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Reply #300 on: October 18, 2023, 04:27:37 AM
Hey we’re in for another one next year?  Celestial gods are trying to tell us something.

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Reply #301 on: October 18, 2023, 07:59:25 PM
Two consecutive over the states is rare



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Reply #302 on: October 19, 2023, 12:16:28 AM
Two consecutive over the states is rare

Kerrville Texas gets totality twice.

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Reply #303 on: October 23, 2023, 05:17:26 PM

One of Jupiter's moons (Titan) is larger than one of the planets (Mercury).

Ever wonder what makes a planet a planet and a moon a moon and why Pluto lost her planet card?

Well obviously a planet orbits a star, and a moon orbits a planet that orbits a star. Since Jupiter and Saturn have so many moons it is theoretically possible for one of them to lose it's orbit around its host planet die to gravitational pulls from other celestial bodies or even brother and sister moons. If that were to happen, and that moon begins to orbit the hosting star, it may be classified as a planet. Also, if that moon were to be ejected out of the solar system, and then travels alone through space, if it is found and detected it will be classified as a "rogue planet" not a "rogue moon".

Now as for our beloved Heart dwarf planet pluto. There is three criteria for a celestial body to be classified as a planet.

*It has to orbit its host star. Pluto! ✅
*it has to have a sufficient mass to have hydrostatic equilibrium, (fancy words for, "it has to be round"). Pluto✅
*it has to have cleared its neighborhood of other celetial bodies other than its orbiting satellites.

Pluto fails this one as it is among the kuiper belt and there are other object there of a comparable size. Therefore, if pluto ever starts kicking all those objects out of her neighbor hood, she may regain her planet status



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Reply #304 on: October 24, 2023, 11:43:41 AM

Woo 2506!

TIL a whole bunch of stuff about our solar system. Thanks for enlightening us.



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Reply #305 on: October 25, 2023, 12:14:59 PM
Hey we’re in for another one next year?  Celestial gods are trying to tell us something.

I am constantly amazed that the celestial gods positioned things so that the apparent diameters of the moon and the sun are almost identical when viewed from Earth.

Princess, would you like to see it light up and hum when I wave it about