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A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered
BGR News ^ | July 3, 2018 | Mike Wehner

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 planet’s 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 University’s 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 planet’s 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 planet’s axis is pointing.

The researchers also believe that the collision might have helped produce the planet’s 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 planet’s 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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; deusexmachina; immanuelvelikovsky; impact; neptune; ouch; science; thatsgottahurt; tomvanflandern; tvf; uranus; velikovsky; worldsincollision
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To: aomagrat

Outstanding!

Thanks for sharing.


41 posted on 07/04/2018 11:57:45 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: TaxPayer2000

Obama should know.


42 posted on 07/04/2018 11:58:16 AM PDT by partyrepub
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To: dragnet2

“worn out butt”

That’s not helping.


43 posted on 07/04/2018 12:00:39 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: TaxPayer2000; EdnaMode
I didn't notice any bleeding. Thanks TaxPayer2000.



44 posted on 07/04/2018 12:08:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: aomagrat

hilarious!


45 posted on 07/04/2018 12:10:40 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: VanDeKoik

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.


46 posted on 07/04/2018 12:14:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

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 :)


47 posted on 07/04/2018 12:27:29 PM PDT by upchuck (As we head to the midterms, please (re)read Confessions of Congressman X - tinyurl.com/congressmanx)
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To: TaxPayer2000

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....


48 posted on 07/04/2018 1:43:55 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Lean-Right

I’m 63 and I am sure that nothing ever bothered my anus.

Except those hot peppers.

And my wife’s cooking.


49 posted on 07/04/2018 2:35:54 PM PDT by american_ranger (Our family motto is being miserable builds character.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Breaking from San Francisco: A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered


50 posted on 07/04/2018 3:31:02 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: TaxPayer2000

Nobody saw what was there before that collision. Maybe it is much better now.


51 posted on 07/04/2018 5:05:43 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: TigersEye

My kids’ teachers say “urine-nis.” I don’t think that’s much better than your-anus. Kids still find that funny.


52 posted on 07/04/2018 6:56:01 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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