/sci/ - Science & Math

Uranus is on its side

I'll warm up Uranus, OP.

>>7556285
What exactly does that have to do with it though?

>>7556193
>Why is your mom so cold compared to Neptune? They both have similar mass and composition.

Google it. I found several articles by simply typing in "why is uranus colder than neptune".

>>7556287
>>7557281
/sci/- the most intelligent board on 4chan.

>>7557252
Only one pole ever faces the sun, dumbass

Neptune gets tidal heating from Triton while Uranus has only small moons.

>>7557407
You mean /lit/?

>>7557599
I can take all the 4chan memes but this one triggers me the most

>>7557511
>Only one pole ever faces the sun
That is quite an enormous rate of precession. How do you propose the axis of rotation itself precesses in the orbital place without ripping the entire planet apart?

Alternative proposal: now one pole is pointing towards the sun, half a Uranian year later the other pole points towards the sun.

>>7557599

I kind of want us to Visit Uranus again just to see if it's still the terrifyingly featureless orb it was when Voyager passed it by.

>>7557599
As someone that regularly posts on /lit/ I can confirm this.

>>7557849
So are Venus and Neptune. But an orbiter could still obtain interesting information, not to mention the advance in instruments since the time the Voyagers were designed.
A twin probe to both ice giants that allows direct comparisons would be great but nobody is willing to spend a few billion dollars on that.

>>7557849
That image is haunting. How can I sleep when I know that thing is looming over us silent and dead?

>>7557858
reddit tier post tbh

>as someone that
>can confirm

>>7557870
As someone that regularly posts on reddit I can confirm this.

Oo-ron-is

>>7557849
It is, our telescopes are good enough to detect cloud patterns on ice giants and it seems like Uranus hasn't changed a lot. Except for a small dark spot observed few years ago.

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>>7557869
>How can I sleep when I know that thing is looming over us silent and dead?

But Anon, we are the ones looming over Uranus.

>>7557998
un-uranus-cally

What if a Neptune of lava crashed into a Uranus of ice?

>>7557599
this tbh

>>7557622
i dont think you understand how gravity works, anon.

>>7557599
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>>7559518
All I can think of is an asshole lubed in 'Cold' Spearmint gum about to be rammed by King Neptune's Trident.

>>7557849
This, Uranus is creepy as fuck. I don't like looking at that planet. Imagine seeing it in person, a fuckhuge blue ball floating in nothingless.

>>7560380

>>7560438
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>>7560466
Earth is weird too, wtf are those green blobs? Why is there white shit floating around? My home planet Mars is the only normal planet in the Solar System.

>>7560438
How do you feel about Venus? An unblemished ivory sphere filled with more things to kill you than you can imagine.

Planet dump?

>>7560500

>>7560501
ganymede confirmed most QT moon

>>7560501
>>7560509
Have you ever wanted to fuck a planet? Not a real one, but something along the lines of a blow-up doll planet. The roundness of it is really appealing to me. It's be like fucking a giant, cratered buttcheek.

>>7560490
I'd like to see more pictures of the surface. Shame it's so difficult.

Why does uranium and neptunium have the same specific heat if uranus is colder than neptune?

>>7560616
Molar specific heats of metals are all very close. They are given approximately by the law of Dulong and Petit. The reason you haven't noticed is you typically see them in terms of mass instead of moles.

I apparently got the order of the planets mixed up when I was kid and thought that uranus was the eighth and neptune was the seventh for 15 years. Thanks for making me look it up.

>>7557511
>>7559530
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061001211630.htm
>The dark spot was detected at a latitude of 27 degrees in Uranus's northern hemisphere, which is just now becoming fully exposed to sunlight after many years of being in shadow.

http://news.wisc.edu/releases/12826.html
>If you lived at the pole of Uranus, you wouldn't see the sun for 42 years, and then you wouldn't see darkness for another 42 years.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090225084057/http://www.apl.ucl.ac.uk/iopw/uworkshop_060905.pdf
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>>7560509

>not Enceladus

Shit taste fam

>>7557849
forest for the trees

>>7560509
>Ganymede
>not Callisto

go back to jerking off to trannies you faggot

>>7560555
We need an aircraft that can fly above and below the cloud cover.

>>7560648
There's actually a popular theory that the planets were formed that way closer to the sun and later moved outward where Neptune overtook Uranus.
Possibly there was a mysterious fifth gas giant that was lost on the way.

>>7557599
/co/ has a higher IQ than /lit/ tbh fam.

How do we know that Uranus is made of gas?

>>7557869
>implying the planets aren't microscopically small in comparison to their orbits around the sun.
It is SOOO ridiculously far away, it doesn't not matter.
It's like germ on a marble, and worrying about an orange 6 miles away.

>>7560517

>>7560509
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>>7561498
>All this shit taste
it's clearly Europa

>>7559530
>am bluffing,hard
OK, and how does precession relate to gravity?

>>7560490
>How do you feel about Venus?
Feel? OK, it has an atmospheric pressure that will crush a man instantly. The atmosphere is toxic. It rains battery acid. The temperature is sufficient to melt lead.

And this is the very symbol of femininity?? I feel ... confused.

>>7562350
This is a pretty accurate depiction of women tbh.

>>7561870
We don't know if it is gas only. That would be highly unlikely as gas planets act like gigantic vacuum cleaners hoovering up stray rocks ambling about the solar system. Once caught by the gravity field and sucked into the gas envelope it cannot escape.

As for the rest of the planet you can determine size optically and you can determine mass by the gravity field it exerts on its moons and that gives you a density far below rock. Thus it is plausible it is mostly gas. Spectroscopic analysis can tell you the composition of the outer layers but we do not know what is in the centre.

>>7557583
Similar to Io's situation.

>>7557622
This is the equivalent of that anon asking if your arms would rip off if you stood on the south pole.

It doesnt spin fast enough and its orbit so wide that the effect would not be noticeable

>>7562579

That looks like a potatoe

>>7562618
Jupiter orbited by a number of potatoes confirmed.

>>7562627
Non spherical astronomical bodies like Phobos and Deimos are often likened to potatoes.
Jupiter has a shitload of such moons as well as two sets of Trojan asteroids.

>>7562636
Praise be the celestial potatoes.

This is off topic, but I was previously unfamiliar with Phobos and Deimos, so I looked them up. Phobos orbits Mars at an alarming rate, just zoomin' by through space.