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A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting
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post 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.


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post Dec 6 2009, 11:54 PM
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Interesting; thanks, Lyford!

(You ain't lying about that comment thread...sheesh! rolleyes.gif )


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post Jan 11 2010, 10:11 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 7 2009, 10:54 AM) *
Interesting; thanks, Lyford!

(You ain't lying about that comment thread...sheesh! rolleyes.gif )


The nutbar factor is high.

Interesting how the proposed moon is ~15% Earth mass. That's roughly the size of the small planet proposed to cause the truncation of the Kuiper Belt in a separate scenario. I wonder if two birds couldn't be killed with one stone?
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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
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- - Greg Hullender   Oh it wasn't so bad! I only counted two se...   Jan 11 2010, 05:17 PM
- - hendric   What, no comments on this? each Uranian hemisph...   Jan 11 2010, 05:42 PM

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