Black Hole Thoughts » Hubble http://blackholethoughts.com Ruminations that are never and forever falling into the rabbit hole. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hubble’s Mysterious Object http://blackholethoughts.com/2010/02/03/hubbles-mysterious-xshaped-object/ http://blackholethoughts.com/2010/02/03/hubbles-mysterious-xshaped-object/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:16:52 +0000 Andrew http://blackholethoughts.com/?p=362 Hubble's Mysterious X-Shaped Object. Credit: (NASA) http://www.nasa.gov

NASA reports that Hubble has captured images of a mysterious X-shaped object thought to be an asteroid following a collision.  NASA says that “asteroid collisions are energetic, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 miles per hour, or five times faster than a rifle bullet.”

Source: Gizmodo

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Hubble's Mysterious X-Shaped Object. Credit: (NASA) http://www.nasa.gov

NASA reports that Hubble has captured images of a mysterious X-shaped object thought to be an asteroid following a collision.  NASA says that “asteroid collisions are energetic, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 miles per hour, or five times faster than a rifle bullet.”

Source: Gizmodo

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