Submitted 1 week ago by neme@lemm.ee to astronomy@mander.xyz
“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.”
This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it.
It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?
Well it’s a good frame of reference because it’s where most of us keep all our stuff.
Talk about putting all our eggs in the same basket smh
It didn’t. It’s 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?
If we are 1AU from the sun, and this planet is 90AU from the sun, then it is between 89 and 91 AUs from earth depending on the progress of our orbits (assuming perfectly circular orbits). So they did change the frame of reference.
They didn’t change the reference, they defined an AU.
I mean, they said “roughly”.
Like, give or take one AU, throughout the year.
“It’s 21.5°C outside or roughly 20 notches on your thermometer (except for americans)”
Here’s another article that doesn’t do this for anyone else that would prefer it:
Ugh, didn’t read the “dwarf” part and got my hopes up for planet 9. When they eventually do find it they have to name it something with P so that the old mnemonics still work.
“Planet 9” starts with “P”
This study authors btw say that their models for 2017 OF201’s orbit work best without the influence of a hypothetical planet 9
Ooh, nice!
They prefer to be called little planets, tyvm.
Pluto defenders in shambles
But I am not sure how to process this as a planet X fan
When we hit the floor you just watch them move aside
We will take them for a ride of rides
They all love your miniature ways
You know what they say about small boys
So, draft planet 8.1 ? 8.3 because of Pluto and Charron?
How do Sedna and that new one have a stable orbit? Are they that fast, to be able to compensate the movement of Pluto?
dibs
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Poor guy. Hopefully he’s out there finding his own family.
At least it doesn’t have to deal with the toxicity Pluto does, being in the family one day and then coldly rejected from the family from the planet club the next. And we wonder why it’s exterior is frozen…