February 7, 2010
Super cool x-shaped asteriod

sweet pic from the Hubble

Filed under: Anomalies,
Shoveled by princelumber at 1:11 pm |

4 Comments

  1. They’re saying that this is a million-to-one shot of two asteroids colliding and breaking up.

    But recall that heretical astronomer Tom Van Flandern had a very fruitful theory that many asteroids and comets have a “debris cloud” structure anyway. That said, this could be a picture of two colliding debris clouds, and that would also make it more probable than a million to one I would think.

    Comment by Jim — February 8, 2010 @ 2:26 pm

  2. Not so million-to-one if they were ejected very near each other, possibly oscillating for millions of years only to inevitably be drawn together on a collision course.

    Comment by Matt — February 8, 2010 @ 9:18 pm

  3. As predicted by a certain heretical theory, I will add.

    Comment by Matt — February 10, 2010 @ 3:03 pm

  4. I wish Tom Van Flandern was still around to interpret this for us, alas

    Comment by Jim — February 11, 2010 @ 2:56 pm

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