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Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« on: October 29, 2014, 11:33:38 PM »
...fits between the Earth and Moon. That's a visual I'd never thought about before. The bastards left out Pluto. Weak.

http://io9.com/you-can-fit-every-planet-in-the-solar-system-between-ea-1650941597

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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2014, 02:24:28 AM »
That would seriously *expletive deleted*ck up tides.
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2014, 02:55:12 AM »
Just think of the tidal heating.

http://www.planetaryexploration.net/jupiter/io/tidal_heating.html

I'll never forget the first time I observed the orbiting of the Galilean satellites.  It was like watching stuff swinging around a central object on gravitational "strings."  I almost went into astronomy, but the details were too complex for my 10 year old brain.

Still is, come to think of it.

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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2014, 07:14:21 AM »
I wouldn't worry too much about the tides.

The radiation that Jupiter and Saturn emit would cook us like soft boiled eggs.
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2014, 08:42:45 AM »
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2014, 09:36:21 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 30, 2014, 07:14:21 AM
I wouldn't worry too much about the tides.

The radiation that Jupiter and Saturn emit would cook us like soft boiled eggs.
Yeah, but unless we had a really fast orbit, I am not sure if we would die from radiation before falling into Jupiter.
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2014, 09:57:54 AM »
Quote from: Ben on October 29, 2014, 11:33:38 PM
...fits between the Earth and Moon. That's a visual I'd never thought about before. The bastards left out Pluto. Weak.

Pluto can squeeze in there.
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2014, 10:11:48 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on October 30, 2014, 02:24:28 AM
That would seriously *expletive deleted* ck up tides.

Just try to figure up the orbital motion needed to keep them all from crashing into each other.
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2014, 10:27:59 AM »
Quote from: charby on October 30, 2014, 09:57:54 AM
Pluto can squeeze in there.

It can. I'm just still irate over Pluto being demoted. Damn kids and their newfangled terminology - get off my lawn!
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2014, 11:09:16 AM »
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Just think of the tidal heating.

That's it! That explains global warming. Have you looked up in the sky lately and seen some big things?
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2014, 11:15:56 AM »
I suppose that if we let one planet in then we need to let them all in ...   ;/
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2014, 03:56:23 PM »
Quote from: Ben on October 30, 2014, 10:27:59 AM
It can. I'm just still irate over Pluto being demoted. Damn kids and their newfangled terminology - get off my lawn!

Not half as mad as I was losing an augment with my kid over it. Had to take tin snips to the orrery too


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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2014, 06:45:10 PM »
Quote from: charby on October 30, 2014, 09:57:54 AM
Pluto can squeeze in there.

How about Transpluto?
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2014, 06:48:01 PM »
According to a book I no longer have*, the first specially-designed electronic orrery calculated the orbits x million years back and forward with no substantial changes in orbits.  I believe its discussion was around p. 216 in the book.

From what I remember, even that one eventually became obsolete and was retired with a gold watch and a certificate of appreciation. (No kidding --that's what the book said.  Even had a picture of it with its gold watch. It's supposedly on display in the Smithsonian or the MIT Library or someplace like that --if the author isn't pulling a joke on his readers.)

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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2014, 10:02:09 PM »
Quote from: Ben on October 30, 2014, 10:27:59 AM
It can. I'm just still irate over Pluto being demoted. Damn kids and their newfangled terminology - get off my lawn!

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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2014, 10:27:43 PM »
Just remember Uranus is a gas giant.  :rofl:
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2014, 10:47:02 PM »
Quote from: charby on October 30, 2014, 10:27:43 PM
Just remember Uranus is a gas giant.  :rofl:

Do you know what Star Trek and toilet paper have in common? They both hang around Uranus, wiping out Clingons!
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2014, 11:31:27 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on October 30, 2014, 10:47:02 PM
Do you know what Star Trek and toilet paper have in common? They both hang around Uranus, wiping out Clingons!
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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2014, 11:52:19 PM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on October 30, 2014, 11:31:27 PM
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No no no no no no!

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Re: Every Other Planet in the Solar System...
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2014, 09:50:33 PM »
"Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the planet killer!"

Hell of a thing to become known as the loser of a planet instead of the finder.
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