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Solved: What is it? Space mystery object
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:32 pm
by RJN
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #1
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:20 pm
by neufer
Comet Tempel 1 ![Question :?:](./images/smilies/icon_question.gif)
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #1
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:23 pm
by bystander
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #1
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:33 pm
by RJN
Yup. Wow, that was quick. Maybe this is too easy.
Does anyone know of an easy way that people can post their answer, yet hide it, perhaps behind a mouse-over, so that others can continue to guess?
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #1
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:37 pm
by bystander
Code: Select all
[spoiler]message goes here[/spoiler]
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #1
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:19 am
by geckzilla
I went ahead and set the spoiler button to visible on the bbcode tag row.
What is it? Space mystery object #2
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:57 pm
by RJN
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #2
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:51 pm
by bystander
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #2
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:02 pm
by BMAONE23
What is it? Space mystery object #3
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:59 pm
by RJN
![Image](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/whatisit100222.jpg)
Please, if you can, identify the APOD from which this image fragment was taken.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #3
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:44 pm
by BMAONE23
Obviously, It's the
Doomsday Machine "Planet Killer" from the original Star Trek series
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #3
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:02 pm
by The Code
Mark
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #3
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:49 pm
by RJN
Yes, Mark is correct. Very good! The pictured area is a small region toward the right of the image just short of half way up. Mark got it in two hours -- and I thought that one might be too hard!
Mark, would you like to do the next one? Maybe we can have an informal rule where the winner gets to post the next mystery object (within a reasonable time frame). The other rule I would like to keep is that the image must be either a complete APOD image or an APOD image fragment, so that the answer can just be given as an APOD link. (Then people who don't know can just read that APOD to find out about the object.)
- RJN
What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:26 pm
by The Code
![Space Mystery Object #4](./download/file.php?id=142&sid=0f23eb59974e3f65ccae367e6db781de)
- Space Mystery Object #4
- SMO4.JPG (11.01 KiB) Viewed 3173 times
Identify the APOD from which this image fragment was taken.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:35 pm
by makc
this look like blurred smiley face rotated 90 degrees to the left.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #3
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:24 pm
by The Code
Thanks RJN.
I like a challenge. And that certainly was one. New Game up.
Job Done.
Mark
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:10 pm
by neufer
A butterfly?
![Image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e4/New_Yorker_cover.jpg/200px-New_Yorker_cover.jpg)
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:22 pm
by BMAONE23
It strongly resembles a cross between Vesta and Wild's Nucleus
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:40 pm
by RJN
I'm stumped. I was thinking one of the asterioid Steins images:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080908.html
but it doesn't seem to match up. Can we have a small hint?
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:00 pm
by The Code
Ok Mate.
You want a hint. No Probs.
It is one of four. And 72 miles across. The better Half.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:06 pm
by neufer
mark swain wrote:Ok Mate.
You want a hint. No Probs.
It is one of four. And 72 miles across. The better Half.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Would anyone dare to have me do one.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:12 pm
by bystander
You did post the correct answer first. Just remember, it has to be from an APOD, not some free association.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:15 pm
by neufer
bystander wrote:You did post the correct answer first. Just remember, it has to be an APOD, not some free association.
Or a piece of an APOD...that leaves
LOTS of possibilities.
![Twisted Evil :twisted:](./images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif)
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #4
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:22 pm
by RJN
OK. Got it. Art's right.
Good one, though!
What is it? Space mystery object #5
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:18 pm
by neufer
Identify the APOD from which
this image fragment was taken.
![puzzle5.jpg](./download/file.php?id=144&sid=0f23eb59974e3f65ccae367e6db781de)
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