Hubble images Uranus and Ariel ! |
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Hubble images Uranus and Ariel ! |
 Aug 31 2006, 08:00 PM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: 26-June 04 From: Austria Member No.: 89  |
Hello all !
The HST has captured a rare event in the Uranian system - a shadow transit of one of its moons ! In this case the moon Ariel transits: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/...2006/42/image/a Robert |
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Aug 31 2006, 08:09 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 977 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
Uranus is nearing equinox. New science is coming up!
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Aug 31 2006, 08:29 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Moderator Posts: 4041 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
As for the size comparison, the 8th grader in me couldn't help but laugh at the chance to compare the size of Uranus and the Moon
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Aug 31 2006, 09:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
This is really a great picture ! And it is just the beginning.
The coming years might really be interesting, and this shows that Hubble is still needed. I hope NASA will manage a mission to repare it. Marc. |
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Sep 1 2006, 10:54 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
QUOTE (tedstryk @ Aug 31 2006, 11:29 PM)  As for the size comparison, the 8th grader in me couldn't help but laugh at the chance to compare the size of Uranus and the Moon Triton is a giant compared to other moons of Uranus or Neptune and it would be the largest known KBO if it didn't orbit Neptune. But our Moon is bigger still! Obvious, but still it feels weird. -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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 Oct 13 2006, 11:50 AM
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Superb image, it was also in the monthly CERN-Courier
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Oct 13 2006, 09:18 PM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: 8-November 05 From: Australia Member No.: 547 |
Equinox is nearing and we have no Uranus orbiter to take advantage of the opportunity, nor plans to organise one!
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Oct 13 2006, 09:29 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2929 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
QUOTE (Big_Gazza @ Oct 13 2006, 10:18 PM) Equinox is nearing and we have no Uranus orbiter to take advantage of the opportunity, nor plans to organise one! If you had an orbiter you wouldn't need an equinox . . . . |
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Oct 14 2006, 09:13 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3534 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
QUOTE (ngunn @ Oct 13 2006, 10:29 PM) If you had an orbiter you wouldn't need an equinox . . . . Yeah, you would. Otherwise you end up observing the same hemisphere of all moons for a very, very long time... -------------------- |
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