Charon has Geysers too |
Charon has Geysers too |
Jul 18 2007, 04:08 PM
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The only mechanism that explained the data was cryovolcanism, the eruption of liquids and gases in an ultra-cold environment. This action could be occurring on timescales as short as a few hours or days, and at levels that would recoat Charon to a depth of one millimeter every 100,000 years. ---------- - Charon: An Ice Machine in the Ultimate Deep Freeze -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Jul 18 2007, 08:32 PM
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This is annoying:
QUOTE Charon is the companion world to Pluto (or one would say a moon of Pluto, except that Pluto is no longer considered to be a planet) Not because of any residual quarrel about Pluto, but because nobody has ever said that objects other than planets could not have moons (we speak of "asteroid moons" easily enough) and because the phrasing "companion world" is without either warrant or precedent. What is the Gemini Observatory up to here? |
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