Pluto, the once and future planet

[Barthheart]

 O0

[Nefaro]

We have the Ghostbusters reboot.

Heresy.

[LongBlade]

Epic.

[DoctorQuest]

[Bison]

I enjoy a good episode of Psyche every now and again.

[MikeGER]

looks like an interesting wargaming map too :)

i almost see a hex grid overlay of different scales 8) (some borderlines of surface features have a typical shape)

and even as a continus map it wold work with its diversity .... well picture is about 400 km wide (?) (1040 pixel of 0.38km if this is raw data and not a suppixeld one, also its a projection of a bend surface of course) but according to self-similarity in Fractal geometry it can be a template for a 40 km or 4 km wide map  ...on some icy dwarf moon  "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....", or in the year 40k somewhere   

[JasonPratt]

That's a Total Annihilation or Dawn of War map right there!  O0

[Barthheart]

[Nefaro]

LOL

[Staggerwing]

Dat funny  :))

[Boggit]

That's a Total Annihilation or Dawn of War map right there!  O0

LOL ;D - I was just thinking that! O0

[LongBlade]

New Horizons has provided scientists with surprise after surprise, and among the latest is that Pluto has a tail.

Researchers were tipped off to its existence by the instrument called SWAP, which stands for Solar Wind Around Pluto. The analytic tool picked up readings showing a depression filled with nitrogen ions was lagging behind Pluto, forming a plasma tail. It's unknown at this time exactly what its structure is like or how far it extends. The cause of it is largely attributed to the vulnerabilities Pluto's atmosphere faces due to the planet being so small.

source: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/07/21/new-horizons-flyby-reveals-pluto-has-a-tail/21211810/?icid=maing-grid7|bon1-c|dl13|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-1444106825?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&;

[Barthheart]

New Horizons has provided scientists with surprise after surprise, and among the latest is that Pluto has a tail.

Researchers were tipped off to its existence by the instrument called SWAP, which stands for Solar Wind Around Pluto. The analytic tool picked up readings showing a depression filled with nitrogen ions was lagging behind Pluto, forming a plasma tail. It's unknown at this time exactly what its structure is like or how far it extends. The cause of it is largely attributed to the vulnerabilities Pluto's atmosphere faces due to the planet being so small.

source: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/07/21/new-horizons-flyby-reveals-pluto-has-a-tail/21211810/?icid=maing-grid7|bon1-c|dl13|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-1444106825?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&

Still not a planet....  ;)

[MikeGER]

New Horizons has provided scientists with surprise after surprise, and among the latest is that Pluto has a tail.

....to the planet being so small.

...its still a  dwarf -planet

consider KBO "Pluto" was not know before 85 years ago and discoverer Clyde William Tombaugh did not had the means to get more information, even so the strange tilted orbit around the sun gave it away somehow, that its doubtfull to be sorted into the same class of known objects  ...but as long as you have only one item of a new class its just human to 'press it' into an existing class as an ex-centric (pun intended*) member until you find more of the new ones 

young kids, fools, dumb as they come journalists and of course the nostalgic 'Pluto nerds' can still call it shortened a planet
...and just leave out the prefix 'dwarf'. 
From today data its clearly a KBO (Kuiper belt object)

we didn't 'lost' a planet, we gained instead about 5 dwarf-planets and thousend of KBO's ...and not start speaking about whats all part of the Oort cloud in our solar system

btw: is Pluto mentioned in the bible ? ...No?
then it didn't exits at all anyway for a growing number of "Creationists" ;)
...its just a pinhole in a moving sphere of several and you see the fire of hell or shine of heaven shine through it

[JasonPratt]

As a Christian who keeps an interested (if sometimes exasperated) eye on the "growing" (?) number of Creationists (not sure if their numbers are growing significantly), I've never once seen them hold any of those beliefs (I mean since modern times -- the best science of the pre-19th century doesn't count against people in that time). So if any do, and those numbers are somehow growing, they can't be significantly growing at all.

Also I reiterate from upthread: dwarf-planet, still a planet.  O0