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fandomhigh2017-06-12 07:08 am
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Getting to Know Your Own Backyard, Monday, Period 2
Today's planet was named Uranus. And if you thought Kanan hadn't been snickering about that until Hera was ready to smack him, you didn't know either of them.
"But really, who names a planet that," Kanan could be heard while the students were ushered into the Ghost for the day. "Who?"
"It's named after another god," Hera said, her eyeroll audible in her voice.
"Who names a god that??"
Kanan was going to hang on to this one for the rest of the week. Just watch.
And Hera was going to just ignore him. "So. Uranus." She gave him a stern look. "It's an ice giant, apparently."
"But you'd think it'd be another gas giant," Kanan quipped. And then deftly evaded Chopper's stunner. Because really, he'd had it coming all day. "... Because the last two were. It does, however, have rings. Pretty sure that's a trend for all the planets from Jupiter on out."
Hera nodded. "Some odd readings here, though," she said, adjusting the scanners. "Looks like its poles are pretty much on the plane of its orbit, and its magnetic poles are skewed off that by 59 degrees."
Weird planet.
"Which basically means that Uranus is set sideways," Kanan supplied. And to his credit, his lips only twitched into a smile a little bit, that time. "Decided to have a nap mid-orbit or something and just never bothered straightening itself out afterwards."
"It also means that each pole gets sun and then dark for...huh. Forty-two years. Yeah, we're not landing on this one, either."
"That'd be a really nasty workday." Kanan was super helpful today, see? "The atmosphere is primarily hydrogen, with some helium and methane thrown in for good measure." He glanced up triumphantly. "And it is technically a gas giant, so Chopper can stick that stunner right back up his-"
Kanan was cut off by a series of beeps. It was a good thing none of the students knew binary. Hopefully.
"No, really," Kanan said, speaking over Chopper. "It's got enough pressure on it to reduce those gases into a layer of water-ammonia slush, so it's ice formed by pressure, not by temperature. It's a bit like the Earth's mantle, but you don't want to swim in it, what with all the getting crushed and being cooked alive you'd be doing." That was poorly worded, Kanan. You really didn't want to swim in the Earth's mantle either. "And the mass of that part alone is basically more than ten Earths. Uranus is huge."
No Jupiter or Saturn, but no slouch, either.
"It's not much to look at from up here," Hera said, "but we're not even going into the atmosphere here; I like my paint job. There are some pretty corrosive chemicals there."
"We could do a pass through the rings, but they're not as fun as Saturn's," Kanan noted. "Mostly just... boulders, it looks like. Big dark chunks. We could pick one of the moons to poke around on. Looks like this one's got nearly thirty. Or we could just hit orbit and ogle the weird sideways planet with the dark rings for a while."
While Kanan no doubt made more Uranus jokes.
"One orbit, just to show how weird it is, then a trip around the moons," Hera decided.
"I've seen nicer shades of blue," Kanan decided. And that was all he really had to say about that, apparently. Kanan Jarrus was a great educator, shut up.
"But really, who names a planet that," Kanan could be heard while the students were ushered into the Ghost for the day. "Who?"
"It's named after another god," Hera said, her eyeroll audible in her voice.
"Who names a god that??"
Kanan was going to hang on to this one for the rest of the week. Just watch.
And Hera was going to just ignore him. "So. Uranus." She gave him a stern look. "It's an ice giant, apparently."
"But you'd think it'd be another gas giant," Kanan quipped. And then deftly evaded Chopper's stunner. Because really, he'd had it coming all day. "... Because the last two were. It does, however, have rings. Pretty sure that's a trend for all the planets from Jupiter on out."
Hera nodded. "Some odd readings here, though," she said, adjusting the scanners. "Looks like its poles are pretty much on the plane of its orbit, and its magnetic poles are skewed off that by 59 degrees."
Weird planet.
"Which basically means that Uranus is set sideways," Kanan supplied. And to his credit, his lips only twitched into a smile a little bit, that time. "Decided to have a nap mid-orbit or something and just never bothered straightening itself out afterwards."
"It also means that each pole gets sun and then dark for...huh. Forty-two years. Yeah, we're not landing on this one, either."
"That'd be a really nasty workday." Kanan was super helpful today, see? "The atmosphere is primarily hydrogen, with some helium and methane thrown in for good measure." He glanced up triumphantly. "And it is technically a gas giant, so Chopper can stick that stunner right back up his-"
Kanan was cut off by a series of beeps. It was a good thing none of the students knew binary. Hopefully.
"No, really," Kanan said, speaking over Chopper. "It's got enough pressure on it to reduce those gases into a layer of water-ammonia slush, so it's ice formed by pressure, not by temperature. It's a bit like the Earth's mantle, but you don't want to swim in it, what with all the getting crushed and being cooked alive you'd be doing." That was poorly worded, Kanan. You really didn't want to swim in the Earth's mantle either. "And the mass of that part alone is basically more than ten Earths. Uranus is huge."
No Jupiter or Saturn, but no slouch, either.
"It's not much to look at from up here," Hera said, "but we're not even going into the atmosphere here; I like my paint job. There are some pretty corrosive chemicals there."
"We could do a pass through the rings, but they're not as fun as Saturn's," Kanan noted. "Mostly just... boulders, it looks like. Big dark chunks. We could pick one of the moons to poke around on. Looks like this one's got nearly thirty. Or we could just hit orbit and ogle the weird sideways planet with the dark rings for a while."
While Kanan no doubt made more Uranus jokes.
"One orbit, just to show how weird it is, then a trip around the moons," Hera decided.
"I've seen nicer shades of blue," Kanan decided. And that was all he really had to say about that, apparently. Kanan Jarrus was a great educator, shut up.