Me, I'm close on the trail of these Cosmic Snowflakes, what people today
wrongly group into the micrometeor category and seem to make up 50% or more
of the category as seen in Spacecraft impact data. Teflon/Silver/Paint
impacts, Aerogel impacts, Teflon/Silver/Aluminum impacts causing
unexplained debonding, seemingly random bulls-eye ring patterns of
Silver-Oxide, shallow craters in low density glass with Depth to Diameter
ratios from 1 to 5 and no visible material.
What's the origin of these Cosmic Snowflakes? How are they formed? Pristine
Cosmic Snowflakes containing no Cosmic Dust or dirt. Newly formed, not very
old as they haven't had the time to collect much dirt. Formed in Earth
Orbit? Where? How? Linked to the Cosmic Snowballs and their UV shadows cast
in images of the Earth. Magnetosphere plasmoids? Dissipating magnetic
fields, spheres? Leaving behind positive and negatively charge Cosmic
Snowflakes? Attracted together in the absence of a magnetic field and
gravity? Cosmic Snowballs?
And now these noctilucent clouds, very thin clouds that form just below MECO
altitude of the Space Shuttle. That is pretty high for an ice cloud, the
Space shuttle could probably have a MECO altitude in the noctilucent clouds
without any problem.
To me, these UV shadows, Cosmic Snowballs, noctilucent clouds, Magnetosphere
plasmoids and Cosmic Snowflakes are all probably related. Water, near, in
and around the Earth and it's Magnetosphere.
Where is Earth's Cosmic Blizzard?
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Hop David wrote:
I subscribe to David Brin's cometary model: If outgassing is gradual
enough, an insulating mantle accumulates which slows more and more the
loss of inner volatiles.
(While Brin is better known as a science fiction writer, he used to be
a planetary scientist. His model of cometary evolution was his
doctoral thesis.)
The smaller the comet, the greater the surface to volume ratio, and
the tinier the gravity. I believe a miniature comet would have a
miniature life span.
His mini-comets were a couple of hundred feet wide maximum; basically a
pile of snowflakes covered with a thin black crust.
To me, the big hole in his theory is that one of these hitting the
atmosphere should have generated a meteor shower like you've never
seen... a whole pile of meteors coming from one point in the sky in a
split second. He never did explain how the whole thing could come apart
into so fine of particles that none would heat up on hitting the
atmosphere, given that particles the size of a grain of sand can
generate quite a flash on the way down.
Anyway, the book was a fun read, and I applaud him for thinking outside
the box. Even he was having a hard time buying his own theory by the end.
That doesn't make his entirely theory bad, the UV shadows seem to be real. I
believe he has multiple sources of the data now? Cosmic Vapor Clouds
casting UV Shadows. Having a dark material on the outside of a large Cosmic
Snowball may have other problems. The dark carbon material will heat up in
the sunshine. Making them visible, most likely in the infra red spectrum.
Something that would most likely be blocked to Earth based telescopes, but
not the very few space based telescopes looking in the infra red region.
Also, being very near to earth, the infra red, spaced based telescope might
not be focusing in near earth region. Out of focus, because they weren't
looking there to begin with. So, their heat may be in the noise of some
experiment like the background radiation data (the 2K-3K big bang residual
temperature). As to why they don't leave a huge heat trail as they breakup
in the Earth's atmosphere, they may not be breaking up so low and spread
the heat over a huge region if they were to hit the dense atmosphere. Heat
from the sun, heat from a more dense plasma region close to Earth, larger
gravity gradients could supply the energy to breakup and vaporize a Cosmic
Snowball. It's just not held together very well (probably not even Comet
status yet), doesn't have the structure to get that low. Extremely low
density Cosmic Vapor Clouds casting shadows.
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