Hi.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Hello planet / moon. Hopefully we will be federated with you soon.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I know this is borderline insufferable, but Pluto is a dwarf planet. Moons don't orbit stars, they orbit planets (and dwarf planets, which is how Pluto itself can have ~5 moons).

      • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I have no respect for a celestial body that can't even clear it's orbit of similarly sized objects.

          • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            I'll be the first person to hate on Jupiter (failed star ass) but everything that shares an astroid with Jupiter is locked into that position by Jupiter's gravity. Therefore it is gravitationally dominant, or has cleared it's orbit.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Admittedly Charon is almost half of Pluto's size (and is thereby itself sometimes considered a dwarf planet rather than a moon), but the other moons are more than an order of magnitude smaller, which is a greater proportional difference than the one between Earth and its moon (roughly 6:1).

          • edge [he/him]
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            edit-2
            1 year ago

            IMO Pluto–Charon is definitely a double dwarf planet system. And I've seen arguments that Earth–Moon should be considered a double planet.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              I support both theses but didn't want to get too far into the weeds.

      • iridaniotter [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        If Pluto isn't a moon, why is its barycenter in space? meow-shining

        I'm kidding, I know it's dwarf planet within a binary system.