[meteorite-list] Spitzer Sees Crystal Rain in Infant Star Outer Clouds

From: karmaka <karmaka_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:21:39 +0200 (CEST)
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I'm singing in the olivine rain
Just singing in the olivine rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I walk down the swirling disk of dust
With a happy refrain
Just singin',
Singin' in the olivine rain

Let's keep on 'eyeball dancing' in the beautiful? 'olivine rain' of your meteorites!

Martin
(the other one)


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>The full article is at the link.
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>http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20110526.html
>http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20110526.html
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>Spitzer Sees Crystal Rain in Infant Star Outer Clouds 05.26.11
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>PASADENA, Calif. -- Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star,
>according to observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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>This is the first time such crystals have been observed in the dusty clouds of gas that collapse around forming stars.
>Astronomers are still debating how the crystals got there, but the most likely culprits are jets of gas blasting away from the embryonic star.
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>"You need temperatures as hot as lava to make these crystals," said Tom Megeath of the University of Toledo in Ohio.
>He is the principal investigator of the research and the second author of a new study appearing in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
>"We propose that the crystals were cooked up near the surface of the forming star, then carried up into the surrounding cloud where
>temperatures are much colder, and ultimately fell down again like glitter."
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