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Large moon of Uranus may explain odd tilt
New Scientist ^
| Friday, December 4, 2009
| Ker Than
Posted on 12/04/2009 11:32:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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I suppose you now want to talk about Uranus?
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posted on
12/04/2009 11:32:03 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
whoops, should have changed that to Gwenael Boue...
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12/04/2009 11:32:42 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
Solving Solar System Quandaries Is Simple:
Just Flip-flop The Position Of Uranus And Neptune
Science Daily | Thursday, December 13, 2007
adapted from Arizona State University materials
Posted on 12/30/2007 5:44:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1946112/posts
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posted on
12/04/2009 11:33:41 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
Well, according to the article, Uranus spins on an axis- which sounds painful.
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posted on
12/04/2009 11:36:54 PM PST
by
Krankor
To: SunkenCiv
“Huh! Huh! Huh! He said “a particularly large moon” Beavis.”
“Yah! Yah! Butthead! ‘odd tilt’!”
“Huh! Huh! Huh!”
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posted on
12/04/2009 11:39:00 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: SunkenCiv
“Uranus spins on an axis”
So, Uranus is a spinner. I always thought of it as a swinger...
To: SunkenCiv
The moon may since have been ejected by the tug of another planet passing nearby. Its fate is unclear, but it may have crashed into another gas giant if it is not still roaming the solar system. Securely putting on tin foil hat. Venus?
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posted on
12/04/2009 11:48:57 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
To: SunkenCiv; All
But what about...oh, never mind
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posted on
12/05/2009 12:11:59 AM PST
by
notdownwidems
(Vote Republican! We're 1/10 of 1% better than the other guys!)
To: SunkenCiv
Please try to resist the childish jokes, but the fact is that the odd tilt of Uranus may be the result of a particularly large moon. Is there really any need to keep that stupid name for the planet? It's not like it's an ancient name or anything, like Mars or Venus, which were gods to our ancestors. I don't think Uranus was discovered until modern times. Whoever named it screwed up big time. There's really no reason to keep that name, and lots of reason to get rid of it.
I vote for Iceboggle.
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posted on
12/05/2009 12:29:05 AM PST
by
Defiant
(The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
To: SunkenCiv
I try to sit up straight. Even my grade school teachers harassed me about it.
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posted on
12/05/2009 12:43:19 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Sarah Palin 2010 - We Can't Afford To Wait)
To: SunkenCiv
but the fact is that the odd tilt of Uranus may be the result of a particularly large moon The tilt can be explained because the school bus windows only go down 1/4 of the way . The moon and Uranus remain fixed in relative position .
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posted on
12/05/2009 12:56:40 AM PST
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F Trp 8th Cav)
To: Defiant
“Is there really any need to keep that stupid name for the planet? It’s not like it’s an ancient name or anything, like Mars or Venus, which were gods to our ancestors. I don’t think Uranus was discovered until modern times. Whoever named it screwed up big time. There’s really no reason to keep that name, and lots of reason to get rid of it.”
I agree compleatly! it should be named for it’s discover. Dr.Alfred U.Gotlimdik.
To: Defiant
Whoever named it screwed up big time Those scientists have a lot of built up anger for the way they were treated by normal people . It is their way of getting back . Earth probably means planet of pee-pee head jocks in Andromedan .
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posted on
12/05/2009 1:05:34 AM PST
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F Trp 8th Cav)
To: Defiant
We could always rename it “butthole”.
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posted on
12/05/2009 1:11:04 AM PST
by
Nik Naym
(Palin. Got that? Palin. <---Right there is your answer!)
To: Nik Naym
“We could always rename it butthole.”
Approaching Butthole Captain.
Standard orbit Mr.Sulu...
To: Defiant
From Wikipedia. "Uranus (pronounced /ˈjʊərənəs, jʊˈreɪnəs/) is the Latinized form of Ouranos (Οὐρανός), the Greek word for sky ( a cognate of the English word air and the Hindi word oura (to fly)). In Greek mythology Ouranos or Father Sky, is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth (Hesiod, Theogony). Uranus and Gaia were ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times,[1] and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky and Styx might be joined, however, in a solemn invocation in Homeric epic.[2]"
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posted on
12/05/2009 1:30:53 AM PST
by
dljordan
(Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: dljordan
My Greek/Latin mythology is rusty, but I'll give it a crack to maybe shed some more light on the subject.
Ouranos had murdered his father Cronus, first of the gods, who was also the father of the Titans, predecessors to the Olympian gods. Someone (an oracle of some sort - I forget who) told him that one of his children would murder him in the manner he had murdered his father. So he ate each of his children as they were born - except that Gaia kept the last of them (Zeus) safe by wrapping a stone in infant clothing, which Ouranos then ate.
It was Zeus who slew his father, freeing his siblings (who apparently weren't killed by being eaten), who then waged war against the remaining Titans. Fun fact: Aphrodite was born out of the dismembered remains of Ouranos after they had been cast out to sea.
Since Ouranos was killed, and his brother Titans lost to the Olympian gods, it is no surprise that no cult to him arose.
That's as much as I recall... feel free to check/correct.
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posted on
12/05/2009 2:30:37 AM PST
by
GCC Catholic
(0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
To: Defiant
In "Futurama" (the Matt Groening animated series set 1000 years from now), scientists renamed "Uranus", due to all the silly jokes.
They named it to "Urectum".
To: SunkenCiv
I suppose on its way out, our wandering moon did this
Its called Miranda, as all of he moons in this system have names from Shakespeare or Spenser. From the looks of it, it should have been called 'Frankenstein'.
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