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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Outstanding!
Thanks for sharing.
Obama should know.
“worn out butt”
That’s not helping.
I didn't notice any bleeding. Thanks TaxPayer2000.
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hilarious!
I’ve heard that it’s supposed to be pronounced “you’re a niss.”
I don’t know what a niss is so I don’t know if that’s a compliment or an insult.
That would have been my Dad, God rest his soul, beating on my butt hoping I would grow up a little. I did, but just a little :)
A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered.
Funny, I had thoughts of Stormy Daniels
when I read this....
I’m 63 and I am sure that nothing ever bothered my anus.
Except those hot peppers.
And my wife’s cooking.
Breaking from San Francisco: A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered
Nobody saw what was there before that collision. Maybe it is much better now.
My kids’ teachers say “urine-nis.” I don’t think that’s much better than your-anus. Kids still find that funny.
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