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re: The upcoming flyby of Pluto will be the first for a planet in 25 years
Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:42 pm to weagle99
Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:42 pm to weagle99
Same. They will be the pictures used in textbooks for the rest of time now. I can't even imagine what it was like not knowing what Saturn or Neptune looked like but now that's all we think.
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Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:42 pm to weagle99
quote:no
if Earth were located in the same location as Pluto it would not be considered a planet.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:44 pm to ThePoo
Earth couldn't clear its orbit in that location baw.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:48 pm to weagle99
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Earth couldn't clear its orbit in that location baw.
Probably true, but so what?
Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:49 pm to weagle99
earth would be constantly gaining mass in the kuiper belt
Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:57 pm to ThePoo
V ger gonna get us
Posted on 5/12/15 at 10:58 pm to foshizzle
quote:
Probably true, but so what?
That is the criteria that they say disqualified Pluto from being the 9th planet.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:05 pm to weagle99
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That is the criteria that they say disqualified Pluto from being the 9th planet.
But the Earth did clear its orbit where it is now.
That is how the classification works.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:05 pm to weagle99
the early stages of the solar system the inner solar system was littered with rocky bodies although much hotter than what we see in the kuiper belt...it is why all of the inner planets are rocky
The reason most scientists believe we have our moon is because the earth absorbed an impact from a rocky body the size of mars. The earth cleared it's orbit (for the most part) gaining mass the entire time through constant impacts with rocky bodies
The reason most scientists believe we have our moon is because the earth absorbed an impact from a rocky body the size of mars. The earth cleared it's orbit (for the most part) gaining mass the entire time through constant impacts with rocky bodies
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:14 pm to goldenbadger08
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They will be the pictures used in textbooks for the rest of time now.
No, just no!
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:18 pm to ThePoo
I have read much of that before. The lead scientist of New Horizons along with some individuals at Harvard don't think Earth could clear its orbit in Kuiper. I don't have the details of their reasoning at hand.
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 11:20 pm
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:19 pm to efrad
But here isn't there.
That part of the classification criteria is controversial.
That part of the classification criteria is controversial.
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:21 pm to weagle99
it doesn't need to completely clear it's to be considered a planet, earth's orbit is not clear...in fact no planet in our solar system has a clear orbit. Science has not even determined what the threshold is for being considered "clear"
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:23 pm to ThePoo
never took you for a celestial/planet/astronomy whatever guy
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:29 pm to Jones
I find astronomy very interesting, I particularly like astrophysics
there is so much mind-blowing stuff in this field that you can constantly be learning your entire life and not even scratch the surface
there is so much mind-blowing stuff in this field that you can constantly be learning your entire life and not even scratch the surface
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:31 pm to lsu480
quote:It's crazy all we have are computer generations and predictions of what we think Pluto looks like.. You can't even find a prediction of what Neptune looked like before Voyager.. Kids in 10 years will see pictures of Pluto and know what it looks like and just not think anything of it.
No, just no!
Are there any folks that were in school in the 70's or earlier that remember what their textbooks said regarding Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus since there were no pictures?
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:32 pm to ThePoo
agree. was talking to a friend last night who is planning on sailing around the world and is going to learn celestial navigation as a hobby to use when he does and kinda just realized how cool it is to have knowledge of the planets and stars in any way.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 11:44 pm to Jones
And the fact that most scientists believe the entire universe, everything that ever existed, was contained in point of singularity smaller than an atom
Posted on 5/13/15 at 12:29 am to goldenbadger08
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...Uranus since there were no pictures?
There were pictures back then...there were plenty pictures.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 12:48 am to Marco Esquandolas
So these pictures, I'm going to assume they aren't going to be of the best quality...
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