Space

[sho]

An object beyond the orbit of Neptune is acting oddly, violating the traditional rules of orbit, and scientists can't quite explain it yet. The trans-Neptunian object, or TNO, has been nicknamed Niku, a Chinese word for "rebellious." When you consider the fact that Niku orbits the sun in the opposite direction of almost everything else in the solar system, it's not hard to see where the name came from.
About 124 miles in diameter, Niku has risen above the plane of the solar system. It's still rising, in fact, on an orbital plane that is tilted to everything else. Michele Bannister, an astronomer at Queens University, summed up Niku's incredibly odd behavior in a tweet: "I hope everyone has buckled their seatbelts because the outer solar system just got a lot weirder."

Niku is 160,000 times fainter than Neptune, but it has been observed twenty-two times by astronomers, according to a paper published to arXiv detailing the discovery. Authored by the astronomer Ying-Tung Chen of Academia Sinca in Taiwan and an international team of astronomers from Harvard to Hawaii to Germany, the paper describes a sense of utter confusion regarding the behavior of this little object.

Niku orbits on a plane that is tilted 110 degrees from the plane of the rest of the solar system.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a22293/niku-weird-object-beyond-neptune/

 

[2ndNnine]

 

[TAKODA]

a-hole. I wasted 26 minutes of my time waiting for something to happen.

I have been watching this since he posted in in 2013. I think he tricked us!

 

[MLB 51]

Lunar eclipse tonight

 

[Mavric]

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[MLB 51]

Dwarf planet Ceres pics

 

[2ndNnine]

 

[huKSer]

 

[ZRod]

The sun has a corn hole?

 

[Landlord]

NASA just released over 100 images of Pluto — and the footage is breathtaking

http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-color-photos-pluto-flyby-2017-1?utm_content=bufferf5def&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti

 

[The Dude]

The Pluto episode of How the Universe Works was kind of awesome. Cryovolcanos are kind of awesome.

 

[Mierin]

Space isn't real.

 

[knapplc]

A quick guide for the uninformed.

 

[Making Chimichangas]

This is a topic dedicated to pictures, videos, articles, and discussion of all things related to space.

For instance, New moon discovered orbiting Neptune.

Was watching videos from a channel on YouTube called, Dnews, and was surprised to hear them say that a person, unprotected/no space suit, in the vacuum of space, can survive for like 15 seconds or so before you pass out. Moreover, some chimps who were exposed to the vacuum of space for a minute made a full recovery and one died.

Contrary to what you see in movies, you would not explode or get turned inside out.

Also, when they say you're blood and saliva will boil, all they mean is liquid is turning into gas, so you're not being "boiled" in the sense of a potato in a pan of water.

I guess my purpose for saying this is: dying exposed to the vacuum of space would certainly be painful for 10-15 seconds as the pressure within your body equalized to the vacuum of space;, but it wouldn't be as gruesome as you might think (thanks for lying to us Hollywood).

 

[Hooked on Huskers]

I watched Apollo 13 movie (3rd or 4th time). I studied Apollo 13 disaster real articles ..... pretty much accurate after launch. Myself big question: why not suited up on EVA suit after explosion? Spacesuit (EVA) protect oxygen/CO2 levels and temperature control. You know the most critical was temperature (avg. of 35 degrees) and oxygen/CO2 thing inside "lifeboat" environment.

BTW, the funniest quote IMO:

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[US income tax returns are due in 2 days, but Swigert is 200,000 miles away]

Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon): Uh, well, if anyone from the, uh, from the IRS is watching, I... forgot to file my, my, my 1040 return. Um, I meant to do it today, but, uh...

Sy Liebergot (Clint Howard): [back at Mission Control] That's no joke. They'll jump on him!

or else ...


Fred Haise (Bill Paxton): It hurts when I urinate.

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks): Well, you're not getting enough water.

Fred Haise: No, I'm drinkin' my rations, same as you... I think old Swigert gave me the clap. Been pissin' in my relief tube.

Jim Lovell: Well, that'd be a hot one at the debriefing for the flight surgeons... Another first for America's spacemen.

Of course, Hollywood's exaggerate especially before launch ....

1. Very little protest on changing from Mattingly (measles) to Swigert. Flight Surgeon guy=Highly respect=NASA God.

2. Swigert was portrayed a playboy guy. Bachelor yes but not a playboy. Jack was supposedly workaholic (practice, practice, practice ...)

3. Time frame. On the film, Saturn rocket was still traveling between vehicle assembly building to pad via crawler-transporter ..... less than three days to launch. Actually 5 months complete trip awaiting for launch (pad).

4. Batteries on spacecraft. Not critical after shutoff radar heat, gimble, computer, etc.