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Mystery of Saturn's northern aurora

Started by Cain, November 14, 2008, 09:39:25 PM

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Kai

Quote from: Iptuous on November 15, 2008, 02:16:28 AM
i thought some teams had seen the shadows of gas giants pass in front of some stars a year or two ago.....
they were touting that as 'visual' confirmation.


Yes, but shadows and gravitational abberations are not visual confirmation in the sense that our vision receives reflected light, I guess.
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Elder Iptuous

Yeah, i guess. i remember seeing the headline and then being dissappointed when the 'visual confirmation' turned out to be a shadow. oh well....

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This aurora thing sounds like good material for ARGGASM. The colliding universes thing would "explain" it.
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Quote from: Tik-Tok of Oz on November 15, 2008, 08:11:02 AMHere's a pic of the extra-solar planet:

SAURON????

wtf are all these fantasy/scifi things doing in real outerspace?
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