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by HoyleMan
Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:37 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Multiple Ringed Craters
Replies: 76
Views: 19770

30 seconds googling for "multiple ring impact basins" turns up some interesting things: http://miac.uqac.ca/MIAC/crater.htm http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/planets/cratform.htm The very largest impacts create concentric rings of fault scarps hundreds of kilometers in diameter. These features ar...
by HoyleMan
Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:09 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Dark Matter Found
Replies: 5
Views: 2992

OK so theyre saying that the offset between where hot gas is and where the mass is is evidence for dark matter.

isnt it more likely that they just pointed each telescope in a slightly different direction (by accident!) and found these results!
by HoyleMan
Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:23 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Globular Clusters and why the "Big Bang" is Wrong!
Replies: 112
Views: 27954

Some large objects out there, such as the super clusters are over 60 billion years to form. But! the dating of the stars are only 14 billion years, thats because of the recyclic process. it would not surprise me if some super clusters took over 100 billion years to form! It is consistent with the a...
by HoyleMan
Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:14 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Globular Clusters and why the "Big Bang" is Wrong!
Replies: 112
Views: 27954

Globular Clusters and why the "Big Bang" is Wrong!

If you dont know globular clusters are groups of stars that float around the milky way and probably other galaxies. Globular clusters (GCs) are the oldest objects in the universe, made of slowly dying old giant stars The paradox between the age of the universe and the age of Globular Clusters. Some ...