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Astrophile: Mighty Trojan found marching with Uranus
New Scientist ^
| 8-29-2013
| Jacob Aaron
Posted on 08/29/2013 12:04:12 PM PDT by Dysart
Object: A 60-kilometre-wide asteroid Location: 3 billion kilometres ahead of Uranus, in the planet's L4 Lagrange point
Uranus has a forbidden friend. The first asteroid to share the planet's orbit has been found, despite claims that Jupiter's mighty gravity should steal such companions away.
The finding hints that more of these asteroids, called Trojans, lurk around unexpected worlds. Since Trojans don't always stay in place, finding new ones improves our picture of how space rocks migrate around the solar system. It also means there may be super-sized Trojans sharing orbits with massive exoplanets.
Mike Alexandersen of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and colleagues discovered the 60-kilometre-wide Trojan, named 2011 QF99, from an observatory in Hawaii. It lives in a Lagrange point, where the gravitational tugs from the sun and Uranus balance out.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: asteroid; uranus
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Please. Some maturity here.
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:04:12 PM PDT
by
Dysart
To: Dysart
Must... resist... urge... to... pun...
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:05:26 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Dysart
Riiiiiiiiiiight!
The humor in the headlines just write themselves.
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:06:00 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Dysart
"Trojan found marching with Uranus""Please. Some maturity here"
(*giggle*)
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:06:17 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Cram black misbehavior down their throats until they change.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:06:32 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: Dysart
RELEASE THE KRAKEN OF HUMOR AND HILARITY!
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:06:36 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Dysart
Please. Some maturity here. Seriously?
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:08:37 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
To: Dysart
Since Trojans don't always stay in placeThey sometimes break or leak as well. Every High School boy's worst nightmare.
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:09:02 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: Old Sarge
"there may be super-sized Trojans"
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:09:06 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Cram black misbehavior down their throats until they change.)
To: Dysart
Please. Some maturity here. I'm going to bet the under on that.
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:10:03 PM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
To: null and void
"tugs from the sun and Uranus balance out"
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:10:09 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Cram black misbehavior down their throats until they change.)
To: null and void
Yeah my thoughts exactly.
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:10:22 PM PDT
by
tatown
("So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquited by women, but it's still white men's fault.")
To: FatherofFive; Jack Hydrazine; null and void
It also means there may be super-sized TrojansNO, NO, STOP, I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:10:38 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:12:09 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Dysart
Barney Frank approves this thread!
"It's twue! Twojan are very handy when in wange of Uranus!"
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:12:19 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: null and void
Seriously?Reverse psychology. Little something I picked up over in 'Nam.
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:12:47 PM PDT
by
Dysart
(Control your destiny or someone else will. -- Jack Welch)
To: Dysart
Safe passage for planetary poofters
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:12:56 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Dysart
where the gravitational tugs from the sun and Uranus balance outOtherwise, known as "twerking".
Whatever happened to "where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play..."?
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:13:02 PM PDT
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: Dysart
Uhhhh....hu hu..... he said "uranus"
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:13:42 PM PDT
by
zipper
("The Second Amendment IS my carry permit!" -- Ted Nugent)
To: COBOL2Java
“Uranus has a forbidden friend.”
Is it him? Is it him?
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:13:58 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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