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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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To: Larry Lucido
You would think that would get infected...
To: NYer
Uranus has a blue ringYikes! Is there a cream for that?
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posted on
04/08/2006 5:47:11 PM PDT
by
Stultis
(I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
To: Verginius Rufus
Yeah they named it for the most obscure god they could find.
Why not Quirinus?
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posted on
04/08/2006 5:56:50 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: NYer
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus...
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posted on
04/08/2006 5:59:05 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: NYer
Blue rings?
Totally unexpected. I would think blue balls in the vicinity a more likely occurrence.
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:06:57 PM PDT
by
dersepp
(I Am A Militia Of One)
To: NYer
"up to ten meters"
It's a neat looking picture but that blue ring would be hundreds of miles across...
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:16:57 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: Verginius Rufus
I'm guessing the king wasn't too thrilled with that turn of events!
:I'm suggesting we name it King George
:I'm suggesting we name it your ...
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:19:11 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: saganite
Ah, jokes about Uranus always lead to blue humor...
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:20:10 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: NYer
Well at least red, white, and blue are our colors.
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:34:22 PM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Why did Bode have to go for the Greek version? Must... not... say... it...
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:47:38 PM PDT
by
wyattearp
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:50:38 PM PDT
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Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Caelus? Naw, Urectum would be much better. Or Urethra, or Ureter. Or Roto Rooter. Or ru-ru. Death by ru-ru! The King has spoken.
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:51:28 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
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To: NYer
Insert your obligatory Klingon joke here...
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posted on
04/08/2006 6:52:33 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I'm sure there are a lot of Greek and Roman gods even more obscure than Quirinus. Quirinus is a provincial name, known to the Romans but not to the Greeks...the other planets bore name of important gods so Bode probably felt he had to follow suit.
Bode found that earlier astronomers had noted the location of Uranus without realizing that the object they were looking at was a planet...the earliest example was in 1690 when Flamsteed entered it on a chart as a star in the constellation Taurus, 34 Tauri.
So we could call Uranus "34 Tauri" (or Triginta Quattuor for short).
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posted on
04/08/2006 8:17:05 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: NYer
Blue ring around Uranus? Hmmmm, are these guys involved?
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posted on
04/08/2006 9:47:49 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")
To: NYer
"Next, we'll check that blue ring..."
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posted on
04/08/2006 9:50:55 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")
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