Posted on 07/04/2018 9:26:44 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
... New research shows that Uranus, a chilly, hostile planet with a number of peculiar features, was the victim of a devastating impact during those early years, and it might explain some of the planets strange personality.
Uranus moves much differently than the other planets in our Solar System, spinning on its side in comparison to the rest of the worlds in our neighborhood. Astronomers have often wondered just how this happened, but simulations performed by scientists at Durham Universitys Institute for Computational Cosmology might have finally produced the answer.
We ran more than 50 different impact scenarios using a high-powered super computer to see if we could recreate the conditions that shaped the planets evolution, lead author Jacob Kegerreis explains. Our findings confirm that the most likely outcome was that the young Uranus was involved in a cataclysmic collision with an object twice the mass of Earth, if not larger, knocking it on to its side and setting in process the events that helped create the planet we see today.
Something absolutely huge slammed into Uranus when it was still young, causing it to tilt dramatically and spin on its side. The impact would have to have been a glancing blow, rather than a head-on collision, but the contact was sufficient to change the direction the planets axis is pointing.
The researchers also believe that the collision might have helped produce the planets rings of dust and debris, and maybe even its moons. The incredible damage to Uranus and the mass of loose material that was produced by the crash would have coalesced into a ball, and the planets skewed magnetic field that we see today might be a result of non-uniform settling of the material around its core.
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Rectum? Darn near killed him.
You should change your moniker to peeman8r! You’ll be the king of potty jokes!
Would Uranus still be a hostile planet if we would just give it a better name?
Authorities have announced that to end childish jokes based on the name of the planet, “Uranus” will be renamed.
The new name?
Urrectum.
Ba-doom-bah
This is nothing to get all butthurt about.
Thats a really good question. The answer is a little complicated, but the short (and very simplified) version is the planets rotation causes a gyroscopic effect that eventually stabilizes the axis of rotation.
A man took a torn pair of trousers to a Greek tailor shop.
The tailor asked, “Euripides?”
(rimshot)
;^)
Something slightly smaller than Mars, which knocked our axis over and also likely created the moon.
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Do you use some kind of periscope to look at yur anus?
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Oh no.
How much foreign aide is this gonna cost us?
Sounds like it was violently assaulted at a tender young age and “it might explain some of the planets strange personality.”
It sounds like an analogy to the homosexual predation if children that is now called recruitment and grooming to make it sound benign.
I saw this over at DUh but it turned into a dating thread.
My teacher taught us the planet was called U-rain-ne-us, likely to avoid that.
I still pronounce it like that.
And the guy replied, “Eumenides.”
Do you use some kind of periscope to look at yur anus?
With the new reflecting telescopes, now you really can see Uranus with just two hands and a mirror.
REPORT: 78% of people who think Uranus jokes are funny are just idiots BERKELEY, CA Scientists at the University of California announced today that most of the people who find Uranus jokes funny are, in fact, actually idiots.
https://alternative-science.com/scientists-discover-78-people-think-uranus-jokes-funny-just-idiots/
wonder how many taxpayer dollars went into that black hole?
Could have been like Saturn and at least put a ring on it first.
America was struck by a massive object that went straight up OURANUS. Name of OBAMA! We’re still recovering!
Klingons inhabit Uranus.
5.56mm
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