{{
`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
4/12/2015 4:03:52 AM
15
Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet, it does not have enough to diameter to be put into the planet classification, an does not orbit another body and therefore cannot be considered a moon, it does however have a moon known as Charon
English
-
Edited by VorticalBox: 4/13/2015 1:23:50 PMThat's not how you classify a dwarf planet. It needs to be orbiting a star and not another body, be large enough that it's shape is in hydrostatic equilibrium and that it has not cleared cleared the neighborhood around it's orbit. Saying "it isn't big enough" doesn't quite cut it
-
Well obviously, but things like its own gravity crushing it into a spherical shape, and it "has to be orbiting a star and not cleared the neighbourhood of its orbit are obvious, a smaller size is the main thing
-
Neeeeeerrrrrddd
-
Your mum thought it was big enough
-
And it has an off orbit
-
Edited by lMGPl_Mister_K: 4/12/2015 6:06:58 AMIt is in a 2:3 orbital resonance with Neptune, this does not mean it's a moon of Neptune, it simply means for every 3 orbits that Neptune makes, Pluto makes 2, this specific orbital resonance also insures that Pluto will never collide with or be captured by Neptune, which would turn it into a Jovian moon, however this could never possible because of the 2:3 resonance
-
Yeah what he said ;)
-
I'm sorry if I broke your brain, I like to spread knowledge
-
shuddup and bump the post
-
It's a binary "moon" system
-
It and it's moon Charon, do not orbit a gravitational center which both their gravity combined makes, Charon orbits Pluto, therefore you are incorrect
-
Actually it is big enough. The reason why it isn't a full blown planet is because is has not cleared it's orbit yet. There is still tons of space junk in its path. Not to mention it intercepts another planets orbit.
-
Also the fact that there are thousands of similar objects the same shape as pluto, but we can't have all of those can we
-
They are all either dwarf planets, Proto planets, of the comet or asteroid classification, or are moons of other planets
-
Incorrect Pluto does not have the diameter to be classified As a planet, Pluto is approximately 4.6 billion years old, around the same age as earth, and takes roughly 248 earth years to make one revolution around the sun, so It has definitely completed many orbits in its life time, and space "junk" is any man made objects that once had a use that are in orbit around earth but no longer do and are considered basically trash left over from rocket launches and what not, it presents a serious hazard to any spacecraft Or satellite that are Being used and the increasingly serious problem is known as the Kessler syndrome, in case you were talking about asteroids, though Pluto marks the inner boundary of the Kuiper belt, it is most definitely not inside of it, it does not get constantly bombarded by asteroid however one may hit every few hundred years or so, but since no Objects of any gravitational significance really exist where The Kuiper belt is located, it is rare
