Two asteroids colliding?

[Nyrath]

http://news.discovery.com/space/mystery-object-behaves-both-like-a-comet-and-asteroid.html

 

Something awfully curious is happening 250 million miles away in the asteroid belt.

 

Astronomers think they may be witnessing a never-before-seen collision between two asteroids.

 

The puzzle centers on a newly discovered object that superficially looks like a comet but lives among the asteroids.

[Zeropoint]

Re: Two asteroids colliding?

 

Ah, they let an important bit of information slip there: "LIVES among the asteroids."

 

Clearly, we are witnessing the mating of space whales. (note: physical resemblance to Earth sea life is not implied or even probable)

 

Go space porn!

 

(Perhaps extraterrestrials are playing a real version of the popular 1980's arcade game "Asteroids.")

 

I like this explanation, too! Perhaps using sophisticated technology to re-enact primitive computer games is considered terribly amusing in their culture? Do they play as the arrowhead ship, or as the flying saucers?

[RexMundi]

Re: Two asteroids colliding?

 

Heh, it's one of the galactic patrol vessels that keeps us evil humans interdicted to Low Orbit.

 

~Rex

[Drhoz]

Re: Two asteroids colliding?

 

eh? I'm sure I've seen a chapter in a Carl Sagan book - probably Comet - about a suspected impact out in the Kuiper belt. Noteworthy because the paper he was discussing actually used an exclamation mark.