rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works to Space@mander.xyz · 1 month agoForbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down120
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minus-squareSnoopSqueak@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month ago Pluto is still a planet in all our hearts My heart pumps blood. My brain does the thinking. Pluto is not a planet. So what? It’s still fascinating. Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, meaning they always face each other as they orbit around. Romanticizing a bit, they are like dancers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5pQWQRxak I’m your moon, you’re my moon, We go round and round. From out here, it’s the rest of the world that looks so small. Promise me you will always remember who you are. Labels can be helpful for categorizing, organizing our knowledge. Labels do not define us. We’re all space stuff.
minus-squaremnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month ago Pluto and Charon are tidally locked To clarify, they’re mutually tidally locked, which is what’s rare
minus-squareRedditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·29 days agoOh, so if light was hitting it’s moon you could navigate just by where it is in the sky? I mean I guess you can do that with ours too, but this sounds way easier.
minus-squaregothic_lemons@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThis is the song let me forgive science for what they did to Pluto. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJ6_GAprFE
My heart pumps blood. My brain does the thinking. Pluto is not a planet. So what? It’s still fascinating.
Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, meaning they always face each other as they orbit around. Romanticizing a bit, they are like dancers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5pQWQRxak
Labels can be helpful for categorizing, organizing our knowledge. Labels do not define us. We’re all space stuff.
To clarify, they’re mutually tidally locked, which is what’s rare
Oh, so if light was hitting it’s moon you could navigate just by where it is in the sky? I mean I guess you can do that with ours too, but this sounds way easier.
This is the song let me forgive science for what they did to Pluto. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJ6_GAprFE