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About once a month for the last few years I've found a new Simon channel. How many more are out there? or maybe I shouldn't ask how the sausage is made
At this point I think he's merely being paid by people else to host them. He has an ability to speak to the camera and keep you engrossed most people don't have.
Love Pluto and Charon. Sadly Pluto got demoted on my birthday, but though it might have been a loss for planets it was a huge win for dwarf planets, which people never thought much about before. Love the videos!
Wasn't a real demotion, just a re categorization. Our understanding of 'planet' has changed a bunch since 1930. If pluto is a major planet, then we have 26 and more to come, if it's a dwarf planet, then we have 8 major and 22 dwarfs with more to come. There currently is a very, very likely change on the horizon to change pluto to a 'binary planet' as Simon mentioned in the video.
@@InvestmentJoy There was no sudden change in our "understanding". It was just a reclassification. And no one yet has justified with a scientific argument why the number of planets in our solar system is an issue. The major argument is that it's too much for school children to memorize. The same school children who have no problem memorizing all the state's and their capitals, all the Countries and the multiplication tables? That's the age when you are supposed to memorize lots of things
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Man, the outer solar system is peak awesome. These distant worlds speak to the imagination in ways that few other things can. The Kuiper belt being so distant is a curse however, it takes a decade to get there. I have high hopes for the Persephone mission. New Horizons was something that I spend a good chunk of my developing years anxiously waiting for. I bored so many people to tears gushing about how cool that mission was. Let's hope that we make some good progress at getting things to the outer solar system faster, way faster. I'd like to see these worlds get studied before I end up back in diapers.
These subsurface oceans (though still technically speculative) are endlessly fascinating. Would love to see missions to here, Enceladus, Titan and several other moons. I think it's rapidly getting easier and cheaper.
@@alanwright7498 I dunno about _sterile_ but I will say that more attention and hopes for possible life, all backed by the science and factual data (as we understand it) currently available to us, is given to Europa, Titan, Mars, Venus. Enceladus may be more viable for life than all our possibilities, but you're correct in implying a lot of scientists merely push it to the wayside, _especially_ after Europa. This particular Jovian satellite simply takes the cake when it comes to talks of life out there within our very own [solar] system.
It probably won't happen in any of our lifetimes but I'd like to see a future with drovers on every terrestrial moon. The scale of such a mission would be insane though.
Astronomer who discovered Pluto’s moon wanted to name it after wife. Naming council said, “No. That’s crass.” Astronomer: “Ok Ok. I’ll name it Charon from Greek mythology. In theme with Pluto, he carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead.” Council: “Whew. Thanks, that’s better. By the way, what is your wife’s name anyway?” Astronomer: “It’s Sharon.” Maybe true story. I heard this from my 8th grade science teacher.
According to infallible Wikipedia her name was Charlene but she went by "Char" and 'Charon' was his attempt to render her name in a science-y fashion; to his later delight discovered the mythological aspect to the name which he thought he had made up.
Always had my doubts on that story tbh, given that the ancient greek pronounication of the mythological "Charon" would apparently be closer sounding to "KAR-ron" or "HAR-ron", which to my ear doesn't really rhyme well with Sharon IMO... 🤔
Nyx is the Goddess of the night and Charons mother. Kerberos or Cerberus the three headed dog and guard of the Underworld. And last but not least Hydra lived in the lake of Lerna which was an entrance to the Underworld. Love that scientists named them in the order you would see them if you went to the Underworld.
9:44 Percival Lowell was not only the founder of the observatory but more to the point the man who wanted a powerful telescope to prove definitely he existence of Schiaparelli's Martian "canali" (erroneously translated to "canals" when in Italian it just means "channels", hence without any artificial construction implication and alien civilization subtext).
1:49 Saying “Charon dominates in Pluto’s moon family” is like saying “Jeff Bezos has more money than the average person”. It’s a massive understatement
Big reason the new mission will take so long isn't that it MUST go slower by definition but that its budget has been seriously underfunded to where it can't be launched on a rocket large enough to carry the fuel and engines needed to go faster. Economics, not fundamental physics, determine the speed at which it will fly. It's like your employer saying you'll get funding to lease an e-bike for your 50km commute because they won't give you the budget for a car.
Great video! So much we DON'T know about this moon and yet it's still astounding just what we DO know! Any chance, while you and the team are delving about in the dark corners of the solar system, that we might hear about some of the other "weird moons" out there, such as Mimas or Miranda?
@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 It should have been marked #10/11. Ceres should still be # 5. It got demoted for no good reason. My rule, if it's round and orbiting the sun (as opposed to orbiting another body orbiting the sun), it's a planet. Pluto-Charon are a double planet by most any metric.Their barycenter is outside Pluto by a wide margin. On that note, the Earth and Moon could be argued to be a double, but for now their barycenter is still inside Earth.
@@cariyaputta I read that it's possible that the barycenter could eventually fall outside of Earth in the distant future. Expect to see the definition(s) of planets to continue to change as astronomers continue discovering strange new worlds beyond our solar system that challenge our preconceptions. My personal take is we'd do well to accept the inevitable: that we have a hellavua lot of planets in our own system with multiple ways of classifying them: inner/outer/kuiper, rocky/gas/icy, etc. If we want to keep it simple: if it's round and its barycenter with an satellites falls within its solid surface (or point where atmospheric is equal to earth at sea level) just call it a planet and be done with it.
Sad ending. If the new project had been on this decade's priority list, it would be getting to the Pluto/Charon binary dwarf planet system in 2058. It was not on that list. Maybe it'll happen a decade later, or maybe not. Either way, I don't expect to see the results. You got my hopes up, Simon, only to crush them.
My expectations are low, I know I'll be deader than a door nail by then. Heck I'll be lucky to reach retirement in 2059 without something happening to me beforehand.
I love this pair, possibly my favorite two objects in our star system. They seem like such an odd couple, we can only imagine how cool they would be up close.
@@higuysitsmepluto4445, it’s probably the codependency of the whole arrangement. One isn’t orbiting the other, and there’s no single “In Charge” body in that particular dance; it’s just two orbs dancing with each other in the closest version our solar system has to a perfectly balanced orbit. Everyone else is heavily weighted towards the larger partner, to the point where it can hard to spot the orbits that are slightly off-centre. Of course…it could also be the bit where this particular pair shouldn’t work by our understanding of gravity, and they do anyway. Like bumblebees…also one of my favourites.
I see no reason to delay or remove the Pluto/Cheron mission. The Mars mission is only valuable if we explore. Same with the Pluto system. We are missing a vital opportunity. Perhaps another Space Assosiation will take up the mantle and spread its wings out there and on to the Kyper belt.
Thank you , Simon for your kind words regarding 'much-loved' Pluto. The other problem that I heard regarding the next probe is that Pluto is approaching its longer part of its eliptical orbit which will put it even further afield. I shall not be around to see those pictures, unfortunately. Perhaps in the next life.
"...give Uranus a hard probing..." Thank you, good sir, for leaning into the phonetic accident that most astronomy presenters go out of their way to avoid (ex.: Urinus). Normally I feel like I'm laughing AT someone for flinching. About damn time that I feel like I'm laughing WITH someone about it.
I wonder why Pluto's heart shaped area was not named: The Valentine? Due to tidal locking and even with current technology materials, a "tower" can be built connecting Pluto and Charon. Wheels of various diameters can then be built along the length of the tower, with different rotation speeds and so different gravities.
I don't think so, tidal heating is caused by the planet pulling the moon in different parts; the tides on Earth move around the world as the Earth gets pulled by the moon at different points. Since Pluto and Charon are tidallt locked, they don't really pull around each other anymore. Think like a match and a sandpaper, if you hold them against each other, nothing happens. It is only when you scrape the match against it that the match begind to burn.
Technically, all 1-moon planets circle together around a single point. Multi-moon planets also circle around a kind of set of points mumble mumble three-body-problem. (if you don't know what the 3-body problem refers to, it's the difficulty of solving multiple-body problems regarding gravity.)
Remember to mark down your calendars for 2149 when humanity discovers that Charon is in fact a frozen Mass Relay that will allow the Systems Alliance and humanity as a whole to join galactic society and find a place on the Citadel.
I'm your moon. You're my moon. We go round and round. From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small. Promise me you will always remember who you are. Who you were, long before they said you were no more.
There's one reason the Kuiper object known as Pluto is so popular: American chauvinism. It was the only solar system planet discovered by an American until it was declared "not a planet".
Well, now... quite an interesting set of ideas and plans! Wish I could still be around to see the plans come to fruition! (Edited when you listed how long it would take... I'll be dead by then.)
space travel always trips me out… this isn’t the same as going to the edge of our solar system by any means, but reminds me of the scenario where a ship full of people in cryo sleep is sent to a vastly distant planet only to find a human colony already set up upon arrival. This being because after a few hundred years technology had advanced far enough to get a ship there exponentially quicker than the one sent generations prior. 😂
Seems like Persephone could be a double probe that splits, sending a Pluto/Charon segment into orbit, and flinging the other segment elsewhere in the keiper belt, or possibly Neptune?
Its interesting to note that when you want to resurface a natural ice surface on a lake, you just need to break some holes and let nature do the work as the pressure of the ice on the lake's surface causes the water to pour out of the holes. The ice on the lake surface also cracks in places. This is largely due to the collision of many ice surfaces as they come together to make an ice surfaces covering the entire ice. Its a bit like plate tectonics.
This probably sounds crazy but I don't get why they can't just build a giant gun in orbit and use it to shoot probes out. Then it would only need some reverse thrust when it starts getting close to the object. Maybe it wouldn't shoot probes as complex as a Mars rover but I think they could pack in a few cameras, an interplanetary transmitter, and a simple way to reposition, like compressed air or even a mechanical system with springs. If the probes are simple there is also less loss in terms of cost if the probe misses the target.
That's actually pretty close to some real projects that people are trying to work out how to do right now, but one of the big problems is that due to the laws of motion, pushing those probes into space will slow down the gun and eventually leave it burning up in the atmosphere
Way back in the early 80s when there was talk about the possibility of 'planet X', it was given the provisional name of Persephone, I wonder why that never panned out...
22:18 “A plan to give Uranus a hard probing”…. You just couldn’t resist, could you. Not that I’m complaining. Tell an inappropriate Uranus joke, and I turn into a teenager, giggling stupidly. 😂
Charon was a subject of conflict in the original Star Trek episode 'Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ' Almost came to the auto destruction of the Enterprise ship. Lol 🤣 😂. Is this that same planet?😂🤣😆.
The point about Charon and Pluto's orbit is a bit misleading as no object in the solar system orbits another but they orbit a point known as the barycentre. For example earth-luna barycentre is about 4700km from the centre of the earth. And without double checking I believe the sol-jupiter barycentre is out side the sun due to Jupiter's large gravity
I demand a full scale test to determine if a freezing sea of beer could crack a dwarf planet open! Troll me for my naivety and inability to grasp obvious metaphor but, be aware that such a test would definitely make it into a Top Tenz video.
I guess they could, there is one problem: the distance between the two varies somewhat, but the diffence is less than 10 km I believe. Maybe they should build a very strong connection hub at the barycentre, two short flexible tubes on both sides of the hub, and the rest of the tubes of ''normal'' strength material.
@@Emdee5632 the cable should have some stretch in it. It wouldn't need to be all that tight , either. 10 km is a lot of slack , but it could work. I don't know why you would need to go between them. I was just speculating. Maybe for tourists... Spacesuit skiing could be fun...
Dammit, Fact Boy, now Im depressed! I just got my appetite up for more knowledge about Pluto and Charon, and then u end up telling me, I'll probably have to live to be 100 for that to happen 😢
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I'd rather not, ta.
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Pluto and Charon are not drunk dancers! They are sober contra dancers executing a balance and swing.
By the time the Persephone mission gets to Pluto and Charon, Simon *might* have decided he has enough TH-cam channels 🤣
Never!
About once a month for the last few years I've found a new Simon channel. How many more are out there? or maybe I shouldn't ask how the sausage is made
@@twonumber22 there's a lot. I got caught in an algorithm trap a few weeks back where all my video suggestions were all his channels.
Why do they keep sending the gods wives to check up on them?
At this point I think he's merely being paid by people else to host them. He has an ability to speak to the camera and keep you engrossed most people don't have.
"A plan to give Uranus a Hard probing" Simon emphasised the word Hard, he knew what he was doing 😉
I plan to give Uranus a hard probing tonight. Cocktails and telescopes are a fun mix.
The Uranus jokes on these videos are relentless.
@@RegrettablyLongwinded Uranus is never-ending.
Don't threaten me with a good time
Who’s Simon
I refuse to believe that Charon isnt hiding a Mass Relay.
I was looking for this comment. Thank you
I got a bad feeling about it
*Angry Reaper noises intensify*
Thank you
Cerberus here, it will be ok.
Love Pluto and Charon. Sadly Pluto got demoted on my birthday, but though it might have been a loss for planets it was a huge win for dwarf planets, which people never thought much about before. Love the videos!
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People have to stop using the word "demoted" - even Simon. Pluto got RE-CLASSIFIED.
Little people planets.
Wasn't a real demotion, just a re categorization. Our understanding of 'planet' has changed a bunch since 1930. If pluto is a major planet, then we have 26 and more to come, if it's a dwarf planet, then we have 8 major and 22 dwarfs with more to come.
There currently is a very, very likely change on the horizon to change pluto to a 'binary planet' as Simon mentioned in the video.
@@InvestmentJoy There was no sudden change in our "understanding". It was just a reclassification. And no one yet has justified with a scientific argument why the number of planets in our solar system is an issue.
The major argument is that it's too much for school children to memorize. The same school children who have no problem memorizing all the state's and their capitals, all the Countries and the multiplication tables? That's the age when you are supposed to memorize lots of things
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Literally reads as Ultrakill level names...
Amazing
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Man, the outer solar system is peak awesome. These distant worlds speak to the imagination in ways that few other things can. The Kuiper belt being so distant is a curse however, it takes a decade to get there.
I have high hopes for the Persephone mission. New Horizons was something that I spend a good chunk of my developing years anxiously waiting for. I bored so many people to tears gushing about how cool that mission was. Let's hope that we make some good progress at getting things to the outer solar system faster, way faster. I'd like to see these worlds get studied before I end up back in diapers.
These subsurface oceans (though still technically speculative) are endlessly fascinating. Would love to see missions to here, Enceladus, Titan and several other moons. I think it's rapidly getting easier and cheaper.
As much as I'd love to see a mission to Enceladus, I think it is probably a sterile place(and it really pains me to say this).
@@alanwright7498 I dunno about _sterile_ but I will say that more attention and hopes for possible life, all backed by the science and factual data (as we understand it) currently available to us, is given to Europa, Titan, Mars, Venus. Enceladus may be more viable for life than all our possibilities, but you're correct in implying a lot of scientists merely push it to the wayside, _especially_ after Europa. This particular Jovian satellite simply takes the cake when it comes to talks of life out there within our very own [solar] system.
Sure. If you can wait ten years or more. 😂
It probably won't happen in any of our lifetimes but I'd like to see a future with drovers on every terrestrial moon.
The scale of such a mission would be insane though.
@@raidkoast might just happen in our lifetime, space agencies, both public and private, are growing quickly in quantity and quality
Astronomer who discovered Pluto’s moon wanted to name it after wife. Naming council said, “No. That’s crass.” Astronomer: “Ok Ok. I’ll name it Charon from Greek mythology. In theme with Pluto, he carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead.” Council: “Whew. Thanks, that’s better. By the way, what is your wife’s name anyway?” Astronomer: “It’s Sharon.” Maybe true story. I heard this from my 8th grade science teacher.
🤣😂
According to infallible Wikipedia her name was Charlene but she went by "Char" and 'Charon' was his attempt to render her name in a science-y fashion; to his later delight discovered the mythological aspect to the name which he thought he had made up.
@@autarchex You are The Wind Beneath My Wings. I was afraid to look it up and find l was full of it.
Always had my doubts on that story tbh, given that the ancient greek pronounication of the mythological "Charon" would apparently be closer sounding to "KAR-ron" or "HAR-ron", which to my ear doesn't really rhyme well with Sharon IMO... 🤔
Unfortunately, he was less successful in getting the 2nd moon named, "Osbourne".
Charon in Greek mythology was the ferryman for the dead, ferrying them across the river Styx into the Underworld.
Nyx is the Goddess of the night and Charons mother. Kerberos or Cerberus the three headed dog and guard of the Underworld. And last but not least Hydra lived in the lake of Lerna which was an entrance to the Underworld. Love that scientists named them in the order you would see them if you went to the Underworld.
Don't pay the ferryman.
Don't even fix a price.
Don't pay the ferryman
Until he gets you to the other side.
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The Ferryman: You're not getting in my boat till I get my 2 pennies.
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I was binge watching all of the planet videos and suddenly realised that this is very recent, nice
Every time Simon said Charon, all I heard was Ozzy yelling "Sharron!!".
His wife thought he was being sweet. His thoughts tho, 'oh I big ball of ice and methane? Sounds like my wife!' 🤣
9:44 Percival Lowell was not only the founder of the observatory but more to the point the man who wanted a powerful telescope to prove definitely he existence of Schiaparelli's Martian "canali" (erroneously translated to "canals" when in Italian it just means "channels", hence without any artificial construction implication and alien civilization subtext).
With the way things are going I'm not holding put much hope that civilization will still be around to enjoy these discoveries.
1:49 Saying “Charon dominates in Pluto’s moon family” is like saying “Jeff Bezos has more money than the average person”. It’s a massive understatement
Let's get Charon to be the second most viewed astronomy Geographics video. It is only right that it is next to Pluto in views.
Big reason the new mission will take so long isn't that it MUST go slower by definition but that its budget has been seriously underfunded to where it can't be launched on a rocket large enough to carry the fuel and engines needed to go faster.
Economics, not fundamental physics, determine the speed at which it will fly.
It's like your employer saying you'll get funding to lease an e-bike for your 50km commute because they won't give you the budget for a car.
Great video! So much we DON'T know about this moon and yet it's still astounding just what we DO know!
Any chance, while you and the team are delving about in the dark corners of the solar system, that we might hear about some of the other "weird moons" out there, such as Mimas or Miranda?
“Moonlets” To damn cure
To be fair, Pluto is pretty eerie, as well.
Queue "Sails of Charon" a certified rocker and banger
Scorpions rule!!!
Look, however the relationship between Pluto and Charon stands, I just hope it's Plutonic.
I'm 100% sure there is a mass relay in the center of Charon for humanity to use for instance space travel.
I can just imagine Pluto shouting at Charon like it was ozzy osborne... :P
I dig these videos. I dig all you-all's productions. Please keep them us. Enjoy the holidays all
Love anything about our old 9th planet.
Note: Comparing the Bible to space exploration is not an Apples to Apples thing.
Agreed, the Pluto-Charon system is one of the most intriguing places we've ever discovered.
Its still the 9th planet to me, damn it!
Lol
@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 It should have been marked #10/11. Ceres should still be # 5. It got demoted for no good reason. My rule, if it's round and orbiting the sun (as opposed to orbiting another body orbiting the sun), it's a planet. Pluto-Charon are a double planet by most any metric.Their barycenter is outside Pluto by a wide margin. On that note, the Earth and Moon could be argued to be a double, but for now their barycenter is still inside Earth.
@@baahcusegamer4530 by for now you mean in the future their barycenter might fall outside of Earth?
@@cariyaputta I read that it's possible that the barycenter could eventually fall outside of Earth in the distant future. Expect to see the definition(s) of planets to continue to change as astronomers continue discovering strange new worlds beyond our solar system that challenge our preconceptions. My personal take is we'd do well to accept the inevitable: that we have a hellavua lot of planets in our own system with multiple ways of classifying them: inner/outer/kuiper, rocky/gas/icy, etc. If we want to keep it simple: if it's round and its barycenter with an satellites falls within its solid surface (or point where atmospheric is equal to earth at sea level) just call it a planet and be done with it.
Sad ending. If the new project had been on this decade's priority list, it would be getting to the Pluto/Charon binary dwarf planet system in 2058. It was not on that list. Maybe it'll happen a decade later, or maybe not. Either way, I don't expect to see the results. You got my hopes up, Simon, only to crush them.
My expectations are low, I know I'll be deader than a door nail by then. Heck I'll be lucky to reach retirement in 2059 without something happening to me beforehand.
I love this pair, possibly my favorite two objects in our star system. They seem like such an odd couple, we can only imagine how cool they would be up close.
Agree! Let`s go!
They are nice individually but they don't get along well together. It's too awkward. Spinning around each other over 13,000 times per (their) year.
@@higuysitsmepluto4445, it’s probably the codependency of the whole arrangement. One isn’t orbiting the other, and there’s no single “In Charge” body in that particular dance; it’s just two orbs dancing with each other in the closest version our solar system has to a perfectly balanced orbit. Everyone else is heavily weighted towards the larger partner, to the point where it can hard to spot the orbits that are slightly off-centre.
Of course…it could also be the bit where this particular pair shouldn’t work by our understanding of gravity, and they do anyway. Like bumblebees…also one of my favourites.
I couldn't help thinking of Ozzy Osbourne when you kept saying Cheron. Cheron ! where's my bleeping remote !.
Everyone always forgets about Charon what a rough deal.
I don't think Charon particularly cares. If there was intelligent life there, it would know less about us than we know about Charon.
I think Pluto is the most beautiful planet (I guess dwarf planet). It's so amazing that we have these pictures of it.
I see no reason to delay or remove the Pluto/Cheron mission. The Mars mission is only valuable if we explore. Same with the Pluto system. We are missing a vital opportunity. Perhaps another Space Assosiation will take up the mantle and spread its wings out there and on to the Kyper belt.
It's difficult enough getting as far as Mars or Venus, Pluto is even moreso. Let's just take our time in getting there.
Yes. Do it now so we don't have to wait. Send it speedy with a brake.
Modern humans: Have to be "a bit baked" to notice a heart shaped object.
Pluto and Charon aren't facing each other. They're back to back because they've been together too long.
I think it happened sometime between their engagement and their marriage
The Charon mass relay…
Thank you , Simon for your kind words regarding 'much-loved' Pluto. The other problem that I heard regarding the next probe is that Pluto is approaching its longer part of its eliptical orbit which will put it even further afield. I shall not be around to see those pictures, unfortunately. Perhaps in the next life.
"...give Uranus a hard probing..." Thank you, good sir, for leaning into the phonetic accident that most astronomy presenters go out of their way to avoid (ex.: Urinus). Normally I feel like I'm laughing AT someone for flinching. About damn time that I feel like I'm laughing WITH someone about it.
I wonder why Pluto's heart shaped area was not named:
The Valentine?
Due to tidal locking and even with current technology materials, a "tower" can be built connecting Pluto and Charon.
Wheels of various diameters can then be built along the length of the tower, with different rotation speeds and so different gravities.
The dark region below it is named Chthulu.
Simon's love of space and science has really been shining in recent videos, and I am so happy for him.
AstroGraphics my favourite sub group on this channel!
Astrographics is so much better then Spaceographics 😆 which was my attempt at it. Love it 👍🏻
Me too! AstroGraphics, good name! 👍
I think AstroGraphics is the unofficial name space fans have given this series.
I think that charon might still have an underwater ocean due to the close tidal locked orbit it has with pluto pulling on each other,
I don't think so, tidal heating is caused by the planet pulling the moon in different parts; the tides on Earth move around the world as the Earth gets pulled by the moon at different points. Since Pluto and Charon are tidallt locked, they don't really pull around each other anymore. Think like a match and a sandpaper, if you hold them against each other, nothing happens. It is only when you scrape the match against it that the match begind to burn.
I love this pair, possibly my favorite two objects in our star system.
What's wrong with Siriusr, Betelgeuse and Rigel? At least you can SEE them.
@@diogeneslantern18, nothing wrong with them, I just particularly love the weird thing Pluto and Charon have going on.
3:21 get yourself a men who looks at you the way Charon looks at Pluto lol
Legend has it, Simon sleeps only once per plutonian year. His TH-cam presence is obviously proof
I love how every video has the same comment saying " start a astrographics channel " and to see you quote that here is just *chef's kiss*
Charon is a gigantic frozen beer? Screw colonizing Mars!
Everybody knows that Charon is not a celestial body but a Mass Relay...
You're welcome Simon. I've watched the Pluto episode like 10 times already.
Technically, all 1-moon planets circle together around a single point. Multi-moon planets also circle around a kind of set of points mumble mumble three-body-problem.
(if you don't know what the 3-body problem refers to, it's the difficulty of solving multiple-body problems regarding gravity.)
Even the sun does this dance with Jupiter.
Love these Geographics on the planets and moons. would love to see one on Mrianda(moon of Uranus).
Miranda is one of my favorite moons too.
Remember to mark down your calendars for 2149 when humanity discovers that Charon is in fact a frozen Mass Relay that will allow the Systems Alliance and humanity as a whole to join galactic society and find a place on the Citadel.
I'm your moon. You're my moon. We go round and round.
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small.
Promise me you will always remember who you are.
Who you were, long before they said you were no more.
There's one reason the Kuiper object known as Pluto is so popular: American chauvinism. It was the only solar system planet discovered by an American until it was declared "not a planet".
Have it on good authority that Charon is a mass effect relay encased in ice.
Pluto: "Dwarf" planet is offensive and hurts my feelz! ... I'm a "Dimensionally Challenged" planet! 😜
Honestly the craziest thing I learned is Texas is big enough to be considered a dwarf planet
He named a planet after his wife… now if that isn’t real love. Then I don’t know what is.
A moon.
That Satellite ratio looks pretty closely matched by Orcus and Vanth from the graphic at about 20 minutes...
-Shawn
You say, "...like hooch-filled hobos..." like it's a bad thing
Hooch filled hobos: that’s a perfect turn of phrase.
Well, now... quite an interesting set of ideas and plans! Wish I could still be around to see the plans come to fruition!
(Edited when you listed how long it would take... I'll be dead by then.)
If it did get there in 2058... well, I won't be around, I'd be 105! And right now 80 is looking like a hard bar to cross.
Yes. Pact full of facts and humor to bring it home. Another great space video, factboy!
Fascinating video, thank you, I’m hopeful that propulsion systems like fusion drive become reality soon. 🤞🏼
space travel always trips me out… this isn’t the same as going to the edge of our solar system by any means, but reminds me of the scenario where a ship full of people in cryo sleep is sent to a vastly distant planet only to find a human colony already set up upon arrival. This being because after a few hundred years technology had advanced far enough to get a ship there exponentially quicker than the one sent generations prior. 😂
Can't imagine how Pluto can exist for billions of years with a karen orbiting around it.
That's why he immediately gave her the cold shoulder.
Charon? Don't you mean Kharon?
After all, you know what they say...
"Charon IS Kharon"
Haha~ the Persephone mission will be more important than the Bible. Funny.
Star Trek (TOS) “Let that be your last battlefield.” Trekkers will know what I’m talking about.
It's cool that Christy was able to see what Charon looked like.
6:00 ~ "Historical inaccuracy" as I heard it. 😆
Seems like Persephone could be a double probe that splits, sending a Pluto/Charon segment into orbit, and flinging the other segment elsewhere in the keiper belt, or possibly Neptune?
By the time they reach Pluto, they've already passed Neptune long ago.
Hard to watch TH-cam without seeing you now fact boy. Another great one
1:49 sounds like the lineup of a hair metal band styled around Conan the barbarian
Damn you Simon! Pluto is a planet!
We need to get further out in the Kuiper belt because they're actually rocky planets again after that so could be interesting
Its interesting to note that when you want to resurface a natural ice surface on a lake, you just need to break some holes and let nature do the work as the pressure of the ice on the lake's surface causes the water to pour out of the holes. The ice on the lake surface also cracks in places. This is largely due to the collision of many ice surfaces as they come together to make an ice surfaces covering the entire ice. Its a bit like plate tectonics.
Top 10 Retirement Holmes’s 😂😂 love it Simon
Learning that Pluto is a bonded pair with a big heart facing towards Charon makes me love it so much more
This probably sounds crazy but I don't get why they can't just build a giant gun in orbit and use it to shoot probes out. Then it would only need some reverse thrust when it starts getting close to the object. Maybe it wouldn't shoot probes as complex as a Mars rover but I think they could pack in a few cameras, an interplanetary transmitter, and a simple way to reposition, like compressed air or even a mechanical system with springs. If the probes are simple there is also less loss in terms of cost if the probe misses the target.
That's actually pretty close to some real projects that people are trying to work out how to do right now, but one of the big problems is that due to the laws of motion, pushing those probes into space will slow down the gun and eventually leave it burning up in the atmosphere
"Texas is not on a planetary scale" wtf are you talking about, Texas is the biggest planet in the solar verse
There's nothing like a drive across Texas or the length of California!
Neptune doesn’t get enough love, it’s my favorite planet.
Pff Neptune…
Actually I like Neptune. I’m just not a fan of the gas giants.
Way back in the early 80s when there was talk about the possibility of 'planet X', it was given the provisional name of Persephone, I wonder why that never panned out...
If you count the dwarfs, including Ceres, Pluto would be Planet X.
Eris was named..., uh, Eris, which is Persephone.
Sitting here nodding sagely as he says "...just 100 million years ago" like I can actually imagine that span of time.
22:18 “A plan to give Uranus a hard probing”….
You just couldn’t resist, could you. Not that I’m complaining. Tell an inappropriate Uranus joke, and I turn into a teenager, giggling stupidly. 😂
Charon was a subject of conflict in the original Star Trek episode 'Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ' Almost came to the auto destruction of the Enterprise ship. Lol 🤣 😂. Is this that same planet?😂🤣😆.
Simon said @ 23:26 "to give Uranus a hard prob" 😁
The point about Charon and Pluto's orbit is a bit misleading as no object in the solar system orbits another but they orbit a point known as the barycentre. For example earth-luna barycentre is about 4700km from the centre of the earth.
And without double checking I believe the sol-jupiter barycentre is out side the sun due to Jupiter's large gravity
Yeah, the Jupiter rmakes the sun do a little dance around itself ;)
I demand a full scale test to determine if a freezing sea of beer could crack a dwarf planet open!
Troll me for my naivety and inability to grasp obvious metaphor but, be aware that such a test would definitely make it into a Top Tenz video.
I know from personal experience that beer can crack me open, but I never let my insides freeze drunk.
I walk back into the room just in time to hear, "...give Uranus a hard probing" bravo Simon.
Pluto wasn't demoted, it's status as a dwarf planet was recognized : )
He's just a little moon like Triton that had to go off on his own!
🤣Uranus ... hard probing. That one almost got by me. On a serious note. I LOVE your videos!
The barycenter is Outside Pluto.
So Yeah, Charon is Definitely
Not a Moon of Pluto. 😊
Pluto's creepy twin? Do they walk around a haunted hotel asking Danny to come play with them?
If they are both tidally locked, you could build a space elevator between the two...
I guess they could, there is one problem: the distance between the two varies somewhat, but the diffence is less than 10 km I believe. Maybe they should build a very strong connection hub at the barycentre, two short flexible tubes on both sides of the hub, and the rest of the tubes of ''normal'' strength material.
@@Emdee5632 the cable should have some stretch in it. It wouldn't need to be all that tight , either. 10 km is a lot of slack , but it could work. I don't know why you would need to go between them. I was just speculating. Maybe for tourists... Spacesuit skiing could be fun...
Dammit, Fact Boy, now Im depressed! I just got my appetite up for more knowledge about Pluto and Charon, and then u end up telling me, I'll probably have to live to be 100 for that to happen 😢
I've also heard speculation that, due to it orbit around the sun and the elements in it's composition, it's possibly the first discovered mega-comet.
When a space video comes out I know the gods have blessed me with their favor