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Apr 30, 2023 2:47 PM
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HoneyBadgersAreBadAsses
get over it.
C141Clay
manulofdoom
"That's cute" - Ceres
leperoutcastunclean
Mood
theskepticinme
It’s organic compounds. They are also on some of the icy moons
Cytos
Shhh shhh Mars.. you so clumsy, walkin into doors in shit.. ain't that right baby?
PinkEater
C141Clay
MrListerTheFirst
Still recovering from the shame it endured when we called it a planet.
VibratingNipples
My guess that is iron rust
interesseret
according to NASA: its hydrocarbons formed because of cosmic rays interacting with the methane on plutos surface.
ICheckUsernameAndSuch
Any picture on the internet that says "and we don't know what they are/how it happens/why" is immediately super sus
DukePhelan
Howlingowl
The craziest thing is the tholians cross the distance through space and deposit themselves on the surface of Pluto’s moon.
redstarling117
It's melange from the ice worms
Leonon
Particles get the zoomies and help carbon atoms make friends?
Optodata
They're called tholins
donkeymoney
Really? I wonder if they think that could have happened on earth.
AntiProtonBoy
No, because earth has a thick atmosphere and liquid water which constantly transforms the surface environment. Also most of the hydrocarbons on earth would be in gaseous form, whereas on dwarf planets in the outer solar system hydrocarbons can condense on the surface.
donkeymoney
Didn't the water on earth's surface come from volcanic eruptions? Suffice it to say, earth's climate has varied dramatically, even since the onset of carbon-based life forms.
htapoicoS
Will NASA get any proof for that claim? I think yes, because there will be an expedition. NASA did already planet
MrRobSteel
Hydrocarbons? Like Oil?
manulofdoom
Calm down, 'murica!
AntiProtonBoy
“Hydrocarbons” is just a generic name for a broad spectrum of hydrogen and carbon based compounds, ranging from methane, to oils and plastics.
kaijuuGold
he got demoted what more do you want to take away from him
thatauzzieguy
He? He! Don't you go assuming Pluto's gender! She will be pissed!
DarkBusterBaron
He didn't get demoted he got reclassified to be more accurate with the 80 other celestial bodies that have a similar size.
FeloniousMonk13
That's a really cool picture of Pluto but what I really want to see is some pictures of Uranus
goflyblind
theANALyzer
just put a mirror on the floor and squat over it.... you'll totally see Uranus
FeloniousMonk13
metricman67
Oh ! The planet earth makes me blush!!
Redshadow09
Isnt it Dirt? or a combo of Sand and Dirt. I heard something regards to that
Sandorw
Spice!
Wrinkle666
tholins or has the science have new data ?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
But it is a planet. A *dwarf* planet. “Little planet” if you like it better.
eva07m3000
Noughmad
I remember when Pluto was a planet. I also remember when it was all white. Also my back hurts.
Goblor
Tholins
doctorwut02
It's the Veil
ENCHANTMEN
If Pluto is a planet so is like eight other dwarf planets
Garadur
try 80
TheBlueMuppet
Looks like according to google, there's either 5, or up to 30,000. So, somewhere in there.
CaptainThePirate
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cDdGKqp8E
mastodonj
The International Astronomical Union downgraded it and the world fell in step, but most planetary scientists still call it a planet. In fact they call the moon a planet too!
lysani
IIRC they also waited until most people had left for the night before holding the vote to demote Pluto, basically rigging it to pass.
Carl99
Interesting if true, but as someone with a big space fascination i also get why. The moon and some other large celestial objects are just weird, it's why i've allways had a soft spot for Pluto and was super sad about the downgrade.
mastodonj
Check out Alan Stern interviewed by Lawrence Krauss! https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkuc3Vic3RhY2suY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC83NDUwODQucnNz/episode/NjAzNmViYmRiZmZiNDIxMzk5M2RiNzVkNjliNjZhZTU?ep=14
BeverlyHillsBillie
It's a rash, he got it from Jupiter.
RaptorDactyl
That's funny cuz Zeus is just Greek Jupiter and Zeus fucks everybody
shankelstoff
Are you being serious right now, assuming Pluto's gender? Homegirl, you crazy.
Mokelzwerg
I rather think from Uranus
meatybuffalo
commentsivehadafew
“My very elegant mother jumped straight up nine” just doesn’t make any sense
tinyfootprints
The one I learned was, "Mother very easily made jelly sandwiches under Ned's porch." Maybe these days she could just be under Ned.
Gogoglovitch
The version I heard growing up in the 80s and 90s was '...just served us nine pumpkins.'
CatShadowleaf
Pizzas, not pumpkins. Kids like pizza.
3Davideo
Best part is that you can just change it to "just served us nachos."
streetcatz
Cosmic violence is no joke, it effects 1 out of every 9 planets
rbudrick
nO oNe KnOwS wHaT tHeY aRe. Yes, in fact, they do.
Trelis
I don't understand why people are so upset about it not being called a planet. 1) why are people considering planets better? 2) Pluto does not care, it's a celestial object 3) be upset about issues that has an impact.
RedAppleSoda
Exactly, and the dwarf planets are cool. Haumea spins so fast it’s likely an ellipsoid shape.
lastmanonearthbutidroppedmyglasses
Even people who pretend to like science hate change.
KyleButNotThatKyle
You seem upset.
Trelis
Puzzled, bewildered, confused, that is what I feel.
CeruleanK
People want their knowledge to be unchangeable and categories to be simple. They want to defend what they first learned because they don't want to feel like they wasted the trouble they took to learn it.
Carl99
This but also a degree of, why create confusion, no one outside of astronomy actually cares how you define a planet, (thats not to say it's not important overall, but i don't see an issue with grandfathering pluto in as an exception provided it's noted as such when teaching high level astronomy). Sometimes leaving things be to avoid creating headaches works. Plus Pluto was the weird little idiot of the planets and i loved that.
Iceman0624
ventiseii
Scientists today were excited to receive radio signals received from Pluto but admitted confusion at the translated messages "Make us whole", "Turn it off", and "That's not your wife Isaac, your wife is dead. Stop listening to it".
MadCat221
Wake me when it has the dominant gravitational force in its orbital region.
allcattywampus
the last thing you want is being wakened in the night by a vengeful god of the underworld
RedStarVidal
You don't know my kinks.
JustHereForTheMemes0321
Ay ohhh!
mastodonj
Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have not fully cleared their orbital zones either. By the IAU definition, these aren't planets either...
SarahDancePainter
Is that what we’re doing today? We fighting?
SarahDancePainter
Pluto is a planet because that’s how I was raised and we respect tradition in this family
johnnyboy1996
Tradition is just peer pressure from Dead losers
joebuk724
Haha burn!
MisterLemons
usafsmith8408
chapterhawk101
That's a made up definition that didn't come until later. Specifically in an attempt to declassify Pluto. So, your argument don't fucking work brah.
dralin
No, did come up, because the solar system would have at least 13 planets and over 100 more objects that could also possibly be planets, by the old definition.
FistsofSnake
what's wrong with that? It's like saying we have to mant countries
Stargrave3000
Bro, all astronomical definitions are made up.
mastodonj
Not really. The IAU voted on a definition. Most definitions are supported by data. We now know that no planets in our solar system have fully cleared their own orbits. So by this definition, there are no planets in the solar system... It's not a useful definition is what I'm saying.
PutItInNeutral
What metrics will you use to measure "dominant gravitational force in its orbital region", because the current definition of planet provides none.
stoots24
Bananas and washing machines.
MadCat221
Accumulated the vast majority of mass in its orbital region during the formative days of the star system. The existence of the Kuiper belt refutes that. Additionally, you could also go with "ensnares the majority of smaller objects remaining in the orbital region in orbit around itself or in its LaGrange points, or weird elliptical orbits that look collectively triangular between L345", which Jupiter is quite good at. Which Pluto emphatically is not doing either.
Rrrrgrr
Pluto was considered a Planet for less than the time it takes to revolve around the sun once. (One year on Pluto)
Danceswithpups
awwww....
broccolirobb
It's kind of wild that we were able to figure out enough about it from this far away to determine it's not a planet before it could even orbit once.
Tyrannotron
Was considered a planet for less than 1/3 of a year on Pluto, in fact.
abion47
How do you define that for planets that have no other orbital bodies in their region? Does mercury have the dominant gravitational force in its region simply because there is nothing else in its orbital region? Would a comet or an asteroid in orbit around a star be considered a planet simply because it had no orbital neighbors? For that matter, would a planet that had a twin not be a planet if its twin was slightly larger? This criteria seems highly arbitrary.
dralin
It's not the only criterium. A planet must also be in hydrostatic equilirium (round form), that most asteroids don't have.
abion47
But that still begs the question as to why this criteria needs to exist. Why does a celestial body need to be the dominant gravitational body in order to be a planet at all? What if Pluto *was* big enough (and round enough) to be a planet, but Charon was slightly bigger? Would that mean that Pluto couldn't be a planet despite checking off all the rest of the boxes?
abion47
I mean I feel like I'm missing something. I can't think of a scenario where a "planet" wasn't the dominant gravitational body in its orbit but it WAS big enough, WAS round enough, and all the other stuff as well. Even in the Pluto/Charon example, I would think that if two bodies that were big enough to be planets occupied the same orbital region, their gravity would interfere with each other, causing them to either change their orbits or crash into each other.
VosperOfAntarctica
Like maybe if Charon and Pluto saved up all their gravity and pooled it together, they might be able to afford planethood (but I doubt it)
PutItInNeutral
Damned Republicans voting against funding Planned Planethood.
Hevach
Thanks to Neptune, Pluto and all its moons only account for 0.012% of the mass in their orbital range. It's hard to emphasize just how small Pluto is - When Kuiper determined it was 100 times smaller than Tombaugh measured he was still over by a factor of 50.
Hevach
Often overlooked is that it didn't meet the requirements for a planet at the time, either, but when Kuiper determined it wasn't a planet it was saved by a rule astronomy held at the time that a new category required two example objects, and Pluto was unique until Sedna was discovered. The rules were tweaked, and then it was determined Pluto didn't meet the new requirements either, but they discovered Charon so an exception was allowed because it had a moon.
DukeDarkwood
Eris has a moon (Dysnomia), is nearly as large as Pluto, and is more massive than Pluto. Any categorization that includes one must include both, and any that excludes one must exclude both. Also, Pluto's entire tenure as a "planet" is not only a mere 30% of its own 'year' (76 years out of 248), it also falls completely within the life spans of Betty White and Queen Elizabeth II (and millions of others, because 76 really isn't that extreme for humans).
Hevach
Then we started finding asteroid moons all over the place, but Pluto was still saved by being unique. The point was quietly ignored after Seda was discovered and finally addressed when it was accepted that either Pluto was *not* a planet, or 30+ other objects *were,* including three that were already demoted before Pluto was even discovered. It still took so long to decide that it was no longer a question of 8-or-30, but 8-or-350, and it's now 8-or-741 via Mike Brown's master catalog.
PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
I, for one, vote for 741. Imagine the mnemonic elementary school kids would have to learn now!