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Scientists plan mission to probe Uranus
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 1/7/11 | Paul Sutherland

Posted on 01/11/2011 2:53:34 PM PST by LibWhacker

Proposed by British scientists as a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency, the mission would offer the first close-up view of Uranus in 25 years.

British space scientists are leading plans to send a probe to explore giant ice planet Uranus. They have put forward a detailed proposal to the European Space Agency to launch a joint mission with NASA to the distant world, 1.8 billion miles from the sun.

It would give scientists their first close-up views of Uranus since NASA’s Voyager 2 flew past and captured fleeting pictures 25 years ago.

The £400million mission is designed to go in orbit to study the rings around Uranus and answer questions such as why it gives off so little heat.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; mission; moonsofuranus; probe; ringarounduranus; science; scientists; thomasvanflandern; tooeasy; tvf; uranus; vanflandern; xplanets
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To: WXRGina

The full name was originally blowitout...but they shortened it.


21 posted on 01/11/2011 3:04:36 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: ReverendJames
“In order to stop all those insipid jokes, the planet Uranus was renamed Urectum.” Proff Farnsworth, Futurama
22 posted on 01/11/2011 3:04:56 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Michael.SF.
Here's the colonaut now.

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23 posted on 01/11/2011 3:05:26 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: LibWhacker

the hell they do"

24 posted on 01/11/2011 3:05:35 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: LibWhacker

25 posted on 01/11/2011 3:08:44 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: LibWhacker
Doesn't another Federal Agency already have that mission? I think it's the TSA!
26 posted on 01/11/2011 3:10:09 PM PST by Errant
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To: lacrew

Ever drink a gallon of unsweetened lime-aid?


27 posted on 01/11/2011 3:14:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: fish hawk

Lol!


28 posted on 01/11/2011 3:16:48 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: LibWhacker
"Hey......did somebody say 'anus'?"
29 posted on 01/11/2011 3:17:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: cripplecreek

Post of the day!


30 posted on 01/11/2011 3:18:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: LibWhacker
It would give scientists their first close-up views of Uranus

No pictures, please.

31 posted on 01/11/2011 3:18:54 PM PST by P.O.E. (A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?)
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To: LibWhacker

Maybe Barney Frank will legislate it...

Make it so number 2


32 posted on 01/11/2011 3:23:26 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: ReverendJames
"Astronomers renamed Uranus to end that stupid joke once and for all..."
33 posted on 01/11/2011 3:24:46 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: LibWhacker; Darksheare; The Comedian; Slings and Arrows

£400million? That’s an awful lot of money to look at Uranus!


34 posted on 01/11/2011 3:28:20 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: dfwgator

“On the whole, it feels good.”
Dr Evil.


35 posted on 01/11/2011 3:28:24 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don't taze my junk bro.)
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To: going hot
The full name was originally blowitout...but they shortened it.

HAHAHAHA!!!
36 posted on 01/11/2011 3:28:34 PM PST by WXRGina
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To: LibWhacker

These scientists are late to the party.

The climate change scientists have been probing ouranus for a few years now, with help from the EPA.


37 posted on 01/11/2011 3:28:51 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: allmendream
I remember in math class the famous curve, which is the vertex, the point at which the axis intersects the curve. The latus rectum is the chord through the focus perpendicular to the axis. I recall the guffaws on that one.
38 posted on 01/11/2011 3:30:22 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
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To: RichInOC

My cat attacked the vet when he tried to take his temp. He’s a Maine Coon, named Claymore. The cat, not the vet.


39 posted on 01/11/2011 3:31:50 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: ReverendJames

I took 4 college level astronomy courses in the late 1960’s

the term used by the astronomy professors at that time was

YOUR RAIN US.

so the politically correct revisionists have struck another blow.


40 posted on 01/11/2011 3:33:30 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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