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minus-squarecally [he/they]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up70arrow-down1·1 个月前Well technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y’know, Pluto isn’t a planet…
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down2·edit-21 个月前That’s messed up, right?
minus-squareNailbar@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·1 个月前A-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it’s biggest moon status!
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 个月前Big Moon has gotta be behind this!
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down10·1 个月前Twin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 个月前Charon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 个月前That seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 个月前I thought for an object to be a satellite it’s orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 个月前There’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter. There’s a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification
minus-squareFauxReal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 个月前He might suck, but you know it wasn’t his decision right?
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 个月前Yeah, but it’s fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.
Well technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y’know, Pluto isn’t a planet…
That’s messed up, right?
Found Gus.
I’ve heard it both ways.
A-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it’s biggest moon status!
Big Moon has gotta be behind this!
Always making waves…
Twin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
Charon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
That seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
I thought for an object to be a satellite it’s orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.
There’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter.
There’s a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification
He might suck, but you know it wasn’t his decision right?
Yeah, but it’s fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.