11-05-2022, 03:05 PM
I love the idea of a fear-driven news item being toned via a website that supports a Creative Commons Attribution licence
like the Sky article I posted does. In this particular case, there's a highlighted word in one of the paragraphs that will lead a
reader to where the article's content originated. Really, this post should be placed in 'The Media & Their Narratives' thread
of Rogue Nation, but it may serve in helping to show how these 'startling click-bait' pieces are generated and an idea of the
true worth of mainstream media.
The 'Study'-link takes the reader to 'iopscience.iop.org' where a page is titled 'The Astronomical Journal'. So the Sky article was
created through a truncated source and not the original that the article proclaims in one of its paragraphs. Unsurprisingly, one
would accept what the Sky article was displaying a realistic version from The Astronomical Journal and assume the source
material that Sky is drawing from, is accurate too.
However, the essay from several astronomers was published in September of 2022 in the American Astronomical Society
and only surfaced a whole month later, but what is more important is it comes along with a C.C.A. licence.
So what is this licence?
"Attribution 4.0 – This licence lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially,
as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licences offered.
Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials."
Iopscience.iop.org is an agency that:
"The IOP Policy Centre provides an active and authoritative voice for physics. We work in all areas that affect physics,
from schools education through to research and innovation and supply timely, evidence-based scientific advice and
in-depth analyses to governments and other agencies."
From a fleeting glance at the Abstract of the essay, I'd say the astronomers had been surveying the movement of asteroids
within the orbits of Earth and Venus. Of course, some of asteroids COULD impact on our planet and MIGHT cause catastrophic
world-changing effects.
But the actual source of the Sky article discusses the effects of a few stable orbiting asteroids in the way of stresses caused by
other bodies on their journey past Mercury and Venus.
"One way to estimate the true number of small NEOs better is to include more objects found interior to Earth's orbit in
population calculations, increasing the completion of orbital NEO types (Granvik et al. 2018; Harris & Chodas 2021).
Currently the population models are biased toward NEOs found exterior to Earth's orbit as they are the easiest to find
observationally. Only about 25 asteroids are known that have orbits completely interior to Earth's orbit and have
well-determined orbits (called Atira or Apohele asteroids).
This is compared to the thousands of known NEOs with orbits that cross Earth's orbit such as Aten and Apollo NEOs with
semimajor axes interior and exterior to Earth, respectively (Mainzer et al. 2014; Schunova-Lilly et al. 2017; Morbidelli et al. 2020)."
If one reads the entire research paper, it tends to dwell within the subject of diverse sizes of asteroids and a small number that
reside in Venus' orbit. The orbit of the newly discovered Atira asteroid 2021 PH27 comes close to our planet, but the emphasis
of the paper is how it crosses Venus and Mercury's trajectory twice respectively on its course around the sun.
This may have implications to Earth in the future, but the use of titles like 'Planet Killer' is a little overblown, to say the least!
like the Sky article I posted does. In this particular case, there's a highlighted word in one of the paragraphs that will lead a
reader to where the article's content originated. Really, this post should be placed in 'The Media & Their Narratives' thread
of Rogue Nation, but it may serve in helping to show how these 'startling click-bait' pieces are generated and an idea of the
true worth of mainstream media.
The 'Study'-link takes the reader to 'iopscience.iop.org' where a page is titled 'The Astronomical Journal'. So the Sky article was
created through a truncated source and not the original that the article proclaims in one of its paragraphs. Unsurprisingly, one
would accept what the Sky article was displaying a realistic version from The Astronomical Journal and assume the source
material that Sky is drawing from, is accurate too.
However, the essay from several astronomers was published in September of 2022 in the American Astronomical Society
and only surfaced a whole month later, but what is more important is it comes along with a C.C.A. licence.
So what is this licence?
"Attribution 4.0 – This licence lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially,
as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licences offered.
Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials."
Iopscience.iop.org is an agency that:
"The IOP Policy Centre provides an active and authoritative voice for physics. We work in all areas that affect physics,
from schools education through to research and innovation and supply timely, evidence-based scientific advice and
in-depth analyses to governments and other agencies."
From a fleeting glance at the Abstract of the essay, I'd say the astronomers had been surveying the movement of asteroids
within the orbits of Earth and Venus. Of course, some of asteroids COULD impact on our planet and MIGHT cause catastrophic
world-changing effects.
But the actual source of the Sky article discusses the effects of a few stable orbiting asteroids in the way of stresses caused by
other bodies on their journey past Mercury and Venus.
"One way to estimate the true number of small NEOs better is to include more objects found interior to Earth's orbit in
population calculations, increasing the completion of orbital NEO types (Granvik et al. 2018; Harris & Chodas 2021).
Currently the population models are biased toward NEOs found exterior to Earth's orbit as they are the easiest to find
observationally. Only about 25 asteroids are known that have orbits completely interior to Earth's orbit and have
well-determined orbits (called Atira or Apohele asteroids).
This is compared to the thousands of known NEOs with orbits that cross Earth's orbit such as Aten and Apollo NEOs with
semimajor axes interior and exterior to Earth, respectively (Mainzer et al. 2014; Schunova-Lilly et al. 2017; Morbidelli et al. 2020)."
If one reads the entire research paper, it tends to dwell within the subject of diverse sizes of asteroids and a small number that
reside in Venus' orbit. The orbit of the newly discovered Atira asteroid 2021 PH27 comes close to our planet, but the emphasis
of the paper is how it crosses Venus and Mercury's trajectory twice respectively on its course around the sun.
This may have implications to Earth in the future, but the use of titles like 'Planet Killer' is a little overblown, to say the least!
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