The Weirdest Object in the Solar System?

Space.com ^ | 22 June 2009 | Andrea Thompson

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[MaryFromMichigan]

:)

[Landru]

Biggest Liar: zerO.

Just saying.

[Red Badger]

Phasers on stune, Mr. Spock...........

[bamahead]

space ping

[Jet Jaguar]

Outstanding.

[Skooz]

BFL

[Cyber Liberty]

It’s pretty true. They forgot Uranus....

[neverdem]

Observing Haumea's satellites will also help astronomers better constrain the object's mass.

It's increasing? Wow!

[ShadowAce]

Haumea is big enough that it differentiated, like the Earth, so that its heaviest components settled to the core and the lightest, specifically ice, stayed at the surface.

and

"The faster it spins, the more it wants to fling you outward," Brown said.

...seem incompatible to me. Wouldn't a faster spin push the heavier objects outward, rather than pull them in toward the center?

[parsifal]

I don’t know. Have you ever done the egg experiment where you take a raw egg and spin it until the insides turn solid, like they were boiled. If you do, the yolk is in the center.

parsy, who has it down pat.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tricky_k_1972 for posting the topic, and thanks neverdem for the ping.

• Astronomer Mike Brown
• Haumea and Namaka

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[willgolfforfood]

I haven’t read the article yet, but I think a golf buddy of mine dated the weirdest object in the entire galaxy about 20 years ago. Let me read now, and see if this is about her.

[patriciaruth]

Thanks for the pictoral review of the runts in Sol’s litter.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tricky_k_1972 for posting the topic, and thanks neverdem for the ping.

• Astronomer Mike Brown
• Haumea and Namaka

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[csmusaret]

Interesting but I thought it was an article about Henry Waxman.

[rfp1234]

Sometimes a big squashed cigar is just a big squashed cigar.

[GOPJ]

They found Mars’s water?

[JerseyJohn61]

Ping

[JerseyJohn61]

“AL GORE?”

No, but nearly as massive!