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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You mean to tell me it hasn't even been a year (on Pluto) since we discovered Pluto?!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It was discovered, made a planet, and then kicked out the club in that time.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you think 2020 was bad, wait until you hear about Pluto's year... the American civil war, ww1, ww2, the great depression, the moon landing... the American civil war...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

But none of those things happened on the planet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's been a really rough year for Pluto. Let's all wish it good luck next year (when humans are probably dead).

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 62 points 1 week ago

Alright, setting a reminder

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Since it is discovery

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It was the runt of the litter and didn't survive full planet hood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Have you considered that angering the god of the Underworld like this is why we're in our current mess?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Marked on my calendar, see you all there!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fine I'll look it up. Discovered 1930, so that makes a Pluto year 248 Earth years.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

!remind_me 1868 months

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

its ಠ_ಠ

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How can we even know it's a planet when we haven't observed a single orbit, yet?
Maybe it's just a really big comet.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We've observed enough of its orbit to know what shape it is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How can you be so sure it doesn't just decide to leave

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

And who could blame it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not really big. There are multiple Pluto like planetoids. Also there is a hunk of rock in the asteroid belt youcould name a planet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ceres is more than a third of the mass of the asteroid belt. It's at least an order of magnitude bigger than anything else in its orbit. It's hardly a hunk of rock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

There's also not that much rock, only 73% of the mass. The rest is ice and mud, with half it's volume being water in some form.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

By measuring how fast it's moving and where it is you can find the orbit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Second thing I noticed: Ooh, is that so? That's interesting.

First thing: its not it's

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Will it or won't it be a planet by then?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We will call it a planet if we plan it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So please don't tell me to can it

I've got one thing to say and that's

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Dammit! Janet!

^I^ ^want^ ^to^ ^screw^!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

depends on how you define "planet".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Dwarf planet is a planet!

IAU names aren't the best, "planet" should be major planet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Pluto Party Time!
How much longer? I"ve got my costume ready and everything...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hopefully the AI Contruct that we will create will be able to witness it.

Because I don't think humans are surviving that long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If humans start digging now some of them might make it in sealed self-contained bunkers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Temporary planet designation for its birthday!!!! Time for Christmas spirit, y'all!

On that note, Santa and all his elves will have drowned from North pole melting long before then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I might end up missing that, too‽ Goddammit!