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Mike Brown
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Europa is hot?
Update from Samantha on her paper that just came out today
(see: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07922)
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In the months since I first posted about the potential hotspot on Europa associated with a potential plume on Europa, I’ve been refining
our computer model and digging deeper into trying to understand what is going
on. As you’ll remember from the last post, a potential
Read more of this blog post »
(see: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07922)
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In the months since I first posted about the potential hotspot on Europa associated with a potential plume on Europa, I’ve been refining
our computer model and digging deeper into trying to understand what is going
on. As you’ll remember from the last post, a potential
Read more of this blog post »
More books by Mike Brown…
“Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.”
― How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
― How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
“There is nothing particularly special about that location of the centre of mass. If you were to find yourself at the precise spot that is the centre of mass of the earth-moon system, the only thing unusual that you would notice is that there would be one thousand miles of rock on top of your head.
Pluto is only about twice the size of Charon, so if you put Pluto and Charon on the cosmic seesaw you would find that the balance point is a little bit outside Pluto, rather than inside it. Again, there is nothing particularly special going on there. If you were to find yourself at that precise spot, you would only notice that you were very, very cold and could no longer breathe.”
― How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Pluto is only about twice the size of Charon, so if you put Pluto and Charon on the cosmic seesaw you would find that the balance point is a little bit outside Pluto, rather than inside it. Again, there is nothing particularly special going on there. If you were to find yourself at that precise spot, you would only notice that you were very, very cold and could no longer breathe.”
― How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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