Posted on 07/29/2011 11:10:53 PM PDT by Windflier
Radioactivity and gravity may be why the strange football-shaped dwarf planet known as Haumea and its moons are unexpectedly sheathed in crystalline ice, shining in space, researchers suggest.
Haumea, named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, orbits the sun beyond the path of Neptune, with two moons in orbit around it named Hi'iaka and Namaka, two of the deity's daughters.
Haumea is a bizarre dwarf planet world shaped like a cigar, or perhaps an American football, measuring about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) long, and makes one full rotation in less than four hours. This is one of the fastest rotation speeds in the solar system, which gave Haumea its odd shape.
Was that Chuck Rainey on Bass? My HERO!
After Jameson(RIP), of course.
Interesting article, still trying to figure out how it relates to MI. Is this where Jenny should have gone instead of Cali? Opposite of Hell MI?
Mmmm, I love “planets in a blanket.”
It was in response to post #50, regarding the ongoing freepathon, per request
Now, that’s a car.
I hope they're out of business. I think I still owe them a balance from 1968.
Footballs are properly kicked at the change of possession. Soccer balls are randomly kicked throughout a chaotic mash-up that bears no actual resemblance to an athletic event.
Football (American, as I pointed out, is redundant because there is no other kind) is nothing like Rugby. The Englishman's claim that Football is "like" Rugby -- like the even more ridiculous fallacy that Baseball is "like" Cricket -- simply cements the inarguable fact that the British know nothing about sports. I have played all four games. There are no actual similarities, except that Cricket is played with something vaguely resembling a bat. Cricket (not surprisingly) bears a much stronger resemblance to Soccer, in that "players" (I am being extraordinarily charitable here) run about purposelessly until they tire themselves out. There is no actual "scoring" that could be recognized by a sentient being.
A Rugby player would survive about nine minutes in a Football game; an NFL cornerback -- the lightest man on the field -- would knock him out cold several times during that period, and probably would not break a nail. A soccer "player" (again, I'm stipulating to a hypothetical to advance the discussion) would wet himself shortly after entering the stadium.
Football is "static," "tedious" and "repetitive" to people who don't understand it. To those of us who do, it is actually (by far) the most mentally challenging game in the world. European sports consist of nothing more than a series of cognitive grunts by comparison. In soccer, there is no strategy, except that one must pretend to have no arms or hands for nine hours. That is why soccer is so popular with American school children under the age of eight. Once they develop physically and psychologically, they quickly outgrow it.
Cheerleaders are idiots. The serious Football teams (for example: the Pittsburgh Steelers) do not have them. Real American men don't watch women on the sidelines, they take them to games.
Good eye. I thought the same thing.
Thanks for the post/ping. I donated $50 this go ‘round and just got the “Thank You” in the mail from Jim and Amy yesterday. BTTT!
Yeah.... (embarrassed). I know that.... but I just wasn’t thinking right. Hell, I even PLAY it sometimes when I play solo (really).
...Good post, thanks...
The chart needs to be updated—a few days ago they reported that Pluto has four known moons. The new one is very small, like Hydra and Nix, not like Charon.
Probably in the millions.
It’s too small and light to pull itself into a sphere.
You’re right.
I don’t think they’ve had a chance to get an estimate of it’s size yet.
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