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Meteorite crater discovered in French winery

Picture credit: Frank Brenker,...

Date: February 22, 2023

Source: Goethe University Frankfurt

Summary:

Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for example, that meteorites brought with them a large part of its water. The extinction of the dinosaurs might also have been triggered by the impact of a very large meteorite. It turns out that the marketing 'gag' of the 'Domaine du Météore' winery is acutally a real impact crater. Meteorite craters which are still visible today are rare because most traces of the celestial bodies have long since disappeared again.    

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With the aim of creating an appealing brand, the name of the 'Domaine du Météore' winery near the town of Béziers in Southern France points to a local peculiarity: one of its vineyards lies in a round, 200-metre-wide depression that resembles an impact crater. By means of rock and soil analyses, scientists led by cosmochemist Professor Frank Brenker from Goethe University Frankfurt have now established that the crater was indeed once formed by the impact of an iron-nickel meteorite. In doing so, they have disproved a scientific opinion almost 60 years old, because of which the crater was never examined more closely from a geological perspective....

More: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222115945.htm

and here too: https://phys.org/news/2023-02-meteorite-crater-french-winery.html

 

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Copernicus Sentinel-2 Helps Explorers Unearth Rare 7.6 kg Meteorite In Antarctica

By Keith Cowing

Press Release

February 21, 2023

7.6 kg meteorite – as discovered

A Belgium-led science team based in Antarctica used Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to plan an expedition that recovered one of the biggest meteorites ever found in Earth’s southernmost continent.

The space rock – which was one of a haul of five meteorites collected – is now undergoing analysis at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences after being transported to Europe.

Every Austral summer, research groups travel to the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA) station – located in the Sør Rondane mountains in the east of the continent – to take advantage of its unique environment and facilities for a range of activities, including meteorite hunting.

This year science and exploration projects are receiving a boost from ESA through a new Copernicus Sentinel-2 campaign, in which acquisitions over the base have been temporarily increased to provide improved coverage of the largely uncharted region.

This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 on 27 December 2022, shows the blue icefields in which the 7.6kg meteorite was found. The image is a 5×5 km subset.

Antarctica is one of the best places in the world to search for space rocks.

The continent’s dry environment limits the degree of weathering meteorites...

More: https://spaceref.com/earth/copernicus-sentinel-2-helps-explorers-unearth-rare-7-6-kg-meteorite-in-antarctica/

SpaceRef.com HOME page: https://spaceref.com/

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Webb Spots Super Old, Massive Galaxies That Shouldn’t Exist

By Keith Cowing

Press Release

University of Colorado at Boulder

February 22, 2023

NASA

In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several mysterious objects hiding in images from the James Webb Space Telescope: six potential galaxies that emerged so early in the universe’s history and are so massive they should not be possible under current cosmological theory.

Each of the candidate galaxies may have existed at the dawn of the universe roughly 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, or more than 13 billion years ago. They’re also gigantic, containing almost as many stars as the modern-day Milky Way Galaxy.

“It’s bananas,” said Erica Nelson, co-author of the new research and assistant professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder. “You just don’t expect the early universe to be able to organize itself that quickly. These galaxies should not have had time to form.”

Nelson and her colleagues, including first author Ivo Labbé of the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, published their results Feb. 22 in the journal Nature.

The latest finds aren’t the earliest galaxies observed by James Webb, which launched in December 2021 and is the most powerful telescope ever sent into space. Last year, another team of scientists spotted four galaxies that likely coalesced from gas around 350 million years after the Big Bang. Those objects, however, were downright shrimpy compared to the new galaxies, containing many times less mass from stars.

The researchers still need more data to confirm that these galaxies are as big as they look, and date as far back in time. Their preliminary observations, however, offer a tantalizing taste of how James Webb could rewrite astronomy textbooks.

“Another possibility is that these things are a different kind of weird object, such as faint quasars, which would be just as interesting,” Nelson said.

Fuzzy dots

There’s a lot of excitement going around: Last year, Nelson and her colleagues, who hail from the United States, Australia, Denmark and Spain, formed an ad hoc team to investigate the data James Webb was sending back to Earth.

Their recent findings stem from the telescope’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. These images look deep into a patch of sky close to the Big Dipper—a relatively boring, at least at first glance, region of space that the Hubble Space Telescope first observed in the 1990s.

Nelson was peering at a postage stamp-sized section of one image when she spotted something strange: a few “fuzzy dots” of light that looked way too bright to be real.

“They were so red and so bright,” Nelson said. “We weren’t expecting to see them.”

She explained that in astronomy, red light usually equals old light. The universe, Nelson said, has been expanding since the dawn of time. As it expands, galaxies and other celestial objects move farther apart, and the light they emit stretches out—think of it like the cosmic equivalent of saltwater taffy. The more the light stretches, the redder it looks to human instruments. (Light from objects coming closer to Earth, in contrast, looks bluer).

The team ran calculations and discovered that their old galaxies were also huge, harboring tens to hundreds of billions of sun-sized stars worth of mass, on par with the Milky Way.

These primordial galaxies, however, probably didn’t have much in common with our own.

“The Milky Way forms about one to two new star every year,” Nelson said. “Some of these galaxies would have to be forming hundreds of new stars a year for the entire history of the universe.”

Nelson and her colleagues want to use James Webb to collect a lot more information about these mysterious objects, but they’ve seen enough already to pique their curiosity. For a start, calculations suggest there shouldn’t have been enough normal matter—the kind that makes up planets and human bodies—at that time to form so many stars so quickly.

“If even one of these galaxies is real, it will push against the limits of our understanding of cosmology,” Nelson said.

Seeing back in time

For Nelson, the new findings are a culmination of a journey that began when she was in elementary school. When she was 10, she wrote a report about Hubble, a telescope that launched in 1990 and is still active today. Nelson was hooked...

More: https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/webb-spots-super-old-massive-galaxies-that-shouldnt-exist/

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Study finds zero loss of Antarctica sea ice - but BBC spins as 'new record low'

Chris Morrison
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:00 UTC

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The catastrophisation of natural events and weather is relentless across the mainstream media as populations continue to be nudged towards an elitist command-and-control Net Zero future. The BBC recently copied a headline from the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) claiming Antarctica sea ice had hit a "new record low". Inexplicably missing from the story was the later observation from the NSIDC that since accurate satellite records began in 1979, the trend in the minimum ice extent is "near zero". Any loss was said to be "not statistically significant". 

To be fair to the writer, BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos, he did report later in the story that scientists consider the behaviour of Antarctica sea ice to be a "complicated phenomenon which cannot simply be ascribed to climate change". Of course, as regular Daily Sceptic readers are aware, the Antarctic is a difficult hunting ground for climate catastrophists since over the last seven decades there has been little or no warming over large areas of the continent...

MORE: https://www.sott.net/article/477558-Study-finds-zero-loss-of-Antarctica-sea-ice-but-BBC-spins-as-new-record-low

...and in DailySceptic.org: https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/21/study-finds-zero-loss-of-antarctica-sea-ice-but-bbc-spins-as-new-record-low/

DailySceptic.org Home page: https://dailysceptic.org/

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Highly Intelligent and Possibly Invincible Super Pigs Are Invading America

Tim Newcomb  2 days ago

 © Getty Images A special breed of highly intelligent super pigs from Canada have started to travel south into the northern United States. Here's what we know.

A special breed of hybrid super pigs from Canada have started to travel south into the northern United States.

The pigs pose a threat to native wildlife and may prove tough to eradicate.

The spread of the pigs has only increased in recent years.

A hybrid breed of super pigs—a mix of a domestic pig and a wild boar—is running wild in Canada. And now they have their sights set on the United States....

More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/highly-intelligent-and-possibly-invincible-super-pigs-are-invading-america/ar-AA17LIYx

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Is Raining Fish Possible? Spangled Perch Are Falling From Sky in a Remote Area in Australia

Caleb White Feb 22, 2023 08:01 AM EST

In a remote town in Australia, it hasn't been raining cats and dogs but fish. Yes, fish have been falling down from the sky and they don't know why.

Raining Fish in Australia

In the town of Lajamanu, a small community in the arid Northern Territory, around 560 miles south of Darwin, a big storm was heading to the community. Lajamanu local and Central Desert councilor Andrew Johnson Japanangka told Australian ABC News that when it started raining, they noticed that fish were also falling down from the sky.

According to Queensland Museum ichthyologist Jeff Johnson, the fish were spangled perch and they were about the size of a child's palm. They had fallen overnight and the people woke up the following day finding them scattered around the town. Many of them were still alive.

Japanangka said some were found in a puddle of water. Some children also picked them up and kept them in a bottle or a jar.

Spangled perch also known as spangled grunters are one of the most common species of freshwater fish in Australia. Most measure around 6 inches long but they can grow up to 10 inches.

The experts cannot explain the phenomenon, but it wasn't reportedly the first time that it happened....

More: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42529/20230222/raining-fish-possible-spangled-perch-falling-sky-remote-area-australia.htm 

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Bing AI: Psychotherapist Claims There Is Some Strange Psychology Happening Behind Microsoft's Chatbot

Margaret Davis Feb 22, 2023 04:55 AM EST

 

While Microsoft's Bing AI continues to make headlines for its more strange outputs, like naming its enemies as Science Times previously reported, many are worried about whether the chatbot is okay.

Since its debut last week, some internet users have jokingly dubbed Bing AI as "ChatBPD" in reference to the fact that it is powered by OpenAI's technology and to the psychological disorder Borderline Personality Disorder, which is characterized by problems controlling emotions.

 

Bing AI Is Just a Mirror

The advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence have some experts wonder if the world may one day experience the first example of AI singularity or when AI improves to the point where it becomes conscious.

Martha Crawford, a New York-based psychologist and writer, analyzed conversations with the Bing AI and told Futurism that there is some peculiar psychology at work behind it.

Crawford said that mostly what people do not like seeing is how paradoxical and messy and boundary-less and threatening and strange someone's methods of communication are.

While some users can identify these systems as such, others struggle to negotiate the language intricacy of these human-made AI systems. These people see AI as a single entity and fail to recognize that they are effectively speaking to themselves when communicating to these systems, much like speaking to a mirror.

It is important to remember that AI is only as good as the data it is trained on, such as data collected from the internet. As a result, AI's behavior frequently mirrors the weird and off-putting ways people communicate with one another. Crawford feels that it is reflected in many of the harsh answers the Bing AI has been throwing forth.

Crawford's father-in-law is Saul Amarel, a Greek-born AI pioneer who laid the groundwork for these language models today. She said that this was a topic of dinner table disputes when Amarel was still living and that she would often argue with her father-in-law over why humans would want computers to mimic them when humans are already so messed up.

She declined to diagnose Bing AI with any human mental illness due to the chatbot's lack of brain or mind. But Crawford thinks that, if the AI is trained on social media data, then it is likely that it is only mimicking outrageous stuff people do online....

More: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42525/20230222/bing-ai-psychotherapist-claims-strange-psychology-happening-behind-microsofts-chatbot.htm

ScienceTimes.com Home page: https://www.sciencetimes.com/

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NASA studies a meteorite that fell in Texas and weighed four baby elephants

By Mary

February 22, 2023

 

A meteorite with the total weight of four baby elephants struck Earth near McAllen, Texas, USA and NASA is studying the fireball.

The meteorite impact, reported by local network KDFW, occurred around 18:00 on Wednesday and some eyewitnesses observed a possible impact of the meteorite in the sky at that time.

The National Weather Service later confirmed this, stating that a geostationary lightning mapper had seen a meteor flash half an hour earlier.

The plot of the meteorite that fell in Texas.

The Texas meteorite and its relationship to baby elephants

At the time of the meteorite’s fall it was not clear what had caused the flash in the sky, especially since there were no thunderstorms in the area that could have produced it.

Home security camera footage obtained by KDFW appeared to have captured an apparent sonic boom, the loud noise of which caused birds to flee, while many locals said they heard a possible earthquake.

The meteorite traveled at about 27,000 kilometers per hour, according to NASA Meteor Watch, which posted information about the meteorite on Facebook. The angle and speed at which it entered the atmosphere and weather radar images helped the Aerospace Agency determine that the object was likely a meteorite.

According to experts at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the meteor in question had a diameter of just over 60 centimeters and weighed half a ton (about 454 kilograms). Hence the comparison with baby elephants weighing up to 113 kilos at birth according to Denver Zoo experts,

The meteorite would have been the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi dog, but weighed nearly half a ton.

This means that, despite having a diameter similar to the length of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi dog breed, it weighs almost half a ton.

The meteor exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere about 34 kilometers above the ground and its fragments managed to land. Moreover, the meteorite impact had an energy equivalent to eight tons of TNT.

However, it caused no fatalities or significant property damage....

- So cool! MORE: https://newsrebeat.com/world-news/146317.html

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Almost half a ton meteorite falls in south Texas; watch videos

https://thelocalread.com/almost-half-a-ton-meteorite-falls-in-south-texas-watch-videos/

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CURIOUS ‘OBLONG’ OBJECT DETECTED ON RADAR WAS CLOSELY TRACKED BY NASA, OFFICIALS SAY

MICAH HANKS·

·FEBRUARY 21, 2023

NASA officials say an unusually shaped oblong object was recently tracked by the space agency’s Deep Space Network as it made a close approach near Earth earlier this month.

The Deep Space Network consists of a network of spacecraft communication facilities operated by the U.S. from various points around the globe. With locations in North America, Europe, and Australia, the Deep Space Network is able to conduct astronomy via radio and radar observations while contributing to several of NASA’s orbital missions.

On February 3, the network detected an odd, roughly pill-shaped object with a length close to three times that of its width, approaching Earth at just under five times the distance between Earth and the Moon.

The curiously shaped object was described as one of the “most elongated asteroids ever imaged by planetary radar,” according to a statement that appeared on the website of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Dubbed 2011 AG5, the object was deemed to be no risk to Earth, although JPL scientists reportedly “closely tracked the object” in an effort to learn as much as they could about its elongated shape, as well as its size, rotation, and other details.

Although the near-Earth transit in February allowed JPL scientists an ideal opportunity to observe the object, it is among the many known space objects NASA has logged and continues to track, having been first discovered twelve years ago.

“This close approach provided the first opportunity to take a detailed look at the asteroid since it was discovered in 2011,” read a JPL statement, which revealed the object to be roughly the same size and dimensions as the Empire State Building at approximately 1,600 feet long and 500 feet wide.

Two of the 111.5-foot antennas that comprise the Beam Wave Guide Cluster at Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in the Mojave Desert in California near Barstow (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech).

The object’s dimensions and other characteristics were determined with help from the powerful Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna dish, located at Barstow, California, which remains active 24 hours each day in their effort to collect data about asteroids and other objects, some of which are as distant as the edges of our Solar System. Goldstone’s antennas are also capable of performing a dual purpose as radio telescopes useful in the study of planets and other celestial objects that produce radio waves.

Lance Benner, principal scientist at JPL and one of the scientists that led the observations of 2011 AG5, said in a statement that it is “one of the most elongated we’ve seen.”

Past research has suggested that asteroids bearing an elongated shape may be younger, as it is believed that impacts that occur over lengthier periods of an asteroid’s lifespan may produce their more common spherical shapes.

NASA says the observations of 2011 AG5 began as early as January 29 and lasted until February 4, 2023. During this period, JPL scientists managed to discern several additional details about the ovoid asteroid that included a broad concavity in one of the object’s hemispheres....

More: https://thedebrief.org/curious-oblong-object-detected-on-radar-was-closely-tracked-by-nasa-officials-say/

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EU scientists say first Saharan dust of 2023 seen in Europe

DPA WORLD

Published February 21,2023

 

For the first time this year, a large amount of Sahara dust was detected over Europe, and the particles could reach Central and Eastern Europe as early as the next few days, the EU's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said on Tuesday.

The impact of Saharan dust could affect human health and the energy sector, the statement added. Allergies, for example, could be exacerbated. The dust particles in the atmosphere could also affect the generation of solar energy.

According to Copernicus forecasts, the dust is from North Africa and has already arrived at the Iberian Peninsula and will head toward France.

"The typical impact is a red or orange sky, but there is also the potential of ground-level air quality impacts, especially in Portugal and Spain," said Copernicus lead scientist Mark Parrington.

The atmospheric monitoring service is one of several components of the Copernicus programme. Among other things, it provides data on the atmosphere, oceans, land, climate change, security and energy obtained from satellite images.

Here: https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2023/02/21/eu-scientists-say-first-saharan-dust-of-2023-seen-in-europe