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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kazan on February 27, 2008, 07:19:40 am
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hmmm.... (is pluto's charon, a planet?)
Sedna is the only one I can think of...
btw, it's stupid how they classified 8 planets instead of 9... I miss pluto :(
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Sleepy, Dopey, Bashful, Doc....
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hmmm.... (is pluto's charon, one?)
Sedna is the only one I can think of...
btw, it's stupid how they classified 11 planets instead of 12... I miss pluto :(
Pluto IS classified as part of the eleven, it being a dwarf planet and all. And Charon is classified as a moon as it orbits Pluto and not the sun.
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Pluto is not a planet... anymore - it's technically a kuiper belt object and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.
EDIT: I edited my original post to avoid confusion
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spaceBall 1 spaceBall 2 etc
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Pluto is not a planet... anymore - it's technically a kuiper belt object and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.
EDIT: I edited my original post to avoid confusion
True, what is it they are calling it now......a planetoid??
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snowball 1
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Pluto is not a planet... anymore - it's technically a kuiper belt object and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.
EDIT: I edited my original post to avoid confusion
True, what is it they are calling it now......a planetoid??
Dwarf planet. Pluto is actually smaller than the largest dwarf planet, Eris.
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I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.
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I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.
Dwarf planets, asteroids, etc. get a number and a name--1 Ceres, 399 Persephone, 134340 Pluto, etc.
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I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.
dwarf planets have their own naming convention.. and no it's not "1 ceres", etc - that was it's asteroid designator.
here is the difference between planets, dwarf planets, and everything else
Planets: Large enough for their gravity to make them roughly spherical, and they dominate their orbit (ie have cleared pretty much all other objects from it)
Dwarf Planets: Large enough for their gravity to make them roughly spherical, but do not dominate their orbits (Ceres is in the asteroid belt)
Everything else: not the above.
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I didn't think the dwarf planets had standard names, I thought they got alphanumeric designations now.
dwarf planets have their own naming convention.. and no it's not "1 ceres", etc - that was it's asteroid designator
Except that Pluto has the same kind of designator as an asteroid--134340 Pluto.
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and true Charon is a satellite of pluto.
Actually, it's not a true moon. In truth, Charon is a Prothean Mass Relay covered in ice and debris accumulated over thousands of years.
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:lol: I read the codex too...
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I guess we haven't heard very much about dwarf planets until Pluto was put into that category.
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Yeah, then we had to figure out if Pluto was still cool or not.
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I think I can hear it sobbing in the corner.
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My favorite Pluto shirt. (http://www.snorgtees.com/itsokaypluto-p-461.html)
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And mine... (http://www.threadpit.com/store/product.php?productid=213&cat=0&page=1)
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I guess we haven't heard very much about dwarf planets until Pluto was put into that category.
that's because the term was just created - there was a long fuzzy line between planets and just very large other bodies.. and they recognized there was a distinct in between so they gave it a name finally and recognized that pluto, ceres and eris are members of that in between
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Heh, if scientists can keep wrongly referring to Cruithne as a 'Moon' then they can damn-well call Pluto a Planet ;)
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Heh, if scientists can keep wrongly referring to Cruithne as a 'Moon' then they can damn-well call Pluto a Planet ;)
yes.. because they're actually refering to it as a moon and not just saying taht tongue-in-cheek because the orbits of Cruithne and earth
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Yes, hence the winking smiley at the end of my post :D