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moses's_bulldog
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 Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: Old solar system unlikely - "Oort comet cloud" |
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I recently read some information which I believe makes a old solar system unlikely and has to do with the "Oort comet cloud". I would like to read more about it and would welcome some reader feedback. If you could limit your discussion to the "Oort comet cloud" it would be much appreciated.
Here is what I read:
More problems for the ‘Oort comet cloud’ by Danny Faulkner
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/oort.asp
Comets—portents of doom or indicators of youth?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v25/i3/comets.asp |
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politas
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: Re: Old solar system unlikely - "Oort comet cloud" |
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Ignoring the absudity of "evolutionary astronomers", lets get to the meat of the problem.
Why isn't all the matter in the Oort Cloud being destroyed by collisions with planets?
For a start, most of the matter in the Oort cloud never approaches the inner solar system. It drifts about in the Oort cloud continually. Only a tiny fraction of the Oort cloud ever appears as comets.
The Oort cloud also can gain new material as interstallar gas drifts inside the perihelion and is captured. |
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Coragyps
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Location: West Texas, USA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| This would be the same Danny Faulkner who, on AIG's website, used to deny that the Kuiper Belt of comets even existed? The belt where they've now found maybe a thousand objects, including the one bigger than Pluto? AiG seems to be leaving that line of "reasoning" out lately - wonder why? |
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Coragyps
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| Quote: | | To remove the evolutionary dilemma, there must be billions of comet nuclei in the Kuiper Belt. But nowhere near this many have been found—only 651 as at January 2003. Furthermore, the Kuiper Belt Objects discovered so far are much larger than comets. While the diameter of the nucleus of a typical comet is around 10 km, the recently discovered KBOs are estimated to have diameters above 100 km. |
ROFL! These are trans-Neptunian objects we're talkin' about here! Of freakin' COURSE there haven't been any 10-km ones found out there! They're too dim to see, even with a CCD on a 10-meter scope! What do you think the size distribution of the 100,000 or so known, charted main-belt asteroids is? Hint - there might be fifty of them as big as 100 km in diameter. |
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skiddum
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Joined: 25 Jan 2005
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Location: FL
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: Re: Old solar system unlikely - "Oort comet cloud" |
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| moses's_bulldog wrote: | I recently read some information which I believe makes a old solar system unlikely and has to do with the "Oort comet cloud". I would like to read more about it and would welcome some reader feedback. If you could limit your discussion to the "Oort comet cloud" it would be much appreciated.
Here is what I read:
More problems for the ‘Oort comet cloud’ by Danny Faulkner
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/oort.asp
Comets—portents of doom or indicators of youth?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v25/i3/comets.asp |
Someone needs to call poor Danny and tell him about 90377 Sedna. Then someone needs to call MB and tell him to quit hawking the Oort creationist canard |
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