Pluto's Orbit

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You mean to tell me it hasn’t even been a year since we discovered Pluto?!

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  • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was discovered, made a planet, and then kicked out the club in that time.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s been a really rough year for Pluto. Let’s all wish it good luck next year (when humans are probably dead).

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• InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alright, setting a reminder

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since it is discovery

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• drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lazy fake planet

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was the runt of the litter and didn’t survive full planet hood.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you considered that angering the god of the Underworld is why we’re on our current mess?

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Marked on my calendar, see you all there!

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  !remind_me 1868 months

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fine I’ll do look it up. Discovered 1930, so that makes a Pluto year 278 Earth years.

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• Felling_High_Horses@endlesstalk.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  its ಠ_ಠ

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How can we even know it’s a planet when we haven’t observed a single orbit, yet?
  Maybe it’s just a really big comet.

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’ve observed enough of its orbit to know what shape it is.

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    • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How can you be so sure it doesn’t just decide to leave

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not really big. There are multiple Pluto like planetoids. Also there is a hunk of rock in the asteroid belt youcould name a planet.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ceres is more than a third of the mass of the asteroid belt. It’s at least an order of magnitude bigger than anything else in its orbit. It’s hardly a hunk of rock

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By measuring how fast it’s moving and where it is you can find the orbit

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• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Second thing I noticed: Ooh, is that so? That’s interesting.

  First thing: its not it’s

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Will it or won’t it be a planet by then?

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We will call it a planet if we plan it.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So please don’t tell me to can it I’ve got one thing to say and that’s

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  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    depends on how you define “planet”.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dwarf planet is a planet!

      IAU names aren’t the best, “planet” should be major planet.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pluto Party Time!
  How much longer? I"ve got my costume ready and everything…

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hopefully the AI Contruct that we will create will be able to witness it.

  Because I don’t think humans are surviving that long.

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  • asg101@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If humans start digging now some of them might make it in sealed self-contained bunkers.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Temporary planet designation for its birthday!!! Time for Christmas spirit, y’all!

  On that note, Santa and all his elves will have drowned from North pole melting long before then.

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I might end up missing that, too‽ Goddammit!

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