Pluto

[Crazy Guggenheim]

[bridgit]

1. hm, looks like an agate, marble 'shooter'...

:thumbsup:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. Neptune

Actually it's marble.

[bridgit]

10. now that looks like petrified wood to me...

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. It is just a piece of marble. Threw it in as a joke.

[Droopy]

2. How long did it take the satellite to reach pluto?

Or was the photo taken by the Hubble?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Hubble.

[Sean Reynolds]

3. Weird!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I see a dent in Pluto!

Strange formation there...Is this another NASA pic? Nice...thanks for posting it, Crazy Guggenheim...

:hi:

:shrug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. Hey! Where is the dent?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Right in the middle of the planet, there is a slightly curved line that

angles from slightly upper left to slightly lower right. It isn't very long...Jumps out at me!

I just went and looked at it again, and there's a broad band of darkish tan coming vertically out of the dent. The tan band extends from the upper part all the way down to the bottom edge of Pluto...Does that help?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. I think it's some sort of formation.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Well I call it a dent! Formation is probably the more proper technical

term! Smarty pants! Sorry, I couldn't resist...besides, you ARE way smarter than I am...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

23. Don't say I'm smarter than you. lol. But ........

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Mercury:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Another gorgeous pic! You must have an enormous file!

And just where will flattery get me? Hmmm? :evilgrin:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

26. I can't you're married!! But here's a romantic moon ......

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. That is very beautiful, my dear Crazy Guggenheim!

You are a sweetheart...I am very touched...:a kiss * for you...


:blush:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. Uranus. [No trick here.]

Yes there are rings.

[Bok_Tukalo]

14. I thought it was renamed Urectum

<ope>

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. What an ethereal and beautiful photo this is...

I've heard about the rings, but hadn't seen them before.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. Venus. Radar image.

[elperromagico]

11. Eww, it's Michael Stipe's head!

MST3K reference. :D

[Bok_Tukalo]

12. One half of the most interesting system in our local group

The larger one of a double planet with the center of gravity of its rotation being outside its own body; different than our own home double planet where we geocentrically call our sister a "moon."

[Crazy Guggenheim]

16. That's true. They think "Pluto" is actually a double planet system.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. I've heard it said that some folks say Pluto shouldn't be

considered a planet at all, since it's small, and it has a very strange orbit...There's a term for the orbit, but I can't remember it.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

22. Eccentric?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Crazy Guggenheim to the rescue!

Yes! Eccentric is the word...Damn, sometimes I am just so dysfunctional I could *um* scream! Just kidding...

[HEyHEY]

19. Pluto looks ill

[Crazy Guggenheim]

28. Finally the moon over San Francisco!

[bridgit]

29. now THAT is a nice pic...

:applause:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

30. Oh. Yeah!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

31. Last one.

[leftofthedial]

32. are you sure that isn't Uranus

I crack me up

[Crazy Guggenheim]

33. Hey I got a moon of Uranus right here .....

Oberon!! Huh??

[leftofthedial]

34. Is that Oberon the left

or Oberon the kitchen table?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

35. Hey ............

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. Good night, my dear Crazy Guggenheim!

My eyeballs are about to fall out and roll around on my keyboard; time to go to bed!

It was fun! :evilgrin:

[leftofthedial]

37. cool pix!

amazing

[enigmatic]

38. Pluto

[billyskank]

39. Did you know

that Pluto's moon, Charon, is in a geostationary orbit? So from the surface of Pluto, the moon always appears in the same place in the sky.

[baldguy]

40. Quaoar