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Astronomers Find 'Hot Spot' on Saturn
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| 2/4/05
| Jaymes Song - AP
Posted on 02/04/2005 9:33:28 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Somebody tell Ted Kennedy. He's always looking for hot spots.
To: NormsRevenge
Is Hawaii better able to discover this than Cassini currently orbiting Saturn, just curious?
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posted on
02/04/2005 9:54:36 AM PST
by
Mister Baredog
(PLEASE be sure you have a flag up on your FReeper homepage.!!!)
To: Grzegorz 246
Looks interesting, is there any oil ?
LOL ! Looks like oil to me . . let's invade ! < / liberal conspiracy theory >
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posted on
02/04/2005 9:54:55 AM PST
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: NormsRevenge
Well, it's better than finding a hot spot on Uranus.
:)
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posted on
02/04/2005 9:56:01 AM PST
by
libsrscum
(I think, therefore I FReep.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I'm also interested in the wedge-shaped chunk that's missing from the rings. Do Astronomers have any explanation for how such a neat slice of ring-material could be suddenly removed??? If you look at it just right, you can see stars....
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posted on
02/04/2005 9:56:52 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: RightWhale
Perhaps whatever it was actually penetrated the atmoshpere at the pole. There must be objects moving in orbits that are not along the plane of the ecliptic.
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posted on
02/04/2005 9:57:35 AM PST
by
ProudVet77
(Survivor of the great blizzard of aught five)
To: libsrscum
Well, it's better than finding a hot spot on Uranus. Just ask the folks who competed in the Wing Bowl this morning....
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posted on
02/04/2005 9:58:43 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: George Smiley
Women, children, the elderly, and minorities most affected. And it's all the fault of Chimpy McBushitler. . .
What's the bet that someone on DU has ALREADY posted this ???(evil grin)
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posted on
02/04/2005 9:59:53 AM PST
by
Salgak
(don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this. . .)
To: r9etb
Indeed. . .
It's FULL OF STARS !!!!
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posted on
02/04/2005 10:00:44 AM PST
by
Salgak
(don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this. . .)
To: NormsRevenge
They must have a lot of SUV on Saturn -- plus a lot of Freon in their ACs.
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posted on
02/04/2005 10:00:56 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: RightWhale
Gas giants may be considered "failed stars." They're not large enough for the hydrogen in their atmospheres to ignite and burn in a chain nuclear reaction. If the sun dies one day, humanity may find a way to combine the gas giants in our solar system to give birth to a new sun.
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
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posted on
02/04/2005 10:03:36 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: ProudVet77
It's possible. The Schumaker comet that hit Jupiter struck around a high latitude. Jupiter swallowed that without a trace in a couple days, so, if this hot spot on Saturn is due to something like that, it would have to have been fairly massive. Perhaps it is more like those stellar objects with an x-ray beam coming out of the poles, a quasar kind of reaction.
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posted on
02/04/2005 10:05:51 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Do Astronomers have any explanation for how such a neat slice of ring-material could be suddenly removed??? Funding cut.
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posted on
02/04/2005 10:07:35 AM PST
by
Grut
To: RightWhale
My theory is that over the period of increased heating by its summers the gasses expand and by the force of its gravitation field heat up,instead of the heat and gasses expelling in an outward motion towards space they "pool" at its poles to perform a controlled venting where as the atmosphere of Saturn doesnt ignite or feed upon itself thus maintaning its large mass over eons.
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posted on
02/04/2005 10:22:16 AM PST
by
aft_lizard
(This space waiting for a post election epiphany)
To: NormsRevenge
Uh, don't we have an expensive an impressive probe orbiting Saturn? Why isn't it taking these pictures?
To: martin_fierro
Interesting. :-)
Thanks for the ping.
To: Swordmaker; FairOpinion; sourcery
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posted on
10/01/2005 10:42:10 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: NormsRevenge
"A really hot thing within a couple degrees of the pole is something I don't understand at all," he said.Perhaps the Fermi Paradox has now been solved?
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posted on
10/01/2005 10:59:11 AM PDT
by
sourcery
(Givernment: The way the average voter spells "government.")
To: sourcery
Perhaps the Fermi Paradox has now been solved? More likely Maxwell's demons...
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posted on
10/01/2005 3:01:05 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
To: NormsRevenge
The article claims it is the first hot vortex found... untrue.
Hot poles of Enceladus
Still in the Saturnian system...
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posted on
10/01/2005 3:18:20 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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