Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoYall hear what they did to Pluto?message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareYall hear what they did to Pluto?Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoReal planets aren’t tidally locked to a moon.
minus-squareonwardknave [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month agoEarth isn’t tidally locked to its Moon, though.
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoYeah, but Earth, as a real planet, isn’t tidally locked to the Moon. Earth spins as it wants.
minus-squarecontext [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agobut the moon gets farther away as that happens. it will escape orbit completely before the earth is tidally locked.
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoreal planets don’t orbit empty space
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 month agoThe Jupiter-Sun barycenter is in empty space
minus-squareClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoOh shit I didn’t actually know that that’s cool. I knew Jupiter was big enough that it made the sun move a good bit but I didn’t realize it was outside the suns surface.
Real planets aren’t tidally locked to a moon.
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Earth isn’t tidally locked to its Moon, though.
Yeah, but Earth, as a real planet, isn’t tidally locked to the Moon. Earth spins as it wants.
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but the moon gets farther away as that happens. it will escape orbit completely before the earth is tidally locked.
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real planets don’t orbit empty space
The Jupiter-Sun barycenter is in empty space
Oh shit I didn’t actually know that that’s cool. I knew Jupiter was big enough that it made the sun move a good bit but I didn’t realize it was outside the suns surface.
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…oh oops