Someone just informed me that NASA released an announcement today in the media
Gizmodo - Astronomers Spot Surprising Evidence of Methane Dunes on Pluto. Quote Astronomers peering closely at images of Pluto have spotted what look like dunes on the surface of the former planet. Six months ago I wrote my Sastrugi page 87 which identified these exact same dunes on Pluto. Last month my hit count on the Sastrugi page skyrocketed and became the number one most read page on my monthly Top Ten page. Some popular person on Facebook linked to my Satrugi page sending a torrent of hits my way. Today NASA scientists including Alan Stern announce THEY found these features on Pluto. Three years pass and Alan and team don't see dunes on Pluto but six months after I spot them and one month after my Sastrugi traffic spikes, "NASA scientists spot them after peering closely at images of Pluto", RIGHT! |
I obviously don't want direct credit for this observation (or I'd use my real name) but a nod to my web site is at least in order
I identified the same NASA practice on my Big Bro page which starts like this On Sept 2nd 2017, I created my Eruptions page. Last week I came across a paper released by NASA published Nov 7th, 2017. The paper is called. A Search for Temporal Changes on Pluto and Charon = Change with time The timing of this paper is interesting because for nearly two and a half years NASA didn't say a word about or bother looking for potential plumes or streaking effects from plumes on Pluto, Then two months after I post Eruptions, NASA releases a paper on this very subject (things that make you go hmm). Alan! At least give my site credit for creating thought provoking ideas and providing additional information for your team to explore or confirm. It bothers me that you take credit without giving credit where its due. |
Today Saturday June 2nd, 2018
I was pretty upset to see these scientists take credit for my observations but now its time to get back to work,
We differ
Here's one key difference between them and me.
NASA scientists made up their mind regarding what they'd find long before we got to Pluto, this restricts and limits their vision which falls primarily within the confines of their predetermined view. |
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A year and a half prior to me creating my Sastrugi page, NASA in August 2016 released a paper calling these features "mass wasting sublimation pits suggested by their modeling".
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Their mass wasting concept on the surface of Sputnik Planitia, no doubt, was formulated from sources like this J. Moore et al., paper where mass wasting is used to describe some of the features on Callisto. ![]()
In essence these New Horizons scientists are looking over the landscape of Pluto and applying previously expressed concepts from other papers. |
Take note of how they use a model as supporting evidence of the "pits" occurring from a required role of mass wasting as if a model becomes evidence itself and with this model as evidence mass wasting becomes the requirement used to identify these features. Case closed, features identified, NASA scientists are done with the issue, thank you world, moving on. These features were then put to rest until I challenged their logic and rational. Quote from the NASA paper Elsewhere in the cellular plains, small shoulder-to-shoulder pits are elongate and begin to form chains ( Figs. 2, 4 b and e). Figure 2 is the same location as the one where I observed sastrugi wind swept snow dunes after which, the scientists take credit for observing. |
This area called figure 2, identified in the NASA August 2016 paper is the same area where I identified Sastrugi. A year and 4 months later in December of 2017 I wrote my Sastrugi page. In 2016, these features are identified by NASA as sublimation pits created by mass wasting and their model supports this fact. Case closed NASA knows, in their mind, what these features are and say nothing further on the subject for nearly two years and have no reason to revisit this issue until six months after I identified them as wind swept snow rippled sastrugi. |
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After I presented my observations about the sastrugi on Sputnik Planitia
NASA now says Wind streaks are well known on Venus and Mars, are present even under the tenuous atmosphere of Triton, and are generally considered to represent the wind direction. (But NASA's plumes somehow run in perpendicular and diagonal lines) We use a model to examine the saltation of sand-sized (in this case, ~200 to 300 mm) particles on Pluto. Once initiated, the model indicates that saltation can be sustained even under the low (Earth-like; 1 to 10ms−1) wind speeds predicted at the surface today... This implies that the topography and/or surface composition has influenced the local wind regime, as was anticipated... |
Two years ago they used a model to prove these features are sublimation pits created by mass wasting now they use a model to prove a concept they call saltation NASA paper - we use a model to examine the saltation of sand-sized particles Wiki - Sastrugi = saltation of snow particles NASA - The transverse orientation also shows that these ridges cannot be sastrugi (erosional snowridges that form parallel to net winds). Wiki - The ridges are usually parallel to the prevailing winds; they are steep on the windward side and sloping to the leeward side. |
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The point was and is, wind is creating and shaping waves or ripples on the surface of Pluto that's the point I was making on my Sastrugi page and its still the crux of the issue.
NASA was calling these features sublimation pits created by mass wasting. I was using the word sastrugi to catch people's attention with a single word while describing wind driven ripples. |
Two years ago I identified real cryovolcanoes on Pluto and tweeted images of them to Alan Stern but all I get from Alan on the subject is dead silence.
Wright Mons touted by Alan as a cryovolcano is not a volcano but Elliot Crater is a cryovolcano as well as others which I've identified. Even though the evidence is overwhelming, I get nothing from Alan when I show him these images. Its as if he's offended by the fact that I (a nobody) identified these features before he did. Here's a 10 min video I created showing the cryovolcanoes. |
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How low can you go?
Up till now, I've tried to be respectful while disagreeing with several of their findings but man this is low. How desperate are you people that you need to steal credit for my observations? You're scientists for god sake, go science Pluto and stop stealing credit for my work or at least acknowledge where you got your inspiration from. OK, lets do this together, say it with me, "plutorules.com". |
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Three weeks later
Update June 22nd, 2018 Interesting coincidence. Nothing new is revealed about Charon in this article, the timing, however, is interesting. The article does reiterate NASA's previous assessment that Charon is spray painted atmospherically by Pluto via methane creating the red tholin on Charon's north pole. For an alternative perspective, you might want to read my Mordor's Crater page. NASA's full article. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/charon-at-40-four-decades-of-discovery-on-pluto-s-largest-moon I must be a prophet. |