Our solar system sure has lots of surprises.
1 posted on
07/29/2011 11:10:58 PM PDT by
Windflier
To: Windflier
I thought it was “little people’s” planet, not dwarf.
2 posted on
07/29/2011 11:13:16 PM PDT by
irishtenor
(Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
To: Windflier
A close up of the surface reveals....
3 posted on
07/29/2011 11:14:26 PM PDT by
RandallFlagg
("I can see 2012 from my house!" Jim Thompson, 7-16-2011)
To: Windflier
4 posted on
07/29/2011 11:14:50 PM PDT by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: Windflier
5 posted on
07/29/2011 11:15:39 PM PDT by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Windflier; SunkenCiv; KevinDavis
This is in our solar system?
6 posted on
07/29/2011 11:20:49 PM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Windflier
They discovered a Planet called Mignon that is wrapped in Bacon.
7 posted on
07/29/2011 11:30:32 PM PDT by
Kickass Conservative
(Would you rather live in Obamaville or Palintown?)
To: Windflier
Haumea is a bizarre dwarf planet world shaped like a cigar, or perhaps an American football. The qualifier is unnecessary: there is no other kind of football.
11 posted on
07/29/2011 11:34:12 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(At the last minute, they reached a compromise, and the country was saved: 10 more years of football.)
To: Windflier
Haumea is a bizarre dwarf planet world shaped like a cigar, or perhaps an American football. The qualifier is unnecessary: there is no other kind of football.
12 posted on
07/29/2011 11:34:23 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(At the last minute, they reached a compromise, and the country was saved: 10 more years of football.)
To: Windflier
19 posted on
07/29/2011 11:41:33 PM PDT by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Windflier
Here's the known large Kuiper Belt objects. Haumea was discovered in 2004.
To: Windflier
That’s...that’s a cigar shape??
39 posted on
07/30/2011 1:01:08 AM PDT by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: Windflier
>>> Haumea is a bizarre dwarf planet world shaped like a cigar, or perhaps an American football,
Then is it actually not a Dwarf Planet after all? In their haste to demote Pluto from it’s planetary status, the definitions were changed.
“A dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), is a celestial body orbiting the Sun[1] that is massive enough to be spherical as a result of its own gravity but has not cleared its neighboring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite.[2][3] More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to overcome its compressive strength and achieve hydrostatic equilibrium.”
“The IAU currently recognizes five dwarf planets—Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. However, only two of these bodies, Ceres and Pluto, have been observed in enough detail to demonstrate that they fit the definition.”
And now we see Haumea is not spherical. Seems to me under the rules it cannot be a dwarf planet and will have to be reclassified. A small piece of vengeance for Pluto.
44 posted on
07/30/2011 2:45:55 AM PDT by
tlb
To: Windflier
That’s just Mork from Ork piloting his egg...
47 posted on
07/30/2011 4:36:42 AM PDT by
LRS
("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
To: Windflier
Bizarre Dwarf Planet Wrapped in Ice Blanket It sounds like one of the treats you could buy if the solar system held a state fair.
54 posted on
07/30/2011 5:53:05 AM PDT by
InvisibleChurch
(Freeper football is the cause and answer to all your short term problems. Ask me how.)
To: Windflier
That’s not an American football, it’s a Rugby ball.
56 posted on
07/30/2011 8:02:38 AM PDT by
Grut
To: Windflier
Mmmm, I love “planets in a blanket.”
To: Windflier
71 posted on
07/30/2011 4:39:21 PM PDT by
gargoyle
(...This looks like a good fight, deal me in...)
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