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Pluto just doing the best it can. Its just a lil guy.
Real planets aren't tidally locked to a moon.
You realize that Earth's moon is tidally locked, right?
Yeah, but Earth, as a real planet, isn't tidally locked to the Moon. Earth spins as it wants.
The moon actually steals energy from the earth. It's estimated that before the moon formed, earth days were around 10 hours.
but the moon gets farther away as that happens. it will escape orbit completely before the earth is tidally locked.
Yup.
Earth isn't tidally locked to its Moon, though.
real planets don't orbit empty space
Jupiter does...
...oh oops
The Jupiter-Sun barycenter is in empty space
Oh shit I didn’t actually know that that’s cool. I knew Jupiter was big enough that it made the sun move a good bit but I didn’t realize it was outside the suns surface.