I am bumping this thread to the top again because I really want to hear from an expert on this, and I want someone to tell me that, "No this is not an undiscovered planetoid that is going to hit the Sun in a few hours. It is not going to be like a watermelon getting shot with a .44 magnum hollowpoint, and pieces of the Sun are not going to rain down on the earth like a bucket of lava getting poured onto an antbed".


Thanks in advance. At this point I am somewhere near 85% sure that it is Mercury, but I am a stone noob at astronomy.

Good find,

Could it possible be a asteroid ?

There are a LOT flying around out there..

i have no clue my self but am interested in what others think with much much more knowledge than me.

That very well could be Mercury. I don't know which way it's moving, but if the object is going to pass in front of the sun, there definitely seems that it will pass in front of the sun on the seventh.

When you look at the time stamp of the photo, it only moves a about a centimeter or so, on the picture, in 12 hours.

I say it's Mercury.

i am extremely interested to know what this is!!! for some reason as soon as i saw those pics my heart started racing and i cant explain it!! peace and love xx

I guess i will have to wai for Phage's contribution to make some sense out of this.

Using Stellarium...

This is where Mercury is as of about 10 minutes ago.

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Originally posted by severdsoul
Good find,

Could it possible be a asteroid ?

There are a LOT flying around out there..

i have no clue my self but am interested in what others think with much much more knowledge than me.

It sure could be. I have no idea.

I can't get my photbucket image to upload.. so..

install Stellarium it is quick and free.

By looking at Stellarium right now, there is no way it is Mercury. Mercury is way lower than the sun at this time.

Isn't there an eclips on the 7th? So are the moon the sun and mecury all going to be in line on that day. Or am I mistakin or missing something?

S&F........so anyone taking bets until we get the good ol "It's Planet X/Niburu" proclamation on this thread?!

Seriously, I have no idea what it is.....and I'm genuinely suprised that it wasn't clarified on the NASA site. For certainly they must know what it is. I'm sure if it was an area of real interest, they wouldn't have ever posted it in the first place!

It's Planet X / Niburu.
not a one liner.

Even if something "hit" the sun, which I know you all aren't saying, wouldn't the sun gobble it up and fry it? Barring that if there were fragments that survived to "rain down," wouldn't it take them a long, long time to get anywhere near us?