Sunday, 19 February 2017

What We Can Learn From Pluto's Icy Heart

quote [ The celestial snowball's most stunning feature might be cold, but it sure isn't dead. ]
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[by ScoobySnacks@12:19amGMT]

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shiftace said[1] @ 4:12am GMT on 19th Feb
More anti-Pluto lies. According to this Pluto hatesite article, Pluto is "so tiny, itโ€™s not even technically a planet". Bullshit! Even the IUA propaganda website they link to admits that Pluto has sufficient mass to classify as a planet according to the anti-Pluto IUA rules. What classifies Pluto as a Dwarf planet is the ambiguous rule that a planet must "clear its area". I would argue that if Pluto does not meet that criteria then neither Does Neptune whose orbit is intersected by Pluto.
shiftace said @ 4:16am GMT on 19th Feb
Oh and by the way maybe Pluto would not have such an Icy Heart if it got the love and admiration it deserved. Pluto is a planet. Deal with it.
Headlessfriar said @ 5:24am GMT on 19th Feb
My former astronomy teacher founded the "Society for preservation of Pluto as a planet". I'm not sure he's getting much traction with it though.

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