Today I learned about asteroid, possible dwarf planet Buffy. The video is informative but not taken too serious. And he doesn't want to change the name, he just wants the TNO having an official name (Buffy was suggested by discoverer Lynne Allen). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRXQc-L6g0Q Buffy part @ 28:11
The ship is a good fusion powered vessel. It can sustain 1G in its centrifuge, and youβve got the requisite tools and materials to start up an OβNeill Cylinder should you find the material. Youβve decided to build a giant OβNeill Cylinder inside of whatever body you choose. What parameters would you go by for selection? Which TNO would be the most ideal for your purposes? Everything except for Pluto (and accompanying moon and other satellites) is a go.
Carly Howett from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder on why the outskirts of the solar system are way more interesting than previously thought:
https://preview.redd.it/p930n71kzfr21.jpg?width=1559&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=215c3e062e914078d9242d88278d8212b007eebd
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Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_KV42
- Look what was found in our favorite year, 2008. "Of course it was."
- Another planet-sized one "Niku" was found in 2011.
- A total of 6 objects have been found to be orbiting in retrograde through 2016.
- They cannot reproduce these orbits with any model.
- Halley's comet also orbits in retrograde.
I noticed while doing some research that basically everything past Neptune (Pluto, Orcus, Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Quaoar, Sedna, etc.) all have orbits that are extremely tilted, and their tilts are all over the place, there's no pattern to them that I can see. Why is this? Is there some semi-exact radius from the sun inside of which things will orbit along the plane, and outside of which they won't?
I am specifically referencing this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007OR10-orbit.png
In the image, Pluto, Eris, and 2007 OR10 are all skewed to the left side of the image. I understand that Trans Neptunian objects have irregular orbits, but is it just coincidence that 3 of the largest and most well known ones all seem pulled to one side over the other or is there another reason?
Hubble was able to image Pluto and Eris well enough so that these objects clearly were round in the photos. My question is will the JWST be able to direcly image smaller TNO's like Quaoar, Varuna, and 2007 OR10 to determine whether or not they are round enough to be Dwarf Planets? How well would the JWST be able to resolve Planet 9 if it does indeed exist?
Carly Howett from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder writes about the outskirts of the solar system and why they are way more interesting than previously thought:
https://preview.redd.it/d8954imxk8t21.jpg?width=1559&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83cc1ed9eb6a87d9060a1f4751b7836444b6b5db
Carly Howett from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder on why the outskirts of the solar system are way more interesting than previously thought:
https://preview.redd.it/fs50kkzx1gr21.jpg?width=1559&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd4734c9e32750109eb87f1d7894b3ed83f76468
