But that isn't what is taught 90% is alleged.seasmith wrote:Actually the "water" or hydroxyl ions, are not the prime components in a cometary Coma.viscount aero wrote: »
In my opinion it is a photochemical/electrochemical reaction as the comet enters a region of higher electrical potential. This can occur far away from the Sun, too, as has been recorded on other comets and asteroids.Dotini wrote:
... Does water reside on or in the comet, and/or is water produced as an electrochemical reaction from silicates in the solar wind? There may be a certain amount of circular reasoning in density estimates. But I am unsure. Please help to nail down exactly how comet densities are estimated.
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Dotini,Dotini wrote:I tried to find out how comet density is determined. I did not get very far, so maybe you guys can help me do some research. It seems density is an estimate based on mass and volume. But how is mass measured? My feeble efforts seemed to find that water production in the coma is a factor in estimates of mass. But water production depends on distance to the sun (perihelion) as well as where the water is coming from. Does water reside on or in the comet, and/or is water produced as an electrochemical reaction from silicates in the solar wind? There may be a certain amount of circular reasoning in density estimates. But I am unsure. Please help to nail down exactly how comet densities are estimated.scowie wrote:It seems to me that the belief that 67P has a low density may have lead to the belief that there is water present. Lower density structures like foam have lower permittivities than solids of the same material. Water has high permittivity. They obviously measured a higher permittivity than what you'd get with foam-like/rubble-like rock with vacuum in the gaps. Hence they conclude that there must be some water present to raise up the permittivity.
So, since their density calculation is probably wrong, I'd recommend taking any claims of any amount of water having been detected with a pinch of salt too
You dont get very far for a very good reason, the "Standard" Model is bested possibly only by the Bible as being the most imcomprehensible "shaggy-dog-tale" ever sold.They hev "nothing" from which to pin ANYTHING on in a fundamental and meaningful way..... "anchoring" (per PMR) the whole side-show of Physics on rickety false assumptions.
Good on you for the honest comment
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Yes they seem to forget that "mass" (and by association their miraculous answer to everything,.. Gravity) is not in any way required when dedeucing orbitalsI'm sure that in the case of 67P, it will be from the orbit of the Rosetta probe around the comet. They assume that gravity alone is responsible for it's orbit and then infer a mass from that, and a density from it's volume. Of course, they'd need to have another method for comets/asteroids/dwarf planets that have not been visited. A bit of googling suggests that volatile retention models are one method of dong this (and they seem rather subjective)
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http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/imag ... _comet.gif
According to this ESA animation, the Axis of Rotation of P67 c-g seems to pass through the narrowed 'neck' of the comet,
(which is also the area with the most emission activity).
Its Spin Axis is also given a Right ascension: 69 degrees and Declination: 64 degrees.
Is that with respect to solar system ecliptic ?
How does this spin axis align with solar and Jovian spins, (or magnetic fields) ?
What precipitates the coma-producing emissions/discharges, when and if an asteroid becomes cometary ?
Composition, conductance/impedance, ES frictions, its circuit about the sun, something else,
all the above ??
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Size of nucleus:
Small lobe
Large lobe
2.5 km x 2.5 km x 2.0 km
4.1 km x 3.2 km x 1.3 km
Mass 1013 kg
Volume 25 km3
Density 0.4 g/cm3
Rotation period 12.4043 ± 0.0007 * hours
Spin axis Right ascension: 69 degrees
Declination: 64 degrees
Orbital period 6.55 years
Perihelion distance from Sun 186 million km (1.243 AU)
Aphelion distance from Sun 849.7 million km (5.68 AU)
Orbital eccentricity 0.640
Orbital inclination 7.04 degrees
Water vapour production rate 300 ml/s (June 2014)
1-5 l/s (July-August 2014)
Surface temperature 2-5-230 K (July - August 2014)
Subsurface temperature 30-160 K (August 2014)
Gases detected water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane, methanol, sodium, magnesium
Dust grains A few tens of microns to a few hundreds of microns
Year of discovery 1969
Discoverers Klim Churyumov &
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images ... l_of_comet
Wake-up Philae
http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/imag ... _comet.gif
According to this ESA animation, the Axis of Rotation of P67 c-g seems to pass through the narrowed 'neck' of the comet,
(which is also the area with the most emission activity).
Its Spin Axis is also given a Right ascension: 69 degrees and Declination: 64 degrees.
Is that with respect to solar system ecliptic ?
How does this spin axis align with solar and Jovian spins, (or magnetic fields) ?
What precipitates the coma-producing emissions/discharges, when and if an asteroid becomes cometary ?
Composition, conductance/impedance, ES frictions, its circuit about the sun, something else,
all the above ??
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Size of nucleus:
Small lobe
Large lobe
2.5 km x 2.5 km x 2.0 km
4.1 km x 3.2 km x 1.3 km
Mass 1013 kg
Volume 25 km3
Density 0.4 g/cm3
Rotation period 12.4043 ± 0.0007 * hours
Spin axis Right ascension: 69 degrees
Declination: 64 degrees
Orbital period 6.55 years
Perihelion distance from Sun 186 million km (1.243 AU)
Aphelion distance from Sun 849.7 million km (5.68 AU)
Orbital eccentricity 0.640
Orbital inclination 7.04 degrees
Water vapour production rate 300 ml/s (June 2014)
1-5 l/s (July-August 2014)
Surface temperature 2-5-230 K (July - August 2014)
Subsurface temperature 30-160 K (August 2014)
Gases detected water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane, methanol, sodium, magnesium
Dust grains A few tens of microns to a few hundreds of microns
Year of discovery 1969
Discoverers Klim Churyumov &
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images ... l_of_comet
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And free Xenu!seasmith wrote:Wake-up Philae
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A color animation of 67P's Axis of Spin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... NGu7KbXzOs
compare with
(see last post, previous page)
A color animation of 67P's Axis of Spin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... NGu7KbXzOs
compare with
(see last post, previous page)
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"It looks like rock, but we're VERY sure that it isn't"
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Hmmm…
Maybe that explains my quandary.
Maybe that explains my quandary.
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67P's Axis of Spin has been reported to be tilted ≈ 26˚, with respect to its orbital plane about the sun,
similar to that of Earth's, so its precessional seasons should be similar wrt latitude/irradiation ?
67P's Axis of Spin has been reported to be tilted ≈ 26˚, with respect to its orbital plane about the sun,
similar to that of Earth's, so its precessional seasons should be similar wrt latitude/irradiation ?
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Yes agree.S Freeman wrote:Well, it has to be said..
Were so sorry they equipped you so poorly for your mission. However, the few pictures you sent back have already changed the way mainstream science will forever picture the surface of a comet.
Your endeavors will not go wasted on us.
And now, a moment of silence..... Thank you Philae. Rest in peace.
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That's utterly laughable.CosmicLettuce wrote:http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/pla ... comet.html
that quote is at 09:30
Peace, CL
Even with months or years in data analyses pending, the surface is clearly geologic. There's no ice there.
So what are they thinking? That all they're seeing is really dark, black soot, ice sculpturing that looks like rock? And the dirt and sand dunes and regolith are all ice, too? I'm losing any sympathy I had for them. I'm sorry the lander malfunctioned. I really am. But this is now a comedy. They're beginning to blatantly demonstrate that their theories are impervious to revision.
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What they're thinking (unconsciously) is that there MUST be water ice on comets or otherwise the entire story of the creation and evolution of our solar system (and also larger scales) has to be almost totally revised.viscount aero wrote:That's utterly laughable.CosmicLettuce wrote:http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/pla ... comet.html
that quote is at 09:30
Peace, CL
Even with months or years in data analyses pending, the surface is clearly geologic. There's no ice there.
So what are they thinking? That all they're seeing is really dark, black soot, ice sculpturing that looks like rock? And the dirt and sand dunes and regolith are all ice, too? I'm losing any sympathy I had for them. I'm sorry the lander malfunctioned. I really am. But this is now a comedy. They're beginning to blatantly demonstrate that their theories are impervious to revision.
Until the paradigm shift happens, astronomers and scientists in general will not see what's right in front of them.
That's ok. Like me, the paradigm shift will happen to them, too. Plus, the ones that hold on will eventually die and then they won't be in the way anymore (Kuhn taught me that!). Patience.
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C'mon, give them a break. They need the months or years to massage the data and go through the contortions needed to invent Magnetically Reconnecting Pan-Dimensional Dark Ice. It takes time to repeat something often enough to make it become truth.viscount aero wrote:Even with months or years in data analyses pending, the surface is clearly geologic. There's no ice there.
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Ah yes, the argument between "The Scientific Method" and "how science is actually practiced."Metryq wrote:C'mon, give them a break. They need the months or years to massage the data and go through the contortions needed to invent Magnetically Reconnecting Pan-Dimensional Dark Ice. It takes time to repeat something often enough to make it become truth.viscount aero wrote:Even with months or years in data analyses pending, the surface is clearly geologic. There's no ice there.
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Re: "It looks like rock, but we're VERY sure that it isn't"
LOL! At roughly 17:00 "We have to keep reminding ourselves that isn't snow. We've cranked the gain on the images and that stuff is not white, it's black as coal."
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