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Pluto's Orbit (mander.xyz)
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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Temporary planet designation for its birthday!!!! Time for Christmas spirit, y'all!

On that note, Santa and all his elves will have drowned from North pole melting long before then.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago

Second thing I noticed: Ooh, is that so? That's interesting.

First thing: its not it's

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 28 points 14 hours ago
[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

It was the runt of the litter and didn't survive full planet hood.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago

Marked on my calendar, see you all there!

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

Will it or won't it be a planet by then?

[-] SanctimoniousApe 21 points 13 hours ago

We will call it a planet if we plan it.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

So please don't tell me to can it

I've got one thing to say and that's

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Dammit! Janet!

^I^ ^want^ ^to^ ^screw^!

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

depends on how you define "planet".

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 31 points 18 hours ago

Since it is discovery

[-] Felling_High_Horses@endlesstalk.org 18 points 18 hours ago

its ಠ_ಠ

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 66 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You mean to tell me it hasn't even been a year (on Pluto) since we discovered Pluto?!

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 67 points 22 hours ago

It was discovered, made a planet, and then kicked out the club in that time.

[-] Kraiden@kbin.earth 60 points 22 hours ago

If you think 2020 was bad, wait until you hear about Pluto's year... the American civil war, ww1, ww2, the great depression, the moon landing... the American civil war...

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 9 hours ago

But none of those things happened on the planet

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago

It's been a really rough year for Pluto. Let's all wish it good luck next year (when humans are probably dead).

Alright, setting a reminder

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Pluto Party Time!
How much longer? I"ve got my costume ready and everything...

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Fine I'll look it up. Discovered 1930, so that makes a Pluto year 248 Earth years.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 21 points 23 hours ago

!remind_me 1868 months

[-] superkret@feddit.org 17 points 22 hours ago

How can we even know it's a planet when we haven't observed a single orbit, yet?
Maybe it's just a really big comet.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

It's not really big. There are multiple Pluto like planetoids. Also there is a hunk of rock in the asteroid belt youcould name a planet.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

By measuring how fast it's moving and where it is you can find the orbit

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 20 points 19 hours ago

We've observed enough of its orbit to know what shape it is.

[-] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 15 points 19 hours ago

How can you be so sure it doesn't just decide to leave

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

And who could blame it?

Hopefully the AI Contruct that we will create will be able to witness it.

Because I don't think humans are surviving that long.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I might end up missing that, too‽ Goddammit!

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