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To: equaviator

As much as I’ve come to loathe Neil deGrasse Tyson, he made the point that if Pluto was in the same orbit as the Earth’s, it would sublimate away from solar radiation.


30 posted on 08/30/2019 4:12:37 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
As much as I’ve come to loathe Neil deGrasse Tyson, he made the point that if Pluto was in the same orbit as the Earth’s, it would sublimate away from solar radiation.

Chemical composition: Pluto probably consists of a mixture of 70 percent rock and 30 percent water ice. Internal structure: The dwarf planet probably has a rocky core surrounded by a mantle of water ice, with more exotic ices such as methane, carbon monoxide and nitrogen ice coating the surface.Nov 14, 2017

As normal, Tyson is wrong. The rocky core would remain intact and quite happily circle the sun.

41 posted on 08/30/2019 7:01:58 AM PDT by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: Calvin Locke

Why, because it’s kind of a gigantic loosely-packed icy dirt clod?


55 posted on 08/30/2019 11:50:06 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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