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Stunning. Pluto is so far from the sun that the sun would appear to an observer as just a bright star.

Why I love science. Pseudoscience and religious myths can't show anything like this. And it's real!
 
crandc said:
Stunning. Pluto is so far from the sun that the sun would appear to an observer as just a bright star.

Why I love science. Pseudoscience and religious myths can't show anything like this. And it's real!
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I find it interesting we can see a football field sized crater on say, the moon, from earth. Yet the international space station cant even see a city. It's like it's all fabricated if you think about it. Why did google have to drive cars with cameras to get "street view" our telescope technology can see a booger on pluto but cant see a person from our atmosphere?
 
So, somebody explain to me why it’s not considered a planet anymore. Somebody at sometime felt it was. WHy the change? That pic looks amazing blown up on my big ass iPad but he way. Probably the clearest image I’ve seen on it.
 
THE HCP said:
So, somebody explain to me why it’s not considered a planet anymore. Somebody at sometime felt it was. WHy the change? That pic looks amazing blown up on my big ass iPad but he way. Probably the clearest image I’ve seen on it.
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Not big enough. Not enough gravitational pull. Kinda of like why we no longer let you start game threads.
 
rasheedfan2005 said:
I find it interesting we can see a football field sized crater on say, the moon, from earth. Yet the international space station cant even see a city. It's like it's all fabricated if you think about it. Why did google have to drive cars with cameras to get "street view" our telescope technology can see a booger on pluto but cant see a person from our atmosphere?
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1 - This picture was taken by a probe we threw at Pluto, not from Earthbound telescopes; Earthbound telescopes can barely see Pluto at all. Even the Hubble telescope can only get a blur in a photo of Pluto: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1006c/
2 - The ISS isn't a telescope or a spy satellite... the telescopes that can see football field sized craters are pretty big, much bigger than the ISS
3 - Google doesn't have access to the spy satellites that *can* see our boogers from space.
 
THE HCP said:
So, somebody explain to me why it’s not considered a planet anymore. Somebody at sometime felt it was. WHy the change? That pic looks amazing blown up on my big ass iPad but he way. Probably the clearest image I’ve seen on it.
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It's prejudice pure and simple. I think it's got something to do with the color of the surface.
 
I think someone classified it as a moon instead of a planet because it's smaller than most planets....I never bought into that
 
When Pluto was first discovered it was the only one of its kind and was deemed a planet although it was distinctly different from the other eight - its orbit was way eccentric and inclined, for example. Also it was thought to be bigger than it actually was until the Pluto's moon Charon was discovered; originally they were thought to be one larger body. They are now considered a binary, although there are three smaller moons as well. As telescopes improved it was learned Pluto is just one in a group of a huge number of Kuiper Belt objects, and not even the largest. Hence it got demoted. Although some object.

I learned planets in order: Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury when I was about 8 or 9. I still think Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury to this day - it's correct still but one item is not like the others.
 
MarAzul said:
uh? The gravitational pull is the same as it was 70 years ago when it was a planet.
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The sun has the same orbit around the earth as it did pre-Copernicus. We just know now that it does not.
 
Pluto is considered a dwarf planet.

It doesn't fit the current/revised definition of planet, which includes that it has to have cleared its orbit of smaller bodies.

When I fly up to it in the starship Enterprise and put it on the main screen, it looks like a planet. Therefore, it really is a planet.
 
SportsAndWhine said:
1 - This picture was taken by a probe we threw at Pluto, not from Earthbound telescopes; Earthbound telescopes can barely see Pluto at all. Even the Hubble telescope can only get a blur in a photo of Pluto: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1006c/
2 - The ISS isn't a telescope or a spy satellite... the telescopes that can see football field sized craters are pretty big, much bigger than the ISS
3 - Google doesn't have access to the spy satellites that *can* see our boogers from space.
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You can see the craters on the moon with your naked eye but cant make out shit but giant ass hurricanes from the space station which is supposedly slightly closer to the earth than the moon.
 
rasheedfan2005 said:
You can see the craters on the moon with your naked eye but cant make out shit but giant ass hurricanes from the space station which is supposedly slightly closer to the earth than the moon.
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Fun fact: craters on the moon are really big. Like, the ones visible from the earth with a naked eye are 100+ miles across. Humans, and human structures? Much much smaller.
 
andalusian said:
The sun has the same orbit around the earth as it did pre-Copernicus. We just know now that it does not.
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We know or we've been told? Why does the moon always show the same surface to the earth? Isnt it suppised to be spinning as well as orbiting?
 
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