Hubble Spots Two Tiny Uranian Moons

Space ^ | September 25, 2003

[RadioAstronomer]

Sorry! How are you this evening? :-)

Grinnin here! hehehehe

[mitch5501]

good thanks...though here in Oz it's morning.

I still have the 5" and the dome out the back (we talked about 2 yrs ago IIRC)...so I do enjoy these threads.

Gonna have to get prescription eyepieces soon my old peepers are having trouble and I'm ending up with a face-ache from hours of squinting LOL!

God bless

[RadioAstronomer]

It is good seeing you again as well. Whooohoooo!

Have you seen the movie "The Dish" yet? You would enjoy. :-)


And indeeed I remember the talk. Don't be a stranger for so long in the future! :-)

[mitch5501]

no I haven't as yet seen it...I've picked it up a few times but then put it back down only to grab star wars for the umpteenth time!

Next time I'll grab it if you reckon it enjoyable.IIRC Sam Neil stars in it.

Fascinating place our little solar neck of the woods,I reckon I could spend years just checking out the moons...imagine the sights from some of those locals.Giant planets almost filling the entire sky!Awe-inspiring would be such an understatement!

God bless RA (I promise not to be such a stranger in future)

[Arthur McGowan]

I did a google on this. Cruithne is in orbit around a Lagrangian point, rather than around the earth. All news to me. You say that Moon is expected someday to be in orbit around a Lagrangian point rather than around the earth?

[RightWhale]

I don't know if Cruithne is in fact orbiting a Lagrange point, but if it is it might be considered a Trojan moon or Trojan asteroid, although Trojan asteroids strictly speaking are locked in a Jupiter's orbit centered configuration rather than an earth's orbit centered. Objects orbiting Lagrange points have kidney-bean shaped orbits relative to the main planet. A horseshoe orbit might be an extreme kidney shaped orbit.

[RightWhale]

Just Tom Baker in his Tardis...

Doctor Who will return in 2005. Yay!