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Originally posted by Chadwickus
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I've merely chosen the most popular theory, namely Nubiru (or planet x or whatever) impacting earth on December 21st, 2012.
So don't come in here scoffing at the most accepted theory.
Yours holds as much ground as the others too by the way.
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"This is where everything gets started," Lyons said. "Any important variations in the magnetosphere occur because there is a transfer of energy from the solar wind to the particles in the magnetosphere. The first critical step is to understand how the energy gets transferred from the solar wind to the magnetosphere."
Originally posted by stereologist
Your introductory material is of unknown origin. It appears to be bits and pieces spliced together from multiple sources. None of it suggests the existence of a new planet in the solar system.
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Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find
October 9, 2002
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--Pluto is undergoing global warming, as evidenced by a three-fold increase in the planet's atmospheric pressure during the past 14 years, a team of astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Williams College, the University of Hawaii, Lowell Observatory and Cornell University announced in a press conference today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences in Birmingham, AL.
The team, led by James Elliot, professor of planetary astronomy at MIT and director of MIT's Wallace Observatory, made this finding by watching the dimming of a star when Pluto passed in front of it Aug. 20. The team carried out observations using eight telescopes at Mauna Kea Observatory, Haleakala, Lick Observatory, Lowell Observatory and Palomar Observatory. Data were successfully recorded at all sites.
An earlier attempt to observe an occultation of Pluto on July 19 in Chile was not highly successful. Observations were made from only two sites with small telescopes because the giant telescopes and other small telescopes involved lost out to bad weather or from being in the wrong location that day. These two occultations were the first to be successfully observed for Pluto since 1988.
Pluto thought to be warming up
Astronomers at the University of Tasmania have found that the solar system's smallest planet is not getting colder as first thought and it probably does not have rings.
Dr John Greenhill has collected observations from last month's event when Pluto passed in front of a bright star, making it easier to study.
French scientists have shared the measurements they took in Tasmania that night, which indicate that the planet is unlikely to have rings.
Dr Greenhill says the results are surprising because they show Pluto is warming up.
"It looks as though the atmosphere has not changed from 2002, which is pretty surprising because we expected the atmosphere would freeze out as the planet moved further away from the Sun," he said.
"But so far, if anything, the atmosphere has gotten even denser."
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
The date of Dec 21st of 2012 MARKS THE END OF A CYCLE AND THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER CYCLE....Not the "end of the world"...
Because Pluto's year is equal to about 250 Earth years, 13 years after Pluto's closest approach to the Sun is like 1:15 p.m. on Earth. "This warming trend on Pluto could easily last for another 13 years," Tholen estimated.
they show Pluto is warming up.
It looks as though the atmosphere has not changed from 2002
Originally posted by stereologist
You claim that the Hopi are Maya. I don't see any connection in the literature.
Are the Maya and the Hopi 2 Branches
of the Same Ancestral Tree?
Before a house is built in Mayan Guatemala, before a new town is laid out or a new field is planted, a spiritual guide is called, and in an ancient ceremony the spiritual guide determines the corners of the property, and north, south, east and west. He walks to them, marks them, and after the ‘cornering’ is complete, he uses them to determine the center. At the center, the land is dedicated to its new purpose. In a home, for example, this center, or balance point, becomes the hearth, and the three hearth stones will be laid, the tenemastes, representing the triangle of stones laid down at creation to support the cosmos, and still seen as a triangle of stars in Orion.
When the Hopi first came to this continent at the beginning of this forth age, they were instructed to make four great pilgrimages before settling at the center, their permanent home. The clans walked south, west to the Pacific, East to the Atlantic and north to impenetrable ice, the world’s ‘back door,’ and then returned to settle the center, the mesas we now call Hopi land. They left swirling petroglyphs behind, the number of turns in the spirals representing the number of migrations completed. The first clan to complete the four prescribed pilgrimages, the Bear Clan, still holds the principal place in tribal leadership.
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Most Hopis believe they are related to the Mayan, but are unsure as to whether the Maya descended from the Hopi or the Hopi descended from the Maya. Most other Native American tribes revere the Hopi as the “oldest of the people” and agree with the Hopi that they were the first inhabitants of North America. Most Hopi believe that the Anasazi Indians were actually Hopi ancestors.
Originally posted by stereologist
This is followed int he article by the warming of Triton.
That's an 8 year old article. Got anything newer to look for trends?
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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by stereologist
This is followed int he article by the warming of Triton.
That's an 8 year old article. Got anything newer to look for trends?
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How big do you think Pluto is? Pluto's atmosphere is not that thick either, so how in the world could Pluto still be warming even years later after moving away from the Sun?
Pluto began moving away from the Sun in 1999, if I remember correctly.
[edit on 23-4-2010 by ElectricUniverse]
Originally posted by dragnet53
yup and the way I see it Pluto redness was caused by something giving it some friction. Like something was rubbing against it. I love it how people just know everything and they have a high IQ.
Pluto can get so cold, researchers believe, that its atmosphere can actually freeze and fall to the ground. If Earth's atmosphere did that, it would make a layer 30 feet thick, but Pluto has less to work with. When it's on the ground, Pluto's entire blanket of air is no more than a frosty film of nitrogen and methane.
"Now, Pluto is headed away from the sun again," says Brown. "It will gradually get colder and colder and its atmosphere will refreeze to its surface. In fact, that should have already started happening, but apparently it has not. It's a mystery."
NASA's New Horizons probe is en route to investigate. The spacecraft left Earth in January 2006 and has been racing toward Pluto for an encounter in July 2015, hopefully before the atmosphere refreezes.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by dragnet53
yup and the way I see it Pluto redness was caused by something giving it some friction. Like something was rubbing against it. I love it how people just know everything and they have a high IQ.
Where did i say I know everything?...
However, I am tired of people trying to make fun of a culture, and their prophecies, when they have no idea of what they are talking about.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by ElectricUniverse
That's right, but as the astronomer pointed out there is a delayed reaction to heating. The hottest days in summer are long after the longest day of the year. The hottest time of the day is long after the noon.
That remark was in the article you posted. It also supposed possibly 13 more years of warming.
The Mysterious Molasses Markings Of Pluto
Pluto can get so cold, researchers believe, that its atmosphere can actually freeze and fall to the ground. If Earth's atmosphere did that, it would make a layer 30 feet thick, but Pluto has less to work with. When it's on the ground, Pluto's entire blanket of air is no more than a frosty film of nitrogen and methane.
"Now, Pluto is headed away from the sun again," says Brown. "It will gradually get colder and colder and its atmosphere will refreeze to its surface. In fact, that should have already started happening, but apparently it has not. It's a mystery."
NASA's New Horizons probe is en route to investigate. The spacecraft left Earth in January 2006 and has been racing toward Pluto for an encounter in July 2015, hopefully before the atmosphere refreezes.
Originally posted by stereologist
The Pluto mission doesn't arrive till 2015. It would be interesting if the atmosphere doesn't freeze out before then.