I have this Tshirt
I get groans
Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.
What is this, a planet for ants?!
It’s a close-up shot; the planet in this photo is actually much bigger than Australia.
Then again it could be super close and the size of a potato.
Potatoes aren’t usually blue
They are if they are moving towards you really fast!
Extremely venomous ants.
I can see why they no longer call it a planet, what’s the cutoff for asteroid size?
It is still a dwarf planet. Basically when it hits hydrostatic equilibrium, i.e. when it’s round, it is considered a dwarf planet. More here
As a former Plutonian, I can confirm it’s small, that’s why we immigrated to Earth. And fucking cold!
Stop posting pictures of my family, they are very shy!!!
TIL australia has hydrostatic equilibrium.
That’s an avocado pit and you know it
Meanwhile, Australia is down there like “WTF mate?”
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.
I’m digging the way the map shows Tasmania as part of the continental plate.
Is it on purpose or is it because of ocean depth?
No shit? Wow, it’s amazing that we were even able to find it.
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
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
Ah shit, a switcheroo!
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.
The Alice Springs Pluto Observatory has opened considerably under-budget.
This picture is inaccurate, Pluto is actually much farther away.
No it’s just really small
Telephoto shot, using a 1e50 mm lens.
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?
Apparent scale is inverse linear, i.e., proportional to 1 / distance. If we want the apparent scale of two objects to be about 90% accurate to their actual relative scale, their relative distances to the camera can’t be more than 10% different. Pluto being 40-ish astronomical from Earth, you’d want to shoot from about 400 AU. Voyager I should be in prime position circa 2140.
No way!
Is Neil deGrasse Tyson hiding somewhere in Australia?!
I saw him in my mates house the other day kissing a mirror? He said he is the only person he can kiss in the mirror or something.
Pluto is still a sphere, this is an unfair comparison because Pluto hasn’t been unwrapped
It’s actually 4π*(0.5*(length-of-australia))^2 bigger than that.
Fun fact: the surface area of Pluto is only about 4% larger than Russia.
So thats why Russia wanted to expand
Pluto unboxing video.
