UFO Object X Caught on Hublle * Michio Kaku says the phenomenon

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The mystery object was discovered on January 6, 2010, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey. The object appears so unusual in ground-based telescopic images that discretionary time on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to take a close-up look. The observations show a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust. This complex structure suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen.

Something awfully curious is happening 100 million miles from Earth in the asteroid belt. There's a newly discovered object that superficially looks like a comet but lives among the asteroids. The distinction? Comets swoop along elliptical orbits close in to the Sun and grow long gaseous and dusty tails, as ices near the surface turn into vapor and release dust. But asteroids are mostly in circular orbits in the asteroid belt and are not normally expected to be "volatile."

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  • It's clearly a Klingon Spaceship!

  • I know what it is!!! It's a Dramiel from EVE Online :D

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  • at least it's not a borg cube.

  • @kajyRHC what a dumbass candian. and to top it all of youre only 16?! go play with your legos you fucking twat.

  • With our limited time on earth how can we be naive enough to think we alone we act no better than when we first showed up and we didn't have knowledge of America next thing u know Indians lol

  • The guy doesn't seem to take Michio Kaku seriously its kind of anoying.

  • @M1keOxlong69 we dont know if thats what happened to the dinosuars. this kaku seems to lack the ability to leave room for other possabilities and talks like things are facts.

    If a piece hits the earth there is no telling what would happen, scientific hypothesies are based on numbers, scientific facts are proven in the tangable.

  • @kajyRHC lol not all of us, just any American who commonly watches fox news and votes for the conservative party in our country :)

  • holy fuck....Americans are so dumb

  • Michio plays along too, which bothers me a bit. He is just playing the scientist role by stating we didn't know exactly what it was (meaning knowing it's composition) in terms of an asteroid, or comet, or a collision between two comets, or an asteroid and a comet, but we knew right away it was not aliens, or some supernatural object. He did not realize that viewers of Fox may take that as meaning we actually didn't know what it was, but it bothers me none the less.

  • Scientists were never clueless about what they fuck that is! Fuck I hate Fox News! They just say things and pretend it's an actual world view. The same fucking day this photo was shown it was theorized to be a comet breaking apart, and what do ya know! They were right. Fox didn't even care to research (as usual) and said scientists were clueless. The only "clueless" involved are people who watch this garbage channel. Boycott Fox News!!!

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