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To: Simon Green

25 posted on 03/09/2018 9:56:26 AM PST by JPG (MAGA)
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We need a new name for this planet to remove it from the joke category. Maybe Herschel after its discoverer? Or find some other Greek god, they had a bunch.

Uranus is actually quite an interesting planet. It rolls along sideways with its poles pointing almost in the orbital plane. No other planet is nearly so inclined to its orbit, I think Mars beats Earth by about 1 degree. Jupiter and Saturn are closer to being perfectly upright in their axial tilt to the orbital plane.

It also wins a rather odd award for having the smallest set of satellites of the four gas giants, by quite a large margin, and even the Earth has a bigger one (see how this gets derailed by the name?).


30 posted on 03/09/2018 10:02:05 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: JPG

Oh, and did I mention I wear a size 18 ring and can palm a basketball???


35 posted on 03/09/2018 10:04:12 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.nomi)
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