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Today I was reminded that Pluto's orbital period is about 248 years. Since it was discovered 93 years ago, it has only gone about a third of the way

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jan 23 '23, 08:46

around the sun

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reinstate its planetary status!! -- nm - mud Jan 23, 08:49 13
- I thought they had? -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 08:55 5
  - It's a dwarf planet, of which there are at least 9 others. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 08:56 4
    - Ceres, makemake, haumea, eris ... and that's all I can remember right now. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 09:04 3
      - Pluto, Senda, Quaoar, Gongong, and Orcus -- nm* - tRuMaNaNaNaNa Jan 23, 09:12 2
        
        Sedna. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:31
        
        and i think its Haumea that is weird, like flattened and elongated. -- nm - tRuMaNaNaNaNa Jan 23, 09:13
- Needs to kick Charon to the curb first. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 08:51 6
  - ? -- nm - mud Jan 23, 08:51 5
    - I think there's some weird quirk of their sizes and orbit that place the centre of their system outside of Pluto's surface ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 08:53 4
      - you are right good sir. Charon is about half Pluto's width and somewhere around one-eighth to one-tenth its mass, and with a center-to-center orbit -- (edited) - tRuMaNaNaNaNa Jan 23, 09:09
      - (wow, I did not know that) -- nm - mud Jan 23, 08:54 1
        
        I don't know if I'm right, I'm only vaguely remembering based on reagen's prompt -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 09:03
      - aw, so what. :-P -- nm - pluto Jan 23, 08:54
slacker! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 23, 08:48

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