Talk:SHGb02+14a

Title
If anyone knows how to change the article from "SHGb02 14a" to "SHGb02+14a", please do. I doubt that this is really litte green men, but it is still newsworthy. pstudier 22:08, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Use HTML Entities
Use &plus; instead of the + in the title.

Alignment & Anti-alignment
I removed the link from alignment and anti-alignment to para- and ortho-hydrogen. In the context of this article, alignment and anti-alignment refer to spins of the electron and proton. If the orthohydrogen article is correct, then ortho- and para-hydrogen refer to alignment of two proton spins in a H2 molecule (not electron and proton spin in a H atom). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Orthohydrogen and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen#Electron_energy_levels

drift
Can anybody elaborate or clarify the following sentence "The frequency of the signal has a rapid drift," what type of drift ? movement of the source? frequency drift? etc.

From the context of the rest of the statement, it seems pretty clear that this is talking about frequency drift: the Doppler shift due to changes in the radial distance due to its rapid orbit. Old_Wombat (talk) 08:51, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Meaning that the source was moving??? Kortoso (talk) 20:44, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * For future reference: The file was removed from the article on, and deleted for lack of a rationale. I the file and added a rationale. --Waldir talk 16:28, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Scanner?
The drifting is the bit that made me think that maybe this is a signal from some sort of scanner. Maybe it was a ship conducting long range scans. It would certainly explain all the pecularities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.121.65.129 (talk) 20:12, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

What would it reflect off of? What would be the location? What distance would the reflector have to be at to account for a drift speed of .004c? 99.236.221.124 (talk) 08:09, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Secrecy
Why don't they release the precise coordinates of the signal? Is this supposed to be science? How is anyone else ever supposed to check anything? What purpose is served by this secrecy? Why should people contribute resources to SETI@home if they're not going to share the results? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.0.146.111 (talk) 07:14, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Closest I've been able to find is the very general RA 2 hours Dec 14 degrees on Seti@home. I will keep looking though.

Note that there have been some, uhhh, "inexperienced" people who have interpreted this as an exact location and have found ... well, they think that they've found all sorts of interesting things. Old_Wombat (talk) 10:32, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Moving Spaceship
Do any credible sources theorize that it could be a moving spaceship? This might account for it being in deep interstellar space, far from any star, and possibly the drift of the signal as well. 71.196.239.194 (talk) 02:36, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

This occurred to me as well. Very fascinating stuff. 68.174.159.178 (talk) 02:13, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Is it possible the fast drift is the rotation of a possible space craft creating a micro-gravity. An example, would be the rotation similar of the ship that travels to Saturn in the movie interstellar. Nick D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.47.249.247 (talk) 13:43, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

What about a Matrioshka brain?

--79.151.110.231 (talk) 07:44, 11 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Would that account for the signal drift? Kortoso (talk) 19:03, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Gaussian belt?
What is a "Gaussian belt" in the article? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 05:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * A full-text search on ADS yields a single scientific paper with the phrase "gaussian belt" and it's not relevant to this radio source. As far as I can see, the phrase in the article is meaningless. I've commented it out until someone provides a reference or an explanation what it's supposed to mean. (This has been asked on the reference desk. I copy my answer here.)--Wrongfilter (talk) 10:28, 21 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I've never heard of a "Gaussian belt". ? Possible vandalism. Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 12:37, 22 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Gaußsche Glockenkurve--91.38.189.216 (talk) 19:40, 5 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not a reliable source! David J Johnson (talk) 22:05, 5 July 2014 (UTC)


 * So don't look here for answers: Gaussian_function
 * - Kortoso (talk) 00:06, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Distance
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6341 "... there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1000 light years..." As opposed to the 200 ly in this article.

Also this paragraph reads as if the listed features are the reasons given for skepticism. Kortoso (talk) 17:46, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Kortoso (talk) 19:06, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Micro black hole (MBH)
Hi, I found something intriguing. Its been suggested that the anomalies in orbits within the outer Solar System could be explained by the presence of a micro black hole with approximately 5 Earth masses in a long orbit. If this is proved correct then it could account for the signals periodically seen by SETI as well as the 1977 "Wow!" signal, due to gravitational lensing of a much weaker signal or for that matter scintillation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.111.195.136 (talk) 17:51, 25 August 2020 (UTC)