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

I guess it it's an asteroid collision...

www.nasa.gov...

This may be the very reason why NASA took that image out to the headlines. Perhaps, only to see the creative delusion of what the ATS public may perceive the object as.

Originally posted by paradiselost333
hey...its planet "X" its about time we can see it

but seriously that is the strangest asteroid I have ever seen

Oh yes, it is an uncanny X, man !



Misleading title tho when the article is clearly called "Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris"

The explanation for how P/2010 A2 could have been caused by a collision of two asteroids has its merits, but it does not resolve all of the issues. 1.) While motion pictures, and even some science journalism have created the impression that the asteroid belt is densely populated with objects, just waiting to collide, this is very far from the case. There is a great deal of space in the asteroid belt and very little matter, very sparsely distributed. The possibility that a near earth object survey should just happen to be aimed at the collision point of two asteroids in the main belt, shortly after they ran together, during the relatively short time it has been in operation, seems remote. 2.) Allowing for the finer resolution of the Hubble image taken on January 29th, it it remarkably similar in its general form to the ground based image taken on the 6th. It seems that the debris of an impact should have dispersed to a noticeable extent in the course of 23 days. 3.) It is thought that the collision occurred at the crossing of the 'X'. The bright object now in the upper left assumably produced a trail of debris behind it from that point. The other object appears to have proceeded downward in the image and to the left. It seems to be producing two separate trails of debris, with an angle of ~ 30 degrees between them. Why or how this unresolved small object is able to produce separate streams of debris has not been explained. Ross

Just curious. . .when we post a story, we're supposed to use the actual title of the article, right? Just because I want to be sure about how this works. . .why is there a link to an article of a different title? Just because we want to look at a picture and call it a UFO doesn't mean that it's a UFO. Shouldn't the title be related to the actual article, of which mentions nothing of UFOs?

Isnt it obvious to everyone that we are witnessing an asteroid crane? It got arms to move asteroid and its flying outta sight zone due to spacial decret

Originally posted by Divine Strake
Just curious. . .when we post a story, we're supposed to use the actual title of the article, right? Just because I want to be sure about how this works. . .why is there a link to an article of a different title? Just because we want to look at a picture and call it a UFO doesn't mean that it's a UFO. Shouldn't the title be related to the actual article, of which mentions nothing of UFOs?

What is that old rule, Question authority?
(That means to question the messanger too!)

Obviously, since Oberg brought the story forth and created the UFO headline--from someone constantly telling us that such things don't exist--then we have reason to question his role as well as discuss the topic.
What he has done is to basically head off the attack of any solid discussion of the object. And that has been done. This thread lacks the typical imput of UFO-aligned arguments. What we do see, is a whole bunch of folks parroting the NASA or other officials explanation without question.

People, there is absolutely no reason to believe anything at face value that comes from any scientists, official or suspected disinformation specialist. A rule of thumb: If voa experience or via some other way know that UFOs with ETs exist, then you MUST not accept any conventional explanation you are given here or elsewhere.

Keep in mind, the UFOs we see probably come from bigger ships that probably come through our solar system for their visits. Don't you think that it may be likely that sometimes those ships get picked up on our instruments and photograps? And just maybe, some of them experience trouble such as I somewhat jokingly mentioned earlier--such that a main ship explodes and the smaller object is an escape pod?




[edit on 4-2-2010 by Aliensun]

asking my kid what he thought it could be he answered :

could it be a spaceship or some kind of evil space bird being.

Originally posted by Haydn_17
Wait till phage comes along, hell say its a galactic jelly fish debris from a japanese school project and get 7 stars! (Joking phage we love you really!)


In my opinion

Its either the flagship of the galactic space, the citadel council:

Or its a proper et craft, who knows?

Let's hope that Sovereign isn't chasing it then

Originally posted by spacebot

Originally posted by Pryde87
reply to post by Agent_USA_Supporter

 

The asteroid (or in your eyes "spaceship") is not an X shape. The X is created by the debri streams in its tail. The object creating the tail is the bright object on the left of the picture.

Quote from NASA: Dr Robert J Nemiroff, astrophysicist at Michigan Technological University and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports: Close inspection, however, shows a 140-metre nucleus offset from the tail centre, very unusual structure near the nucleus, and no discernable gas in the tail.

"Knowing that the object orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, a preliminary hypothesis that appears to explain all of the known clues is that P/2010 A2 is the debris left over from a recent collision between two small asteroids.

Read more: www.thesun.co.uk...

If it were a space ship, firstly why would it orbit a remote asteroid belt. Secondly, what are the things falling from it leaving a trail (its not an exhaust as NASA reported that the tail was solid and not gas).

We are way to quick to jump on the "OMFG UFO!!!" bandwagon at ATS. Just think logically and try not to conviently forget the key facts that disprove UFO theories, even if it makes the event not as interesting.

Quote from NASA: Dr Robert J Nemiroff, astrophysicist at Michigan Technological University and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports: Close inspection, however, shows a 140-metre nucleus offset from the tail centre, very unusual structure near the nucleus, and no discernable gas in the tail.

Close inspection, however, shows what we believe must be this objects nucleus since we think this must be an asteroid since we don't really expect to see anything else than rocks and comets in outer space, so we figure it is a 140-metre nucleus offset from what we believe might be the the tail center, very unusual structure near the nucleus, and no discernible gas in the tail.

Here, fixed it for ya and for your astrophysicist.

People are not to quick to jump on the OMG UFO bandwagon, that's what people often do. What do you expect them to do? To actually get excited about rocks tumbling in outer space? What's so exciting about that?

Geeks..err scientists get excited about those things usually. hey also seem pretty desperate to actually show something of not so much ordinary rocks, in order to grab some of people's attention.

Also, this shape is an unusual candidate. ANYTHING else of a more spherical and or uniform nature would be appearing like a piece of rock anyways and of course would have passed unnoticed.
Now the official explanation, (which is not there yet, but just some speculation from science dudes grasping for straws, still) is that this is a very very very slow motion explosion, of two asteroids crashing on one another.
Ok, interesting. Dear scientists show us some evidence of these very very very slow motion explosions between these tumbling rocks on outer space. At least that's much more exciting than just tumbling rocks.


[edit on 3-2-2010 by spacebot]

NASA cant be trusted for there lies.
just so you know NASA former worker said, they will treat all UFO space cases s such as this as an Comet or asteroids event.

NASA wont go back to Moon, sigh i wonder why? whats up there in the moon? a base? or something eles?



[edit on 5-2-2010 by Agent_USA_Supporter]

NO....wrong... again Jim...it's not a "spiral UFO"....It's a "spiral thingie"

Lol, first thing I though it looked was an Angel Cartel ship frem Eve Online, those that have played will know it.

wiki.eveonline.com...

Really cool image.

No doubt it'll be a spin for Planet X Nibiru theorists!

[edit on 6-2-2010 by flyingcarpet]

The scheduling information for the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that Dr. David Jewitt will be observing the object P/2010 A2 again on February 22nd, just five days from now. The Best of Luck to him, and may his observations help explain the nature of this mysterious object, and unscrew the inscrutable. Results will be awaited with great interest. Ross

I'm thinkin... couldn't there be 2 objects spiraling each other like in a helix (like dna), but we're seeing just one while the other is obscured by the ejected matter? try to picture them spiralling while you watch the picture, and then follow along the trailing cloud (i know it's not gas, it's just easier to call it that way) and you will see this helicoid pattern that get's smoother along the tail, and in the 'rear section' it's only discernible by a series of 'lineal patterns' approximately at 45 degrees from the line of movement.
btw sorry 'bout that awful usage of the english language!
pis.

Drax

Here's an orbital projection by Nasa's JPL:

Nasa- Orbital data for P2010-A2


Go nuts.
Drax

[edit on 1/3/2010 by drakus]

reply to post by Ross 54


So have there been any more images of this phenomena since the beginning of February? Seems like 'they' would be monitoring such an unusual event...

So soon, very soon it will fall upon us, traveling for countless eons to bring our destruction. May whatever powers be with you when lavos comes!


First thing I thought of when I saw the picture.

Seriously though, better wait and take a new picture of it in a few months to se if its shape changes. If it does it is most likely a collision, if it still the same then we can start talking about Unidentified Spacefaring Objects



[edit on 1-3-2010 by Swedude2000]

A casualty of the on going Space War perhaps?

Originally posted by Ross 54
The scheduling information for the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that Dr. David Jewitt will be observing the object P/2010 A2 again on February 22nd, just five days from now. The Best of Luck to him, and may his observations help explain the nature of this mysterious object, and unscrew the inscrutable. Results will be awaited with great interest. Ross

Any updates to this?

I'd definitely like to see if the object has changed as much as it should by now!