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Neptune May Have Eaten a Planet and Stolen Its Moon
jitendraharlalka noted a piece about the origins of Neptune. There is a theory now that it once ate a super-earth in the outer solar system, and kept its moon as some sort of macabre trophy to make sure that Mars and Venus didn't get any big ideas.
I always knew he was a slimey fuck.
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it might lick uranus.
Kronos is the one that eats babies, not Neptune!
I always knew he was a slimey fuck.
Being the God of Water and the Sea, what did you expect? And being a Roman God, well, there you go.
Maybe there is a Nuclear core with fission going on to explain the heat. In fact it is possible that this is happening at the very center of the earth's core. It's hard to say really what caused this. As anyone can guess, I guess.
Did it fart out Pluto by any chance? That would explain the orbit of Pluto if it smelled that bad.
There is a theory now that it once ate a super-earth in the outer solar system, and kept its moon as some sort of macabre trophy to make sure that Mars and Venus didn't get any big ideas.
Theories that anthropomorphize planets? Doesn't sound very scientific to me.
This guy's the limit!
So THAT's what happened to Pluto!
... still better than being Uranus!
This story should be tagged om-nom-nom.
... That would just be too reminiscent of a south park episode.
Looks like someone signed Velikovsky's book out of the library recently.
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' Neptune May Have Eaten a Planet and Stolen Its Moon'
In this way, it is just like Rosie O'Donnell.
he eats planets for lunch
I wonder if something like what's described regarding Uranus and Neptune swapping orbits could also play a role in Uranus being on it's side.
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Don't anthropomorphize the planets... they hate it when you do that!
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That son of a bitch!
first pluto faking being a planet now cannibalism!? our solar system is becoming more and more like a cheesy soap opera.
This "news" article reads like the "pot circle" scenes from That 70's Show:
"Oooh, oooh, I know! First the planets form close to the sun!"
"No way! What if they then moved away from the sun and some of the planets ate the other planets!"
"You're blowin' my mind, man!"
"I could eat a planet right now. Anyone have a Mars bar?"
"Mars bar...Marssss bar...Marrrrrrrssssss bar...that's funny..."
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And I thought Sailor Moon was the Planet eating fatass....
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First Pluto and now this. Neptune is no longer a planet, but rather a cannibal and a thief.
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This brings to mind Immanuel Velikovsky's book worlds in collision. I'm don't remember if this instance is in his book, but I've noticed that many scientists take credit for what was already hypothesized by Velikovsky.
This will only encourage the Velikovskoids.
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Some may wonder what need there is for a third body at all - Triton wanders too close to Neptune, it gets captured, right?
The reason is conservation of energy: as Triton wanders near Neptune, it falls into Neptune's gravity well and accelerates, so it is going too fast to remain in orbit. Triton at infinity has more energy than Triton in orbit, so to get captured it has to lose energy, and that energy has to go somewhere.
With a few exceptions, three body interactions (e.g. Neptune, Superearth, Triton) are chaotic, and often end with one of the bodies being expelled and the remaining two left in orbit. The lightest body is the most likely to be expelled. This scenario has Superearth being expelled rather than Triton, which is somewhat unlikely but not impossible. (It is too long since I studied this for me to quantify 'most likely to be expelled'.)
It really doesn't seem to me that you need Superearth to explain Triton. The third body could very easily have been a normal Neptunian moon, which is now unobserved somewhere in the Oort cloud or expelled from the solar system entirely. (Could it be Pluto? This was thought of and rejected a long time ago.)
Disclaimer: All these comments are on the basis of reading the New Scientist summary, not the real paper.
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This is clearly a case of planetary terrorism. NASA is now on red level and all astronauts will have to go through a full body scan and will not be allowed to carry more than 4oz of liquids onto any space craft. Drones will be sent to destroy any households spotted on Triton.
See almost any astronomy-related article or paper, which seldom fail to describe star formation and destruction as "birth" and "death".
Fuck fuck we're all going to be eaten by Space Cthulhu.
and excuse the gas....
Reminds me of Unicron munching down on Cybertron in the first Transformers movie. Orson Wells was rad.
No, that's the wrong homophone next to the word "Greek", then.
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Son of a bitch, that's where my SuperEarth went!
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So the Grand Master Planet Eaters are real after all.
Which planet did it eat? Planet Kenny? The bastard!
So... Neptune is kind of like a fat chick?
with the "macabre trophy" comment kicking it goth style! I'm going to go smoke cigarettes now and contemplate watching "the hunger"
that ate his children.
For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet, Cybertron. But now, you shall witness... its DISMEMBERMENT.
I've got better things to do tonight than die.
Unicron is just bidding his time before he comes for us...