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Posted on 07/15/2025 6:12:42 PM PDT by Redcitizen
In the vast expanse between Uranus and Neptune, a team of researchers have uncovered something really quite extraordinary, a minor planet that has been locked in precise gravitational manouevres with Uranus for at least a million years. This discovery sheds new light on the complex dynamics that govern our Solar System's outer reaches.
The object in question, designated 2015 OU₁₉₄, belongs to a class of small bodies called Centaurs, rocky and icy objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. What makes this particular Centaur special is its remarkably stable relationship with Uranus, locked in what is known as a 3:4 mean motion resonance. This means that for every three orbits 2015 OU₁₉₄ completes around the Sun, Uranus completes exactly four.
This precise mathematical relationship creates a gravitational partnership that keeps the two objects in a stable dance, preventing them from colliding or drifting apart.
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Speaking of Uranus or all anuss I met a guy that is a salesman the other that sells r colonospy camera lens wipers like the car ones put really small
Thats a hoot. :)
Here for the comments.
Irratible Bowel Syndrome?
If this rocky, icy thing is considered a ‘minor planet’, will poor Pluto’s dignity be restored?
I thought Barney Frank gave up dancing around Uranus.
Aaaaannnndddd.... the name is phallus.
I posted for the comments TBH.
Oh, here we go...
They have had a few thousand years to get to know each other better.
OU ➡️ Uranus
Go Pokes!
It is a giant pasta statue....
Uranus seems to be the most popular planet in the solar system. Everyone wants to talk about it.
Dancing partner?
No surprise. Everyone knows there are Klingons on Uranus.
That makes a very catchy phrase. “Uranus had a dance partner!” Don’t know when I would ever use it, though.
It’s the kind of remark you can never ‘un-say’.
When a centaur is dancing with Uranus, someone cutting in could be a sensitive problem.
Or a precisely positioned alien base.
It’s the only one with a Greek name, too. Co-incidence?
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