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ALMA prototype-antennas at the ALMA test facility. Credit: ESO
(Phys.org)—Two
separate teams of researchers (one from Mexico, the other Sweden), have
incited skepticism among the astronomy community by posting papers on
the preprint server arXiv each describing a different large
object they observed in the outer edges of the solar system. Both teams
made their observations after reviewing data from ALMA—a cluster of
radio dishes in the Chilean mountains.
One of the objects
was found to be near W Aquilae in the night sky—the other adjacent to
Alpha Centauri . Both groups report being skeptical at first regarding a
faint glow, but monitored what they had seen nonetheless—to their
surprise they found that the objects appeared to move relative to the
stars behind them, which suggested they might be relatively close and
that they might be orbiting the sun. Neither group was able to gain much
evidence regarding the properties of the objects they had spied,
because both of them were only able to make two observations, but both
teams suggest there was enough data to allow for ruling out the object
being an ordinary star.
The Swedish team nick-named the object
they observed Gna, after a Nordic God known for its swiftness, and have
told the press they had no intention of suggesting they had found the
mythical Planet X which supposedly lies somewhere beyond Pluto. Instead
they suggest it might be a large asteroid. The team from Mexico went a
little further suggesting that the object they observed might possibly
turn out to be a brown dwarf.
Severe flooding has been reported in parts of southern Norway
after heavy rain brought by storm Synne between 04 and 06 December
2015. Maudal in Gjesdal, Rogaland saw just under 300 mm of rain in 3
days.
No injuries or deaths have been reported. However the flooding
has caused some damage to roads, bridges and homes in Rogaland,
Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder counties. Around 100 families had to be
evacuated from their homes in Eigersund, Rogaland county. Norway’s state
broadcaster, NRK, reports that around 30 farms have also been severely hit, suffering major damage. Floods in Eigersund, Norway, December 2015. Photo: Eigersund KommuneThe
rain has now stopped but river levels remain high. Authorities in
Sweden also report high river levels in western parts of Götaland and
nothern part of Halland.
Parts of southern Norway saw flooding earlier this year after 97 mm of rain fell in Melsom during a 24 hour period between 01 and 02 September 2015.
Rescue workers stand next to a car crushed by a falling tree near Rheibach, Germany. Photograph: Axel Vogel/Corbis
The death toll across Europe from storms that began sweeping the continent on Sunday has reached at least 12, with Britain, Germany and the Netherlands among the hardest hit. Four people died in the south of England
after winds gusting up to nearly 100mph felled trees, and another four
were killed on Monday in Germany, adding to two deaths at sea off the
German coast on Sunday.
In Amsterdam a woman was killed and
another person injured when a tree by a canal was blown over. Other
injuries were reported around the city from falling debris.
In Denmark
a man died after he was hit by a flying brick north of Copenhagen. In
France a woman was still missing on Monday night after being swept out
to sea from a cliff at Belle-Ile, Brittany.
Transport
infrastructure took a battering across the continent. Sustained winds of
more than 75mph caused the cancellation of 50 flights at Amsterdam's
Schiphol airport, Europe's fourth largest, and there were delays at
Europe's busiest port in Rotterdam.
Hurricane-strength winds topple trees, cut power supplies and cause travel chaos across northern Europe.
As a deadly storm moves from Britain to mainland Europe, a tree falls on a car in Amsterdam, killing a woman.
Large waves break against the dyke at the port of Boulogne in northern France.
People watch a boat from the shore as a storm passes over the beach in Scheveningen in the Netherlands.
Some
10 people have died in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Scandinavia
after a fatal storm that struck Britain swept eastwards to northern
Europe.
A Danish man was killed near Copenhagen by a collapsing
wall, a woman was killed by falling trees in Amsterdam and a 47-year-old
woman was found dead after being swept out to sea during a cliff walk
on Belle Ile in France.
At least seven people died in Germany with
falling trees killing several drivers. One man also drowned and a
66-year-old woman died when a wall collapsed on her, German media
reported. Thirteen floor high scaffolding comes down in Merksem, AntwerpenHurricane-strength
winds cut power supplies and forced the cancellation of hundreds of
flights and train journeys across the continent.
Southern Sweden
was hit by torrential rain, and winds up to 84mph (136kph) blew down
trees, blocking roads and bringing down power lines, leaving around than
50,000 homes without electricity.
As evening fell there were no reports of injuries in Sweden but widespread reports of property damage.
LONDON—At
least 11 people were killed on Monday as a fierce storm tore across
northern Europe, causing mass disruption to transport.
Four people
were killed in Britain and three in Germany as heavy rain and high
winds battered the region. The storm also claimed two victims in The
Netherlands, one in France and one in Denmark.
Rough conditions at
sea also forced rescuers to abandon the search for a 14-year-old boy
who disappeared while playing in the surf on a southern English beach on
Sunday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron described the loss of life as “hugely regrettable.”
Winds
reached 99 miles (159 kilometers) per hour on the Isle of Wight off the
southern English coast, according to Britain’s Met Office national
weather center, while more than 500,000 homes in Britain and France were
left without power.
Heavy rain and winds of 80 mph elsewhere
brought down thousands of trees and left hundreds of passengers trapped
in planes at Copenhagen airport.
In Britain, a 17-year-old girl
died after a tree fell on the parked caravan where she was sleeping,
while a 51-year-old father of three died when a tree hit his car, police
said.
The bodies of a man and a woman were later found in the
rubble of three houses in London that collapsed in an explosion thought
to have been caused by a gas pipe being ruptured in the storm.
A small fire broke out at the Ringhals nuclear power plant in
western Sweden on Wednesday morning, less than a day after the reactor
had been restarted. The blaze started shortly after 9am at Ringhals'
Reactor 1 and was extinguished less than an hour later. "The smoke came
from oil inside the insulation on one or several of the pipes in the
turbine hall," emergency services spokesman Roger Banck said. However,
the reactor continues to operate at half capacity and it remains unclear
how long it will continue to do so. "Now we have to disassemble certain
parts in order to access where the fire took place and see what the
damage is and we don't know how long that will take," Ringshals
spokesman Gosta Larsen said. Ringhals' Reactor 1 was restarted on
Tuesday after having been shut down the day before due to a broken
meter. The reactor had been closed for inspection for the previous five
weeks and it was undergoing a test run when the meter malfunction was
discovered. Reactor 4, which also remains shuttered for a safety review,
is supposed to be restarted on Sunday.
