"What were they thinking? (A-hyulk)"
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Posted on 09/14/2018 10:51:40 AM PDT by fishtank
Pluto Rivals Earth in Geological Complexity
September 14, 2018 | David F. Coppedge
Call it what you will, Pluto is a planet of surprises. Its active geology is second only to Earth’s, say two planetary scientists.
What were they thinking? (A-hyulk)
There’s another push to re-classify Pluto as a planet. According to Science Daily, Philip Metzger of the University of Central Florida thinks the IAU (International Astronomical Union) thinks they acted a bit goofy when they downgraded Pluto to “dwarf planet” in 2006. They used a “sloppy definition” that a body must “clear its orbit” to be considered a true planet. “They didn’t say what they meant by clearing their orbit,” Metzger retorts. “If you take that literally, then there are no planets, because no planet clears its orbit.”
But Metzger’s preferred definition – a body that is large enough to become spherical in shape – opens the door to classifying all kinds of moons as planets. Surprisingly, that’s OK with Metzger and his colleague Kirby Runyon of Johns Hopkins University. He thinks calling Titan and Ganymede “planets” is “functionally useful,” and has historical precedent, too.
This academic debate means little in the long run. Bodies are what they are, regardless of what humans call them. It just goes to illustrate a philosopher’s critique of taxonomy in science: Do scientists really carve nature at its joints? How arbitrary are human classification schemes? What are the costs and benefits of lumpers and splitters? Do names of reference confuse or enlighten? Is one culture’s classification scheme “better” than another’s?
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"What were they thinking? (A-hyulk)"
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Dunes, glaciers, and convection cells in Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia
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Give me a minute or two ...
From the article:
“Watch for New Horizons’ next encounter this New Year’s Day, January 1, 2019. Should we make a prediction? Will the next target, Ultima Thule,”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69
“(486958) 2014 MU69, previously designated PT1 and 1110113Y, and nicknamed Ultima Thule by the New Horizons team,[3] is a trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper belt located in the outermost regions of the Solar System.”
“Its active geology is second only to Earth’s, say two planetary scientists.”
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They already said Earth is number One!
MPPA!!!
Make Pluto Planetary Again!!!
Bread and Circuses.
Keeping the sheeple talking about the stupid stuff, while the criminals roam free.
“Its active geology is second only to Earth’s, say two planetary scientists.”
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What would planetary scientists know about Pluto? It ain’t a planet.
It will pass by Earth soon and will be a sight to behold. It will also reap havoc on tides, winds, and cause other destabilization.
I think the FBI shut down the solar observatory because Nibiru will soon appear and the gov't doesn't want the masses to panic.
Pluto is a bit player compared to Nibiru!
And SJW leftist-hack deGrasse Tyson led that charge.
Active geology? What does that even mean? Pluto has volcanoes? Liquid oceans? Rainfall? Stupid stuff like that gives science a bad name. Pluto isn’t a planet. It’s an asteroid.
I think this was all a sham for an excuse to rewrite all school textbooks FOR the Fraud.
Remember when his handlers added his name to museum item tags and such, even when he had nothing to do with them?
Wish I could remember the specifics. Pretty sure it was something like, “{The Fraud} supported legislation to make {this} more important”, etc.
Active geology means there are processes actively reworking the surface.
“What would planetary scientists know about Pluto? It ain’t a planet.”
That’s right!
Big Media told us it isn’t a planet, and since that’s not DIRECTLY related to politics, YES, I’ll joyfully swallow what Big Media is excreting.
(I probably need the /S).
well, Pluto has 5 moons that we know of already
(including Charon with which it dances in a neat manner)
so whatever they wanna call Pluto, its probably not a comet, meteor, nor asteriod
Had a chuckle at that, but hey, a little more relevantly, the Parker Solar Probe is currently on mission (with my name encoded in its memory)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
Mike Brown, Professor of Planetary Astronomy, on ‘How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pbj_llmiMg
LOL!
So in 6 months when we’re on the opposite side of the sun, if it’s still not visible will you admit you were wrong?
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