Study of Uranus Suggests Some of its Moons are on a Collision Course

Phys.org ^ | September 6, 2017 | Bob Yirka

[SunkenCiv]

Voyager 2 image of the Uranian moons Portia, Cressida, and Ophelia. Credit: NASA

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[fieldmarshaldj]

"Study of Uranus Suggests Some of its Moons are on a Collision Course"

I don't doubt it.

[AndyJackson]

Have you heard, it’s in the stars
Next July we collide with Mars?

[PCPOET7]

oh my what are we going to so....this will be a disaster

[chris37]

The moons of Myanus have existed peacefully next to each other for 46 years, and I am not expecting any collisions.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Maybe we can send a probe into Uranus to stop it.

[SpaceBar]

It would explain the burning sensation.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Go to San Francisco and you’ll see plenty of lunar collisions.

[JimRed]

...the researchers found that Cressida is on a path that will cause it to collide with another moon called Desdemona, which currently moves in an orbit just 900 kilometers from Cressida's. The gravity of Cressida is slowly pulling them closer together and will cause them to crash into one another in approximately 1 million years.

And if the researchers are wrong, who'll know? Win-win.

[Impala64ssa]

I’m here for the laughs and any time there’s an article concerning Uranus, I’m never disappointed. One thing I like about FR. You people are too much!! :)

[JimRed]

Have you heard, it’s in the stars
Next July we collide with Mars?

For a story of cosmic near-misses much closer to home, check out "Worlds in Collision", by Immanuel Velikovsky (1950).

[PCPOET7]

I think the Idea is totally gay so as a virtue signal we will have to do it just beware there might be Klingons so after words lets all wash are hands of this and worry about more pressing issue like whos it was that just realized that we are one big A— H—e waiting to be touched.

sorry if I was offensive...maybe not but if we cant have fun with this stuff why bother.

[Blue Highway]

“You expect me to study Uranus? Why, I’m not even a proctologist...”

[Carl Vehse]

Petition the government of Uranus to do something about it. And tell them that they will be held liable for any damages on Earth from fragments of the moons’ collision.

[Carl Vehse]

Petition the government of Uranus to do something about it. And tell them that they will be held liable for any damages on Earth from fragments of the moons’ collision.

[Ronald_Magnus]

Moons? I thought those were dingleberries.

[Cobra64]

Uh oh. Women and children hardest hit. It’s Trump’s fault. Impeach!

[Cobra64]

Obama.

[njslim]

collision in Uranus …??

isn’t that a hemorrhoid ….??