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Non Political: Very Cool Map of Solar System

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by ncargat1, Jun 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM.

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  1. Jun 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM #1
    ncargat1

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    I thought this was pretty interesting and did not see any way thread could start a political fight. It maps a history of the United States as a nation against a single orbit of Pluto around our sun. The entire history of our nation has unfolded in barely more than one orbit around the sun by Pluto.

     
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  2. Jun 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM #2
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    Is this a challenge?
     
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  3. Jun 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM #3
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    Interesting stuff, on the flip side, Mercury has orbited the sun 1,032 times since our country was founded.

    Thanks for posting.
     
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  4. Jun 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM #4
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    How many times have we seen Uranus?
     
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  5. Jun 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM #5
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    [​IMG]

    I guess you can't blame the name on the discover of the planet, he named in Georgium Sidus.
     
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  6. Jun 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM #6
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    Right here
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  7. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM #7
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    Pluto was just a DEI planet.
     
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  8. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM #8
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  9. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM #9
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    Astronomy is woke
     
  10. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM #10
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    That's over in the pub.
     
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  11. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM #11
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    I see some potential states to be added. Then we can roll out the "Solar System of America" label.

    Go GATORS!
    ,WESGATORS
     
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  12. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM #12
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    Yeah, looks like there are some illegal lines immigrating onto the OP's map....
     
  13. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM #13
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    So is Pluto still a planet? I remember there was a move to kick them out years ago.
     
  14. Jun 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM #14
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    No, it’s a dwarf planet along with many others in the Kuiper belt.
     
  15. Jun 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM #15
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    Eris was discovered in 2005 and named in 2006. At the time they thought it was slightly larger than Pluto and they didn’t want to include Eris as a planet so they changed the way they define a planet so as to exclude both as planets and instead classify them as dwarf planets.
     
  16. Jun 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM #16
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    I'm a Limey Gator from Limeyland.
    It is in Arizona.

    I was lucky enough to be out at NAU earlier this year and that's where Pluto was discovered. Fascinating place, the observatory in Flagstaff - well worth a short visit if you're in the area.

    They're so proud of it, they signed a law a few years ago making it official once more... in AZ at least!
     
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  17. Jun 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM #17
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    The cosmologists kicked it out, but the planetary scientists may have resisted. I still think it's a planet, even though it's been demoted to planetoid... minor planet... dwarf planet.

    I still think of it as a planet.
     
  18. Jun 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM #18
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  19. Jun 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM #19
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    These trans objects are woke. And Rick wants Pluto to identify as a planet.
     
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  20. Jun 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM #20
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    Pluto was born a planet... still a planet. :D;)
     
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