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Originally posted by gallifreyan medic
Ah,well bugger I.
Thats where Denzil left his tractor.I tells him not to drive it when
he's P*ssed.
Joking aside,very interesting the first couple of pics.
Have to agree with previous comments about the other pics.
Good on ya posting them.
Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow
reply to post by Arimbari
Great Finds (been spoken about before these anomalies) - you've bought some nice new images - 5 stars!
Originally posted by Pauligirl
It has square craters, too.
WASHINGTON -- Space scientists are squaring off with asteroid Eros.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft has eyed unusual square craters on Asteroid 433 Eros, about 109 million miles (176 million kilometers) from Earth.
The NEAR photo find suggests that the space rock is riddled with a system of faults, fractures and cracks. Such craters, scientists say, offer new clues to the age and history of Eros.
"There are weird-shaped craters on Eros. It's turned out to be a very complex place," said Olivier Barnouin-Jha, a crater expert on the NEAR project at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
APL built the NEAR, which was launched in February 1996, and serves as mission control for the asteroid-surveying spacecraft.
Barnouin-Jha told SPACE.com that the odd-shaped craters appear to have been formed within preexisting faults on Eros. As the craters were created, those faults served to contain the shock wave resulting from the explosive smacks into Eros' surface, he said.
more at:
www.space.com...
Eros is a near-Earth asteroid of significant value (estimated at $15.84 trillion).
Central to the success of the Eros Project is Orbital Development’s present ownership of the entire property.
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
Pictures 2+3 do look intriuging,That light coloured squarish thing does not look like part of the asteroid,more like some kind of structure.
Have we sent any missions to land on Eros?
Or have one of our probes crashed into it?
If not,thats very weird indeed.
Originally posted by Beamish
Just a quick Google and this comes up:
www.orbdev.com...
Apparently,
Eros is a near-Earth asteroid of significant value (estimated at $15.84 trillion).
How do they work that out?
And you can’t go there because:
Central to the success of the Eros Project is Orbital Development’s present ownership of the entire property.
So it belongs to an American company already…Yeah, ooook.
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
Hmm,the NEAR sapcecraft took the photos.
The squarish object in pics 2+3 look a bit like some kind of crash landed probe-And NEAR did land on Eros,although it had not landed (presumably)when it was taking these pics.
Heres a pic of the NEAR
Looks kind of squarish too!
Maybe they sent a similar probe earlier,which also landed on the rock-maybe thats what we are seeing?
Sure looks anomalous to me.
Originally posted by lordtyp0
I kind of agree with Babylonstew.
The earlier pics are definitely intriguing. The latter ones..
One should always be aware of the fact the mind looks for patterns. If you are looking for patterns you will see patterns, it is that simple. Does that prove there is nothing there? No, of course not.
That being said, all I see are rocks and dust in the later pics.
EDIT:
I S&F-d because it's really damn nice to see some more activity that isn't partisan bickering
[edit on 11-3-2010 by lordtyp0]
Originally posted by thegreatone
could that be the NEAR sattelite sent to photo it? i remember reading they landed it on it i believe. So maybe that is it. Not saying eros doesn't have any interesting features on it. here's a fun read
www.enterprisemission.com...
Originally posted by Matthew Dark
I'm curious as to how someone notices this stuff in the first place.
The primary asteroid picture you have, where did it come from?
Is it a composite picture?
Something doesn't seem right around here...