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OR a small seen satellite: "A potential explanation for Quaoar’s distant rings is the presence of a moon, Weywot. The moon may have created gravitational distu
by ksherlock 4y ago
OR a small seen satellite:
"A potential explanation for Quaoar’s distant rings is the presence of a moon, Weywot. The moon may have created gravitational disturbances that prevented the ring’s particles from accreting into additional moons. Both rings occur in locations near what are known as resonances with Weywot, and the resonances may turn out to be more important than the Roche limit for determining whether rings turn into moons or remain as rings."
- actionfromafar 4y agoWaitwhat? Nice name.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoI’m just worried we will give a super silly name to the planet of our future overlords
- actionfromafar 4y agoYeah, if the rings is actually solar panel satellites kept in orbit by design
- hinkley 4y agoOrbital death ray platform.
- jonathankoren 4y agoYou live on a planet named after dirt.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThe dirt is the most important part! But I'd argue it's more of an issue of not having a real name.
- NeoTar 4y agoArguably the ‘real’ name should be Terra (i.e the Roman name for the goddess of the Earth). But which also looks like the word ‘dirt’, but just wearing its Sunday best. Although I totally support calling the moon ‘Diana’.
- jonathankoren 4y agoNah. It’s the same thing as every culture naming themselves “the people”. Every species names their planet after the thing from which life grows and they stand on, ie “dirt”
- duxup 4y agoSomething like Lord Nibbler from Futurama.
- dllthomas 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weywot#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weywot#Name "Brown left the choice of a name up to the Tongva, whose creator-god Quaoar had been named after. The Tongva chose the sky god Weywot, son of Quaoar."