AS ME QUESTIONS ABOUT NEPTUNE

[sqizee]

DID ANYBODY NOW HOW NEPTUNE IS SPINNING IT IS SPINNING UP WARD DOWN

 

[billslugg]

Neptune is not spinning upside down. Its axial tilt is 30 degrees, about the same as Earth.<br /><br />Uranus is tilted 98 degrees, so you could consider it to be upside down, (by just 8 degrees) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Actually, if it has an inclination of 98 degrees off the North/South axis (wrt the plane of the Solar System), then it's just over 1/2 way to being upside down. It's lying on it's side. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

I have mentally imagined a bowling ball rolling around myself.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

I thought you said you lost weight. If a bowling ball is rolling around yourself, your gravity well is deep enough to keep it in orbit <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Wayne Too, -15 lbs <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

<img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

I have known a few stout Lads who could clear the neighborhood orbit free of debris as well. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[sqizee]

all the bodies are spinning in right but only Neptune is spinning but it is spinning down because a halley comet had came very fast and hit the Neptune so its spinning down not like our earth it is spinning

 

[qso1]

Check the link below on Neptune, particularly its axial tilt of 28.32 degrees.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune<br /><br />Then check the link below for Uranus axial tilt which is 97.77 degrees.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus<br /><br />As mentioned by others here, it is Uranus that is tilted to such an extreme as to be considered to be on its side. A comet nucleus is nowhere near large enough to cause a planet to be tilted in such a way. It could have been struck by a KBO eons ago. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[newtonian]

sqizee - Thank you for inviting questions about Neptune. You have zeroed in on rotational plane and axis. <br /><br />The origin of Neptune and Uranus, plus their subsequent histories, had effects on this and other properties.<br /><br />My question to you is:<br /><br />Why is Neptune of higher mean density than Uranus?<br /><br />Why is Neptune's radiation of heat so different from Uranus? Neptune, like Saturn and Jupiter, emits about twice as much heat as it receives from the sun.<br /><br />However, as of 1991, no internal heat source, or evidence thereof, had been found on Uranus.<br /><br />This is from "The World of Science," volume 7, p. 34.<br /><br />Does this lack of an internal heat source on Uranus have some connection to its unique rotational axis?

 

[MeteorWayne]

According to recent theories of solar system development, Neptune actually formed closer to the sun than Uranus, and swapped positions due to resonances with Jupiter and Saturn. This would explain<br />it's higher density if the postulated density of the planetary disk is correct. And different combinations of elements. I'd say that's a subject for future resolution.<br /><br />On what basis are you assuming Uranus radiates less heat?<br />I do not know how much of that measurement is from fly by spacecraft, and how much is from earth based measurements, which could be biased (there's actually a pun here) by the alighnment of Uranus' pole over the part of an orbit since we've known it existed. It's only been a short time <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>