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10-05-2008, 09:37 PM
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NASA Announcement May 14th
Hi all, I was just reading this on Universe Today, as to what it may be is anyones guess at the moment.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05...-announcement/
Anybody care to hazard a guess
Cheers 
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10-05-2008, 09:45 PM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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I guess manned flight to mars but we only get 1 guess....
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10-05-2008, 09:50 PM
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Supernova Searcher
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I reckon it is a Brown Dwarf Star companion to the Sun. 
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10-05-2008, 09:58 PM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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my guess is out already with them saying they`ve been searching for it for something like 50 yrs
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10-05-2008, 10:01 PM
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They have been searching for more than 50 years for this object in our galaxy.
It's all very intriguing.
Cheers
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10-05-2008, 10:49 PM
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The Observologist
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The truth is out there ...
Hi All,
Trying to put two and two together I think the important clues might be:
In our galaxy (they didn't say solar-system)
*Chandra* plus ground-based observations
Searching for 50 years
Chandra observes at x-ray wavelengths so that almost certainly discounts anything in our solar-system and in all probability it has something to do with a bright, compact x-ray emitting object like a neutron star, neutron star binary or black hole/singularity or magnetar?
Neutron star binaries are very, very rare but also emit x-rays and are an important lab for physicists to study gravity. Could it be proof of gravity waves and the speed of gravity? Hmmm ...
50 years ago -- that roughly coincides with the first spaceflights. _One_ important discovery back about then was Cosmic Rays -- maybe connected? Maybe not. Dunno
My guess (boring!) is an intermediate mass black-hole in our Galaxy _or_ ironclad proof of Sagittarius A*'s nature as a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
But who knows?
Slartibartfast's signature on the glacier?
An effective way to prevent pilling on clothing? (No, we've been searching for the answer to that one for much longer than 50 years)
A way for NASA/Astronomers to extract more funding out of the government?
Wally?
Seriously, intermediate mass black hole I'd reckon.
Best,
Les D
Contributing Editor
AS&T
Last edited by ngcles; 11-05-2008 at 01:55 AM.
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11-05-2008, 09:31 AM
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pro lumen
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Dark matter
(edit)reading a chapter or two of the celestial handbook today ..how about a population 3 star .
Last edited by GrahamL; 12-05-2008 at 06:22 PM.
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11-05-2008, 08:14 PM
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Space Explorer
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What have astronomers been looking for now for over 50 years??
An unlimited budget to buy more astrogear of course!
Put me down for a million or so, I bet I can find a way to spend it.
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11-05-2008, 09:28 PM
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cant wait to find out...
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11-05-2008, 11:00 PM
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well, in my efforts to unravel the mystery of this involved a very complex... blah blah blah, I typed words in google.
I come out with this as possibility.
Detected the magnetosphere of a planet not in our solar system. Out of all the speculations I've read this one hasn't been mentioned.
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12-05-2008, 11:56 AM
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No More Infinities
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If it's supposed to be an object they've been looking for, for over 50 years, then it's not a black hole or a neutron star, because neither of those types of objects were seriously looked at, or for, until the mid to late 60's... and for a start, X-ray astronomy was in it's infancy in the 70's. Although, I maybe wrong...it might be the combined efforts of astronomers over 50 years and not just the specific way of observing.
Knowing NASA, it'll probably something completely underwhelming and mundane, to the point of it being a complete non event. Just a typical beat up to justify an announcement they'd be better of publishing in the next issue of Physics Letters, JoA or AAJ.
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12-05-2008, 05:14 PM
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I reckon they're gonna confirm the existence of "A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter" - DNA
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12-05-2008, 06:11 PM
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my guess
Oh havent you guys heard yet? They found the guinea pig powering the galaxy  they think its one of many! its called the 'guineapig on a string' theory
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12-05-2008, 06:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schrodingersCat
Oh havent you guys heard yet? They found the guinea pig powering the galaxy they think its one of many! its called the 'guineapig on a string' theory |
There was talk over at Universe Today that it maybe your good self coming back to haunt us over that silly experiment that we got you to participate in  
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12-05-2008, 09:30 PM
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My choice is that they have found a earth like planet with atmosphere to support life and only a few light years away.
Nothing like being optimistic. 
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13-05-2008, 09:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ric
My choice is that they have found a earth like planet with atmosphere to support life and only a few light years away.
Nothing like being optimistic. |
I could have sworn recently I came across something stating something along these lines... at least that they had found an earth like planet (not sure about any more details). But if I've already heard about it does that mean it's effectively ruled out of being this "great announcement" as it's already been put out into the public domain?
But otherwise yes my guess is for earth like planet.
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13-05-2008, 10:30 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cpoc
But otherwise yes my guess is for earth like planet.
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But have they been looking for these for 50 years?
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13-05-2008, 10:59 AM
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They found Waldo
Last edited by prova; 13-05-2008 at 11:11 AM.
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15-05-2008, 12:56 AM
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Space Explorer
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What time is the announcement being made, should be in the next few hours.....
Tme enough to prepare for our new Insect Overlords to arrive, and begin consuming us all!
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15-05-2008, 01:04 AM
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an overactive imagination
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funny how the Poms have just released thier secret UFO files and the Vatican just gave the okay to believe in aliens.
The timing of all 3 events makes for some good guessing.
It's probably something boring like a dead monkey carcass they shot into orbit 50 years and wondered where the hell it got to
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