PROPHECY: Tiniest Alien Solar System Discovered: 5 Packed Planets, Sun Aligns with the King
I was helping my mom research her home town in the Philippines. The suffix for Philippine web sitse is PH.
The tiniest alien solar systme discovered is PH1. That's the Philippines.
My mom would be PH as a tiny solar system. It's 5 Planets because the 5th Sign of Leo is the Sun. My mom in 1961 looks like Adult Star Sunny Leone.
It has 2 Suns because of Rebecca as one Sun as Lara meaning LF x ALA. That means Rebecca x Alabama.
Then you've got my mom who looks like Sunny Leone as the other Sun.
It's "Star Wars" with Luke Skywalker that has 2 Suns.
News also talks about the Sun aligning with the King. I'm of Royal Blood. Sunny Leone, as the Sun, aligns with me as a King or of royal blood.
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Holly Madison's Baby Bump Is On Full Display As She Attends Event In Vegas (PHOTOS)
Posted: 10/14/2012 2:35 pm EDT Updated: 10/14/2012 2:42 pm EDT
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Mom-to-be Holly Madison is gorgeous and glowing!
The Playboy bunny showed off her baby bump while attending the "Forever Home Family Picnic" event, for people who have provided a home for a shelter dog, at Freedom Park in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 13.
Dressed in yellow, Madison proved pregnancy agrees with her as she cradled her belly and smiled for the cameras. The 32-year-old is expecting her first child with boyfriend Pasquale Rotella next March.
"It's actually easier than I thought," Madison told E! News of being pregnant. "I haven't had any of the crazy side effects ... No morning sickness or anything yet. So I've been lucky!"
As for her cravings, the former "Girls Next Door" star revealed she's staying away from the fatty foods. "I crave blueberries all the time," she confessed. "So I'm making blueberry muffins and blueberry smoothies, so knock on wood my cravings stay healthy."
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Amasia Supercontinent: Earth's Geologic Past Shapes Our Understanding Of Future (VIDEO)
Posted: 10/15/2012 7:49 am EDT Updated: 10/15/2012 7:49 am EDT
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Do you remember learning about Pangaea in school? It was the last great supercontinent, and it existed from about 300-200 million years ago. I remember doing a "geography fair" project on Pangaea in the fifth grade (and taking home a blue ribbon). I think that's the last I ever thought about continental drift, to be completely honest.
So when I read about a new supercontinent, Amasia, that's theorized to form sometime in the next 50-200 million years, my ears perked up. I suppose it never occurred to me that the continents are still drifting and will continue to do so in the future.
The theory of plate tectonics--a description of large-scale movements of the Earth's crust--is relatively modern, having come into the public consciousness as late as the 1960s. Today, scientists are applying their understanding of continental drift (via plate tectonics) not only to reconstructions of the continents of ancient Earth, but to predictions of future Earth.
I spoke with Ross Mitchell, a graduate student at Yale University, about his new model for the next great supercontinent, Amasia. To learn more, watch the video above or click the link below. And don't forget to leave a comment at the bottom of the page. Come on, talk nerdy to me!
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Waterworld: Global Warming Is Increasing the Possibility That We’ll Endure More Frequent and Destructive Hurricanes
Takepart.com - 6 hrs ago
There’s been an ongoing debate in scientific circles and among environmentalists about whether global warming is causing more hurricanes. No one has wanted to rush to any conclusions one way or the other.
The Union of Concerned Scientists stated in 2010 that, “Statistically, an individual hurricane is like a single at-bat for a baseball player, while conclusions about how climate change affects hurricanes is like calculating a baseball player’s batting average. Scientists draw meaningful conclusions from analyzing many storms over many decades.”
Now, in a pretty emphatic manner, The Independent reports today that, “Scientists have found support for the controversial idea that global warming is causing more frequent and destructive hurricanes.”
MORE: Climate Change Whiplash: 71% of Americans Now Link Extreme Weather to Global Warming
“Data gathered from tide gauges, which monitor the rapid changes to sea levels caused by storm surges, show a significant link between both the frequency and intensity of tropical storms and increases in annual temperatures since the tidal records began in 1923 . . . Although scientists were not able to prove that climate change is causing more large hurricanes, they believe the study is consistent with the predictions that global warming and warmer seas could bring about more intense tropical storms.”
These new findings are probably to be expected since even back in 2005 National Geographic was pondering a study in the journal Nature which “found that hurricanes and typhoons have become stronger and longer-lasting over the past 30 years. These upswings correlate with a rise in sea surface temperatures. The duration and strength of hurricanes have increased by about 50 percent over the last three decades, according to study author Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
And just last month, Mother Nature Network stated, “Hurricanes are often seen as heralds of global warming, which makes sense. They're fueled by warm seawater, and the warming of Earth's oceans coincides with a recent spike in hurricane activity. Plus, scientists have grown increasingly confident that global warming-caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including those emitted by human activities-raises the risk of severe weather.”
Further, they add that there’s an often overlooked aspect of hurricanes which is the floods that occur from heavy rainfall. They note that with both Hurricane Irene in 2011, and Hurricane Isaac in 2012, rain was the deadliest part of the storms. MNN quotes Thomas Knutson, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, saying, "Anthropogenic warming by the end of the 21st century will likely cause hurricanes to have substantially higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes.”
The Independent notes that when the scientists reviewed the daily tide levels in United States (looking at the ones mentioned above that went back to 1923) they found there was a close correlation between sudden changes in sea level and historical accounts of tropical storms.
One of the scientists, Aslak Grinsted of the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University, makes it all sound simple in the end: “We simply counted how many extreme cyclones with storm surges there were in warm years compared with cold years and we could see that there was a tendency for more cyclones in warmer years."
Do you think the results of this latest research supports the idea that global warming is causing more hurricanes?
Lawrence Karol is a writer and editor who lives with his dog, Mike. He is a former Gourmet staffer and enjoys writing about design, food, travel and lots of other stuff. @WriteEditDream | Email Lawrence | TakePart.com
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Ancient Egypt City Aligned With Sun on King's Birthday
By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer | LiveScience.com - 34 mins ago
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The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great's birth, a new study finds.
The Macedonian king, who commanded an empire that stretched from Greece to Egypt to the Indus River in what is now India, founded the city of Alexandria in 331 B.C. The town would later become hugely prosperous, home to Cleopatra, the magnificent Royal Library of Alexandria and the 450-foot-tall (140 meters) Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the ancient world. Today, more than 4 million people live in modern Alexandria.
Ancient Alexandria was planned around a main east-west thoroughfare called Canopic Road, said Giulio Magli, an archaeoastronomer at the Politecnico of Milan. A study of the ancient route reveals it is not laid out according to topography; for example, it doesn't run quite parallel to the coastline. But on the birthday of Alexander the Great, the rising sun of the fourth century rose "in almost perfect alignment with the road," Magli said.
The results, he added, could help researchers in the hunt for the elusive tomb of Alexander. Ancient texts hold that the king's body was placed in a gold casket in a gold sarcophagus, later replaced with glass. The tomb, located somewhere in Alexandria, has been lost for nearly 2,000 years. [8 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries]
Building by the stars
Magli and his colleague Luisa Ferro used computer software to simulate the sun's position in the fourth century B.C. (Because Earth's orbit isn't perfect, there is some variation in the sun's path through the sky over centuries.) Alexander the Great was born on July 20, 356 B.C. by the Julian calendar, which is slightly different than the modern, Gregorian calendar, because it does not have leap years to account for partial days in the Earth's orbit around the sun. On that day in the fourth century B.C., the researchers found, the sun rose at a spot less than half a degree off of the road's route.
"With a slight displacement of the day, the phenomenon is still enjoyable in our times," Magli told LiveScience.
A second star would have added to the effect, Magli said. The "King's Star" Regulus, which is found on the head of the lion in the constellation Leo, also rose in near-perfect alignment with Canopic Road and became visible after a period of conjunction with the sun near July 20. Earth's orbit has changed enough that this Regulus phenomenon no longer happens, Magli said.
Sun as a symbol
Architecture-by-astronomy was common in the ancient world, Magli said. The Great Pyramid of Giza, for example, is aligned with amazing precision along the compass points, which would have required the use of the stars as reference points. The Egyptians, whom Alexander conquered, had long associated the sun god Ra with their pharaohs.
"Aligning the city [of Alexandria] to the sun in the day of birth of Alexander was a way to embody in the architectural project an explicit reference to his power," Magli said. The King's Star would have only added to the mystique, he said.
The researchers reported their work online Oct. 9 in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. They are now examining other cities founded by Alexander and later rulers to see if the solar pattern holds. The hope, Magli said, is that an understanding of Alexandria's astronomical layout will give researchers a better idea of where Alexander's tomb might be.
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Tiniest Alien Solar System Discovered: 5 Packed Planets
By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com - 16 hrs ago
The most crowded alien planetary system found yet possesses five worlds all orbiting a star at least 12 times closer than Earth does the sun, researchers say.
Investigators discovered these exoplanets using NASA's pioneering Kepler space observatory. The orbiting telescope has detected more than 2,300 potential alien worlds since its March 2009 launch. It searches for these planets by observing more than 160,000 stars simultaneously, looking for small dips in stars' brightness due to orbiting worlds passing in front of them.
The researchers used Kepler to analyze the planetary system around the star KOI-500, a star about the mass of the sun but only about three-quarters its diameter and only about 1 billion years old, less than one-quarter the sun's age. KOI-500 is approximately 1,100 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, the harp.
KOI-500 is a super-compact planetary system, the most tightly packed one seen yet, hosting at least five planets ranging from 1.3 to 2.6 times the size of Earth. [Tiny Alien Solar System Explained (Infographic)]
"All five planets zip around their star within a region 150 times smaller in area than the Earth's orbit, despite containing more material than several Earths," study lead author Darin Ragozzine, a planetary scientist at the University of Florida at Gainesville, said in a statement. "At this rate, you could easily pack in 10 more planets, and they would still all fit comfortably inside the Earth's orbit."
These planets orbit so near KOI-500 that their "years," or the time it takes to circle their star, are only 1.0, 3.1, 4.6, 7.1, and 9.5 days long. The planets are so close together that their mutual gravity slightly pushes and pulls on their orbits. Still, their orbits appear completely stable overall - they appear in no danger of crashing together, or of hurling each other away from or into their star, Ragozzine told SPACE.com.
Intriguingly, the outer four planets orbiting KOI-500 follow a synchronized orbit seen in no other system to date, a so-called four-body resonance.
"These four planets come back to a similar orbital configuration about every 191 days," Ragozzine said.
The orbits these planets are now in make them too hot for the planets to have formed there. The researchers suggest the planets around KOI-500 were originally more spread out, and migrated inward due to gravitational interactions between them and the protoplanetary disk of gas and dust they originated from, Ragozzine said.
"We think that the migration process that put them into their current orbits also helped synchronize them into a four-body resonance," Ragozzine said.
Recent theories for the formation of the giant planets of our outer solar system, such as Jupiter and Saturn, also involve planets moving during the formation process. As these giants shifted their orbits, researchers suggest their gravitational pulls hurled asteroids and comets toward the inner solar system, causing the so-called Late Heavy Bombardment about 4.1 billion to 3.8 billion years ago, which pummeled Earth, the moon and the inner planets with a barrage of countless impacts.
As scientists have discovered more and more exoplanets, they have found that most observed worlds orbit much closer to their stars than any planet in our solar system orbits the sun, including so-called hot Jupiters, which are giant planets orbiting closer to their stars than Mercury does the sun. Scientists still don't understand why most observed alien planetary systems look so unlike ours.
"This difference probably has to do with the different ways planets interacted with the disk of gas and dust they came from," Ragozzine said. "There's still a lot of work that needs to [be done to] understand these processes better."
"As the most compact system of a new compact population of planets, KOI-500 will become a touchstone for future theories that will attempt to describe how compact planetary systems form," Ragozzine said. "Learning about these systems will inspire a new generation of theories to explain why our solar system turned out so differently."
The scientists will detail their findings today (Oct. 15) at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Reno, Nevada.
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