Guess that Planetoid

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Hmmm, let’s see, it must be a recent comet, and the most recent comets I remember were McNaught and Holmes. If my memory doesn’t fail me, I think comet Holmes hadn’t a very long tail, so, is it Comet McNaught?
 
Omnis
Is it the "The More You Know" Comet?
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Close. So close.

But no.
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Hmmm, let’s see, it must be a recent comet, and the most recent comets I remember were McNaught and Holmes. If my memory doesn’t fail me, I think comet Holmes hadn’t a very long tail, so, is it Comet McNaught?
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Winnah! Your go.
 
:D

Of these images of planetoids, which is the odd one out and why? You need to get both right (obviously)... for simplicity, some of the images are enhanced or are false colour, but the question is about the planetoids, and not anything to do with the image processing...

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Unless it's rotated, the top left one appears to be the Nile. The rest, I have no idea. Bottom right appears to be a desert, but could, obviously, just as easily be Mars.

TM getting tricksy. :lol:
 
You are mean :grumpy:

I think it is the bottom left one, because, it looks like a gas planet, but none of them has that look, has it looks it has a turbulent atmosphere, and again, there are no planets that can resemble it.
 
I'm guessing the bottom right one, because it isn't as colorful.

Or because the other three are Earth and the bottom right one is Touring Mars.
 
FoolKiller
Or because the other three are Earth and the bottom right one is Touring Mars.
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I was thinking something along those lines.

I'll go with that but say the bottom left is the odd one out.
 
FoolKiller
I'm guessing the bottom right one, because it isn't as colorful.

Or because the other three are Earth and the bottom right one is Touring Mars.
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Very well done 👍 You are bang on! :D

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Top Left: Lena River Delta, Russia (Earth) Top Right: Kebira crater, Egypt (Earth)
Bottom Left: Dasht-e Kevir (Great Salt Desert), Iran (Earth) Bottom Right: Cydonia region (Mars)​

All Earth images were taken from here 👍

Got the idea after I found a wallpaper on my laptop that I made from a Google Earth image of central Australia, which looks completely "other-worldly"... when it comes to amazing sights in the cosmos, Earth can certainly hold it's own :eek:
 
DP, but I wanted people to see it pop up as new.

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Bonus points if you can explain the importance of this photo.
 
Forgive me for sounding a bit strange, but isn't that white stuff some sort of gas explosion like a comet has when it gets heated up by the sun? Alternatively I guess it could be a reflection of light from the Sun or a planet that the photo managed to capture at the precise time.

No idea what it is though.

Quick edit: It's not something to do with near-misses is it?
 
Submerged
Forgive me for sounding a bit strange, but isn't that white stuff some sort of gas explosion like a comet has when it gets heated up by the sun? Alternatively I guess it could be a reflection of light from the Sun or a planet that the photo managed to capture at the precise time.
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If it weren't for the importance of the white I would answer these.

Quick edit: It's not something to do with near-misses is it?
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As in nearly missed Earth?
Not unless I missed something.
 
Submerged
Ah yes, meant nearly missed Earth. Forgot we were taking about the whole of the Solar System, not just Earth on its own.
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Well, Earth or not, as far as I can tell there is no near-miss involved here.
 
Hmmm, let me see. It doesn’t look like a Sun eclipse in mars, because the moons of mars (Deimos and Phobos) and the distant they are from mars, cannot create an eclipse like this.

But that sure looks like Phobos, and I don’t think that could be an eclipse seen from Deimos, caused by Phobos. It is possible, but not plausible.
It could also be the new researches on asteroids, that is being made, but unlikely to be it.

Hmm, never saw that picture and or article before, so I am blinded has a blind.

EDIT: This may sound strange, and forgive me if I am wrong and feel free to correct me, but aren’t the sun rays (like these ones with the red circle):
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only visible in a atmosphere, or in earth atmosphere, where this is the result of millions and millions of particles reflecting the sun? Like in this picture?
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Because further analyzing a sunset in Mars picture that was here at GTP awhile ago (I think in the show your desktop thread), there weren’t any of these sun rays.

Edit Edit: I also (don’t know from where) got the idea that this sun rays where visible in oxygen environment. I almost certain I am wrong though, but it is the only explanation I am seeing for this.

Edit Edit Edit: After further analyses, I don’t think that is the Sun at all. The unique explanation I am seeing is the gas explosion when a comet approaches the sun… I remember NASA was planning a non tripulated trip to some comets, maybe that was it…
 
*random-out-there suggestion fuelled by movies*

Could it be a nuclear warhead explosion?

*end of random-out-there suggestion fuelled by movies*
 
Well, it has been over 24 hours and no one has guessed.

It is comet Tempel 1 in the NASA/JPL Deep Impact project, where they slammed a probe into the comet. This picture was taken by the fly-by part of the craft at the exact moment of impact.

Here is a link about the mission from that day.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/deep_impact_countdown.html

OK, someone random can go now.

I didn't think it would be that hard, but I guess Danoff and I were the only ones that saw that exact image and remember what it was.
 

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