if you wanna call Pluto a a planet, do it. The IAU is not going to arrest you or something.
Don’t believe this person, I said it was a planet and spent 5years locked away in the planetarium
(No, this is not a personal opinion).
That sounds awesome. Did you get to look at all the exhibits?
No I had to stay in the toilet
And the sun is flat. Fight me.
It is known.
More recently, the campaign has taken on a populist tinge, with Trump’s Nasa administrator, Jared Isaacman, telling a congressional committee in April that he was in favour of a rethink. “I am very much in the camp of Make Pluto a Planet Again,” he said.
I think this says all that needs to be said about it.
Oh, so just another faux-populist distraction. I don’t even see the epstein files comments anymore here
Just because it’s the only one discovered by an American… Typical.
This kind of thing just fuels the anti-science conservative agenda. Knock it off.
Explain
It rejects science and calls back to “back in my day” folksy rhetoric as the only “evidence” that it should regain planetary status, and frames the entire change as a bureaucratic process being run by out of touch elites. It’s conservative populism at it’s finest. Straight out of their playbook.
Oh, plutodrama is still going on. What is the current definition of planet?
Orbits the sun, has enough gravity to form a sphere and has cleared it’s orbit. It’s the clearing the orbit part where Pluto fails, as do Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. And also Quaoar, Orcus, Ixion, Varuna, Sedna, Gonggong, Salacia, Varda, Hygiea and Vesta. They all orbit in basically an asteroid field.
Gonggong
The gorilla from Super Monkey Ball?
It’s also a god in Chinese mythology.
That makes a lot more sense
Do the Trojan asteroid clusters in Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points still count as “clearing its orbit”?
What if there were a second planet-sized body there?
Do the Trojan asteroid clusters in Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points still count as “clearing its orbit”?
What if there were a second planet-sized body there?
I would say in that example:
- Jupiter is the dominant mass making it be the planet.
- Anything in the Lagrangian points would not be planets specifically because anything in those points are there because of Jupiter and its orbit, not in spite of it.
So a coin stops being money if tossed to a garbage pile? :)
If the coin is so big that you don’t notice the garbage, it’s money. If you have to sift through the garage to find the coin, it’s just worthless loose change.
A forged coin isn’t money despite seeming like it is at first glance.
Pluto is real. The only problem with it – it being in the garbage belt and not in a separate orbit. Or is there something else?
Well, forged coins are also “real”. They can be identical to authentic coins but still be counterfeit.
Position very much matters to planets or else large moons would be planets.
Just link planets to the star and there won’t be any problems with “large moons”.
Everyone forgets Pallas.
The raven remembers
Pretty sure there’s an Aesop Rock song about this…
They say Pluto is not a planet. Do you think that Pluto gives a shit? https://youtu.be/kK0KPuH32mc
Did anyone ask Ann Francis?
The IAU can go to buggery: Pluto was, is, and always will be a planet!
You hear about Pluto? That’s messed up right?
