images shows bright clump-like features at different locations within the F ring.
Two objects in particular, provisionally named S/2004 S3 and S/2004 S6, have been repeatedly observed by Cassini over the past 13.5 months and 8.5 months, respectively. The orbits for these two objects have not yet been precisely determined, in part because perturbations from other nearby moons make the orbits of objects in this region complicated. Thus, scientists cannot be completely confident at the present time if they in fact have observed new sightings of S3 and S6, or additional transient clumps.
The upper two images show features that may be S6. From previous observations, S6 appears to have an orbit that crosses that of the main F ring. This unexpected behavior currently is a subject of great interest to ring scientists.
The upper left image was taken on June 21, 2005, and shows an object in the outer ringlets of the F ring. The radial (or lengthwise) extent of the feature is approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles). The radial resolution on the ring is about 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.
The image at the upper right was taken on June 29, 2005, and shows a bright feature within the F ring's inner ringlets. The radial extent of the feature seen here is about 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles); the radial resolution is 36 kilometers (22 miles).
The image at the lower left was taken on August 2, 2005, and shows a feature that may be S3. S3 has been found to have an orbital path that is tightly aligned with that of the main F ring. The radial resolution in the image is 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) per pixel.
The lower right image was taken on April 13, 2005, and has a radial resolution of 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. This object does not appear to be either S3 or S6.
Structures like knots and clumps within the F ring often are transient, appearing and then disappearing within months. Repeated observation of the objects seen in this region hopefully will give scientists firm evidence about whether these features are actual moons that disturb the material around them or perhaps the short-lived products of interactions between the F ring and larger moons such as Prometheus.
There are so far 52 known moons in orbit around Saturn. Before assuming that an alien has parked his ship in a pretty precarious position amongst moving house sized blocks of ice and rock, directly in the view of Earth, would it be safer to come to the conclusion that perhaps these are the results of gravitational anomalies created by 50+ asteroids and moons ?
Mark Horraaz wrote:
There are so far 52 known moons in orbit around Saturn. Before assuming that an alien has parked his ship in a pretty precarious position amongst moving house sized blocks of ice and rock, directly in the view of Earth, would it be safer to come to the conclusion that perhaps these are the results of gravitational anomalies created by 50+ asteroids and moons ?
Originally posted by timelike
Has all the characteristics of some previously unseen shepherd moon to me!
Originally posted by Ghaele
My impression of the picture in the first page, because of its posision and color, is that it is a left over of a dissolved ring. Nothing makes me think of alien spaceships or bases.
Originally posted by jupiter869
Have you read the book "Rendezvous with Rama", by Arthur C. Clarke? The similarity of the ship's size and shape in the book and in the photos are amazingly similar!
Originally posted by mikesingh
Jupiter, if you have the time to go through this thread which has now become longer than the darn Nile, you'll see some vids I've posted on what Rama is from inside as also simulations of a fly-by through the huge cylinder. Interesting stuff!
Worth the effort of hunting that post down.
Cheers!
Originally posted by jupiter869
Have you read the book "Rendezvous with Rama", by Arthur C. Clarke? The similarity of the ship's size and shape in the book and in the photos are amazingly similar!
Originally posted by mikesingh
Jupiter, if you have the time to go through this thread which has now become longer than the darn Nile, you'll see some vids I've posted on what Rama is from inside as also simulations of a fly-by through the huge cylinder. Interesting stuff!
Worth the effort of hunting that post down.
Cheers!
Originally posted by internos
There is NO WAY to find something in this thread: i gave up many times. It always happens that while i'm looking for something, i find something else of interesting and i forgive what i was looking for
Interestingly, Rosetta isn’t the first man-made body to be mistaken for an asteroid. In 2002 a body dubbed J002E2 was found that is believed to be debris from one of the Apollo moon missions (Apollo 12). Another body, dubbed 6Q0B44E was discovered in 2006 and soon found to likely be another man-made object left over from Apollo. And in 2000, an object was found and given the minor planet designation of 2000 SG344. But, 2000 SG344 was also thought to possibly be a leftover piece of a Saturn V moon rocket (now it seems that it may actually be an asteroid after all).