Still, the surface area is much bigger. Pluto is a real continent
Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
Submitted 5 weeks ago by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/95fe73e8-42e2-4b36-8705-73c002951989.webp
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lugal@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
If Australia attacks Earth you’ll know you’ve been attacked.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
First they came for Pluto’s planethood.
Next they’re coming for Australia’s continenthood.
lugal@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
When they came for Pluto, I said nothing because I wasn’t a planet
When they came for Australia, I said nothing because I wasn’t a continent
When they came for Bielefeld, I said nothing because I wasn’t a city
When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything– Martin Niemöller
CM400@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And now putin starts pumping out propaganda that pluto used to be russian
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So… Does this mean Australia is no longer a continent?
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Dwarf continent
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Or does it mean Australia is a planet?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Australia would have to round up its edges and clear it’s orbit of little islands before being called a planet.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Mostly just a cunt
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m sure the rest of the world would agree!
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If that photo was taken right before impact, none of the continents will remain continents because it’s all about to melt and we might have another moon when everything settles down and we evolve back from scratch over the next several billion years.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The only survivors would be Australia’s infamous Magma Spiders.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Just in time to get baked by the sun!
Zozano@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
It never was. The concept of Australis is part of spherical world order.
Do you really think a Platypus is a real animal? A mammal that let’s eggs and has bioluminescent fur. Get the fuck outta here.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Seems like it amounts to a gas giant down under.
faceula@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sand Mass?
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.
x4740N@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Pluto is still a sphere, this is an unfair comparison because Pluto hasn’t been unwrapped
doctordevice@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Fun fact: the surface area of Pluto is only about 4% larger than Russia.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
So thats why Russia wanted to expand
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Pluto unboxing video.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s actually 4π*(0.5*(length-of-australia))^2 bigger than that.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
No shit? Wow, it’s amazing that we were even able to find it.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Even more amazing that it was found in the era it was. People were pouring over the skies looking for the next big planet, and instead they found this little guy.
There are still some orbital dynamics suggestions that something large and dark is lurking out there – an ice giant. But it’s still largely conjecture. It’d be interesting to see how they define it should they find something very large (say Neptune mass), but it hasn’t cleared its orbit. Is it a planet or not? :D
lugal@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Actually 🤓 it was James Cook who found Australia and he didn’t go there by ski but by ship and he didn’t find one little guy but exterminated a whole indigenous population
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They only found it because it’s more like a binary dwarf planet system than a planet/moon system, so the telescopes were able to pick up light reflected from both Pluto and Charron, while Pluto alone might have not been bright enough.
dumbass@leminal.space 5 weeks ago
And thats why you’ll never be a real planet!
nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Heresy! Australia will always be a planet.
lugal@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
No! Austria will never be a planet nor continent. It is a white, European country and I’m willing to die on that hill!
youngalfred@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
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.
toast@retrolemmy.com 5 weeks ago
Exactly. That’s also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn’t a planet either.
cosmicrose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This picture is inaccurate, Pluto is actually much farther away.
sirico@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
No it’s just really small
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Telephoto shot, using a 1e50 mm lens.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
if anyone wants to do the math, how far away from the sun would the camera have needed to be to take such a photo?
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Probably not necessary to use a lens so long it can reach distant galaxies!
johsny@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Small little fucker, no wonder it’s not a planet anymore.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Straya’s never been a planet, mate.
johsny@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Might as well have been. 😉
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
lemonmelon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What is this, a planet for ants?!
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Extremely venomous ants.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
It’s a close-up shot; the planet in this photo is actually much bigger than Australia.
Klear@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Then again it could be super close and the size of a potato.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Hwy wtf put Pluto back to where it belongs. Do you have any idea how bad this is for the economics???
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Would the owner of a beige 1930 dwarf planet please move it, or we will have it towed.
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I think a TARDIS can do that.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Meanwhile, Australia is down there like “WTF mate?”
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Fucking kangaroos
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Nah, no one likes lives in that part of Australia. Pluto sitting there just means drivers from Perth to Sydney have to take a little detour.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I mean, I’m pretty sure you’d be able to see it from everywhere in Australia, so I bet many of them would be like “WTF?” But they’ll be dead soon. Fuckin’ kangaroos.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 weeks ago
Still can’t unsee Pluto on Pluto
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
No way!
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
introscene for the next mecha anime confirmed
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s an avocado pit and you know it
Freefall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
In future news; Donald Musk III, worlds first quintillionare, decided to alter Pluto’s orbit to collide with Mars “Becauth it would be thoo cool!”.
abcd@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Is Neil deGrasse Tyson hiding somewhere in Australia?!
Zozano@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
I saw him in my mates house the other day kissing a mirror? Not sure what that was all about.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I can see why they no longer call it a planet, what’s the cutoff for asteroid size?
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s awesome. And to think, it’s only slightly less inhospitable in Australia!
niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m digging the way the map shows Tasmania as part of the continental plate.
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Is it on purpose or is it because of ocean depth?
niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The light blue part is shallow and when it’s underwater, they call it “continental shelf”.
Tasmania and mainland Australia are connected by the same, shared continental shelf.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The Alice Springs Pluto Observatory has opened considerably under-budget.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
TIL australia has hydrostatic equilibrium.
Numenor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Do it.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Fuck off Pluto, we’re full!
makyo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You didn’t know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn’t really a planet.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They’re using it to cool up Australia
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s their payback for that whole “clears its orbit” business.