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Alien's View of Our Solar System

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Uploaded by on Sep 23, 2010

From NASA Astrophysics... a supercomputer simulation shows how alien astronomers might have seen the formation of our solar system. Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune's gravitational imprint on the dust is always detectable in new simulations of how this dust moves through the solar system. By ramping up the collision rate, the simulations show how the distant view of the solar system might have changed over its history.

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  • I hear the Neptunians are a shy race.

  • It would be pretty cool if aliens found the new horizons spacecraft in 2015 while it was encircling Pluto.

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  • The evidence for the Fomalhaut planetary system is pretty weak. The attempted confirmation by Spitzer was unsuccessful, sad to say. See: Janson, Markus (2012). "Infrared Non-detection of Fomalhaut b". Astrophysical Journal.

  • Ask the super computer what gravity is so that you can account for gravitational lensing and the fake dark matter. Input the matrix of close thoughts to magnetism, the volt, and the vacuum tensor.

  • Imagine if the whole world put forth all their defense budget and transformed it into a space project... what could we accomplish in just a year's time?? Make you think, huh?

  • Awesome.

  • @Kinetical100 It's like Teletoon but for retards.

  • Pluto was happy to at least be mentioned in this video.

  • what is this "neptoon" of which you speak?

  • tought thats Alien @ 1:05

  • Love aloen

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