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Pluto's 'Little Sister' Makemake Has a Moon
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| Irene Klotz
Posted on 04/27/2016 6:41:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
04/27/2016 6:41:16 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Did they let Whoppi Goldberg name this one?
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posted on
04/27/2016 6:44:10 AM PDT
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ClearCase_guy
(Harvey Dent -- can he be trusted?)
To: ClearCase_guy
...Wait...it has a moon? I thought it wasn’t a planet??? It can be a whatever and have a moon??
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posted on
04/27/2016 6:52:15 AM PDT
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smartymarty
(How a mountain girl can love.)
To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. [singing] Makemake one moon, oh-ohh... [/singing]
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posted on
04/27/2016 6:55:43 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; disndat; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
Thanks BenLurkin, extra to APoD.
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posted on
04/27/2016 6:56:01 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: BenLurkin
Astronomers will now try to learn more about the moon’s orbit so they can calculate a mass for the system and learn more about how it formed.
Wasn’t it all formed in the dust cloud that circled the sun 5 billion years ago?
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posted on
04/27/2016 6:58:13 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump For America.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/27/2016 6:58:44 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
To: BenLurkin
Astronomers will now try to learn more about the moon’s orbit so they can calculate a mass for the system and learn more about how it formed. How it formed: God made it. HOW He made it is interesting, though.
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posted on
04/27/2016 7:07:13 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/27/2016 7:14:30 AM PDT
by
odds
To: smartymarty
The only thing that determines whether it can have a moon or not is the laws of gravity, and gravity doesn’t pay attention to whether we call it a “planet” or not.
To: samtheman
Well, that’s how they used to think that the solar system formed (that hypothesis has been all but invalidated by recent observations of many other solar systems with planets that can’t fit that model).
However, here they are talking about the planetary system, not the solar system. In other words, they want to determine if the moon was a chunk knocked loose from the planet, or a passing object that got captured, etc.
To: smartymarty
Asteroids can have moons too. Ida and Dactyl, for example. A moon doesn’t necessarily have to orbit a planet.
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posted on
04/27/2016 7:45:27 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: BenLurkin
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet
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posted on
04/27/2016 7:47:37 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Boogieman
However, here they are talking about the planetary system, not the solar system. In other words, they want to determine if the moon was a chunk knocked loose from the planet, or a passing object that got captured, etc.
I realize that. But at this point, what does it matter?
:)
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posted on
04/27/2016 7:49:58 AM PDT
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samtheman
(Trump For America.)
To: samtheman
Hey man, astronomers gotta eat too, let em ponder silly questions like this. Better than them pontificating about global warming or such nonsense.
To: smartymarty
The moon has a moon........................
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posted on
04/27/2016 8:02:29 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
To: smartymarty
It's a dwarf planet, according to the new terminology, along with former planet Pluto.
Pluto has five known moons. The dwarf planet Eris (the largest of the group) has one, and Haumea has two.
To: Boogieman
Better than them pontificating about global warming or such nonsense.
Good point.
Although here’s a better job for them: Looking for candidate asteroids for possible collisions with our own dear home.
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posted on
04/27/2016 8:07:16 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump For America.)
To: BenLurkin
PLUTO IS A TRANS-PLANET.
To: seawolf101
Meaning it can use whatever bathroom it feels like using?
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posted on
04/27/2016 8:32:29 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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