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An illustration shows the rings from the surface of the ice-rock centaur #Chiron.

A #bizarre #object that sometimes gets as close to the #Sun as #Saturn, and other times retreats as far out as #Uranus, has been discovered to have a transforming disk of dust around it that changes shape and can even mimic rings.

#Minor #planet 2060 Chiron is what's known as a #Centaur, which are captured cometary objects that travel around the sun on looping orbits between #Jupiter and #Neptune. Chiron is just 218 kilometers (135 miles) across and occasionally has outbursts like a comet. To date, however, no spacecraft has ever visited a Centaur.

In 2011, Chiron passed in front of a faint #star from our point of view here on #Earth. Such events are referred to as "stellar occultations," and based on how an object such as Chiron blocks a star's light, the occulting object's shape and size can be determined through deduction. During the 2011 occultation, it was noticed that the star's light dimmed slightly — twice before Chiron itself occulted the star, and two further times after Chiron had moved past the star. This observation was interpreted as Chiron having a double-ring system of dust.

Then, Chiron occulted another star on Nov. 28, 2018, in an event taken advantage of by Amanda Sickafoose, who is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. Because Chiron's shadow cast by the star is so small, it crossed only a narrow region of the Earth, clipping southern Africa. Sickafoose therefore led a team who used the 1.9-meter (6.2 feet) telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, South Africa, to observe the occultation.

Their results, published exactly five years later, tell a slightly different story to 2011.

"We detected dips in the starlight as it was blocked by Chiron's nucleus as well as by material located between 300 to 400 kilometers on either side," Sickafoose said in a statement.

Specifically, as Chiron moved over the star, Sickafoose's team observed dips in starlight produced by dusty material at radii of 352, 344 and 316 kilometers (approximately 219, 214 and 196 miles) from the center of Chiron. In other words, that was between about 100 to 130 kilometers (60 to 80 miles) above the Centaur's surface. After Chiron had moved away from the star, the scientists then witnessed two further dips at 357 and 364 kilometers (221 and 226 miles) from Chiron's center.

If Chiron had only two stable rings, one would expect just two pairs of symmetrical dips in light on either side of Chiron. The anomalous third dip on one side of the Centaur is evidence that the situation is not so clear-cut. Furthermore, the dips caused by the mystery material seemingly occurred tens of kilometers away from the locations of the rings as measured in 2011 (although they do fall within the margin of error of the 2011 observations). The magnitude of the dips in starlight caused by the material, however, is also different.

"The locations and amounts of material that were detected around Chiron are different enough from previous observations to suggest that there is not a stable ring system but rather surrounding material that is currently evolving," said Sickafoose.

Another stellar occultation by Chiron on Dec. 15, 2022, was observed at the Kottamia Astronomical Observatory in Egypt by a team led by Jose Luis Ortiz of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Spain. They found the material around Chiron had changed again, detecting three symmetrical structures on either side of Chiron. Two of the features are narrow and one is broad, and that together they seem to form a wide disk 580 kilometers (360 miles) across.

The origin and composition of this material around Chiron remains unknown, although the likelihood is that it comes from Chiron itself, perhaps blasted into space by cometary outbursts such as those witnessed in the summer of 2021 when Chiron brightened by 0.6 magnitudes. For context, a magnitude 0 object is 100 times brighter than a magnitude 5 object in this brightness system. Another Centaur, the 250-kilometer (160 miles) wide 10199 Chariklo, was also previously shown to have rings during a stellar occultation in 2013, and confirmed during another stellar occultation witnessed by the James Webb Space Telescope on Oct. 18, 2022. The JWST even detected water-ice on Chariklo. However, the findings at Chiron call into question the nature of the structures around Chariklo, too.

Occultations of faint stars by Chiron happen fairly regularly, and future observations now have a challenge on their hands to explain what is happening around the distant, apparently morphing, Centaur.

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

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#Colorado couple’s video sparks ‘ #bigfoot ’ speculation -- Sott.net
Shannon Parker and her husband Stetson were riding on a popular train through Colorado when they spotted a #bizarre #figure moving through the #mountains.

Alleged Bigfoot sightings and stories of a large, apelike creature aren't rare, although proof to back up the claims is usually nonexistent or limited at best. However, OutThere Colorado shared the #video captured by the couple, and some people on social media believe it's the real deal.

The couple was riding the Narrow Gauge train from Durango, Colorado, to Silverton, Colorado, when they said they spotted a #biped, #hairy #creature moving through the mountains. A nearby passenger quickly began recording as Shannon Parker snapped some photos with her phone.

https://www.sott.net/article/485053-Colorado-couples-video-sparks-bigfoot-speculation

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

Researchers Discovered New #Bizarre #Time #Crystals! 🔥2023 Update!:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YkcrOt40OUo

In this video I discuss New Photonic Time crystals and its potential applications. The paper "Metasurface-based realization of photonic time crystals":
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg7541
Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction to Time Crystals
01:52 - First Experiments
02:32 - #Quantum Time Crystals
05:19 - New #Photonic Time Crystals
07:50 - Potential Applications of New Time Crystals
Metasurface-based Realization Of Photonic Time Crystals

Researchers Discovered New Bizarre Time Crystals! 🔥

calou@diaspora-fr.org

https://www.lardennais.fr/id476500/article/2023-04-18/apres-son-allocution-emmanuel-macron-part-chanter-un-chant-pyreneen-dans-la-rue

#bizarre #strange #foutage

"Un président qui chante, ce n’est pas commun. C’est pourtant ce qui s’est passé hier soir, juste après l’allocution télévisée. Emmanuel Macron a décidé de sortir dans la rue pour une balade nocturne avec la Première dame, malgré la présence des concerts de casseroles pour montrer le désaccord face à ce qu’a dit le président dans son discours."

nowisthetime@pod.automat.click

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In this episode of The Silent War:
Kanye West Wears #Bizarre Black Mask Covering His Face on #Infowars… Says “I Like Hitler”.

Transgender Activist Running International Drug Smuggling Operation IN PLAIN SIGHT Targeting Minors.

Elon Musk Admits Twitter Has “Interfered with Elections” – Agrees that Public Trust Must Be Restored. Project #Veritas: HHS Whistleblower Reveals ‘Tax Dollars’ Spent to ‘Put Children in the Hands of Criminals’… Migrant Child: My Female Sponsor ‘Would Pimp Me to Men’.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yxuYxCa8zzTD/
GROOMER ALERT: Underage Students At High School Forced to Perform In Drag For Eager Adult Faculty Members.

Tyrant Zelensky to Ban Ukrainian Church After He Bans Media Outlets and Opposition Party.

Rand Paul: Fauci Caused 7 Million People To Die; "We've Caught Him Red-Handed, He Won't Get Away”.See less

Silent War Ep. 6275: Kanye + Hitler, Elon Psyop Twitter, Veritas: Gov. Pedophile Rings, Fauci Bust

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

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We began life in a #world of #mystery. Back then books like Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown sent our young minds reeling. How did we get from exploring wonders like a 12 inch mummified man impossibly in a rock to holding flase beliefs that can't be changed by facts?

Can we go from Mass Psychosis to Mass Manifestation? How do we achieve #Non-Compliance #peacefully?
#How many #bizarre events have happened in the last couple years that slipped our minds? Magnetic people, bluetooth bodies in cemeteries, and people spinning into convulsions after what appears to be some sort of haunting... life has gotten strange as Hell!
#freeman #freezone
https://freemantv.com/esoteric-technology-jason-lindgren/

nowisthetime@pod.automat.click

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August, an early release image from the James Webb #Space #Telescope revealed a #bizarre sight: as many as 17 #concentric #rings encircling a #binary #star #system, called #Wolf-Rayet 140. Was it a #spiral #nebula, an alien megastructure or just an optical illusion?

Nope, I don't know what this is. Some kind of spiral nebula around WR140. I'm sure we'll find out more later.

h/t to @yuvharpaz & @JWSTPhotoBot pic.twitter.com/ukenoIXrnj

— Judy Schmidt (@SpaceGeck) August 29, 2022
The answer, revealed today, is #dust. A new paper published in Nature Astronomy explains how stellar winds in this odd binary system blasts dust into near-perfect concentric circles every time the two stars come close to each other in their eccentric orbits.
https://www.universetoday.com/