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Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever
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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 173827" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever</strong></span></p><p> </p><p>By Chelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Writer | July 5, 2018 09:57am ET</p><p></p><p>The Link: <a href="https://www.space.com/41076-uranus-weird-til-icy-rock-crash.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180706-sdc" target="_blank">Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever</a></p><p></p><p> </p><p>Uranus, the planet with <a href="https://www.space.com/18704-who-discovered-uranus.html" target="_blank">the unforgettable name</a>, is unique in a number of ways. "All of the planets in the solar system are spinning more or less in the same way … yet Uranus is completely on its side," Jacob Kegerreis, the new study's lead author and a researcher at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology in the U.K., told Space.com. And this isn't the only thing that makes the planet so strange.</p><p></p><p>Uranus also has a "very, very strange" <a href="https://www.space.com/37419-uranus-magnetic-field.html" target="_blank">magnetic field</a> and is <a href="https://www.space.com/18707-uranus-temperature.html" target="_blank">extremely cold</a>, even though it "should" be warmer, according to Kegerreis. In this study, Kegerreis and his team of astronomers seek to explain many of the planet's odd features by attributing them to a collision with a massive, icy object about 4 billion years ago. [<a href="https://www.space.com/13017-photos-uranus-tilted-planet-rings-moons.html" target="_blank">Photos of Uranus, the Tilted Giant</a>]</p><p></p><p>To better understand how the impact affected <a href="https://www.space.com/18705-how-was-uranus-formed.html" target="_blank">Uranus' evolution</a>, the team used a high-powered supercomputer to run a simulation of massive collisions — something that has never been done before. This study confirms an older study that suggested Uranus' significant tilt was caused by a collision with a massive object.</p><p> </p><p><img src="https://img.purch.com/w/640/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTUvaTAyL3VyYW51cy1jb2xsaXNpb24tc2ltdWxhdGlvbi5qcGc/MTUzMDY3NTAwNQ==" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTUvb3JpZ2luYWwvdXJhbnVzLWNvbGxpc2lvbi1zaW11bGF0aW9uLmpwZz8xNTMwNjc1MDA1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p>Scientists used a high-resolution simulation to confirm that an object twice the size of Earth collided with Uranus and altered its tilt.</p><p> Credit: Jacob Kegerreis/Durham University </p><p>The researchers suspect that this object was probably a young protoplanet, made up of rock and ice. This collision is "pretty much the only way" that we can explain Uranus' tilt, Kegerreis said.</p><p></p><p>Amazingly, Uranus retained its atmosphere after this impact. The researchers think that this is because the object only grazed the planet, hitting it hard enough to change its tilt but not enough to affect its atmosphere, <a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=35167" target="_blank">according to a statement</a> from Durham University.</p><p></p><p>It's likely that this type of event isn't uncommon in the universe: "All the evidence points to giant impacts being frequent during planet formation, and with this kind of research, we are now gaining more insight into their effect on potentially habitable exoplanets," Luis Teodoro, study co-author and researcher at the BAER/NASA Ames Research Center, said in the statement.</p><p> </p><p><img src="https://img.purch.com/w/640/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTYvaTAyL3VyYW51cy1jb21wb3NpdGUtaGVtaXNwaGVyZXMuanBnPzE1MzA2NzUyNTk=" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTYvb3JpZ2luYWwvdXJhbnVzLWNvbXBvc2l0ZS1oZW1pc3BoZXJlcy5qcGc/MTUzMDY3NTI1OQ==" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p>This composite image, created in 2004 with Keck Observatory telescope adaptive optics, shows Uranus' two hemispheres.</p><p> Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory </p><p>But this enormous object crashing into Uranus did more than just knock it into a new tilt. According to this research, when the object hit Uranus, some of the debris from the impact may have formed a thin shell that continues to trap heat coming from the planet's core. This could at least partially explain why Uranus' outer atmosphere is extremely cold.</p><p></p><p>According to Kegerreis, this collision could also explain two other oddities about the tilted planet. First, it could explain how and why some of Uranus' moons formed. The researchers think that the impact could have knocked rock and ice into the young planet's orbit — debris that later became some of Uranus' 27 moons. Additionally, they think that the collision could have altered the rotation of any moons that already existed at the time. Last year, <a href="https://www.space.com/39123-crash-that-tilted-uranus-made-moons.html" target="_blank">a separate study</a> also explored this aspect of the collision.</p><p></p><p>The researchers also suggest that the collision could have created molten ice and lumps of rock inside the planet, which tilted its magnetic field, according to the statement.</p><p></p><p>Following this study, the researchers hope to study this collision with even higher-resolution simulations to better understand Uranus' evolution, according to Kegerreis. He also noted that the team aims to study Uranus' chemistry and the different ways that an impact like this could have affected its atmosphere.</p><p></p><p>This work was published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac725" target="_blank">The Astrophysical Journal</a> on July 2, 2018.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 173827, member: 13"] [SIZE=7][B]Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever[/B][/SIZE] By Chelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Writer | July 5, 2018 09:57am ET The Link: [URL='https://www.space.com/41076-uranus-weird-til-icy-rock-crash.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180706-sdc']Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever[/URL] Uranus, the planet with [URL='https://www.space.com/18704-who-discovered-uranus.html']the unforgettable name[/URL], is unique in a number of ways. "All of the planets in the solar system are spinning more or less in the same way … yet Uranus is completely on its side," Jacob Kegerreis, the new study's lead author and a researcher at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology in the U.K., told Space.com. And this isn't the only thing that makes the planet so strange. Uranus also has a "very, very strange" [URL='https://www.space.com/37419-uranus-magnetic-field.html']magnetic field[/URL] and is [URL='https://www.space.com/18707-uranus-temperature.html']extremely cold[/URL], even though it "should" be warmer, according to Kegerreis. In this study, Kegerreis and his team of astronomers seek to explain many of the planet's odd features by attributing them to a collision with a massive, icy object about 4 billion years ago. [[URL='https://www.space.com/13017-photos-uranus-tilted-planet-rings-moons.html']Photos of Uranus, the Tilted Giant[/URL]] To better understand how the impact affected [URL='https://www.space.com/18705-how-was-uranus-formed.html']Uranus' evolution[/URL], the team used a high-powered supercomputer to run a simulation of massive collisions — something that has never been done before. This study confirms an older study that suggested Uranus' significant tilt was caused by a collision with a massive object. [IMG]https://img.purch.com/w/640/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTUvaTAyL3VyYW51cy1jb2xsaXNpb24tc2ltdWxhdGlvbi5qcGc/MTUzMDY3NTAwNQ==[/IMG] [IMG]https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTUvb3JpZ2luYWwvdXJhbnVzLWNvbGxpc2lvbi1zaW11bGF0aW9uLmpwZz8xNTMwNjc1MDA1[/IMG] Scientists used a high-resolution simulation to confirm that an object twice the size of Earth collided with Uranus and altered its tilt. Credit: Jacob Kegerreis/Durham University The researchers suspect that this object was probably a young protoplanet, made up of rock and ice. This collision is "pretty much the only way" that we can explain Uranus' tilt, Kegerreis said. Amazingly, Uranus retained its atmosphere after this impact. The researchers think that this is because the object only grazed the planet, hitting it hard enough to change its tilt but not enough to affect its atmosphere, [URL='https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=35167']according to a statement[/URL] from Durham University. It's likely that this type of event isn't uncommon in the universe: "All the evidence points to giant impacts being frequent during planet formation, and with this kind of research, we are now gaining more insight into their effect on potentially habitable exoplanets," Luis Teodoro, study co-author and researcher at the BAER/NASA Ames Research Center, said in the statement. [IMG]https://img.purch.com/w/640/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTYvaTAyL3VyYW51cy1jb21wb3NpdGUtaGVtaXNwaGVyZXMuanBnPzE1MzA2NzUyNTk=[/IMG] [IMG]https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny81NTYvb3JpZ2luYWwvdXJhbnVzLWNvbXBvc2l0ZS1oZW1pc3BoZXJlcy5qcGc/MTUzMDY3NTI1OQ==[/IMG] This composite image, created in 2004 with Keck Observatory telescope adaptive optics, shows Uranus' two hemispheres. Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory But this enormous object crashing into Uranus did more than just knock it into a new tilt. According to this research, when the object hit Uranus, some of the debris from the impact may have formed a thin shell that continues to trap heat coming from the planet's core. This could at least partially explain why Uranus' outer atmosphere is extremely cold. According to Kegerreis, this collision could also explain two other oddities about the tilted planet. First, it could explain how and why some of Uranus' moons formed. The researchers think that the impact could have knocked rock and ice into the young planet's orbit — debris that later became some of Uranus' 27 moons. Additionally, they think that the collision could have altered the rotation of any moons that already existed at the time. Last year, [URL='https://www.space.com/39123-crash-that-tilted-uranus-made-moons.html']a separate study[/URL] also explored this aspect of the collision. The researchers also suggest that the collision could have created molten ice and lumps of rock inside the planet, which tilted its magnetic field, according to the statement. Following this study, the researchers hope to study this collision with even higher-resolution simulations to better understand Uranus' evolution, according to Kegerreis. He also noted that the team aims to study Uranus' chemistry and the different ways that an impact like this could have affected its atmosphere. This work was published in [URL='https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac725']The Astrophysical Journal[/URL] on July 2, 2018. [/QUOTE]
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