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Offline ABX

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Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day
« on: July 04, 2017, 01:39:30 am »
One of these days, NASA is going to have a serious discussion about renaming Uranus. I vote for Urectum.

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Uranus is all over the place. It spins weirdly, its magnetic field is off-center, and now we’ve just found out it may open and shut its magnetosphere every day, too.

The research by Xin Cao and Carol Paty from the Georgia Institute of Technology was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. Modeling the system around Uranus, they found that its magnetosphere occasionally opens up to allow solar wind through. This seemed to happen almost every day, about every 17 Earth hours......

http://www.iflscience.com/space/uranus-keeps-opening-up-every-day/



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Re: Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2017, 02:00:34 am »
But I don't think that happens for another 600-700 years, according to Professor Farnsworth.
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Re: Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2017, 03:23:38 am »
Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day

And I thank God for it every single time.
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Re: Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2017, 03:26:45 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on July 04, 2017, 03:23:38 am
Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day

And I thank God for it every single time.
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Re: Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2017, 04:20:11 am »
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Re: Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2017, 04:50:31 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on July 04, 2017, 03:23:38 am
Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day

And I thank God for it every single time.
It's to let the solar wind through? Ain't that getting just a little too like the "back to nature" set?

This, too, will pass....
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Re: Uranus Keeps Opening Up Every Day
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2017, 05:34:20 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 04, 2017, 04:50:31 am
This, too, will pass....

I always certainly hope so...
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