Nov 11, 2015 09:21 PM
Mars' Moon Phobos --"Tidal Forces Tearing It Apart"
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/201...apart.html
EXCERPT: Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. Mars’ gravity is drawing in Phobos, the larger of its two moons, by about 6.6 feet (2 meters) every hundred years. Scientists expect the moon to be pulled apart in 30 to 50 million years. The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars....
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MESSENGER Spies a Meteor Shower… on Mercury
http://www.universetoday.com/123358/mess...n-mercury/
EXCERPT: Earth is no stranger to meteor showers, that’s for sure. Now, it turns out that the planet Mercury may experience periodic meteor showers as well....
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The Glowing Halo of a Zombie Star
http://cmarchesin.blogspot.com/2015/11/t...-star.html
EXCERPT: The remains of a fatal interaction between a dead star and its asteroid supper have been studied in detail for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This gives a glimpse of the far-future fate of the Solar System....
Asteroid Ripped Apart to Form Star’s Glowing Ring System
http://www.astrowatch.net/2015/11/astero...stars.html
EXCERPT: The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time. Comprised of dust particles and debris, the rings are formed by the star’s gravity tearing apart asteroids that came too close. Gas produced by collisions among the debris within the ring is illuminated by ultraviolet rays from the star, causing it to emit a dark red glow which the researchers observed and turned into the image of the ring....
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/201...apart.html
EXCERPT: Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. Mars’ gravity is drawing in Phobos, the larger of its two moons, by about 6.6 feet (2 meters) every hundred years. Scientists expect the moon to be pulled apart in 30 to 50 million years. The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars....
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MESSENGER Spies a Meteor Shower… on Mercury
http://www.universetoday.com/123358/mess...n-mercury/
EXCERPT: Earth is no stranger to meteor showers, that’s for sure. Now, it turns out that the planet Mercury may experience periodic meteor showers as well....
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The Glowing Halo of a Zombie Star
http://cmarchesin.blogspot.com/2015/11/t...-star.html
EXCERPT: The remains of a fatal interaction between a dead star and its asteroid supper have been studied in detail for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This gives a glimpse of the far-future fate of the Solar System....
Asteroid Ripped Apart to Form Star’s Glowing Ring System
http://www.astrowatch.net/2015/11/astero...stars.html
EXCERPT: The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time. Comprised of dust particles and debris, the rings are formed by the star’s gravity tearing apart asteroids that came too close. Gas produced by collisions among the debris within the ring is illuminated by ultraviolet rays from the star, causing it to emit a dark red glow which the researchers observed and turned into the image of the ring....