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- Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Colliding Galaxies of NGC 520 – September 12 2005
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The Colliding Galaxies of NGC 520 – September 12 2005
Assuming that the hypothesis that each galaxy has a Black Hole at its centre is correct, what would happen if the two Black Holes met? Following on from that thought, the most recent hypothesis on Matter in the Universe suggests that only ten percent of the Universes’ mass is “Visible Matter”. Could...
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Saturn's Enceladus - Tuesday Sept 6 2005
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Reference BMAONE23’s comment:
If the moon has one side always facing the planet, wouldn’t the craters on the edge of the moon’s profile which faced out into space, be elongated due to the angle at which the objects would strike the moons’ surface. Although I assume that some objects may also come in at a tangent to the planet an...
- Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Saturn's Enceladus - Tuesday Sept 6 2005
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Saturn's Enceladus - Tuesday Sept 6 2005
Why are there no craters on the left half of the moon? There seems to be a very distinct line between the cratered area on the right and the un-cratered area on the left. Shouldn't there be a gradual reduction in the cratering?