A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting |
A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting |
 Dec 6 2009, 10:49 PM
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A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting
Gwenaël Boué, Jacques Laskar (Submitted on 1 Dec 2009) As seen in: DiscoveryNews A lot of ifs in that article, and one shouldn't read the comment thread without making sure one's blood pressure prescription is current. -------------------- Lyford Rome
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Jan 11 2010, 05:42 PM
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What, no comments on this?
each Uranian hemisphere experiences 42 years of continuous sunlight (a year on Uranus is 84 Earth years). That just doesn't sound right. 
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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lyford A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting Dec 6 2009, 10:49 PM
nprev Interesting; thanks, Lyford!
(You ain't l... Dec 6 2009, 11:54 PM
qraal QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 7 2009, 10:54 AM) Inte... Jan 11 2010, 10:11 AM Greg Hullender Oh it wasn't so bad! I only counted two se... Jan 11 2010, 05:17 PM |
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