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Uranus is leaking gas
BGR ^ | 06/26/2020

Posted on 03/26/2020 7:20:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin

As NASA reports in a new post, researchers recently discovered that Voyager 2 cruised through a blob of charged gas called a plasmoid as it passed the planet. The spacecraft’s journey through the plasmoid lasted only about a minute, but that was still long enough for scientists to spot the anomaly in the decades-old data.

The scientists believe that gas loss may have already drained as much 55% of the planet’s atmosphere. Loss of atmosphere resulting in plasmoids has been observed around other planets in our solar system, including Saturn and Jupiter, though it’s thought that Uranus has leaked far more of its gas than the rest.

Uranus is an incredibly strange planet when compared to its peers in our system. It rotates on its side, making it an immediate standout. On top of that, it has a distinct wobble that astronomers have been trying to explain for a long time. It’s believed that a massive object slammed into Uranus a long time ago, and its bizarre movement today is a direct result of that event.

“The data revealed a helical bundle of magnetic flux containing planetary plasma, known as a ‘plasmoid,’ in the tail of the magnetosphere,” the researchers write in a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters. “This first observation of a plasmoid in an Ice Giant magnetosphere elucidates processes that occur in the magnetosphere of Uranus and suggests that plasmoids may play a large role in transporting plasma.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; jupiter; magnetosphere; mikewehner; planetaryplasma; plasmoid; saturn; science; uranus; voyager2
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To: hellinahandcart

Saw it earlier.

Enjoyed the hippo.


61 posted on 03/26/2020 8:33:14 PM PDT by sauropod (Fear can turn a human into an animal. Our speech is violence. Their violence is speech.)
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To: JonPreston

Nonsense. You are not without unwanted odor. Uranus, just like every other, leaks gas, at times explosively.


62 posted on 03/26/2020 8:35:58 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: Magnum44

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63 posted on 03/26/2020 8:38:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

The only headline that can TEMPORARILY give us a break from Coronavirus.


64 posted on 03/26/2020 8:41:38 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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65 posted on 03/26/2020 8:42:57 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: BenLurkin

Here we go!


66 posted on 03/26/2020 8:45:56 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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67 posted on 03/26/2020 8:47:31 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: BenLurkin

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69 posted on 03/26/2020 8:57:57 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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70 posted on 03/26/2020 9:02:48 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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71 posted on 03/26/2020 9:04:57 PM PDT by Bravada (Wherever I Stand, I Stand With Israel!)
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72 posted on 03/26/2020 9:06:07 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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73 posted on 03/26/2020 9:19:48 PM PDT by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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To: Magnum44

Uranus was the father of Titans.


74 posted on 03/26/2020 9:20:01 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: BenLurkin

Pete’s husband caused it.


75 posted on 03/26/2020 9:26:13 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: BenLurkin

Dang. They obviously use too much hair spray on Uranus.


76 posted on 03/26/2020 9:55:29 PM PDT by Revel
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77 posted on 03/26/2020 9:57:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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“The data revealed a helical bundle of magnetic flux containing planetary plasma, known as a ‘plasmoid,’ in the tail of the magnetosphere,” the researchers write in a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters. “This first observation of a plasmoid in an Ice Giant magnetosphere elucidates processes that occur in the magnetosphere of Uranus and suggests that plasmoids may play a large role in transporting plasma.” — Well, gee, that’s an Electric/plasma Universe phenomena. . . but it’s more indicative of what would be expected after having ejected a planetismal, not having been struck by an object.—ELECTRIC UNIVERSE PING!


Clear Example of a Birkeland Current
"Z" Pinch with Symmetrical Plasmids
seen in Hubble Telescope View of
The Twin Jet Nebula
ELECTRIC/PLASMA UNIVERSE PING!

If you want on or off the Electric Universe/Plasma Ping List, Freepmail me.

78 posted on 03/26/2020 10:00:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: DoodleBob

lol


79 posted on 03/26/2020 10:03:13 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists my curseoint fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Let’s just say there could be a straightforward explanation to the “bizarre rotation and distinct wobble”.


80 posted on 03/26/2020 10:04:27 PM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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