Science Says: A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided
Source: AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth.
Detailed computer simulations show that an enormous rock crashed into the seventh planet from the sun, said Durham University astronomy researcher Jacob Kegerreis, who presented his analysis at a large earth and space science conference this month.
Uranus is unique in the solar system. The massive planet tilts about 90 degrees on its side, as do its five largest moons. Its magnetic field is also lopsided and doesnt go out the poles like ours does, said NASA chief scientist Jim Green. It also is the only planet that doesnt have its interior heat escape from the core. It has rings like Saturn, albeit faint ones.
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The computer simulations show that the collision and reshaping of Uranus maybe enveloping some or all of the rock that hit it happened in a matter of hours, Kegerreis said. He produced an animation showing the violent crash and its aftermath.
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Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)I just thought it was a part of the aging process.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Allow me to take a couple moment to of course...
Jedi Guy
(3,271 posts)My parents were horrified by that show when it was on MTV, and called our cable provider to block MTV so I couldn't watch it. Didn't stop me, of course. I just watched it at friends' houses.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane to the 90s...
47of74
(18,470 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Isn't there a pharmaceutical for that?
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)Note: I only put those two together upon seeing your post. But it seems to suit him.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)😮 🤣
*'s a-present alright. The booby prize.
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or people actually responding to this article seriously?
underpants
(182,972 posts)I've done quite a bit of research and I think science underestimates the effects on Uranus resulting in its exposure to Klingons.
JohnnyRingo
(18,672 posts)He keeps the klingons off Uranus.
I'm sure even Einstein had his favorite jokes, or he would have if he was still alive when we discovered rings around Uranus.
underpants
(182,972 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Bah-bum-bum-tisssss
mentalsolstice
(4,462 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)But I just thought I would ask!
paleotn
(17,994 posts)about 20% serious. 70% snark and jokes. And 10% think it's a village in upstate NY somewhere. Theories on why its axis of rotation is so unlike any other planet are interesting, however unfortunate its name.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)On edit: thrice.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Cheeky ones.
underpants
(182,972 posts)A friend told me
47of74
(18,470 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,224 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Not lopsided! Your anus is lopsided! I demand an investigation!
keithbvadu2
(36,993 posts)paleotn
(17,994 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,993 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)I believe the planet is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable. YUR-anus. Not yur-ANUS.
If pronounced as in the former way, it would not be taken as a comedic object.
Just sayin...
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)Lots of giggling in science class. I think that is why they changed the pronunciation. Don't know when it was changed, but after 1961 I think. Of course is URINE-us any better?
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)Happy holidays! 🎅
I needed some fun. 🐒
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)Mind--»»gutter.
paleotn
(17,994 posts)Rotation in the opposite direction of all other planets. And a rotation that's so slow its day is longer than its year.
Demonaut
(8,934 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)lastlib
(23,354 posts)Not. Going. There......