rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works to Space@mander.xyz · 22 hours agoForbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up165
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minus-squareSnoopSqueak@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·17 hours ago Pluto is still a planet in all our hearts My heart pumps blood. My brain does the thinking. Pluto is not a planet. So what? It’s still fascinating. Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, meaning they always face each other as they orbit around. Romanticizing a bit, they are like dancers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5pQWQRxak I’m your moon, you’re my moon, We go round and round. From out here, it’s the rest of the world that looks so small. Promise me you will always remember who you are. Labels can be helpful for categorizing, organizing our knowledge. Labels do not define us. We’re all space stuff.
minus-squaremnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 hours ago Pluto and Charon are tidally locked To clarify, they’re mutually tidally locked, which is what’s rare
minus-squaregothic_lemons@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours agoThis is the song let me forgive science for what they did to Pluto. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJ6_GAprFE
My heart pumps blood. My brain does the thinking. Pluto is not a planet. So what? It’s still fascinating.
Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, meaning they always face each other as they orbit around. Romanticizing a bit, they are like dancers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5pQWQRxak
Labels can be helpful for categorizing, organizing our knowledge. Labels do not define us. We’re all space stuff.
To clarify, they’re mutually tidally locked, which is what’s rare
This is the song let me forgive science for what they did to Pluto. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJ6_GAprFE