Something I did not know...
...about astronomy, a Hill sphere.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/10/89285 ... -influence
Pluto and Charon...
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Always good to learn something new. Looking forward to some neat photos and more enigmas to ponder.
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Vince Foster was in the Hill Sphere.The State wrote:Hill sphere
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That's an astronomically broad range of topics. Just sayin'.The State wrote:Something I did not know...
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schmick, speaking about Larry Nassar's pubescent and prepubescent victims wrote: They couldn't even kick that doctors ass
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Wolfman wrote:Always good to learn something new. Looking forward to some neat photos and more enigmas to ponder.
Would make a great setting for a goth/horror/scifi movie, ala Alien or Pitch Black.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pluto-by-moonlight
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By the way...
One of the arguments for demoting Pluto from planetary status was that Eris, one of the Kuiper Belt objects, was larger than Pluto and therefor would have to be classified as a planet as well. Recent measurements from New Horizons indicate that Pluto is, in fact, bigger than Eris.
Because of the relative masses of Pluto and Charon, some astronomers believe they can be classified as a double planetary system. Their long elliptical orbit also occasionally takes them inside of the orbit of Neptune.
If anything, Pluto and Charon deserve their own unique designation, perhaps a Rogue Dual Planetary System.
At any rate... all of the astronomy textbooks on the solar system will be outdated as of tomorrow.
One of the arguments for demoting Pluto from planetary status was that Eris, one of the Kuiper Belt objects, was larger than Pluto and therefor would have to be classified as a planet as well. Recent measurements from New Horizons indicate that Pluto is, in fact, bigger than Eris.
Because of the relative masses of Pluto and Charon, some astronomers believe they can be classified as a double planetary system. Their long elliptical orbit also occasionally takes them inside of the orbit of Neptune.
If anything, Pluto and Charon deserve their own unique designation, perhaps a Rogue Dual Planetary System.
At any rate... all of the astronomy textbooks on the solar system will be outdated as of tomorrow.