Assian_Candor, 57 minut temu

Pluto defenders in shambles

But I am not sure how to process this as a planet X fan

TankieTanuki, 40 minut temu

planet X

my-hero 🪐

Edit: Also, Pluto would totally whoop Planet X’s ass one-to-one!

NigelFrobisher, godzinę temu

When we hit the floor you just watch them move aside
We will take them for a ride of rides
They all love your miniature ways
You know what they say about small boys

MasterBlaster, godzinę temu

dibs

tiny_hedgehog, 3 godziny temu

“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.”

This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it.

It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?

AlbinoPython, 2 godziny temu

I mean, they said “roughly”.

corsicanguppy, 2 godziny temu

Like, give or take one AU, throughout the year.

powerofm, godzinę temu

“It’s 20.5°C outside or roughly 20 notches on your thermometer (except for americans)”

ThermonuclearEgg, 53 minuty temu

Here’s another article that doesn’t do this for anyone else that would prefer it:

phys.org/…/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-pla…

Etterra, 47 minut temu

Well it’s a good frame of reference because it’s where most of us keep all our stuff.

Kichae, 31 minut temu

It didn’t. It’s 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?

bjoern_tantau, 6 godzin temu

Ugh, didn’t read the “dwarf” part and got my hopes up for planet 9. When they eventually do find it they have to name it something with P so that the old mnemonics still work.

Zachariah, 5 godzin temu

“Planet 9” starts with “P”

FaceDeer, 3 godziny temu

I've heard that the sign of a fair bargain is that everybody leaves unhappy. So how about we name it "Pluto?" That should annoy pretty much everyone.

wise_pancake, 6 godzin temu

This far-flung orbit may be the result of an encounter with a giant planet, which ejected the candidate dwarf planet out of the solar system, say the researchers.

Poor guy. Hopefully he’s out there finding his own family.

At least it doesn’t have to deal with the toxicity Pluto does, being in the family one day and then coldly rejected from the family from the planet club the next. And we wonder why it’s exterior is frozen…

Rhaedas, 5 godzin temu

Dwarf or not, Pluto is STILL a planet.

FaceDeer, 3 godziny temu

It's not, actually. "Planet" and "Dwarf planet" are disjoint sets, according to the IAU.

Is a sea lion still a lion? Same thing.

atomicbocks, godzinę temu

Previous comment of mine seems relevant…

dream_weasel, 16 minut temu

Jerry?