What is Pluto doing so close to Australia?
That shouldn’t be allowed. Someone tell it to go back to it’s usual orbit, this is not on.
Fuck off Pluto, we’re full!
You didn’t know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn’t really a planet.
It’s their payback for that whole “clears its orbit” business.
First they came for Pluto’s planethood.
Next they’re coming for Australia’s continenthood.
Wow, Pluto has approximately the same surface area as Russia
And now putin starts pumping out propaganda that pluto used to be russian
So… Does this mean Australia is no longer a continent?
Dwarf continent
Or does it mean Australia is a planet?
Australia would have to round up its edges and clear it’s orbit of little islands before being called a planet.
I’m sure the rest of the world would agree!
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If that photo was taken right before impact, none of the continents will remain continents because it’s all about to melt and we might have another moon when everything settles down and we evolve back from scratch over the next several billion years.
The only survivors would be Australia’s infamous Magma Spiders.
Just in time to get baked by the sun!
Seems like it amounts to a gas giant down under.
It never was. The concept of Australis is part of spherical world order.
Do you really think a Platypus is a real animal? A mammal that let’s eggs and has bioluminescent fur. Get the fuck outta here.
Sand Mass?
Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.
Pluto is still a sphere, this is an unfair comparison because Pluto hasn’t been unwrapped
Fun fact: the surface area of Pluto is only about 4% larger than Russia.
So thats why Russia wanted to expand
Pluto unboxing video.
It’s actually 4π*(0.5*(length-of-australia))^2 bigger than that.
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And thats why you’ll never be a real planet!
Heresy! Australia will always be a planet.
Absolute size isn’t really in the criteria for a planet though. Pluto isn’t a planet because it shares its orbit with lots of other icy bodies in the Kuiper belt.
Exactly. That’s also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn’t a planet either.
Do you mean the Trojans? They’re excluded from the mass calculation of ‘clearing the neighbourhood’ because they’re in a resonant orbit - their orbit is a consequence of Jupiter’s mass.
I don’t know. I don’t think we should make excuses for Jupiter just because of its size. Pluto’s doing the best it can. Could any of us do any better, so far out from the sun?
Jupiter does throw its weight around a bit too much.
Thanks to your comments, I went looking at more about Jupiter’s influence on us and read that most of the other planets are more in line with Jupiter’s orbital plane than the Sun’s equatorial plane (which sounds impressive, but maybe only makes complete sense since the planets would have all initially formed from the same disk). Anyway, thanks
That’s really interesting!
I just discovered a theory about the cause of the ‘late heavy bombardment’, which is thought to have delivered water to earth via comets.Essentially the gas giants all orbited much closer, but Jupiter and Saturn got into resonance and flung Uranus and Neptune way out (and Saturn too). Uranus and Neptune flew out into the path of a heap of ice, and their gravity pulled the ice into an orbit that collided with the terrestrial planets.
Jupiter was declared too big to fail.
This picture is inaccurate, Pluto is actually much farther away.
No it’s just really small
Telephoto shot, using a 1e50 mm lens.
if anyone wants to do the math, how far away from the sun would the camera have needed to be to take such a photo?
Apparent scale is inverse linear, i.e., proportional to 1 / distance. If we want the apparent scale of two objects to be about 90% accurate to their actual relative scale, their relative distances to the camera can’t be more than 10% different. Pluto being 40-ish astronomical from Earth, you’d want to shoot from about 400 AU. Voyager I should be in prime position circa 2140.
Probably not necessary to use a lens so long it can reach distant galaxies!
Small little fucker, no wonder it’s not a planet anymore.
Straya’s never been a planet, mate.
Yeah, but it is a pretty big island.
Might as well have been. 😉
As a former Plutonian, I can confirm it’s small, that’s why we immigrated to Earth. And fucking cold!
Stop posting pictures of my family, they are very shy!!!
What is this, a planet for ants?!
Extremely venomous ants.
It’s a close-up shot; the planet in this photo is actually much bigger than Australia.
Then again it could be super close and the size of a potato.
Potatoes aren’t usually blue
They are if they are moving towards you really fast!
Imagine hitting that fast ball
I have this Tshirt
I get groans
Hey wtf put Pluto back to where it belongs. Do you have any idea how bad this is for the world economics???
Would the owner of a beige 1930 dwarf planet please move it, or we will have it towed.
I think a TARDIS can do that.
Meanwhile, Australia is down there like “WTF mate?”
Nah, no one likes lives in that part of Australia. Pluto sitting there just means drivers from Perth to Sydney have to take a little detour.
I mean, I’m pretty sure you’d be able to see it from everywhere in Australia, so I bet many of them would be like “WTF?” But they’ll be dead soon. Fuckin’ kangaroos.
Fucking kangaroos
Still can’t unsee Pluto(the dog) on Pluto
