What's the biggest object in the solar system

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by orcot, Nov 15, 2007.

  1. orcot Valued Senior Member

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    It sounds like a quistion from QI
    And if you guessed the sun (right on the picture) then your wrong

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  3. draqon Banned Banned

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    well than...what is it but not the sun?
     
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  5. Reiku Banned Banned

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    The largest cosmological object will be a supermassive black hole, billions upon billions of time larger than any star.
     
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  7. orcot Valued Senior Member

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    the pic should be a link to the article

    And it's only 1,6 AU (1AU is the sun earth distance) away from the sun I wonder how missions like corot could miss this

    Yeah but a unlickly find in our solar system beside if you don't count galaxy's and clusters then the biggest object probably's going to be a nebula
     
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    Oh... our solar system>... never read your question correctly, but it wouldn't possibly be a nebula, but solar means ''things of that which revolve around a center''; and i don't think any nebula's rotate round our sun... though i have heard that the Sun might have a twin star.
     
  9. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    I'm with draq...what is it then? Are we talking size or mass?

    Edit: didn't notice the pic was a link...duh! nevermind
     
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  10. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    Ah...it's a comet. Intriguing.
     
  11. Reiku Banned Banned

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    Very interesting.
     
  12. Till Eulenspiegel Registered Member

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    I was thinking Rosie O'Donnel.
     
  13. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I know.. It's VitalOne's ego

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    ..I can't open the link

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  15. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    Hell ya!!! nice one Till!
     
  16. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Depends what you call an object. The sun itself is much smaller than it's magnetic field. The orbit of Pluto is quite large.
     
  17. orcot Valued Senior Member

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    somehow i can't yust post quotes so I'm forced to type this

     
  18. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    That's very interesting Orcot ! Thanks for the effort to type this all out !
    Are there any planets 'enveloped' and this coma ?
     
  19. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    If found this image of it:

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    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071029.html

    On the cause of the outburst:
    Some think it might be due to a rich vein of volatile ices on the comet's nucleus that was suddenly exposed to sunlight. This is actually the second time that Holmes has flared up in this manner, the last time coming in its discovery year of 1892.

    Bortle suggested the nucleus of Comet Holmes might consist of low-density material that, over time and through outgassing, develops a large region with a very tenuous structure, perhaps honeycomb-like.

    http://www.space.com/spacewatch/071023-comet-holmes-update.html
     
  20. orcot Valued Senior Member

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    it's evolution:

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    at current the object is 14 arcminutes wide (that's pretty big)
     
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    Geese...this sounds freaky...the comet expansion thing...
     
  22. Bluecrux Light Bearer Registered Senior Member

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    Hmm.. if you talk out objects, then shouldn't be the asteriod belt the largest one?It is well big in diameter but lacks in size, maybe that pulls it's claim back.
     
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