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  1. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Angel delight? Three Brits facing the death penalty in Bali for smuggling cocaine in packets of angel delight
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Jun 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
  2. yorkshirehornet

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    Yep you got it
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jun 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
  3. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Cheers Yorkie

    What disappears roughly every fifteen years and takes about two years to reappear?
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Jun 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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    Halley's comet ?
     
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    J T Bodbo, Jun 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
  5. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    No, but you're in the right area
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Jun 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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    Currently due to fully reappear in late 2026/early 2027, but partially reappear in November this year.
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Jun 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
  7. yorkshirehornet

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    Is this a satellite?
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jun 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
  8. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    No - not a this, more a they.
    Part of something that orbits the Sun.
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Jun 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
  9. yorkshirehornet

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    asteroids ?
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jun 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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    a comet?
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jun 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM

  11. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Neither.
    The reason for the disappearance is a 26.7 degree tilt.
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Jun 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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    Saturn's axial tilt is 26.7°, meaning that widely varying views of the rings, of which the visible ones occupy its equatorial plane, are obtained from Earth at different times.

    So Saturns rings being visible
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jun 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
  13. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Or being invisible. Over to you...
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Jun 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
    yorkshirehornet and Hornet-Fez like this.
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    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    How were 10 minutes life changing
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jun 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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