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Hubble Spots Two Tiny Uranian Moons
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| September 25, 2003
Posted on 09/26/2003 5:13:07 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son
Two questions for the astronomically knowledgeable:
Is there ANY natural satellite of the Earth, other than the Moon?
If so, how large is it?
To: Prodigal Son
To promote her sagging career, Madonna allowed the Hubble to perform an inspection of heranus. Of course, the media screwed it up and assumed she was talking about Uranus - thus the confusion about the mooning (or moons).
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:18:37 PM PDT
by
jimkress
(Go away Pat Go away!)
To: fhayek
Sounds like they're hemorhoids to me.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:19:23 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: Arthur McGowan
Yes. Earth has at least four natural moons, although the other three are in unusual orbits. Cruithne is the name of one of them. One day the moon itself will also be in one of these orbits that takes it far from the earth and back but still staying near earth's orbital track about the sun. Cruithne's orbit is horseshoe shaped, definitely not the elliptical orbit we are used to.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:21:21 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:34:07 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The "Agreement of the Willing" is posted at the end of my personal profile page.)
To: PatrickHenry
The remaining two are recent discoveries. One this year and one last year. Seems like there were FR threads. Cruithne isn't large, but the others are significantly small.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:36:15 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
Well then, I've been "mooned" in the Uranus thread. An event to remember.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:38:57 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The "Agreement of the Willing" is posted at the end of my personal profile page.)
To: PatrickHenry
...still awaiting a Congressional probe.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:46:18 PM PDT
by
CurlyBill
(Voter fraud is one of the primary campaign strategies of the Democrats!!!!)
To: PatrickHenry
It's hard to stop, but even old sourpuss Immanuel Kant was known to crack a pun during lectures.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:46:23 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:46:25 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The "Agreement of the Willing" is posted at the end of my personal profile page.)
To: RightWhale
... even old sourpuss Immanuel Kant was known to crack a pun during lectures. Please, let's have no cracks about Uranus.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:48:27 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The "Agreement of the Willing" is posted at the end of my personal profile page.)
To: PatrickHenry
Catchy names, Cruithne and J002E3. I recall a fourth moon, but it might have been a re-reporting of the third.
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posted on
09/26/2003 7:50:04 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: PatrickHenry
"Seventh Planet Madness" placemarker
To: PatrickHenry
Egad! You have mentioned the unmentionable planet!
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posted on
09/26/2003 10:38:34 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: PatrickHenry
New 'moon' found around EarthJust Tom Baker in his Tardis...
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posted on
09/26/2003 10:41:21 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: Piltdown_Woman; longshadow; RadioAstronomer
Egad! You have mentioned the unmentionable planet! [Gasp!] You're right. I momentarily got carried away and lost all my gentlemanly inhibitions because of the naked title to this thread.
I shall immediately revert to the socially acceptable nomenclature for Planet Seven: The world that dare not speak its name.
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posted on
09/27/2003 4:20:28 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The "Agreement of the Willing" is posted at the end of my personal profile page.)
To: PatrickHenry
didn't NASA just purposely bash a probe into Uranus?
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posted on
09/27/2003 4:48:39 AM PDT
by
mitch5501
(by the grace of God,I am what I am)
To: mikrofon
Actually, there are probably many residents of San Francisco that would prefer to be around Uranus...If there were San Francisco style moons around Uranus and, Capt. Kirk dropped the keys to the Enterprise, wonder if he would chance bending over and picking them up?
To: mitch5501
didn't NASA just purposely bash a probe into Uranus?That was Jupiter.
Hmmm.. They also “bashed” some into Venus, our moon, and a few inadvertently into Mars.
To: mitch5501; PatrickHenry
The only interplanetary to ever reach Uranus was Voyager 2.
Side note. :-) We used the Voyager 2 spare dish as the dish on the Magellan spacecraft.
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