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Se non é un effetto luminoso degli obbiettivi delle sonde, e sinceramente vedendo osservando i due video il sospetto mi viene, é un qualche processo di attivazione che sta avvenendo sull'ammasso gassoso che é Giove.
La notizie che si dovrebbe riattivare per divenire un nuovo sole la so da tempo, ma onestamente il video non chiarisce.

Le sonde stereo vanno a caccia di un antico pianeta.... leggete qui



04.09.2009

STEREO Hunts for Remains of an Ancient Planet near Earth


April 9, 2009: NASA's twin STEREO probes are entering a mysterious region of space to look for remains of an ancient planet which once orbited the Sun not far from Earth. If they find anything, it could solve a major puzzle--the origin of the Moon.

"The name of the planet is Theia," says Mike Kaiser, STEREO project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "It's a hypothetical world. We've never actually seen it, but some researchers believe it existed 4.5 billion years ago—and that it collided with Earth to form the Moon."



The "Theia hypothesis" is a brainchild of Princeton theorists Edward Belbruno and Richard Gott. It starts with the popular Great Impact theory of the Moon's origin. Many astronomers hold that in the formative years of the solar system, a Mars-sized protoplanet crashed into Earth. Debris from the collision, a mixture of material from both bodies, spun out into Earth orbit and coalesced into the Moon. This scenario explains many aspects of lunar geology including the size of the Moon's core and the density and isotopic composition of moon rocks.



It's a good theory, but it leaves one awkward question unanswered: Where did the enormous protoplanet come from?

Belbruno and Gott believe it came from a Sun-Earth Lagrange point.

Sun-Earth Lagrange points are regions of space where the pull of the Sun and Earth combine to form a "gravitational well." The flotsam of space tends to gather there much as water gathers at the bottom of a well on Earth. 18th-century mathematician Josef Lagrange proved that there are five such wells in the Sun-Earth system: L1, L2, L3, L4 and L5 located as shown in the diagram below.

When the solar system was young, Lagrange points were populated mainly by planetesimals, the asteroid-sized building blocks of planets. Belbruno and Gott suggest that in one of the Lagrange points, L4 or L5, the planetesimals assembled themselves into Theia, nicknamed after the mythological Greek Titan who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene.


"Their computer models show that Theia could have grown large enough to produce the Moon if it formed in the L4 or L5 regions, where the balance of forces allowed enough material to accumulate," says Kaiser. "Later, Theia would have been nudged out of L4 or L5 by the increasing gravity of other developing planets like Venus and sent on a collision course with Earth."

If this idea is correct, Theia itself is long gone, but some of the ancient planetesimals that failed to join Theia may still be lingering at L4 or L5.

"The STEREO probes are entering these regions of space now," says Kaiser. "This puts us in a good position to search for Theia's asteroid-sized leftovers."

Just call them "Theiasteroids."

Astronomers have looked for Theiasteroids before using telescopes on Earth, and found nothing, but their results only rule out kilometer-sized objects. By actually entering L4 and L5, STEREO will be able to hunt for much smaller bodies at relatively close range.


"The search actually began last month when both spacecraft rolled 180 degrees so that they could take a series of 2-hour exposures of the general L4/L5 areas. In the first sets of images, amateur astronomers found some known asteroids and new comet Itagaki was imaged just a couple of days after the announcement of its discovery. No Theiasteroids however."

Hunting for Theiasteroids is not STEREO's primary mission, he points out. "STEREO is a solar observatory. The two probes are flanking the sun on opposite sides to gain a 3D view of solar activity. We just happen to be passing through the L4 and L5 Lagrange points en route. This is purely bonus science."

"We might not see anything," he continues, "but if we discover lots of asteroids around L4 or L5, it could lead to a mission to analyze the composition of these asteroids in detail. If that mission discovers the asteroids have the same composition as the Earth and Moon, it will support Belbruno and Gott's version of the giant impact theory."

The search will continue for many months to come. Lagrange points are not infinitesimal points in space; they are broad regions 50 million kilometers wide. The STEREO probes are only in the outskirts now. Closest approach to the bottoms of the gravitational wells comes in Sept-Oct. 2009. "We have a lot of observing ahead of us," notes Kaiser.

Readers, you may be able to help. The STEREO team is inviting the public to participate in the search by scrutinizing photos as they come in from the spacecraft. If you see a dot of light moving with respect to the stars, you may have found a Theiasteroid. Links to the data and further instructions may be found at sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil.

Let the hunt begin!


fonte: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/09apr_theia.htm

In merito alla notizia che ho postato ieri ecco la versione italiana del Corriere della Sera

Due sonde della Nasa sulle tracce degli asteroidi tHeia
A caccia dell'origine della Luna

Una coppia di questi piccoli pianeti potrebbe aver formato l'oggetto cosmico che, scontratosi con la Terra, diede origine al nostro satellite naturale


Lo chiamano “Pianeta Theia” e la coppia delle sonde Stereo della Nasa sta puntando i suoi obiettivi per cercarlo. «E’ solo un’ipotesi - precisano Edward Belbruno e Richard Gott, teorici dell’Università americana di Princeton – ma da verificare». E’ un’interessante idea, infatti, e se fosse vera, e presto lo sapremo, completerebbe l’intrigante questione del come si è formata la Luna. Ora la spiegazione più accreditata è che sia nata come conseguenza dello scontro di un corpo della taglia di Marte schiantatosi sulla superficie terrestre sollevando un’imponente nuvola di materia poi coagulatasi formando la Luna che vediamo. Le indagini sulla sua natura, infatti, dimostrerebbero il miscuglio di materia dei due corpi. Ma da dove è arrivato l’imponente bolide cosmico che ci è caduto addosso?

L'ORIGINE DELLA CORSA CONTO LA TERRA - L’ipotesi di Belbruno e Gott è che provenga da qualcuno dei cinque punti di Lagrange nello spazio circostante la Terra, la Luna e il Sole, dove le forze di gravità creano delle zone neutre nelle quali un veicolo spaziale o un pianetino possono sostare indisturbati. Gli scienziati pensano che i piccoli corpi presenti in almeno due di questi punti (L4-L5) si siano fusi creando un pianeta più consistente analogo appunto a Marte. E poi per interferenze cosmiche avrebbe iniziato la sua corsa scontrandosi con il nostro pianeta. Ora la coppia delle sonde Stereo guarderà appunto in L4 e L5 cercando quelli che sono stati battezzati “Theiasteroid”. Se li troveranno l’ipotesi dei due studiosi sarà rafforzata. Se non sarà così dovranno inventarsi un’altra soluzione.

Giovanni Caprara
10 aprile 2009

fonte: http://www.corriere.it/scienze_e_tecnol ... aabc.shtml

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