{"id":12131,"date":"2017-10-06T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T00:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2017-10-06T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T00:18:21","slug":"word-of-the-day-242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/06\/word-of-the-day-242\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Self-gravity wakes<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The critical distance of roughly 2.5 planetary radii is called the Roche limit.\u00a0Within the Roche limit, tidal forces make it impossible for two like-sized bodies orbiting Saturn to collide and merge to form a larger body. Short-lived aggregates of ring particles called self-gravity wakes can form within the Roche limit, but they last for only about the time they take to complete one orbit around Saturn (less than an Earth day). [&#8220;<em>Saturn&#8217;s Rings<\/em>,&#8221; Dr. Luke Dones, <em><strong>The Planetary Report<\/strong><\/em> (September Equinox 2017, paywall).]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Typos mine. And since I am referencing Saturn, here&#8217;s a gratuitous picture.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/system\/content_pages\/main_images\/51_cassini20141016-full.jpg?resize=800%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This stunning false-color view of Saturn&#8217;s moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon&#8217;s surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of surface materials. The view was obtained during Cassini&#8217;s close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.<br \/> [<a href=\"https:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/science\/moons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>NASA\/JPL<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-gravity wakes: The critical distance of roughly 2.5 planetary radii is called the Roche limit.\u00a0Within the Roche limit, tidal forces make it impossible for two like-sized bodies orbiting Saturn to collide and merge to form a larger body. Short-lived aggregates of ring particles called self-gravity wakes can form within the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/06\/word-of-the-day-242\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12160,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions\/12160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}