Posted on 11/29/2020 5:26:35 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Uranus is weird. It’s unlike any other planet in our solar system for a number of reasons, but its most bizarre feature is that it rotates at a roughly 90-degree angle to all the other planets. Scientists believe that its strange orientation is due to an impact that the planet sustained early in its life, but they’re just beginning to understand how this particular circumstance is affecting the planet on a day-to-day basis.
In a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, scientists explain that, based on models of the planet and its magnetosphere, it’s likely that the solar wind streaming from the Sun actually enters and flows through the magnetosphere rather than flowing around it....
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Uranus needs a mask!
Yours might and mine might. But I don’t think Jennifer Aniston’s does,,,,,does it? .....she’s too hot. Say it ain’t so Joe!
we cannot be free of the stench of puns and toilet humor.
Uranus us the only planet using a Greek-ish moniker (Ouranos is the original name).
If it had been named using Roman names like the rest of the planets it would be called Caelus.
But then we wouldn’t be able to make fart jokes about it.
I eat lots of beans. I need the jet propulsion help to get around the house at my age.
It’s tragic that wry humor is beyond your ken.
That would become a deadly projectile in these here parts.
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