Uranus’ “Frankenstein moon” Miranda : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Uranus’ “Frankenstein moon” Miranda / tonynetone
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| 説明 | Uranus’ “Frankenstein moon” Miranda also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus’s five round satellites.Miranda was discovered on February 16th, 1948, by Gerard Kuiper using the McDonald Observatory’s Otto Struve Telescope at the University of Texas in Austin. Its motion around Uranus was confirmed on March 1st of the same year, making it the first satellite of Uranus to be discovered in almost a century (the previous ones being Ariel and Umbriel, which were both discovered in 1851 by William Lassell).Kuiper elected to name the object “Miranda” after the character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, because the four previously discovered moons of Uranus, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon, had all been named after characters of Shakespeare or Alexander Pope.Miranda orbits close to its planet’s equatorial plane. Because Uranus orbits the Sun on its side, Miranda’s orbit is perpendicular to the ecliptic and shares Uranus’s extreme seasonal cycle. Tonynetone report in Space!” where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in astronomy. So enjoyKuiper Belt tonynetone.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/kuiper-belt/Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System the Orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune, the outermost planet, hundreds of millions Kuiper Belt objects are thought to be the source of the Solar System’s comets asteroid meteorPluto is now considered to be a large Kuiper Belt planetNetherlands-born American astronomer Kuiper interest in astronomy with the naked eye,discovered two natural satellites of planets in the Solar System, namely Uranus’s satellite Miranda and Neptune’s satellite Nereid. carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars and the existence of a methane-laced atmosphere above Saturn’s satellite Titan in 1944.Binary stars it is unrecognizable for you |
| 撮影日 | 2018-02-19 17:50:29 |
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