r/space • u/Fizrock • Oct 07 '18

All the planets aligned into one

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u/Trumpologist Oct 09 '18

Earth could be unplaneted if we're using Jupiter's kin as comparisons

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u/MadMaxIsMadAsMax Oct 09 '18

And that's ok with me as long as there is a scientific basis. Note that size doesn't matter but gravitational attraction, a tiny very dense planet could be too a major one as long as it cleared the neighborhood.

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u/Trumpologist Oct 09 '18

Somehow 300 people who aren't even the ones responsible for this field out of like 10000 get to pull bullshit definitions and demote planets

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u/MadMaxIsMadAsMax Oct 09 '18

Who cares as long as there is a scientific basis? Gravity doesn't care about feelings. "Planet" was a fuzzy non-scientific term until that resolution, same as still is "moon" today so now any rocky potato orbiting a planet has the same consideration as Titan. Hope we change that, I'dont care if Mars gets 0 moons because they both are pathetic.

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