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Redstorm2000 User ID: 2135289  United States11/14/2012 12:59 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There was a huge flap in the 1930's about a small rogue planet being on a collision course with Earth. I can't seem to find a thing about it now. Same one? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2920692 Does anyone remember reading something about it?  Could it be you're thinking of two big best sellers of the early 1930s: When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide by Wylie and Ballmer. The first book was made into a movie by George Pal in the early fifties. No, this wasn't from a novel. I'll check around again for some credible source. Ran across reference to it in an old news story sometime in the late 90's. Can't seem to find a lot of information that was readily available back then though... A real head scratcher sometimes. . Got it: it was the asteroid Hermes in 1937. This is an extract from a NASA site:: "On Oct. 28, 1937, astronomer Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg noticed an odd streak of light in a picture he had just taken of the night sky. About as bright as a 9th magnitude star, it was an asteroid, close to Earth and moving fast--so fast that he named it Hermes, the herald of Olympian gods. On Oct. 30, 1937, Hermes glided past Earth only twice as far away as the Moon, racing across the sky at a rate of 5 degrees per hour. Nowadays only meteors and Earth-orbiting satellites move faster. Plenty of asteroids were known in 1937, but most were plodding members of the asteroid belt far beyond Mars. Hermes was different. It visited the inner solar system. It crossed Earth's orbit. It proved that asteroids could come perilously close to our planet. And when they came, they came fast. Reinmuth observed Hermes for five days. Then, to make a long story short, he lost it." |
| Artaius Be The Spark User ID: 27731041  Germany11/14/2012 01:11 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe they wanted to say.... CFBDSIRIBINEBAROO ?! There will come a time when you believe everything ends. This will be the beginning [Louis L'Amour] my flickr [link to www.flickr.com] |
| ExoPoliChick User ID: 12909685  Canada11/14/2012 01:59 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So let me get this straight....there is a rogue planet 100 light years from earth, correct? 100 light years really isn't that far, is it? Nobody told me there'd be days like these....Strange days indeed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is our innate solidarity - not some despotism of the sky - that is our source of morality and sense of decency." ~ Hitchens "The essence of the independent mind is not in what it thinks, but how it thinks." ~ Hitchens "A mode of dust suspended in a sunbeam." ~ Sagan |
| ExoPoliChick User ID: 12909685 Canada11/14/2012 02:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yea, they can detect some lonesome cowboy planet 100 light years away, but not the one knocking at our front doors, right. Quoting: Artaius   Oh they can, they're just not sayin'.  Nobody told me there'd be days like these....Strange days indeed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is our innate solidarity - not some despotism of the sky - that is our source of morality and sense of decency." ~ Hitchens "The essence of the independent mind is not in what it thinks, but how it thinks." ~ Hitchens "A mode of dust suspended in a sunbeam." ~ Sagan |
| BOWMAN User ID: 2022753 United States11/14/2012 02:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So let me get this straight....there is a rogue planet 100 light years from earth, correct? Quoting: ExoPoliChick 100 light years really isn't that far, is it? 'bout 600,000,000,000,000 miles 'as the crow flys'.  ------ "And I understood that in an age where there was so much ego, because of the camera, that it was very important to look for that kind of player, ... I began to look for the kind of player that doesn't need his ego fed by stardom, but will do what he's supposed to do because he knows the game and loves the game, and will do the job the right way even if someone else gets the glory." ~ Bill Belichick ------------------------------------- Pale Blue Dot [link to www.youtube.com] 2001: A Floyd Odyssey [link to www.youtube.com] Who's In Control? [link to www.youtube.com] |
| Artaius Be The Spark User ID: 27731041 Germany11/14/2012 02:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | only if you have to travel it..  So let me get this straight....there is a rogue planet 100 light years from earth, correct? Quoting: ExoPoliChick 100 light years really isn't that far, is it? There will come a time when you believe everything ends. This will be the beginning [Louis L'Amour] my flickr [link to www.flickr.com] |
| Artaius Be The Spark User ID: 27731041 Germany11/14/2012 02:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  There will come a time when you believe everything ends. This will be the beginning [Louis L'Amour] my flickr [link to www.flickr.com] |
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