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"Brown dwarfs are failed stars about the size of Jupiter, with a much larger
mass but not quite large enough to become stars...
Unlike the sun, they have no internal energy source and emit almost no visible
light...
Brown dwarfs are so elusive, so hard to find," McLean said. "They can be
detected best in the infrared, and even within the infrared, they are very
difficult to detect. We detect the heat glow from these faint objects in the
infrared. Typically, they have to be relatively close by, within 100 light
years, for us to even detect the heat signature."
www.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Originally posted by sun tzu
At March 10, 2011, this object would've been half the orbital distance to jupiter from earth away... wouldn't someone have seen a bloody brown dwarf by now, with a hobbyist size telescope? Didn't Galileo see Jupiter's moons with some antiquated POS like many hundred years ago? If anybody has any insight on that, like why it would be not visible to us, that would be useful!
"Brown dwarfs have less than eight percent of the mass of the Sun, which is not enough to sustain the fusion reaction that keeps the Sun hot. These cool orbs are nearly impossible to see in visible light,"
www.astrobio.net...
Originally posted by jazkaat
Feb 27 2010 (06:34 UTC) Chile 8.8
Sept 4 2010 (16:35 UTC) Christchurch Newzealand 7.2
March 11 2011 (05:46 UTC) Japan 9.1
Has anyone noticed how evenly these quakes are spaced?
Chile-NewZealand 188 days, 10 hours 1 minute
NewZealand-Japan 188 days 13 hours 11 minutes
Originally posted by AnimositisominA
Using the orbit diagram, trace the orbit of Elinen to the point where earth intersects with with elinin's orbit. Then trace earths orbit from that point. You'll see that it is part of the golden ratio with our sun @ the center.
Probably useless, but I'll point it out regardless.
That's true----if they are at astronomical (interstellar) distances.
If one were within our Solar System at an orbit no further than Jupiter's, it would be shining brighter than Jupiter from reflected light from our Sun.
It would be the brightest object in the sky except for the Moon & Sun and visible to the planet without any instruments.
Originally posted by sezsue
Maybe it's comets/asteroids passing within a close distance of earth/moon in conjunction with other planets.
Funny thing is, I was just looking at the JPL site. I had gone there to look up something else to do with the sun and noticed the small body/asteroids data base.
There is an asteroid set to pass very close to the earth March 16/17!!! it is named 2011 EB74.
Link to JPL information
It looks like this may have only been discovered on March 15th!!!!!
The Earth MOID (Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance) is only .000852444 AU. The Earth Distance on March 17 will be .0023AU
Originally posted by Givenmay
Originally posted by sezsue
Maybe it's comets/asteroids passing within a close distance of earth/moon in conjunction with other planets.
Funny thing is, I was just looking at the JPL site. I had gone there to look up something else to do with the sun and noticed the small body/asteroids data base.
There is an asteroid set to pass very close to the earth March 16/17!!! it is named 2011 EB74.
Link to JPL information
It looks like this may have only been discovered on March 15th!!!!!
The Earth MOID (Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance) is only .000852444 AU. The Earth Distance on March 17 will be .0023AU
Goodness, it looks like we are right on that asteroid for several days...if this asteroid is that close, wont we be able to see it, or is it too small to worry about?...could it hit Earth?...sure is alarming to me!
Originally posted by Christian Voice
reply to post by Condemned0625
Again, this is a thread about earthquake predictions and star alignments and you come in here with your Christian bashing. Stick to the topic at hand.
I got an email about this very thing two days ago and it is very interesting indeed. There are some saying Elenin is a cover up for Nibiru but who knows.
Originally posted by hawkiye
Originally posted by Givenmay
Originally posted by sezsue
Maybe it's comets/asteroids passing within a close distance of earth/moon in conjunction with other planets.
Funny thing is, I was just looking at the JPL site. I had gone there to look up something else to do with the sun and noticed the small body/asteroids data base.
There is an asteroid set to pass very close to the earth March 16/17!!! it is named 2011 EB74.
Link to JPL information
It looks like this may have only been discovered on March 15th!!!!!
The Earth MOID (Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance) is only .000852444 AU. The Earth Distance on March 17 will be .0023AU
Goodness, it looks like we are right on that asteroid for several days...if this asteroid is that close, wont we be able to see it, or is it too small to worry about?...could it hit Earth?...sure is alarming to me!
It will be 344 075.4 kilometers from earth at its closest point which is today. That seems awful close but I don't know if it has enough mass to really effect us that much.edit on 17-3-2011 by hawkiye because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by hp1229
Originally posted by hawkiye
Originally posted by Givenmay
Originally posted by sezsue
Maybe it's comets/asteroids passing within a close distance of earth/moon in conjunction with other planets.
Funny thing is, I was just looking at the JPL site. I had gone there to look up something else to do with the sun and noticed the small body/asteroids data base.
There is an asteroid set to pass very close to the earth March 16/17!!! it is named 2011 EB74.
Link to JPL information
It looks like this may have only been discovered on March 15th!!!!!
The Earth MOID (Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance) is only .000852444 AU. The Earth Distance on March 17 will be .0023AU
Goodness, it looks like we are right on that asteroid for several days...if this asteroid is that close, wont we be able to see it, or is it too small to worry about?...could it hit Earth?...sure is alarming to me!
It will be 344 075.4 kilometers from earth at its closest point which is today. That seems awful close but I don't know if it has enough mass to really effect us that much.edit on 17-3-2011 by hawkiye because: (no reason given)
Are you sure? The closest it will be is 10/16/2011.