[SunkenCiv]

I suppose you now want to talk about Uranus?

[SunkenCiv]

whoops, should have changed that to Gwenael Boue...

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[SunkenCiv]

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

[Krankor]

Well, according to the article, Uranus spins on an axis- which sounds painful.

[sinanju]

“Huh! Huh! Huh! He said “a particularly large moon” Beavis.”

“Yah! Yah! Butthead! ‘odd tilt’!”

“Huh! Huh! Huh!”

[BigCinBigD]

“Uranus spins on an axis”

So, Uranus is a spinner. I always thought of it as a swinger...

[The Cajun]

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?

[notdownwidems]

But what about...oh, never mind

[Defiant]

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.

[TigersEye]

I try to sit up straight. Even my grade school teachers harassed me about it.

[kbennkc]

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 .

[jmcenanly]

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'.

[paterfamilias]

I have always wanted to write a book called “From Mianus to Uranus: A Connecticut Yankeee Explores the Solar System.”

[dangus]

Seriously, a moon is hardly an appropriate way to deal with Uranis. And I don’t care which way the author tilts.

[dangus]

>> William Ward at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado finds the theory plausible but points out there is no evidence for the extra moon other than the effect Boué and Laskar suggest it has had on Uranus’s orientation. <<

Pluto.

But Ward, if Uranis has something wierd about its orientation, I would seriously avoid looking for a moon.

[Diverdogz]

The moon should be named Dingleberry.

[SunkenCiv]

Where’s Moe Howard when I really need him?