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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: MineralMan
Alternate Title:
UC Berkeley scientists fascinated with Uranus.
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posted on
04/06/2006 1:32:56 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: VegasCowboy
Oh boy... Try to resist the low hanging fruit folks.Not too many in the mood to take that advice, eh?
To: oldleft
Thank you, "I've never had a post pulled, so I think I'll just keep my mouth shut..."
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posted on
04/06/2006 1:39:48 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(How long has the NY Slimes, Compost, and LA Slimes been Enroning (cooking) their books?)
To: NormsRevenge
Isn't this the closing line out of Brokeback Mountain?
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posted on
04/06/2006 1:40:33 PM PDT
by
Ben Mugged
(labor unions are socialism's shock troops)
To: Riley
I like Ur-AHH-nus, myself.
Pass it on!
To: NormsRevenge
I'm not even going to admit posting to this thread.
To: NormsRevenge
Oh HECK! I couldn't resist.
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posted on
04/06/2006 1:48:09 PM PDT
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: NormsRevenge
Oh lordy, Berkeley and rings around Uranus ... this ought to be entertaining.
To: NormsRevenge
So many jokes here.....to many mods/admin watching...
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:12:13 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(MOHAMMED LIED-PEOPLE DIED)
To: NormsRevenge
Red and blue rings? Does that make it a swing planet for '08?
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:16:10 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: NormsRevenge
(a blue ring and a red ring) I'm no doctor but it sounds more dietary than viral. Prunes should do the trick.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:23:41 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
To: NormsRevenge
something, something, something . . . . Hershey Highway.
To: NormsRevenge
Nope, not gonna say it-wouldn't be prudent...
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:47:25 PM PDT
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
To: NormsRevenge
Some other scientist just last year named a newly discovered land anomaly on that planet Mount Hemorrhoid.
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posted on
04/06/2006 2:49:37 PM PDT
by
Shqipo
(2006 is Bush Country!)
To: WideGlide
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posted on
04/06/2006 3:25:23 PM PDT
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
04/06/2006 3:38:02 PM PDT
by
patton
(Once you steal a firetruck, there's really not much else you can do except go for a joyride.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
"Uranus? They got rid of that name over 100 years ago to get rid of that stupid joke." "What's it called now?"
"Urectum."
Thank you, Futurama.
To: NormsRevenge
A dashed line shows a newly discovered ring circling Uranus. Most rings around planets in the solar system are red, because of the size of their particles. This is why Uranus's outer ring was missed for so long -- scientists were looking for it in the infrared light spectrum. The outer ring is bright blue. (Hubble Space Telescope/Handout/Reuters)
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posted on
04/06/2006 7:40:54 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/06/2006 7:42:06 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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