Asteroid or glitch? Google Sky user spots strange, undiscovered glowing rock

[treesparrow]

Asteroid or glitch? Google Sky user spots strange, undiscovered glowing rock in our solar system

A user has found a 'huge asteroid' while scanning the virtual heavens using Googly Sky.

Youtube user planetkrejci, who has investigated other anomalies on NASA pictures, claims the object - found using the Google website which transports the heavens to desktop computers and smartphones - is an asteroid which is heading towards Earth.

He says the asteroid - which, if real, has not been spotted by other scientists or astronomers - has only appeared recently on Google Sky, which receives updated images every few months.

The asteroid - the co-ordinates of which are available below - was spotted by user planetkrejci in a video posted three days ago

Close-up: The object certainly looks like an asteroid - which seems to be spotted with green flecks

Announcing his find on YouTube, he says the black object, mottled with green spots, is so clear that it must be within the solar system.

The user had been exploring the region a few months earlier, and had 'bookmarked' a spot just to the left of the asteroid - so he is certain the object was not there previously.

There are other explanations - this could be a simple technical glitch, either on Google Sky's end or within the original photograph.

The earthbound Google Maps regularly has glitches where pictures have been incorrectly sewn together.

In context: The apparent clarity of the 'asteroid' implies it is close, certainly within our solar system

One thing that planekrejci does not substantiate is his claim that the object is moving towards the Earth, as it is not apparent how this calculation could be obtained without more information than the image provides.

However, if planetkrejci has found a new object, it will be quite an achievement for an earth-bound Internet user to discover a new object in our solar system before NASA or other observatories.

The object is easy to find on Google Sky, by typing in the co-ordinates 5h 11m 33.74s -12 50' 30.09" - although conspiracy theorists might read something into the fact that the search function on Google Sky is currently down...

Video here -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154771/Asteroid-glitch-Google-Sky-user-spots-strange-undiscovered-glowing-rock-solar-system.html

Really not sure of the need for the melodramatic music in the background. I found it distracting. Would or could a dark body like an asteroid give off a seemingly luminous green glow as this appears to? Don't know what to make of it at all. More data is needed I suspect.

Edit - Just occurred to me that if, in fact, this is a genuine report the green colour about the asteroid could be electric discharges, in line with James Maccanneys solar capacitor model. Maybe?

 

[seek10]

object seems to be too big for the picture. It all depends on the zooming ability of the camera's and their position, angle etc. google sky shows.

 

[spoiledcookies99]

since google sky search is still unavailable...if you actually do locate the coordinates yourself..you'll find that the view has been obscured by one of google's infamous black boxes...how droll... of course.

 

[spoiledcookies99]

ahh...my mistake, i see it now..however it is remarkably close to said *black box* it's visible as a small dot..and zoom will not allow for a close look...

 

[Al Today]

As far as looking up to the stars goes, I have been wondering why all are those observatories are being built in Antarctica, looking southward? Even the Vatican. That all makes me go Hmmm...

Hi spoiledcookies99, Have you read The Wave?

edit: I find no reference to a Vatican Observatory in the Antarctic. Should've research that first before typing.

 

[spoiledcookies99]

AI Today:

..yesyes:) more than a few times...

 

[Tomek]

AI Today:

..yesyes:) more than a few times...

Do you mean the 8 books more than a few times ?

 

[spoiledcookies99]

yes. i have read and gone over the books/chapters available online more than a few times over the last year..why do you ask?

 

[Tomek]

yes. i have read and gone over the books/chapters available online more than a few times over the last year..why do you ask?

Well, sometimes people are mistaken about what "The Wave" is.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

A dude in a video going crazy about 2012 told us to look at the constellation of Leo in google sky in (infrared?) and that the bright spot there is Elenin.

Now this video is/was clearly disinformation (he was predicting various cataclysm which never happened) but do you guys have an idea of what this bright spot is? I guess it's just a star in the distant sky...

 

[spoiledcookies99]

yes. i have read and gone over the books/chapters available online more than a few times over the last year..why do you ask?

Well, sometimes people are mistaken about what "The Wave" is.

i'm sure that is correct...and you were just checking...understood. but what does this have to do with the anomaly? i was just tying to locate it...whatever it may be..however, zoom at that level was unavailable..

 

[mkrnhr]

For a real object to be valid, it has to be observed by different instruments. A grain of dust in one of the focal planes of an instrument can produce images like this. Without the original images, such information as the field-of-view, exposure time, etc. there is nothing that can be said about the photo.

 

[spoiledcookies99]

agreed. ..it is still a completely unknown anomaly...and I also agree with treesparrows initial suspicion..that more data is definitely needed. i was only commenting on the sott article..it suggested i could locate it myself on the only tech available...