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A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided
Phys.org ^
| Dec 21, 2018
| Seth Borenstein
Posted on 12/21/2018 10:37:30 AM PST by ETL
Edited on 12/21/2018 11:00:23 AM PST by Jim Robinson.
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Its name often generates juvenile humor when it is wrongly pronounced like a body part.
(It's correctly pronounced YUR'-uh-nus.)
"No one laughs when I say Uranus," NASA's Green said.
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:37:30 AM PST
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ETL
To: ETL
in before the inevitable ‘humor’..
To: RitchieAprile
Not quite...
Check above.
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:41:26 AM PST
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
I have read that they were ad libbing that scene!................
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:41:56 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: ETL
As a freeper educated me on Herschel originally wanted to name the planet after King George III. Too bad that name did not stick. Out of all the gods, they chose the Latinized name of the Greek god. They should have just went with the Roman version Caelus.
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:45:41 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: ETL
“A big space crash likely made Uranus lopside”
A little Preparation H should fix that.
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:45:45 AM PST
by
moovova
To: ETL
Caused by the Klingons for sure
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:52:34 AM PST
by
Sybeck1
To: RitchieAprile
It turned mine inside out..
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posted on
12/21/2018 11:03:45 AM PST
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: ETL
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posted on
12/21/2018 11:11:37 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
(Parris Island, Class of '89.)
To: ETL
I’m just here for the jokes.
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posted on
12/21/2018 11:15:35 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: ETL
A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided
Something pounded Uranus
#Uranus
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posted on
12/21/2018 11:17:56 AM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: ETL
Fry: Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus.
[He laughs.]
Leela: I don’t get it.
Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..
Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.
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12/21/2018 11:18:04 AM PST
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Clay Moore
(He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people)
To: ETL
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posted on
12/21/2018 11:26:39 AM PST
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buckalfa
(I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
To: mountn man
Re: A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided
Something pounded Uranus
Uranus, not mine.
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12/21/2018 11:31:40 AM PST
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ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
'I knew I should've bought Planet Insurance' - God. 😋
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12/21/2018 11:43:49 AM PST
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Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: ETL
I thought it was these pants that made it look like that.
To: ETL
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12/21/2018 12:05:56 PM PST
by
SMGFan
To: ETL
The articles author is unclear on the definition of “lopsided” as merely spinning axially in a different direction than other planets in the same star system does not qualify as being “lopsided.” For Uranus to be lopsided, it would need to have a shape distinctly and significantly different from one side to the other, so much that one side was lower than the other. That is not the case. Like most solar planets, Uranus is an oblate spheroid. . . And is essentially the same on all opposite sides.
So much for scientific accuracy.
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posted on
12/21/2018 12:18:08 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot)
To: RitchieAprile
A bean burrito did that to me.
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12/21/2018 12:20:09 PM PST
by
bravo whiskey
(Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
To: ETL
“It’s also possible that the big object that knocked over Uranus is still lurking in the solar system too far for us to see, “
Neptune smashed Uranus.
Neptune has some oddities itself indicating a large collision, and it has chemical markers indicating it formed sunward of Uranus.
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12/21/2018 1:13:53 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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