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Planet Nine may be responsible for tilting the Sun |
KB: We asked ourselves, "what obliquity, what misalignment would Planet Nine induce in the solar system?" because it must induce some. We know that Planet Nine's orbit in inclined. As a result, when Planet Nine torques the rest of the solar system, the two sort of act as two precessing tops. |
Aug 16, 2021
by
Astronomy.com
Nature Blogs |
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How Titanoboa, the 40-Foot-Long Snake, Was Found |
In the lowland tropics of northern Colombia, 60 miles from the Caribbean coast, Cerrejón is an empty, forbidding, seemingly endless horizon of dusty outback, stripped of vegetation and crisscrossed with dirt roads that lead to enormous pits 15 miles in circumference. It is one of the world's largest coal operations, covering an area larger than Washington, D.C. |
Apr 24, 2021
by Smithsonian Magazine
Nature Blogs |
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NASA's Dragonfly drone will search for signs of life on Titan, Saturn's ice moon |
We're going to Titan, and we're going in style. NASA announced on Thursday its next great solar system exploration mission. "Dragonfly" involves an ambitious plan to send a rotorcraft -- essentially a large drone -- to Saturn's moon, Titan. |
Jun 28, 2019
by
Amanda Kooser via CNET
Science & Medicine Blogs |