Dwarf Planets are people too
Submitted 2 months ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 months ago
Pluto ain’t gonna quit, impact craters level out after a while, and that mofo has more geologically interesting shit going on than most people realize.
scratchee@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I think I’m seeing shit I’ve seen a perfect protostar I’ve seen a triple quasar But I’ve never seen a dwarf planet go this hard!
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget).
Klear@quokk.au 2 months ago
Yeah, people don’t realise that removing Pluto is the conservative choice when it comes to the list of planets.
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 2 months ago
It was the only choice if we are expecting elementary students to memorize them all in order.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
The more the merrier
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d be happy with:
Pluto = planet
Anything smaller than Pluto ≠ planet
Nine planets. Now with clear non-stupid rules.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.
Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.
Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
At least Pluto is rock solid, looking at you Jupiter and Saturn. Ya’ll wish you half the silicate mass!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Uranus is full of farts!
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Jupiter’s got diamond bones, baby.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, but they’re fuzzy.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I can’t be the only one who hates this “omg guys Pluto has to be a planet!” meme shit that won’t die.
Who fucking cares? Yes, we used to call it one thing, and now we call it something else. Get over it.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you. I have a kid I work with that looooves space. To him, dwarf planets and regular planets are equally interesting. When we watch space videos that point out Pluto in some way, he’s just confused. Like a video about the 8 planets ending in a frowning Pluto.
The kid: “Why is Pluto sad?”
Me: “Well, bud, some grown ups are silly. They grew up thinking of Pluto as a planet and they don’t like that its status changed.”
But to him, Pluto has no reason to be “sad.” It’s got Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris to be friends with! But nobody makes a big deal over them (if they even are aware of their existence at all. This boy has single-handedly educated many of my coworkers about them.)
Point is, grown ups - let it go! Scientific reclassification doesn’t mean Pluto was ejected from the solar system or something. It’s still there and it’s still loved. It just plays with different friends now.
Una@europe.pub 2 months ago
Pluto is still a planet, dwarf planets are still planets just smaller.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 months ago
In Illinois, we passed a law acknowledging Pluto as a planet because we are the most open and accepting state.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My objection to “dwarf planet” is purely a linguistically aesthetic one.
“Dwarf planet” ≠ planet
…implies…
“Dwarf person” ≠ person
…and I feel like the people under 4’10" (147 cm) would object to that distinction.
Also, “planetoid” was a perfectly cromulent word which Star Trek had been using for decades already.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Different meanings. “Dwarf person” = a person with dwarfism, but “dwarf planet” ≠ a planet with dwarfism.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are plenty of linguistically unintuitive artifacts kicking around (a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut, a jellyfish is not a fish, all of the “berries” which aren’t berries), but if we’re deliberately creating brand new labels in the 21st century, it might have been nice if we’d avoided that kind of oddness, given the opportunity.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 months ago
Did you test Pluto to make sure its not just a regularplanet with dwarfism?
5ha99y@lemmus.org 1 week ago
You know whats funny? Technically speaking, the only thing that holds luna from being a planet is only the fact that earth and moon are not declared as a biplanetary system. This is due to the weak argument that the mass center of the two planets is JUST under earths surface. When we argue with anything else, like for example gravitational pull, the sun pulls stronger than earth, making the moon not part of earths system but equally a part of the suns system, declaring earth and moon as a biplanetary system. Moon is very large in relation to earth to be an actual moon (like Jupiters or Mars’ moons). Strictly speaking by ignoring the (somehow) most relevant but weakest argument of the mass center being (just) inside earths crust, it could clearly be declared as biplanetary system