Saturn's Tethys and Ice Balls?!? (APOD 09 Sep 2007)
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Saturn's Tethys and Ice Balls?!? (APOD 09 Sep 2007)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070909.html
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1 ... teors.html
Now who is digging for what information me wonders? FOCLMAO
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1 ... teors.html
Now who is digging for what information me wonders? FOCLMAO
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What do you mean? You really have to be clearer than that!
What have large hailstones on Earth to do with this?
And for an ignorant one, 'FOCLMAO'?
But apart from that, I came to ask where are the "towering walls" to Odysseus that the APOD mentions? This crater is very large but is now a 'complex' crater that from its size and the material of Tethys has slumped, creating a central peak and circumferential terraces. Just how high are the walls now?
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What do you mean? You really have to be clearer than that!
What have large hailstones on Earth to do with this?
And for an ignorant one, 'FOCLMAO'?
But apart from that, I came to ask where are the "towering walls" to Odysseus that the APOD mentions? This crater is very large but is now a 'complex' crater that from its size and the material of Tethys has slumped, creating a central peak and circumferential terraces. Just how high are the walls now?
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http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FOCLMAOAnd for an ignorant one, 'FOCLMAO'?
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I take it, the "he's" you're refering to are the authors & editors Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) "inferring that the aforementioned iceballs have come all the way from Tethys."Andy Wade wrote:Maybe he's inferring that the aforementioned iceballs have come all the way from Tethys...JohnD wrote:Why?
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I really don't see what any of this has to do with the apod, but if you follow the link in the article about the 440 pound behemoth there's another amusing tidbit...
Spanish and American scientists were searching the sky for signs of megacryometeors, huge chunks of ice, weighing up to 440 pounds, that form in the atmosphere and fall to Earth. The strange ice meteors have been linked to global warming.14 The National Weather Service posted an urgent advisory to its website saying that "the Earth has left its orbit and is hurtling towards the sun."15
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In what way is that 'nonsense'? Glaciers are located at the surface of the Earth, where warming would be most severe. Hail forms in the upper troposphere, where it is quite cold, during severe weather. Global warming is predicted to increase the incidence of severe weather.SmartAZ wrote:So if glaciers melt it's global warming and if hailstones freeze that's global warming too. I'm really getting tired of this global warming nonsense.Global warming might be to blame:
(No objection to global warming, if any, only to the nonsense about it.)
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Hmm...so since the global average temperature has increased roughly 2/3 of a degree over the last hundred years, how big of a hailstone does that translate to. Would these things, had they been documented, be no larger than 415 pounds in 1907? Bah! That's tiny.
And how big would they have gotten during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 55 million years ago, when the temperatures were probably around 10 degrees higher?
And how big would they have gotten during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 55 million years ago, when the temperatures were probably around 10 degrees higher?
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