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Mass of Dwarf Planet Eris 27% Greater than Pluto
jcgam69 writes "When it was discovered in 2005, some thought Eris should be considered the 10th planet of our solar system. Everyone still considered Pluto a planet then. At first, Eris was thought to be slightly larger. Now — with the help of Eris' moon — Eris is known to be 27% more massive than Pluto. If Pluto had remained a planet to the entire community of astronomers, surely Eris would be considered the 10th planet."
Poor lonely Pluto;
No one loves you now but me.
And Clyde Tombaugh's urn.
My Very Excellent Mother Just Serverd Us Nine Pizzas- Excelsior!
All Hail Discordia!
Hail yes!
fnord.
...our beloved ninth planet just got plutowned!
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You got it wrong, that's Uranus.
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Remember: just now they figured out which of Eris and Pluto is more massive...
but they also know the internal density distributions of extrasolar planets that barely take up a pixel on the most powerful telescopes.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Pluto and Eris prefer the term "Gravitationally Challenged".
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
OK, look up. A little more to your left. A bit more. OK, just a little bit more. Nope, that's too far. Just a hair back to your right. There! See it?
That's not Eris or Pluto...it appears to be a black hole.
Eris dies.
Balderdash!
Thus raising the question, "What is the current definition?"
--AC
For sufficiently curved definitions of flat.
"I've got moons that are bigger than you."