Re: Why is there a Hexagonal shaped feature on top of Saturn?
- From: TBerk <bayareaberk@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:31:28 -0700 (PDT)
On May 25, 11:29 am, oriel36 <kelleher.ger...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 23, 8:51 am, TBerk <bayareab...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I didn't see to much about this when the flyby of (Galileo?) happened
recently.
(Alright, I'll confess I have neither a link nor am I reasonably sure
it was Galileo, and not something else, but even so)
Nobody here seemed to even notice the circulating patterns on the
'top' of Saturn are shaped like a stable hexagon.
Why?
TBerk
Aw heck, here ya go:http://www.google.com/search?q=saturn+hexagon&btnG=Search
There was a nice paper about 15 years ago that caught my eye relating
to cloud formations and quasi-periodic geometry -
http://arxiv.org/html/chao-dyn/9806001
Most of it is couched in qm terms that I consider ephemeral,at least
to me,however it is also expressed in the geometry of natural
effeciency which concerned me.About 3 years previous I was working on
the same geometry and constructed a structure based on two large
external rings and one smaller intersecting ring based on the idea of
stellar effeciency.The good news is that 4 years later in 1994 the
images of sn1987a appeared with the appropriate structure surrounding
the star.
Astronomy is an incredibly vibrant arena with all these delightful and
mischievous clues scattered around,maybe I am a once-off and find the
whole arena fascinating but I doubt it,I truly believe there are those
who can surmount dull reactions and focus on what is before them..
Well O, this post of yours I can get with. It's lacking the whole
'teacher spank' aspect of (for example) the other reply in this
thread.
Be that as it may I am interested in what others think of the feature,
hence my post.
Nowhere in there was anything about I didn't want to find out for
myself.
I can understand the idea that people post to Usenet (and other
forums) to get a lazy question answered, please don't ascribe that to
me folks.
Lastly, I posted because it was on topic, might uncover something I
didn't know from people who might actually want to talk about it, and
as _part_ of that service of discovery.
Some semi-random thoughts I had on the feature include:
- What role might the core of the planet play in its structure?
- Might it be an external cause or initiator that got things started
but was transitory? (After all, the planet has pronounced rings as
well.)
- Interesting that something as large as a Planet and something as
small as a honeycomb both have a hex shape in them.
Dems me thinks on the subject,
TBerk
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