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Asteroids Scarred By Solar System's Violent Youth
astroengine writes "Telltale evidence of the solar system's traumatic childhood can be found in the main asteroid belt, which contains a far more integrated assortment of bodies than previously believed, a new study shows. Previous observations of the 2,000 or so biggest asteroids in the belt — those with diameters of roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) or larger — showed a neat structure, with asteroids closer to the sun having surface temperatures warmer than those located farther away. The observations neatly matches theories about the formation of the solar system, which posits that bodies formed in warm environments would be found closer to the sun and those formed in cold environments are farther away."
" with asteroids closer to the sun having surface temperatures warmer than those located farther away."
Thats amazing, who would have predicted that
In other news, water is wet, and gravity pulls objects on the earth towards the earth.
It feels like they bloated this as much as possible, but are they just saying that things closer to the sun, the solar system's biggest source of heat, are hotter than those that are further away?
Uh...fucking duh?
I could have told you that in grade school.
Reads like a randomly-generated generated scientific paper - take a sentence from this paper, then a sentence from that one. Some of it reads like it was sent round-trip through Google translate.
I was unable to glean a single coherent thought from reading this article. Why was this submission even accepted?
And the worms ate into his brain.
It does make sense. The summary confuses things and the article is not much better. But if you start with the very last sentence of the article it starts to make some sense.
The composition of an asteroid tell us where it was formed. The old theory was that asteriods can be found close to where they were formed and there was some evidence of that, however with a larger sample the theory is found lacking and things are more complicated. At least that is how I read it.
Surely you mean ex-planet destroyed remains.
The summary leaves out the whole point of the article.
"The observations neatly match theories about the formation of the solar system, which posits that bodies formed in warm environments would be found closer to the sun and those formed in cold environments are farther away... But a new analysis, this time based on 100,000 asteroids of varying sizes, tells a far different story."
The Asteroid has a one-planetoid show about it's experiences and how it has been able to make a place for itself in the modern solar system.
Cry me a river. Imagine you're a planet, and then all of a sudden some bastard decides you're not. Scarred? More like traumatized.
If that happened to me I'd lob Charon at you. Rotten bunch of jumped-up monkeys.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Funny, don't asteroids get scarred by some vector spaceship which keeps splitting them up? The asteroids sometimes get revenge by destroying the spaceship.
Some galaxy give a hug to the solar system! It worked when the universe was in a smaller scale. :)
The other planets let Pluto in their club, even though it was smaller than several of their moons, just to be polite to the outsider. But then they started seeing more and more of Pluto's close relatives all trying to get into the club on the family ticket. Worse, it looked like there was thousands more, perhaps millions. They risked being completely outnumbered by these Trans-Neptunians, outnumbered by orders of magnitude.
Fuck this, they thought, there goes the neighbourhood. And they re-voted and kicked Pluto out of the club.
And all the while, Ceres just laughed and farted. Laughed and farted.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.