Meet Varuna - Meet the Dwarf Planets Ep.11 - Outer Space / Astronomy Learning Song - The Nirks

Visit Our Website & check out Vincent's Birthday Special! Plush Vincent & personalized birthday video! The Nirks®: https://www.thenirks.com/shop Meet Dwarf Planet Candidate Varuna! We've met all of the Official Dwarf Planets, but what about all of the hopeful Dwarf Planet Candidates? Let's meet them too! Meet Varuna! Varuna is hoping for a promotion to full dwarf planet soon. Varuna was a fan favorite pick for dwarf planet candidate! Varuna lives way out in the Kuiper Belt and has a similar distance from the Sun as Pluto. The name Varuna is from Hindu Mythology - The God of Justice, Water, Sky and the Celestial Ocean or the Cosmos. Varuna my have a moon hiding. Photometric observations (study of light fluctuations) show evidence of a possible moon orbiting Varuna, currently named Varuna 1. Varuna is a great candidate for promotion to full dwarf planet! Learn all about this fun dwarf planet candidate in this exciting and fun learning song! And, Visit our online store for Nirks Swag! https://www.thenirks.com/shop ©December 2024 Goes to Eleven Media. All Rights Reserved. Lyrics: CHORUS: I am Varuna, a dwarf planet candidate Hoping to be made official, I don’t want to wait Named after the Hindu God of Justice, Water and Sky God of the Celestial Ocean – That’s where I reside Discovered by Robert McMillan on November 28 2000 With the Spacewatch Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, (Arizona.) I had been captured in photos long ago back in 1954 But scientists didn’t officially discover me until they knew more I’m a Kuiper Belt object or KBO And Trans-Neptunian Object or TNO I’m also known as a cubewano - not in resonance with Neptune, and not very eccentric you know My orbit is very round, not elliptical But It is a little inclined about 17 degrees like Pluto CHORUS My orbital distance is between 40 and 45 AU you see Sometimes I get closer to the Sun than Pluto can be (Pluto AU between 30-48AU) One orbit around the Sun takes me about 283 Earth years Because my orbit is so much further out here I rotate really fast, just over 6 hours or so (6.34) Probably because I suffered many collisions long ago I am spinning so fast, that I got all stretched out Now I’m egg-shape like Haumea that’s what I am about CHORUS I might have a moon, named Varuna 1 Scientists believe this because of Photometric observations By studying me and my light fluctuations Astronomers Believe that I could have my very own relation (Estela Fernández-Valenzuela and her team) I have a reddish surface with some traces of water and ice on me What else resides on my surface, you’ll have to visit to see Until then, I’ll remain a bit of a mystery Presiding over the celestial Ocean that surrounds me CHORUS ©December 2024 Goes to Eleven Media. All Rights Reserved.