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New Moon System Around Uranus
An anonymous reader writes "Astronomers have discovered two of the smallest moons yet found around Uranus. The new moons, uncovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are about 8 to 10 miles across (12 to 16 km) -- about the size of San Francisco. The two moons are so faint they eluded detection by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which discovered 10 small satellites when it flew by the gas giant planet in 1986. The newly detected moons are orbiting even closer to the planet than the five major Uranian satellites, which are several hundred miles wide. The two new satellites are the first inner moons of Uranus discovered from an Earth-based telescope in more than 50 years. "It's a testament to how much our Earth-based instruments have improved in 20 plus years that we can now see such faint objects 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion km) away," says Mark Showalter, a senior research associate at Stanford University. 'The inner swarm of 13 satellites is unlike any other system of planetary moons,' says co-investigator Jack Lissauer. 'The larger moons must be gravitationally perturbing the smaller moons. The region is so crowded that these moons could be gravitationally unstable. So, we are trying to understand how the moons can coexist with each other.'"
We all know how complication three-body motion is
Wrong : most Slashdot readers only know single-body motion and tissues.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
alternatively, they might eject of uranus orbit and become the next catalyzer of earthly protoplanet destruction killing every living creature and brining about a new cambrian era from which it would take millions of years to reinitialize suitable conditions for autogenesis. but then, who knows?
Your mum?
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First-off, no I am not. Secondly WTF can you NOT log in? To chickin shit to be a troll? I mean really, that just proves me correct. Slashdot is getting pretty bad and imature.... I really dont wana find a new homepage but with the general atitude leaning towards this anonymouse coward I just might have to.
I've been looking for new picts to mas......Sorry, I can't go through with it. You're an ass to post such things. Either stick to the subject at hand. Or don't post. Is there a to kick you in the nuts instead of taking away points?