To: TimesDomain; Drammach
I'm sure the orbital elements of Uranus' major moons are known with far more than the necessary accuracy to have predicted this. (They recently accurately predicted the occlusion of a star by one of Neptune's moons, iirc, a much, much harder feat.)
I think that the guys studying Neptune's atmosphere just didn't do the calculations and were pleasantly surprised. BTW, moons' shadows on Jupiter are observed and photographed all the time.
33 posted on
09/02/2006 6:35:03 AM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Cassini-Huygens has also transmitted many excellent photos of satellites and their shadows on Saturn.. and other phenomena..
It's just the sheer idiocy of the quotes in the article..
Are these people astronomers or middle-school students?
"Geeze, we thought maybe Hubble was broken or something".. Duh..
These "astronomers" didn't do their homework..
38 posted on
09/02/2006 6:53:30 AM PDT by
Drammach
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Have a nice day.
41 posted on
09/02/2006 7:53:59 AM PDT by
RandallFlagg
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