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Seventh planet has a blue ring
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| April 7, 2006
| Helen Briggs
Posted on 04/08/2006 4:03:32 PM PDT by NYer
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Schematic view of the outermost rings of Uranus...
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:03:35 PM PDT
by
NYer
To: NYer
You would think the rongs would be brown.....
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:04:23 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: NYer
This was posted earlier and taken down immediately. I suspect it was because the connection between blue rings and Uranus led to too much ribaldry.
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:07:15 PM PDT
by
saganite
(The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
To: NYer
Seventh planet has a blue ring Seventh planet? FOCL! They are going to have to rename the poor planet at some point. Might I suggest Caelus?
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:08:27 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: NYer
I see they decided to play it safe with the title and call it the 7th planet
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:08:45 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: NYer
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:09:36 PM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: Blood of Tyrants; shaggy eel
Pinging the Shagster to come on with 'the pic'...
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:14:08 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Meep Meep)
To: PatrickHenry
Please deploy your "Obsession with the Seventh Planet" ping list.....
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:15:26 PM PDT
by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
To: NYer
The scientists plan to carry out further observations next year, when the faint rings of Uranus will be more visible.
The scientists double as proctologists.
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:20:02 PM PDT
by
birbear
(I took an IQ test and I flunked it of course. I can't spell VW, but I drive a Porsche.)
To: longshadow; Allegra; wazoo1031; Dog Gone; Maximus of Texas; Lurkin Lurch
Please deploy your "Obsession with the Seventh Planet" ping list.....
This is close enough for our little 'specialty' ping list....
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:27:51 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Meep Meep)
To: longshadow
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:29:42 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet in 1781, wanted to name it in honor of King George III (Georgium sidus), but that suggestion didn't win favor. The Brits for a time called the planet Herschel.
To: Verginius Rufus
It would have been better if they had left it at that.
They name comets after their discoverers, why not planets?
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:43:18 PM PDT
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Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Man, this piercing craze is getting out of hand. They're putting rings everywhere now!
To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Verginius Rufus
According to Wikipedia:
"Finally, Bode, as editor of the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, opted for Uranus, after Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos"
Not sure "Ouranos" would have been much of an improvement.
To: Larry Lucido
It was Caelus in Roman mythology. All the other planets are named for Roman gods. Why did Bode have to go for the Greek version?
Romans not good enough for him?
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:55:28 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: NYer
Cowardly title for the article.
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posted on
04/08/2006 4:56:35 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: NYer
THE SEVENTH PLANET IS DOOMED BY GLOBAL WARMING!
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posted on
04/08/2006 5:02:33 PM PDT
by
SquirrelKing
(Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Apparently Caelus doesn't amount to much--a learned translation found in a couple of Latin works (in Ennius and in Cicero's treatise on the nature of the gods), probably not something that meant anything to an average Roman...no cult associated with him. Even Ouranos doesn't seem to matter very much to the Greeks--a figure in Hesiod's Theogony but not a god that people gave much attention to.
To: NYer
You gotta love how they used "Seventh Planet" in the headline.
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