Hubble Glimpses New Moons around Uranus

Wow, those optics are good... But those are 'roids guys, and I really don't want it in the news.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000293F8-B228-1F74-80F680A84189FF81

Astronomers have detected two new moons around Uranus. Recent observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered the presence of the smallest satellites yet discovered orbiting the planet.
Mark Showalter of Stanford University and Jack Lissauer of NASA's Ames Research Center studied images of Uranus taken last month by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The two moons--temporarily dubbed S/2003 U 1 and S/2003 U 2--are extremely faint and eluded detection by the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby of the planet in 1986. "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 2.8 billion kilometers away," Showalter says. Indeed, the two moons are 40 million times dimmer than Uranus is and the researchers had to overexpose the images in order to pinpoint their locations. S/2003 U 1 is the larger of the pair, measuring 16 kilometers across, whereas S/2003 U 2 is just 12 kilometers wide. The discovery brings the total number of moons in the Uranian system to 24, placing it third behind Jupiter's 38 and Saturn's 30
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And I'll bet the headline writer got a chuckle as well.

Elementary > Grade > High > College? Or something different?

what kept rush from going to the army?????

"Can't we just say it was Neptune? Who would know?"
"What, do you have something against Uranus?"
(laughter)
"Come one people, there is NO WAY the headline for this one --"
"Hey, I got yer new moons right here!"
(hysterical laughter)

I am SO restraining myself right now.

:7

A sample from the song for those that don't...
http://www.klaatu.org/samples/mpeg/347est/uranus.mp3

Anus Of Uranus
(Dee Long)


Late last night while wishing on a star
Down from the sky came a man in a car
He said "Get in, Jackson
Come on let's go for a ride"
Outta sight

Sitting in the cockpit strapped down in a chair
I said, "Hey, tell me
What's that over there?"
He said, "Meet my computer."
He's a friendly son of a gun and we're having fun

Playing cards on Venus in a cloudy room
Pass a glass of ammonia, I got to get off soon
Sunbathin' on Mercury or jammin' on Jupiter
Which do you prefer?

It's getting pretty late, I got to go home
Nice to have met you, what's your telephone?
Maybe soon I'll call you
If I can afford the fare
It's long distance out there

Anus of Uranus, he's a friend of mine
He's a first-rate party and a real fine time
Anus of Uranus, he's a friend of mine
He's a first-rate party and a real fine time

I'm chuckling right now.

:shrug::bounce:

:spank:

have in common with a wad of toilet paper?

A: They are both orbiting Uranus looking for Klingons.

posting in threads like this. :evilgrin: