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Uranus Has A Blue Ring

sturgo · 2006-04-07 15:25:46

Astronomers have discovered that the planet Uranus has a blue ring - only the second found in the Solar System. Like the blue ring of Saturn, it probably owes its existence to an accompanying small moon. Scientists suspect subtle forces acting on dust in the rings allow smaller particles to persist while larger ones are…

07-04-2006 3:25pm

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Astronomers have discovered that the planet Uranus has a blue ring - only the second found in the Solar System.

Like the blue ring of Saturn, it probably owes its existence to an accompanying small moon.

Scientists suspect subtle forces acting on dust in the rings allow smaller particles to persist while larger ones are recaptured by the moon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4883848.stm

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#2 07-04-2006 3:28pm

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That's strange. You spelt it wrong in the title, but managed to spell it correctly in the body of the post.

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#3 07-04-2006 3:31pm

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thats called evolution

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#4 07-04-2006 3:37pm

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=267

Nice thread title too.

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#5 08-04-2006 12:10am

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"Astronomers have long known that the gas giant Uranus is surrounded by rings of dark particulate matter up to ten metres in diameter.

But last December, two new rings - the planet's twelfth and thirteenth - were discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope. "

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