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Posted on 11/30/2015 12:31:32 PM PST by fishtank
Pluto's Craterless Plains Look Young
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
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Earlier this year, New Horizons flew past dwarf planet Pluto and its sister Charon, rapidly capturing data. That information continues to trickle in, revealing a surprisingly smooth heart-shaped plain called "Tombaugh Regio." The countless craters expected from billions of years' worth of impacts are nowhere to be found.
Tombaugh Regio is centered just north of Pluto's equator and contains a western lobe called "Sputnik Planum." After thorough data scouring, researchers found zero craters on Sputnik Planum.
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Pluto is ready for its closeup, Mr. DeMille.
Global warming.
Botox.
Once again: just because you don’t instantly understand something doesn’t mean it’s proof of a conspiracy (or other crackpot theory).
The fact that Pluto suffers violent tidal effects with it’s “moon” Charon is enough to explain why ancient impact sites have been wiped.
The rain on Pluto falls mainly in the plains.
Are you suggesting that tidal forces from gravitational interactions with its moon creates enough frictional heat to cause volcanism there? Because this does appear to be the case with other planets' moons.
Tides pushing all the ice around!!
And there are other regions of Pluto that are cratered. What a stupid article.
Young? It could be a year old or a millenium or and eon...............
“.....a conspiracy (or other crackpot theory)....”
Creationism is neither.
And there are other regions of Pluto that are cratered. What a stupid article.
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Stupid article from a stupid source.
Scientists have said all along that the region is young, and by that they mean several million years. And as you brought up, the cratered regions are much older.
The two lobes of the feature are geologically distinct. The western lobe, Sputnik Planum, is smoother than the eastern, and they are of slightly different colors.[10]
Early speculation was that the western lobe may be a large impact crater filled with nitrogen snow. Bright spots within the region were initially speculated to be mountain peaks.[11]
Photos, released on 15 July 2015, revealed 3,400 m (11,000 ft) mountains made of water ice in the feature; they also revealed no craters in this same region, suggesting that the 'heart' is less than 100 million years old and thus that Pluto is probably geologically active.[12]"
Creationism isn’t.
Young Earth ism is.
Nothing in Scripture demands God created everything within 10,000 years.
Just looking up at night and thinking about what you see demands a universe larger than 10,000 light-year radius (i.e.: what you see can’t fit in a space 20,000 light-years wide).
And just because parts of Pluto are smooth doesn’t detract from other celestial bodies being very much not.
Scouring by ice flows and wind erosion wiped out any trace of craters.
On that note, I challenge any “young Earther” to explain why God didn’t make the universe 20 minutes ago.
A late arrival, maybe?
It gets a makeover from long years of warmer periods due to slightly closer proximity to the Sun. Also, it probably gets refaced a little from tidal interactions with Charon and its other moons. I’d be surprised if it doesn’t endure impacts from space debris as well.
OK, I actually hadn't known Pluto was largely covered in ice, or that it had an atmosphere, although a very thin one. In any case, the volcanism created by tidal forces on those moons I referred to around other planets all involved giant/massive planets like Jupiter and Saturn and their moons. I doubt the tidal forces between Pluto and Charon would create much if any frictional heat.
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