Renaming and adding planets
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What do toilet paper and the Starship Enterprise have in common?
I used no foul language or potty humor in my post.
I read minds.
Pablo, I read that article, what I can't understand is why Pluto's moon would be condidered as a planet??
In an episode of Futurama, Professor Farnsworth says in the year 2620, Uranus has been renamed to Urectum!
joee - me too????(don't get it - will need to find out the mass, diameter, etc)
From what I was able to gather, it's because Pluto and it's moon sort of orbit each other. The center of gravity between those objects is out in space between them, unlike with Earth and its moon. In our case, the center of gravity is actually beneath the surface of the Earth. Apparently that has something to do with whether an object is technically a moon or a planet. Another way of putting it is that Pluto's moon is nearly as big as Pluto, so it's not so much a moon as it is a co-planet.
You must have a microscope!
I can take a joke like the next fat person.
How about changing the name to urectum?
Thats what they did on "Futurama".
Do folks not read threads anymore?
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I think I saw a documentary that showed that they sorta time-share the actual orbital path and appear to slingshot each other in the "trading places" (IIRC)
I don't see why they shouldn't, various 'followings' have changed their history to suit current events - astronomers can change the naming of planets.
urectus delecti
urectus delecti
Did you mean: erectus delicti?
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In flagranti?
How about calling the 'moon' of Uranus, Gluteus?
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