to give an homage to the Greek and Roman uh history that that that fills the skies. Uranus , the planet discovered by Hershel, is the only exception to this rule. The moons of Uranus are named forassorted characters, fictional characters in Shakespearean literature.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn has long been perceived as planets with no doubts because they are all visible. Although Uranus and Neptune were discovered later, they are just two additional and people perceived them as planets without astronomical definition. Then Pluto was discovered in 1930 and that was when things became complicated. Until then, planets has patterns.
Newton's laws. You factor that Newton's laws are good. Good out to Neptune. Good beyond Uranus . They work for Uranus . All right. Now they keep looking at the trajectory of Neptune now now the farthest most planet and they say h
He became an astronomer eventually. Neptune and Uranus were discovered by Europeans, although both of them are invisible. Pluto was the first planet that was discovered by an American and they did not want to miss the credit. Therefore, US finally set definition of the planet to include newly discovered objects as 10th and 11th planet.
There is another villain who can get it all done with one, and that's Bloor-- --Dictator of Uranus . I want to plead with you-- if ever the word Uranus is not funny to you, stop laughing at everything.
They're sending a probe to Uranus . You can see Uranus through this telescope. It's always funny. What can Bloor do with his single button?
anything about the red sox so in addition he's working on a book called red sox fans are from mars and yankees fans are from uranus amen to that just kidding the book is coming out in the spring of 2010 so look forward to that and without further ado andy thank you thank you thank you i'm mike maybe all right
Yeah. You talked about swapping the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. So Neptune is further out currently and Uranus is closer in, but they were the other way around. Exactly. This is what we think.
I want to plead with you-- if ever the word Uranus is not funny to you, stop laughing at everything. They're sending a probe to Uranus . You can see Uranus through this telescope.
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that's a fallback position. So they said maybe there's an object out there remains to be discovered whose gravity is influencing the trajectory of Uranus . Maybe. So sure enough they checked the equations, inverted the equations and
--Dictator of Uranus . I want to plead with you-- if ever the word Uranus is not funny to you, stop laughing at everything. They're sending a probe to Uranus .
"Trust in beauty has often, in the past, paid off. Newton's theory of gravity was challenged by the orbit of Uranus , which did not obey its predictions. But Urbain Le Verrier and also John Couch Adams, trusting in the beauty of the underlying theory, were led to propose the existence of a new planet,
So that is-- and that period of our solar system history is very, very crazy. Yeah. You talked about swapping the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. So Neptune is further out currently and Uranus is closer in, but they were the other way around.
And it's just-- in terms of distances, it's not that far. So it's just past Neptune, Uranus , it's kind of just on the edge of the solar system. But these objects that are there, they're icy.
Maybe. So sure enough they checked the equations, inverted the equations and said where must a source of gravity be in order to alter the orbit of Uranus this way? Okay. Took high-powered mathematicians of the day. They said, "It's got to be
and the Earth. Then we have four much larger planets that in addition to having some of solid material have large amounts of hydrogen and helium gas. So there's Uranus , Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter. Now, if we zoom way out and could somehow look down on the solar system
They came together because I-- it spoke to me because what I took from that is your father and-- I'm like, oh, the astrologer said Uranus was in Taurus when I was driving through Wendover, Utah on my way to Sun Tunnels.
So there's something we call the snow line, which is somewhere in our solar system out around between Mars and Jupiter. And that's the reason why the giant planets in our solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus , and Neptune, all have huge amounts of ice in them, or water and ice.
We had to write and test all that stuff. We conducted mission simulations in which we faked the clocks out on the bird, in flight, in the middle of nowhere between Uranus and Neptune. It thinks it's 2015.
Planets closer to the sun are relatively smaller. For examples, Mercury is similar to the moon, Venus is similar to Earth and Mars is twice as small as Earth. Also, they have hard surfaces like Earth. On the other hand, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus , and Neptune are all large and made up of gas. When Pluto was discovered in 1930, it was smaller than the moon, had rocky surface like Earth, yet positioned with a wrong group.
Hold it for a count of four. It's almost like risk is on one end of the solar system, over here in Mercury, and fear comes out of the other end of the solar system from Uranus .
What astronomers and planetary scientists thought was that our solar system, with Earth-- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, all in the inner part of the solar system, and Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus , Neptune, and maybe Pluto in the outer part of the solar system, that was established dogma, that that's how planetary systems are.
is the amplitude of these gravitational waves from inflation. In 1846, the French astronomer, Urbain Le Verrier, was using Newton's equations to figure out how the recently-discovered planet Uranus was supposed
assorted characters, fictional characters in Shakespearean literature. The only exception. So, it's kind of cool. So, you look at the name moon names of Uranus . It's like Puck, Oberon, Porsche, um, a lot of characters from the Midsummer's Night Dream. Give me a few more. Just name one it probably. I got a
Helena. Helena. Is it Helena? Yeah. So, we got moons all from them. All right. Now, so I I the reason I'm taking you down this circuitous path is because now you have this new planet, Uranus , farther away than the then farthest most planet, Saturn.
We know how this planet ought to be moving around the sun and it's not. Newton's laws of gravity, the one over R2 law, two body force, the sun and Uranus , it was not happening. There were slight deviations in it. And that worried people because no one had ever tested Newton's laws that far away from
hear Mercury, it's just a word. It doesn't mean anything to you. Doesn't mean winged messenger god from Rome. No, it's just syllables strung together to make the sound Mercury. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. You're glazing over Uranus , Neptune, Pluto. You pop up because you know about Pluto the dog. And therein a genetic link
So if we were like Jupitarians or Jovians they're called and we were asked how many planets are there in the solar system, we'd say four. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus , and Neptune, and everything else would just be debris. Earth is just debris if you were Jupiter.
Pluto with its icy brethren in the outer solar system. That's what we did. If you're going to start grouping objects by properties, let's group the gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus , and Neptune. That's a group of four we have on display. Let's group the rocky objects, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. That's a group of four on display.