Pluto is still a sphere, this is an unfair comparison because Pluto hasn't been unwrapped
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The Alice Springs Pluto Observatory has opened considerably under-budget.
That’s an avocado pit and you know it
Wow, Pluto has approximately the same surface area as Russia
And now putin starts pumping out propaganda that pluto used to be russian
As a former Plutonian, I can confirm it's small, that's why we immigrated to Earth. And fucking cold!
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Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.
What is Pluto doing so close to Australia?
That shouldn't be allowed. Someone tell it to go back to it's usual orbit, this is not on.
They’re using it to cool up Australia
It's their payback for that whole "clears its orbit" business.
Fuck off Pluto, we're full!
You didn't know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn't really a planet.
Small little fucker, no wonder it’s not a planet anymore.
Straya's never been a planet, mate.
Might as well have been. 😉
Yeah, but it is a pretty big island.
Still, the surface area is much bigger. Pluto is a real continent
Discreetly insulting both Australia and Pluto in one sentence! Absolutely love this; will share it with all my Australia and Plutonian friends! If Earth gets attacked, it's not my fault, but yours :'P
Hey wtf put Pluto back to where it belongs. Do you have any idea how bad this is for the world economics???
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What is this, a planet for ants?!
It's a close-up shot; the planet in this photo is actually much bigger than Australia.
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Take that King Flippy Nips!
Still can't unsee Pluto(the dog) on Pluto
And thats why you'll never be a real planet!
Absolute size isn't really in the criteria for a planet though. Pluto isn't a planet because it shares its orbit with lots of other icy bodies in the Kuiper belt.
Exactly. That's also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn't a planet either.
Do you mean the Trojans? They're excluded from the mass calculation of 'clearing the neighbourhood' because they're in a resonant orbit - their orbit is a consequence of Jupiter's mass.
I don't know. I don't think we should make excuses for Jupiter just because of its size. Pluto's doing the best it can. Could any of us do any better, so far out from the sun?
Jupiter does throw its weight around a bit too much.
Thanks to your comments, I went looking at more about Jupiter's influence on us and read that most of the other planets are more in line with Jupiter's orbital plane than the Sun's equatorial plane (which sounds impressive, but maybe only makes complete sense since the planets would have all initially formed from the same disk). Anyway, thanks
That's really interesting!
I just discovered a theory about the cause of the 'late heavy bombardment', which is thought to have delivered water to earth via comets.
Essentially the gas giants all orbited much closer, but Jupiter and Saturn got into resonance and flung Uranus and Neptune way out (and Saturn too). Uranus and Neptune flew out into the path of a heap of ice, and their gravity pulled the ice into an orbit that collided with the terrestrial planets.
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Heresy! Australia will always be a planet.
No! Austria will never be a planet nor continent. It is a white, European country and I'm willing to die on that hill!