Discovered: Cosmic Rays from a Mysterious, Nearby Object
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/19nov_cosmicrays.htm?list49408
http://tinyurl.com/5ehj7d
"Some members of the research team believe the source could be less
than a few hundred parsecs away. For comparison, the disk of the
spiral Milky Way galaxy is about thirty thousand parsecs wide. (One
parsec approximately equals three light years.)"
"The least exotic possibilities include, e.g., a nearby pulsar, a
'microquasar' or a stellar-mass black hole—all are capable of
accelerating electrons to these energies. ... An even more
tantalizing possibility is dark matter."
About the parsec (pc):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaparsec#Distances_in_parsecs
"the Oort cloud is postulated to be approximately 0.6 pc in diameter."
"The center of the Milky Way is about 8 kpc from the Earth, and the
Milky Way is about 30 kpc across."
We are possibly a member of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, which is
now colliding with the Milky Way. Our solar system takes a polar
route over the top of the Milky Way. See:
http://viewzone.com/milkyway.html
The above theory that we are part of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy is
debunked here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-
from-another-galaxy/
http://tinyurl.com/59kd5n
However, this only shows that we are not "from" the Sagittarius Dwarf
Galaxy, but I would point out that in any case we lie in the
*intersection* of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy and the Milky way. In
that sense we are part of both galaxies and worse located in a very
hot spot for the galactic collision.
It seems entirely logical to me that the close source of the high
energy electron cosmic rays might be a black hole which was formerly
located at the center of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. This
invisible object could thus be "Nemsis". See:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/Nemesis.pdf
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
