Rizzler born in 2000 here. What was it like for you boomers and uncs to be deluded into thinking Pluto was a planet?
Not me senpaiI was always convinced that little morher fucker was hiding something.
>>16926358It was nothing compared to being subjected to the Pluto paradox.
>>16926358Why only that part is not covered in ice?
Where is Charon?
>>16926378the Belton Regio is much older than the whiter parts and covered in tholins.
>>16926415Charon is tiny, it's only like half the surface of Australia, or about the same surface as the European Union (minus the seas)
Pluto was part of the planets song in Blue's Clues and is therefore eternally a planet regardless of what "scientists" say.
>>16926358the lib media convinced me he was a pedo
>>16926358It was cool as fuck when it got kicked out of the club because we had found a shitload of new bodies.
>>16926358it still is a planet. just because idiots make an "official" definition does not change what is.
When I heard about Pluto I thought to myself "that's messed up"
>>16926358They changed it when I was 14. It wasn't a big deal, I just went "Ok, that's some sound logic, moving on..."
>>16926442Charon is big compared to Pluto, by far the biggest moon in the solar system compared to its planet.And since the center of gravity of the Pluto-Charon system lies outside of either body, some think it should be classified as a dual-dwarf planet system- making Charon a dwarf planet too, not a moon
>>16928858There's nothing sound about the hack as fuck definition they use for planets right now
>>16926378There's ice underneath the brown layer of space mud
>>16928858>I just went "Ok, that's some sound logic, moving on..."That's what they wanted you to think You poor, propagandised fool.
>>16928878>everything round is a planet>there are now 1600 planets in our solar system
>>16926358I still piss and shit myself about it
>>16926358I’m also a 2000 bussin unc and I think you’re a foolPluto is a planet. Anything that is in orbit around the Sun (including moons) is a planet. You can call it a “dwarf planet” to distinguish it from the major planets, but I prefer “Plutoids” bc it correctly groups the small outer solar-system planets. We should also include the large planet-moons of the Solar System that this anon >>16926415 posted, they’re just as interesting and worth discussing as any of the terrestrial planets. So we’re left withI.e 8 major planets, 7 planet-moons, unknown number of plutoids (some definitely bigger than Pluto like Eris), plus another 11 or so major moons (Saturn and Uranus’ major moons plus plutoid-moons like Charon) >>16928864and then Ceres lol, a big ol asteroid
>>16931045>there are now 1600 planets in our solar systemThis is perfectly reasonable. Let’s include all the major (round) moons and the round dwarf planets (dozens, possibly hundreds)
>>16926358hey i was born in 2000 as well! are you a January baby as well?
In the solar system there's an object called Eris which is even more massive than Pluto and it's not a moon. But that one is not a planet either and never was. So why was Pluto a planet?
>>16931336Pluto was discovered long before most other dwarf planets, besides Ceres which for a while was classified as a large asteroid because of its location in the main asteroid belt. And for a long time Pluto's size was estimated as much larger than it is. It wasn't until 1978 that good enough imagery discovered Charon and distinguished it and Pluto as separate bodies, revealing Pluto to be much smaller than previously thought, which kicked off a lot of the discussion about how perhaps Pluto should be re-classified
>>16926378That part is the India of Pluto.
>>16926358They weren't autistic retards back then and didn't bog themselves down in meaningless minutia like degrees of "planetness".
>>16931811It's supposed to be the scientific designation, so I don't see why Pluto can't be a planet to regular people but not officially purely because of legacy. Though I argue we should colloquially restate Ceres' legacy as a planet, as it once was for a short period.
>>16926358I'm younger than you but I used to read picture books about space from the 80s that would teach you about the 9 planets and cutting edge discoveries made by the voyager probes. It was pretty cool. Then I went on the internet and found out it it wasn't a planet anymore. But it'll always be a planet to me.
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Friendly reminder that the real reason Pluto got relegated is because astronomers are some of the most prideful cunts, and couldn't handle the fact that Pluto was discovered by an amateur, lest more people realize how little respect the profession deserves.
>>16931861>It's supposed to be the scientific designationNo it was a term used by astrologers to differentiate the little lights in the sky that slowly change position in relation to the others over time from the stationary lights (stars).Then anal basedence retards decided to continue using the archaic word "planet" instead of deriving their own term to use.
