After spending nearly a decade traveling 5 billion km across the Solar System, the New Horizons probe is less than a week away from its rendezvous with Pluto!!
Usagi shouldn’t be pointing any fingers IMHO!
I KNOW :roflmao:
Pluto and its moon Charon
Pluto… 3 days away
So awesome. I’ve been using the Googlesky app on my phone to find the planets in the night sky. But this is a much better view. 
With these new photos, it seems there might be cliffs on Pluto, which is an interesting geological feature on a dwarf planet. Most cliffs are formed by erosion here on Earth.
I am :neutral: not yet ready to peer unto that of Hades, the ruler of the underworld.
What asshat gave this planet the name of Pluto?
This is going to upset the powers that be very much, this meddling of men with misnomers.
Can’t they at least get the name right?
[quote=“TheGingerMan”]I am :neutral: not yet ready to peer unto that of Hades, the ruler of the underworld.
What asshat gave this planet the name of Pluto?
This is going to upset the powers that be very much, this meddling of men with misnomers.
Can’t they at least get the name right?[/quote]
Charon and Pluto
Most recent photo of Pluto.
Wow. Absolutely bloody amazing. I hope they find some ice giants there, just to annoy the mythology pedants. Is that a baseball arena down at the bottom left?
Hmm, kind of underwhelmed by the initial pictures coming out. I guess we’ll have to wait for that ridiculously slow speed of light thing to see some more impressive images.
Inflating/deflating pug. Oops, typo. Plug. But I like the image of a deflating pug so I’ll keep that in there.
From xkcd:
serenity XD
coronary artery disease XD
Said to be bigger than thought- does this mean a campaign to bring back planetary status?
They’d have to remove or amend the “clears its neighborhood” criterion to reintroduce it as a planet. I think it should be considered a planet on a “once deemed a planet, always a planet” basis.
I think they should emphasize that there are several types of "planets:
(1) terrestrial planets,
(2) Jovian planets or gas giants, and
(3) Plutonian planets or dwarf planets
And then make schoolchildren memorize all of the planets for (1) and (2) (there are only four in each category), but just Pluto for (3). The whole controversy was a lost opportunity to teach something significant, not just appeal to nostalgia.
Who are our most famous literary Plutonians? I don’t think Mr. Nash qualifies, and the “Plutonian” character from Mark Waid’s comic Irredeemable actually got his name from an acronym. I nominate Martinex from the original Guardians of the Galaxy comics.