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UC Berkeley scientists report new rings found around Uranus (a blue ring and a red ring)
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/6/06 | AP

Posted on 04/06/2006 12:47:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Two outer rings, one red the other blue, have been observed around the distant planet Uranus.

While Uranus had been known to have inner rings of neutral color, the newly discovered outer rings show color contrasts that researchers think are caused by light reflected off particles that differ in size from one ring to the other.

And the outermost ring is only the second blue ring to have been observed, a team led by Imke de Pater of the University of California, Berkeley, reports in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

Also blue is Saturn's outermost ring, the researchers said. And they noted that both of the known blue rings have a moon embedded within them, while the red rings do not.

They speculated that the moons swept up larger pieces of debris, leaving only dust and tiny items that reflected more blue light than the red ring which could have larger pieces of debris.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; berkeley; bluering; hubble; moonsofuranus; newrings; redring; report; ringarounduranus; scientists; uranus
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To: MadeInAmerica

Yes, please do not look at the blue ring around Uranus without a scope.


21 posted on 04/06/2006 12:52:29 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: NormsRevenge; All
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22 posted on 04/06/2006 12:52:31 PM PDT by WilliamWallace1999
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To: VegasCowboy

The jokes just write themselves, don't they?


23 posted on 04/06/2006 12:52:33 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: NormsRevenge

Red and Blue? Does that mean that folks from the heartland and South make up the red ring while the bicoastal lib-ruls make up the blue?

Whodda thunk!


24 posted on 04/06/2006 12:52:40 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: NormsRevenge

They would be in a position to know...


25 posted on 04/06/2006 12:53:17 PM PDT by claudiustg (Delenda est Iran!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I'm going to have to start a grassroots effort to get this poor, abused planet re-named.


26 posted on 04/06/2006 12:53:38 PM PDT by Riley ("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
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To: NormsRevenge

One word: DESITIN...


27 posted on 04/06/2006 12:54:15 PM PDT by RedFred In A Blue State (Keep your friends close & your enemies in the freezer behind boxes in the basement)
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To: VegasCowboy

I'm used to it, lol, it is what makes FR unique in its own way.

I post all kinds of health stuff too.. fruits, nuts, you name it, we get into it all of it here.. and we hear from a few here as well. ;-)


28 posted on 04/06/2006 12:54:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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To: NormsRevenge

We do not 'hang out' in your solar system, human.

29 posted on 04/06/2006 12:55:30 PM PDT by FreedomFarmer (If R<1ohm, Resitance is Futile!)
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To: Frank_Discussion

San Fransisco's version of a Rainbow party?


30 posted on 04/06/2006 12:55:35 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Making illegal activities illegal since...since...since...)
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To: NormsRevenge; Hap; Xenalyte
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MUSTN'T ... SAY ... IT!

31 posted on 04/06/2006 12:55:53 PM PDT by Bacon Man (Tivo has spoiled me. Now I want to pause and rewind live events.)
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To: oldleft
If you've never had a post pulled, you ain't livin' on the edge.

If you ain't livin' on the edge, you're takin' up too much space.

So let it all out ... tell us what you're really thinking!

32 posted on 04/06/2006 12:55:57 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Woodstock

What's the difference between toilet paper and the starship Enterprise?


33 posted on 04/06/2006 12:56:03 PM PDT by Woodstock
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To: Woodstock

They are both circling Uranus searching for Klingons


34 posted on 04/06/2006 12:56:46 PM PDT by Woodstock
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

ROFL...Sounds like good info to me :)


35 posted on 04/06/2006 12:56:52 PM PDT by MadeInAmerica (- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Wealth Redistribution)
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To: NormsRevenge

PTI. Today. 4:30 pm CDT.


36 posted on 04/06/2006 12:57:49 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
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To: Bacon Man

37 posted on 04/06/2006 12:58:33 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: NormsRevenge

What? No white ring. Must not be owned by the USA.


38 posted on 04/06/2006 12:58:39 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: NormsRevenge

Adding a few astringent herbs in a nice warm sitz bath may help alleviate this new finding.


39 posted on 04/06/2006 12:59:50 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the BRAVE !!)
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To: NormsRevenge

On the serious side. One never be bored, if one is interested in learning new things, both old and new.


40 posted on 04/06/2006 12:59:55 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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