"Spiral UFO" Photographed by Hubble -- in the Asteroid Belt!!

Has anybody actually read the link article from NASA .

The observations show a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust. This complex structure suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen.

Sounds perfectly plausible to me .

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Left them to die so that we humans can assume our own rightful place as heads of the council . Meh I always chose paragon endings though.

Anyway interesting image, and if what Box of Rain has quoted from the article turns out to be true then this is truly an very interesting image.

Could this UFO be responsible for the Norway spiral?

To the member who asked about my pic. Its the destiny acension, flagship of the citadel fleet! Mass Effect

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I am reminded of Hanny's Voorwerp. I know this will make science minded folks cringe, but I asked Grandfather Gashweseoma what he thought it was and he replied instantly, "Ma'saw." The truth is scientist don't know what it is so in the mean time it is Ma'saw.

Are you serious ?

Thanks for the Hopi link.

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Did you guys see this?

The object appears so unusual in ground-based telescopic images that discretionary time on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to take a close-up look

What the hell is "discretionary time?"
and how often do they use it.


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The object is named P/2010 A2 from NASA site.
discovered 6 junuary 2010

wikipedia link
P/2010 A2
need to be updated now

UCLA HST: D.Jewitt Home Page
P/2010 A2 (LINEAR): The 5th Main-Belt Comet

orbit from JPL


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all comets look like this folks ??

images.google.ch...



73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann:


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considering it happened in the asteroid belt, I say it's an asteroid collision. nice find though. S+f

Originally posted by Box of Rain
The possible explanation that was given on that link sounds plausible to me:

This complex structure suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen.

Still, it's a beautiful image, and if this explanation ends up being accurate, then it's amazing to be able to see what I think would be a relatively difficult event to capture in an image.

This is what I was thinking. A mid spaced collision caught on film! What a find. It was almost a month since it was first observed to when Hubble took this picture. It's like a slow motion explosion in space.

Download this image and view it full screen. It looks like some sci-fi drawing of a star fighter from space.

very interesting pic........way to much out there that we no nothing about to make any assumptions. still an interesting pic.

Originally posted by gortex
Has anybody actually read the link article from NASA .

The observations show a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust. This complex structure suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen.

Sounds perfectly plausible to me .

Yeah -- I brought this up, too, in an earlier post.

I suppose people only look at the pictures.

oops -- double post

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I'm not sure the impact is one month old.

article from the 10 january 2010. not really impact related.
The Transcient sky:The Curious Case of Comet LINEAR

Originally posted by sushijoe
very interesting pic........way to much out there that we no nothing about to make any assumptions. still an interesting pic.

We have to make assumptions, it's the way science works. They don't have to be definite by any means. And besides, there actually isn't that much out there besides asteroid material, a few comets, and the odd ufo battalion. It has to be at least one of these.

It is a Klingon warbird .

I knew it I knew it!!!!

Originally posted by mixmix
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I'm not sure the impact is one month old.

article from the 10 january 2010. not really impact related.
The Transcient sky:The Curious Case of Comet LINEAR

Yea, we don't really know when it occurred. If it is asteroid impact then it should die down. We should be to extrapolate when it occurred. If keeps coming towards us then it's more likely a comet. If it's not a comet, then I like my gagh fresh.

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It's a planet like orbit in the asteroid belt.

or a comet with an asteroid orbit

or an asteroid with a comet tail

I'm confused

look, I edited my precedent post with orbit from JPL link.

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Wonderful object.

Had to bring a bit more colour to it so I could see what was going on in the pic.
It reminds me of a steam train puffing along.. see how it appears to have a puff of smoke that rises up but dissipates back down into the trail?

The trail also looks as though it is relatively flat, although it does seem to have portions where it looks like the trident at the front as if it was pulsing along.. ( a bit like the engines you see on those jet fighters where you see the burners pulsing...or like puffs of smoke from a steam train where you can make out each 'push')

It's really interesting how the trident shape is formed. Could that be a collection of debris that is moving along with the main object or is the main object spiraling around in such a way as to leave this impression?

What strikes me odd is the area in front and below the trident. It's almost as though this object is sucking up gasses or particles in front of it before igniting them in some manner which is illuminating the tail.

Very nice catch.
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