Hooray for Jupiter!
Jupiter does it’s asteroid/comet attracting goodness once again:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/21/jupiter-scar-comet-asteroid-crash
Nice bit of synchronicity for me was that a few days ago I was reading about Jupiter and how it’s gravitational mass and it’s position in solar orbit is one of the limiting factors on many of the larger objects in space that might otherwise collide with Earth and leave nothing left alive on earth bigger than the rats and the roaches.
Good work that planet.
It’s also nice to read a story that shows that there is still a place for the amateur astronomer (although, perhaps I shouldn’t use the word amateur as he must have some serious kit to be able to spot something like that surely?)
Once again though, reading the comments below the article is a helpful reminder on why I normally don’t read them anymore. Some cheerful soul, I mean troll, has posted:
“I wish the same would happen to this planet and eliminate our unequal, apathetic, money-obsessed miserable race from our graceful universe.”
We all have our bad days, but wishing ultimate doom on every living thing on the planet seems a bit of a harsh way out; at least wait until the hang-over subsides before posting in future maybe? Interestingly, the comment wishing for ultimate genocide is still on the site, someone’s more elegant solution to his problems was modded.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/21/jupiter-scar-comet-asteroid-crash
Nice bit of synchronicity for me was that a few days ago I was reading about Jupiter and how it’s gravitational mass and it’s position in solar orbit is one of the limiting factors on many of the larger objects in space that might otherwise collide with Earth and leave nothing left alive on earth bigger than the rats and the roaches.
Good work that planet.
It’s also nice to read a story that shows that there is still a place for the amateur astronomer (although, perhaps I shouldn’t use the word amateur as he must have some serious kit to be able to spot something like that surely?)
Once again though, reading the comments below the article is a helpful reminder on why I normally don’t read them anymore. Some cheerful soul, I mean troll, has posted:
“I wish the same would happen to this planet and eliminate our unequal, apathetic, money-obsessed miserable race from our graceful universe.”
We all have our bad days, but wishing ultimate doom on every living thing on the planet seems a bit of a harsh way out; at least wait until the hang-over subsides before posting in future maybe? Interestingly, the comment wishing for ultimate genocide is still on the site, someone’s more elegant solution to his problems was modded.