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What is a "Chiron?"
What is a "Chiron?"
What is a "Chiron?"
Mk said:What is a "Chiron?"
marlon said:In Greek mythology a chiron was a centaur, but I don't think this is what you were referring to...
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ancient marlon
marlon said:Euuh, perhaps i am having some language-problems but what exactly do you mean by this chiron ? Where did you read this and it what context was this thing used ?
Is it a QFT-thing or are you just referring to chirality-related subjects ?
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marlon
marlon said:Eeeuh, in astronomy you have this object called 2060 Chiron that has an orbit in the outer solar system, positioned between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. The radius is about 85 km
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marlon
marcus said:Chiron was the only centaur to have the gift of immortality
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/GG/centaur.html
He was the tutor, or coach, of Achilles (probably a horse could give us useful suggestions about running, if he could talk)
the other centaurs liked to drink and often got into fights when they were drunk
one time, when there was a fight, Chiron was standing to one side (he stayed out of stupid fights) but he was hurt by accident
after this, he made a bargain with the gods by which he would give up his immortality, and accept death, if the gods would release Prometheus.
The gods had been punishing Prometheus for stealing fire from them and so, by Chiron's generosity, the punishment was stopped and Prometheus was again free.
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A Centauro event MIGHT be produced by an exploding miniature black hole.
But there might also be other explanations.
AFAIK Centauro event is seen in high altitude emulsion experiments when there is suddenly an explosion of hadrons at some level in the atmosphere but ABOVE that level there is unexpectedly little activity-----little or no photons from decay of previous particles higher up.
so how did this powerful thing "sneak in" causing so little previous disturbance higher in the atmosphere, and then explode into a lot of hadrons.
apparently at CERN they looked for some Centauro-like events but didnt find any
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this leaves me unsatisfied, with questions like
What other explanations besides mini-black hole are possible?
Why is it called Centauro?
marcus said:-----------------------------
A Centauro event MIGHT be produced by an exploding miniature black hole.
But there might also be other explanations.
AFAIK Centauro event is seen in high altitude emulsion experiments when there is suddenly an explosion of hadrons at some level in the atmosphere but ABOVE that level there is unexpectedly little activity-----little or no photons from decay of previous particles higher up.
so how did this powerful thing "sneak in" causing so little previous disturbance higher in the atmosphere, and then explode into a lot of hadrons.
apparently at CERN they looked for some Centauro-like events but didnt find any
Thanks.Nereid said:As Far As I Know ...
marcus said:
A Chiron is a small, icy body in our solar system that orbits the sun between Saturn and Uranus. It was discovered in 1977 and is classified as both a comet and an asteroid.
A Chiron can vary in size, but on average it is about 100 kilometers in diameter. This makes it one of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of small bodies beyond Neptune.
Chiron is mostly made up of ice, including water ice, methane ice, and ammonia ice. It also contains some rocky material and organic compounds.
Chiron is unique because it is both a comet and an asteroid. It also has a highly elliptical orbit, which takes it from just beyond the orbit of Saturn to just inside the orbit of Uranus.
Yes, Chiron can be seen from Earth with a telescope during certain times of the year. It is currently in the constellation of Taurus and will be visible in the night sky until 2021.