we need to talk about Jumbos
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:38 pm
Ok, not all politics is life or death...
https://youtube.com/shorts/xQeWUBCc0rs? ... uQLD2bKUDu
How we think about planets has cja ged over and over again, and usually based on new knowledge. Last time Pluto got demoted from it's planet status despite us already knowing lots about it (and the other TNOs). So was some kind of political decision.
So along comes a new thing, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JUMBOs), are you have to ask yourself, are they planets? Do we need a new category between planet and star? If the current definition of a planet requires orbit around a star can these be automatically discounted?
Very important questions, but since most of the objects in our solar system all orbit in the same plane (and mostly spin in the same direction too) i think we can safely say it all former from the same gas cloud and thus we haven't been hit by a JUMBO
https://youtube.com/shorts/xQeWUBCc0rs? ... uQLD2bKUDu
How we think about planets has cja ged over and over again, and usually based on new knowledge. Last time Pluto got demoted from it's planet status despite us already knowing lots about it (and the other TNOs). So was some kind of political decision.
So along comes a new thing, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JUMBOs), are you have to ask yourself, are they planets? Do we need a new category between planet and star? If the current definition of a planet requires orbit around a star can these be automatically discounted?
Very important questions, but since most of the objects in our solar system all orbit in the same plane (and mostly spin in the same direction too) i think we can safely say it all former from the same gas cloud and thus we haven't been hit by a JUMBO