Comment on I support pluto

HejMedDig@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• addie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  … and it’s been doing it for long enough that it, and all the other plutinos, have settled into a 2:3 resonant orbit with Neptune, which takes 165 years to orbit the sun by itself.

  Space is really big and the timescales are really long, in a way which doesn’t really make sense on human scales, except for things which are so fast that they also don’t make sense on human scales, like core-collapse supernovas.

  The good news is that we’re good at doing maths and we’ve built some big computers to do that maths, so we’ve no problems ‘popping a few zeros’ into the sums that we do.

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