New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
www.newscientist.com
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
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“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.”
This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it.
It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?
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Well it's a good frame of reference because it's where most of us keep all our stuff.
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Talk about putting all our eggs in the same basket smh
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It didn't. It's 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?
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They didn't change the reference, they defined an AU.
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"It's 20.5°C outside or roughly 20 notches on your thermometer (except for americans)"
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Here's another article that doesn't do this for anyone else that would prefer it:
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-planet.html
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Ugh, didn't read the "dwarf" part and got my hopes up for planet 9. When they eventually do find it they have to name it something with P so that the old mnemonics still work.
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I've heard that the sign of a fair bargain is that everybody leaves unhappy. So how about we name it "Pluto?" That should annoy pretty much everyone.
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"Plutwo"
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“Planet 9” starts with “P”
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This study authors btw say that their models for 2017 OF201's orbit work best without the influence of a hypothetical planet 9
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Ooh, nice!
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Obviously there's a Planet X out there, where else would Chemical X come from
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They prefer to be called little planets, tyvm.
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Pluto defenders in shambles
But I am not sure how to process this as a planet X fan
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planet X
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Edit: Also, Pluto would totally whoop Planet X's ass one-to-one!
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When we hit the floor you just watch them move aside
\ We will take them for a ride of rides
\ They all love your miniature ways
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So, draft planet 8.1 ? 8.3 because of Pluto and Charron?
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Don't forget Eris. Weighs more than Pluto.
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Oh shit yeah… So, 8.4 then?
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How do Sedna and that new one have a stable orbit? Are they that fast, to be able to compensate the movement of Pluto?
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dibs
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Poor guy. Hopefully he's out there finding his own family.
At least it doesn't have to deal with the toxicity Pluto does, being in the family one day and then coldly rejected from the family from the planet club the next. And we wonder why it's exterior is frozen...
Dwarf or not, Pluto is STILL a planet.
It's not, actually. "Planet" and "Dwarf planet" are disjoint sets, according to the IAU.
Is a sea lion still a lion? Same thing.
Jerry?
Previous comment of mine seems relevant…