Something Has Exploded In a Spectacular Fashion On Uranus

reply to post by Pauligirl
Thanks for that. The links I put up were where I'd stopped link hopping to find some base for where the photos and story came from. By what you've added, it looks like I stopped a hop or two too soon. That is a very interesting little bit there about the planet being knocked sideways by an ancient event. Space is certainly not a user friendly environment when something goes wrong.

I feel I should say this first: This is a genuine question, so please take it seriously...

Why is Uranus' ring red in that picture? I never realised it had such a vibrant colour to it?

Kyle

ETA: Nevermind, found the answer on this site and I think you should all look aswell, as it has the same pictures and it's dated 2004...

2nd ETA: Should've read the whole thread first, Wrabbit already posted the same link my bad.

reply to post by muzzleflash


Same conclusion muzzleflash. Same conclusion.

Maybe "something" is coming from Oort or Kuiper cloud.

Originally posted by mayabong

 

 

Star anyway. We all thought this, whatever it was, when we came to this thread.

reply to post by muzzleflash

Although I hope you are wrong, when reading the article, I immediately thought of a story I read recently regarding an object in the area of the oort cloud chucking rocks into the inner solar system.
Im not sure of how accurate that story was, but stories like these makes me wonder and kinda worry about possible future events.

Shaade

We just have to hope that the goalkeeper planets like these continue taking the hit for us as if that had hit earth then it would have been lights out for the lot of us

reply to post by JimOberg


I dont think I want to see the pictures of this one...

Originally posted by muzzleflash

Originally posted by LaughingatHumanity
Uranus is only a joke or funny when you are ignorant of your own language. The proper enunciation of the planets name leaves no room for grade school level humor.

Uranus is pronounced like this:

Ur-unus. "Your-Unus"

Not "Your-Anus" which is incorrect technically.

It is not where do you get the U out of uranus
The real correct way is UR-UH-NIS

Something to keep in mind is that, as a larger planet with more gravity, it has 2 big reasons why an impact event like this is more likely to happen on a planet like uranus than earth. The gravity pulls more object in, and the sheer size gives a larger surface area creating more of a target so to speak. Hitting the earth would be like hitting the bullseye while uranus would just be hitting within the scoring area of a dartboard.

could this be a worrning?
could more astriods be comeing to earth?
how long will it take?
how can we find out more?

and I have a gas mask!

It’s not an impact event
The original photos are here
apod.nasa.gov...

In both, high, white cloud features are seen mostly in the northern (right hand) hemisphere, with medium level cloud bands in green and lower level clouds in blue.

Clouds–in 2004


The new image:

The bright spot is thought to be some sort of eruption of methane ice high in atmosphere of Uranus. But Dr Sromovsky warned that it is unlikely to be so prominent for amateurs unless they are observing with specialised CCD equipment at longer wavelengths.

more:www.skymania.com...

The media really made this confusing by using the old images.

there is a little talk of a mission to Uranus

British space scientists are leading plans to send a probe to explore giant ice planet Uranus. They have put forward a detailed proposal to the European Space Agency to launch a joint mission with NASA to the distant world, 1.8 billion miles from the sun.

It would give scientists their first close-up views of Uranus since NASA’s Voyager 2 flew past and captured fleeting pictures 25 years ago. The £400million mission is designed to go in orbit to study the rings around Uranus and answer questions such as why it gives off so little heat.

Uranus Mission

Probably not he greatest time for financing something like this.

Originally posted by Pauligirl
It’s not an impact event
The original photos are here

Thanks for that clarification, I was looking for that type of information about the event.

Originally posted by CranialSponge
If you want to play the pedantry game, it claims "Uranus' interior is mainly composed of ice and rock". It does not claim a solid rocky core

Did you even look it up after I told you where to find it?

en.wikipedia.org...

The standard model of Uranus's structure is that it consists of three layers: a rocky (silicate/iron-nickel) core in the center,....

So you interpret that to mean that "It does not claim a solid rocky core"?

So perhaps you need to bone up on your reading comprehension skills and "googling" abilities before ripping off someone's head.

I think it is apparent from your last statement about what Wikipedia doesn't say, contradicted by the quote from Wikipedia, which of us needs to work on their reading comprehension.

Hmmm Maybe those explosions.. Uranus had their first World war? some powerful nukes they got.

reply to post by iforget


For as long as I have been alive people have come up with good reasons to NOT undertake space missions. The fact is, economies are always in a precarious state. Even in so-called good times, they teeter on the edge of disaster because some greedy dumbazzes are doing something somewhere to ensure the gravy train will come off the tracks. And we also seem to be perpetually at war or on the brink of it. And we have always had legitimate poor who need a hand up and the chavvy types who take advantage and bleed the system dry without contributing to it. If we stop the progression of science while we wait for these other things to get sorted out we will simply stagnate and those problems will still be on our doorstep. The fact is that our future depends on us knowing more about the objects and events in space. We will at some point need to move out into space and we will need to learn to deal with the stuff coming in at us from space.

The unusual events that seem to be occurring on our outermost neighbors could be a precursor to things that may happen on our own planet. Some of us think things have slipped beyond the ordinary lately on our little rock. It would be great if we had the means to know more about what might be going on further out. Right now we seem to be flying a bit blind, with some key policymakers insisting our climate change issues are strictly an earthbound problem possibly of our own making. It feels almost stone age to not be able to know if in fact we are facing changes that have been affecting our entire solar system.

Thanks for posting the news item about the proposed mission. Good on Britain! I don't know the state my country's space program is in these days. I may be mistaken but it seems to have come unraveled. I'll need to read up on that.

reply to post by SheeplFlavoredAgain


Couldn't agree more, well said

reply to post by JimOberg


Well if something exploded on Uranus i'd recommend Prepration H and maybe a hemorrhoid pillow. Soothing ointment always helps with those explosions. Try not to push so hard next time!

Yeah Yeah its a joke. Interesting find on the planet.

Originally posted by luciddream
Hmmm Maybe those explosions.. Uranus had their first World war? some powerful nukes they got.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. Or, it could be that the people on the planet started building a really tall tower, having gay sex and built a golden calf.......

I think what we are seeing are methane clouds in Uranus formed by seasonal changes. Because of it's 98 degree tilt, the seasons there may be stranger than we would expect:

"This tilt gives it the largest seasonal forcing of any planet in the solar system," Seasonal forcing is the change in the distribution of solar heating caused by the tilt of a planet on its axis.

www.news.wisc.edu...

In the images below, the south pole is on the left and just north of the bright band a cloud seems to dissipate and from smaller clouds. Scientists say this is because of seasonal changes.



www.centauri-dreams.org...

The clincher for me, that these are just methane cloud formations, is the Hubble telescope time lapse of Uranus (images taken between 1994 and 1998). These are false color images in sequence. It starts to get interesting with regards to this thread at around 40s and at around 1 minute it starts to slow down and you can see a large number of clouds at the same latitude in "orange" false color:

The colors in the image indicate altitude. Team member Mark Marley (New Mexico State University) reports that green and blue regions show where the atmosphere is clear and sunlight can penetrate deep into Uranus. In yellow and grey regions the sunlight reflects from a higher haze or cloud layer. Orange and red colors indicate very high clouds, such as cirrus clouds on Earth

hubblesite.org...

reply to post by Shaade


This story about something whipping astroids out of the Oort cloud could explain a lot. A couple weeks ago a planet sized object struck the sun. Next week an astroid is passing through earth's orbit, YU55. And if this is an astroid strike, then it could mean they are all related.

That would mean that right now, astroids are flinging around in the darkness of space, unchecked, unobserved, and unstoppable. A bar sinister storm of rock, silent in the cosmos. The question is, is if something is flinging rocks around, what could it be? Is a planetoid spinning close by, atracting, or wrestling rock chunks out of the oort cloud? Could recent planet conjectures explain this?

This is assuming Uranus was struck by an astroid. The lines of debris, that look like shoemaker levi 9's strike on the blue planets surface could very well be an eruption, and the dirty lines could be gas expulsion drifting in the high winds of the planet. I am assuming here, that Uranus has high winds.

But, if astroids are the problem, are we in for a surprise? Could this surprise come at the same time the Mayan calender ends? If so, that would mean that astroid storms that I am hinting at are cyclicle. Which would give creadance to planet alignments, or other space objects that come and go Haley's comet style.

Should be easy to find, by reversing and tracing planet alignments to the time of the mayans, and further. What did they see when they looked at the sky? Did they have knowlege of astroid storms when they chisled their tablets (can't think of the names of the calender tablets)? Or were they working off stories passed down father to son, until they figured out how to chisel, and peice info together? So, go back further, millions of years if need be.

In reverse, we could study if planet allignments cuased the astroid strike in russia in the early 1900's, chicxulub, arizona, and other known strikes. Maybe some kind of info would help us. My speculation, is completely just speculation.

Thanks.