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Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pluto is still a planet in all our hearts

My heart pumps blood. My brain does the thinking. Pluto is not a planet. So what? It's still fascinating.

Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, meaning they always face each other as they orbit around. Romanticizing a bit, they are like dancers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5pQWQRxak

I'm your moon, you're my moon,

We go round and round.

From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small.

Promise me you will always remember who you are.

Labels can be helpful for categorizing, organizing our knowledge. Labels do not define us. We're all space stuff.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pluto and Charon are tidally locked

To clarify, they're mutually tidally locked, which is what's rare

[–] Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, so if light was hitting it's moon you could navigate just by where it is in the sky? I mean I guess you can do that with ours too, but this sounds way easier.

[–] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This is the song let me forgive science for what they did to Pluto. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJ6_GAprFE