Toyman01 + Sized and said:
For real. Pluto should be a lot closer to Neptune's orbit than that.
Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:
I prefer the old testament, the Hoosier bias ply.
Ya know ......... Something's cross threaded in my head that tells me that car could almost look "right".
Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Appleseed :
Pluto was revoked because Eris is bigger. So either Eris had to be a planet, too, or Pluto had to get demoted. Orbital mechanics is why it got demoted, and good thing, because we've discovered another 3 or so after Eris that would have had to be planets, too.
There's potentially 2 more added to that, too.
Pluto might eventually be called a planet again, funny enough; the statement of "must clear it's own orbit" was never phrased well, because the example given was because Charon was so huge it essentially made Pluto into a dual-body system orbiting a central point about ~20 miles over Pluto's surface (you can see the end result of this in the picture- that red spot on top of Charon is Pluto's frozen methanes and Tholin gasses that have sublimated over millennia). Problem is however, since we have begun finding exoplanets we have been discovering the extremes of this, like worlds bigger than Jupiter orbiting around each other in the same fashion- and under that IAU convention, they technically aren't planets despite being thousands of time's the Earth in size. New Horizon's also showed that there were no small asteroids or bodies within Pluto's gravity well that weren't orbiting it, either.
Damn I love astronomy.
Those aren't for dogs.
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