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minus-squarecally [he/they]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up70arrow-down1·6 months agoWell technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y’know, Pluto isn’t a planet…
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down2·edit-26 months agoThat’s messed up, right?
minus-squaredethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoI’ve heard it both ways.
minus-squareNailbar@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·6 months agoA-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it’s biggest moon status!
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·6 months agoBig Moon has gotta be behind this!
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down10·6 months agoTwin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoCharon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoThat seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI thought for an object to be a satellite it’s orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoThere’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter. There’s a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification
minus-squareFauxReal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoHe might suck, but you know it wasn’t his decision right?
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·6 months agoYeah, but it’s fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.
Well technically Charon is bigger relative to its parent body but, y’know, Pluto isn’t a planet…
That’s messed up, right?
Found Gus.
I’ve heard it both ways.
A-ha! So the real reason Pluto got degraded was so Earth could keep it’s biggest moon status!
Big Moon has gotta be behind this!
Always making waves…
Twin planets. Caron and Plato. Downgraded to dwarves because NDG sucks milky ways.
Charon is still a moon, nobody upgraded it to dwarf planet.
That seems terribly unfair. Downgrades but no upgrades?
I thought for an object to be a satellite it’s orbital point had to be located inside the body of the other entity.
There’s currently no formal definition requiring that. By that definition, none of Pluto’s five moons would be moons, since they all orbit the same barycenter.
There’s a whole discussion about it here and it looks like it might be reconsidered in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Classification
He might suck, but you know it wasn’t his decision right?
Yeah, but it’s fun to blame him. He was vocally parading the news and using it, as usual, for self promotion. So I let him have it.