I remember as a young teenager being so shocked that the only image we had of Pluto was that extremely blurry pixelated Hubble picture. I was blown away. I was so sure that Pluto was purple for some reason! It quickly became my favorite planet. My son was born in 2012 so he was three when new horizons passed Pluto. Since then, it’s his favorite planet too, dwarf planet or not! Your videos are awesome bro, I’m sharing every single one. You’ve got some real quality content with a great light sense of humor. It makes everything fun.
Aww man that's so nice of you, thanks! Pluto is a very cool planet, and I don't think dwarf planet as a pejorative either. So glad to have you on the rocket ship!
Whenever I want to learn something new about beyond earth. I always come to this Channel because of the amount of detail that is put into the videos. I learn more from these videos than I do in school
This was a great vidya. The astronomy text I'm working through is 20 years old, so it's hilarious to read the sections on the planets, and in particular the Pluto/Charon system. This video fills in a lot of the blanks, so thx for that!
Fantastic presentation! Only one part I had a tiny problem with was Charon. Actually, Charon (pronounced Kair-uhn', not Chair-uhn') is mythologically the ferryman who transports souls across the river Styx to the underworld. Pretty spooky stuff! That name for the, sort of, moon of Pluto and the North Pole area named Mordor which was the Tolkien Lord of the Rings name for a sort of hell that had to be accessed in order to retrieve and destroy the ring. Anyway, small potatoes. Thank you for a very informative presentation! Also, you young folks were very fortunate to have Hubble images. When I was a kid, about the best images were of a dot of light they called the theoretical "Pluto" . At that time there were no space telescopes. In fact, I remember being huddled around with my family listening to the up and down ride of Shepherd and the incredible 3 orbits of John Glenn in his "Friendship 7" Mercury capsule.
The pronunciation “chair-uhn” is actually based on the nick name of the discoverer’s wife, Char, and the suffix -on. They went with charon due to the fact that it coincidentally referred to the Greek mythological being.
Absolutely awesome!!!! Thank you for your effort I really enjoyed thatvideo I just got done watching a special on Nova and this seems like it should have been right up there with it!!!
Call me crazy...but in my opinion I have a theory that maybe Pluto was probably alive at one time...maybe millions to billions of years ago it was closer to our Sun and maybe Pluto and its moons drifted farther out away and froze upon...I don't know....just a thought.
Beautiful! no more speculation, now the real thing is there for everybody to see; mysteries still exist but in smaller numbers and more scientific data!!
If the presence or absence of a ring is so significant in determining whether the moons were formed from a collision, why is that not an issue for Earth and our moon? Or is that still an unexplained aspect that just doesn't get much attention?
Hmm one major distinction between Pluto (and Eris) and all the other dwarf planets thus far is they are substantially more massive than the other dwarf planets with the less massive of the two largest dwarf planets being three times the mass of the third most massive known dwarf planet to date Makemake. (Now some dwarf planets lack mass estimates but baring exceptional surprises they all seem to be similar in size to the other dwarf planets, and the moons Charon and Dysnomia of Pluto and Eris respectively, instead of being on the same order of size as Pluto and Eris. Personally I feel they likely represent a different class of object as neither is a member of the dynamically "cold" Kuiper belt with both possessing significant orbital inclination . Eris in particular is smaller than Pluto but as Pluto is only 78.5% the mass of Eris this implies Eris is significantly denser i.e. is far more rocky in composition. Eris's surface is also brighter suggesting it is mostly water ice, as opposed to other ices like ammonia methane, nitrogen, etc. which combined with its high inclination as a scattered disk object makes me suspect it may have originated beyond the water frost line but within other more volatile ices frost lines. Certainly a lot we can learn from these "dwarf planets". Also a fun fact even factoring in the moons of the major planets only the big seven moons particularly Triton and to a lesser extent Europa can really compare to these two particularly high mass dwarf planets.
Just a minor detail for those curious: There *were* anomalies in the orbit of Uranus and Neptune... *with the numbers they had at the time*. Their math was correct. Iirc, It took us many decades to until voyager took new, more precise measures of both their mass to adjust the variables. With the correct numbers their orbits are just fine.
Wouldn’t the fact that the tidal forces between Pluto and Charon, esp given that the barrycenter is outside of either body cause significant internal heating due to friction? Then again, I’m drunk and watching Astros videos so yeah is all good!
I remember as a young teenager being so shocked that the only image we had of Pluto was that extremely blurry pixelated Hubble picture. I was blown away. I was so sure that Pluto was purple for some reason! It quickly became my favorite planet. My son was born in 2012 so he was three when new horizons passed Pluto. Since then, it’s his favorite planet too, dwarf planet or not! Your videos are awesome bro, I’m sharing every single one. You’ve got some real quality content with a great light sense of humor. It makes everything fun.
Aww man that's so nice of you, thanks! Pluto is a very cool planet, and I don't think dwarf planet as a pejorative either. So glad to have you on the rocket ship!
Whenever I want to learn something new about beyond earth.
I always come to this Channel because of the amount of detail that is put into the videos.
I learn more from these videos than I do in school
My favorite planet! Great video, it’s such an intriguing system. 💫
This was a great vidya. The astronomy text I'm working through is 20 years old, so it's hilarious to read the sections on the planets, and in particular the Pluto/Charon system. This video fills in a lot of the blanks, so thx for that!
Fantastic presentation! Only one part I had a tiny problem with was Charon. Actually, Charon (pronounced Kair-uhn', not Chair-uhn') is mythologically the ferryman who transports souls across the river Styx to the underworld. Pretty spooky stuff! That name for the, sort of, moon of Pluto and the North Pole area named Mordor which was the Tolkien Lord of the Rings name for a sort of hell that had to be accessed in order to retrieve and destroy the ring.
Anyway, small potatoes. Thank you for a very informative presentation! Also, you young folks were very fortunate to have Hubble images. When I was a kid, about the best images were of a dot of light they called the theoretical "Pluto" . At that time there were no space telescopes. In fact, I remember being huddled around with my family listening to the up and down ride of Shepherd and the incredible 3 orbits of John Glenn in his "Friendship 7" Mercury capsule.
The pronunciation “chair-uhn” is actually based on the nick name of the discoverer’s wife, Char, and the suffix -on. They went with charon due to the fact that it coincidentally referred to the Greek mythological being.
I'm from Kansas, so I decided to watch your Pluto video 😊
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Keep up the great work, you just earned a subscriber!
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Awesome! Thanks and welcome aboard!
Absolutely awesome!!!! Thank you for your effort I really enjoyed thatvideo I just got done watching a special on Nova and this seems like it should have been right up there with it!!!
Thanks. The "Big Whack"? When did Tony Soprano start naming astronomical hypotheses? :D tavi.
It was payback for when Pluto tried to take out a made planet.
This video is too underrated
Awesome video ✅
Thanks!
Call me crazy...but in my opinion I have a theory that maybe Pluto was probably alive at one time...maybe millions to billions of years ago it was closer to our Sun and maybe Pluto and its moons drifted farther out away and froze upon...I don't know....just a thought.
"to within a power of ten it was pretty much spot-on" 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed so hard at this part
I think I may know why Pluto is ringless. Tides from Charon would tear rings apart and tidal deceleration would cause them to spiral into Pluto.
Cool channel I just subscribed.
Thanks! And likewise :)
Beautiful! no more speculation, now the real thing is there for everybody to see; mysteries still exist but in smaller numbers and more scientific data!!
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Cracking presentation..
Nice video its really informative.
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Deep in my heart Pluto will always be a planet.
Thank you 🤘🤘🤘 it is a planet... score yourself 50 bonus points my friend
It shouldn't have been demoted. Pluto is Planet Nine. Planet X if found, will be Planet 10!
So nice ect are they rotating around charon or pluto . It looks like they circle charon ? How about a better diagram
The moons are rotating around the barycenter. Pluto and Charon are really a binary dwarf planet system.
If the presence or absence of a ring is so significant in determining whether the moons were formed from a collision, why is that not an issue for Earth and our moon? Or is that still an unexplained aspect that just doesn't get much attention?
Hmm one major distinction between Pluto (and Eris) and all the other dwarf planets thus far is they are substantially more massive than the other dwarf planets with the less massive of the two largest dwarf planets being three times the mass of the third most massive known dwarf planet to date Makemake. (Now some dwarf planets lack mass estimates but baring exceptional surprises they all seem to be similar in size to the other dwarf planets, and the moons Charon and Dysnomia of Pluto and Eris respectively, instead of being on the same order of size as Pluto and Eris. Personally I feel they likely represent a different class of object as neither is a member of the dynamically "cold" Kuiper belt with both possessing significant orbital inclination . Eris in particular is smaller than Pluto but as Pluto is only 78.5% the mass of Eris this implies Eris is significantly denser i.e. is far more rocky in composition. Eris's surface is also brighter suggesting it is mostly water ice, as opposed to other ices like ammonia methane, nitrogen, etc. which combined with its high inclination as a scattered disk object makes me suspect it may have originated beyond the water frost line but within other more volatile ices frost lines. Certainly a lot we can learn from these "dwarf planets". Also a fun fact even factoring in the moons of the major planets only the big seven moons particularly Triton and to a lesser extent Europa can really compare to these two particularly high mass dwarf planets.
Why could the polar tholins not have been formed on Charon?
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Just a minor detail for those curious: There *were* anomalies in the orbit of Uranus and Neptune... *with the numbers they had at the time*. Their math was correct.
Iirc, It took us many decades to until voyager took new, more precise measures of both their mass to adjust the variables. With the correct numbers their orbits are just fine.
Wouldn’t the fact that the tidal forces between Pluto and Charon, esp given that the barrycenter is outside of either body cause significant internal heating due to friction? Then again, I’m drunk and watching Astros videos so yeah is all good!
Since when can Esau name any thing in the stars? since they have only been here 2019yrs?
Why pluto is geting smaler
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