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Why is Uranus on its Side?
universetoday.com ^ | 5 Aug , 2016 | Faser Cain

Posted on 08/06/2016 8:37:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin

It’s impossible to do an article about Uranus without opening up the back door to a spit storm of potty humour....

Anyway, perhaps one of the strangest aspects of Uranus is its tilt....

The Earth is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the Sun’s equator. Mars is 25 degrees, and even Mercury is 2.1 degrees tilted....

Uranus is 97.8 degrees...

...[A]stronomers define the angle as greater than 90 degrees when you take its direction of rotation into account. When you describe it as turning in the same direction as the rest of the planets in the Solar System, then you have to measure it this way.

What could have done that to Uranus, how could it have happened?

...

The early planets smashed into each other, pushed one another into new orbits. Some planets could have been spun out of the Solar System entirely, while others might have been driven into the Sun. Our own Moon was likely formed when a Mars-sized object crashed into the Earth. Other moons might have been captured from three body interactions between worlds...

The Solar System that you see today contains the survivors. Everything that wasn’t delivered a death blow.

... This means that something smashed into Uranus while it was still surrounded by the disk of gas and dust that its moons formed from.

... Astronomers think it was more complicated than that, however. If it was a single, massive collision, models suggest the planet would just flip over entirely, and end up rotating backwards from the other planets in the Solar System.

It’s more likely that another collision or even a series of collisions put the brakes on Uranus’ end over end roll, putting it into its current configuration.

(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; deusexmachina; gravity; immanuelvelikovsky; science; side; space; tomvanflandern; tvf; uranus; velikovsky; worldsincollision
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To: odawg

30,000 ft not 3,000 and while being crushed, you would vaporize in the 800 degree heat and the vapor would be dissolved by the sulfuric acid rain ...


41 posted on 08/06/2016 9:55:53 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: dfwgator

LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!


42 posted on 08/06/2016 9:56:14 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Politically Correct

Playing pool with planets like Lister?

https://youtu.be/aKwDzwWtpHo?t=18m19s


43 posted on 08/06/2016 9:59:29 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, oh, I know. Because it’s a Van Gogh body.


44 posted on 08/06/2016 10:06:03 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Hillary is Satan's spiritual advisor.)
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To: odawg

I saw that picture from the Russian probe. It got off a few pics before being crushed. Venus has a yellow sky, too.


45 posted on 08/06/2016 10:14:23 AM PDT by boop (Nobody can eat fifty eggs!)
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To: PIF

You may need to check your math.

“The pressure of Venus’ atmosphere at the surface is 90 atmospheres (about the same as the pressure at a depth of 1 km in Earth’s oceans).
nineplanets.org/venus.htmlThe Nine Planets”

1 km = 3280.84 feet


46 posted on 08/06/2016 10:17:19 AM PDT by odawg
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To: BenLurkin

This explains how the planets were arranged. Really........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo9eSzqn2yI


47 posted on 08/06/2016 10:18:43 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: seawolf101

But where does all that methane come from?
From aliens who use it as a rest stop......


48 posted on 08/06/2016 10:52:08 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: PIF
According to some the black [projects] community has existed for so many tens of decades and has acquired so much money that it no longer exists within some small niche, but within a world of its own separate and secret from the rest of us.

I believe that completely. Even presidents are refused access to what's going on in the government's deep black projects. Interestingly enough, they're not considered as having a 'need to know'.

It no doubt sounds like pure tin foil fantasy to a lot of people, but this sort of stuff fits hand in glove with the reality of human nature. Where evil can gain a foothold and prosper, it will - and if remaining hidden under a cloak of darkness forwards its goals, that's exactly what it will do.

49 posted on 08/06/2016 11:00:58 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: BenLurkin

Earth tilted 23 degrees AWAY? The southern hemisphere would disagree. That north is not up.


50 posted on 08/06/2016 11:10:12 AM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: BenLurkin

"...so many answers,too much to type. Risk being banned,but it's so ripe. Naaah,I'll be good,I'll wait and think...??? No, it's Uranus,it's sideways,it's starting to stink"

51 posted on 08/06/2016 11:11:16 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: BenLurkin

Someone told me it was gravitational pull from Planet X


52 posted on 08/06/2016 11:14:27 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: BenLurkin

“Why is Uranus on its side?”

Well, I don’t know about Uranus, butt mine is just fine.

Bad.

5.56mm


53 posted on 08/06/2016 11:19:18 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: BenLurkin
When the massive collision happened, the planet flipped over, wrenching this disk with it. The moons formed within this new configuration.

I don't understand this. What leverage does a planet have on a "disk" of material rotating around it, said disk being made of more or less independent rocks and gases? Isn't it more likely that the disk accumulated after the tilt?

54 posted on 08/06/2016 12:22:35 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: dhs12345

You look after Uranus, I’ll look after mine.


55 posted on 08/06/2016 12:25:24 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: dfwgator
Sounds painful. Hemorrhoids, maybe?

Shouldn't they be called "Asteroids"?

I give up. You win the thread.

56 posted on 08/06/2016 9:58:20 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: dhs12345
Ask John Kerry and then pronounce it the other way.

Do I have to mention he was in Vietnam?

57 posted on 08/06/2016 10:25:38 PM PDT by kitchen (If you are a luthier please ping me.)
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To: kitchen

Lol.


58 posted on 08/07/2016 8:24:18 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Note: this topic is from 8/06/2016. Thanks BenLurkin.



59 posted on 07/04/2018 2:29:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: BenLurkin

Another celestial body smacked it like a cue ball hitting another pool ball and knocking it sideways????


60 posted on 07/04/2018 5:36:35 PM PDT by rdl6989
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