NASA Announces That Pluto Has Icebergs Floating On Glaciers of Nitrogen Ice (blastingnews.com)

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 7, 2016 @05:31AM from the offshore-colonies dept.

MarkWhittington writes: The most recent finding from New Horizons show that icebergs have broken off from the hills surrounding the Sputnik Planum, a glacier of nitrogen ice, and are floating slowly across its surface, eventually to cluster together in places like the Challenger Colles, informally named after the crew of the space shuttle Challenger, which was lost just over 30 years ago. The feature is an especially high concentration of icebergs, measuring 37 by 22 miles. The icebergs float on the nitrogen ice plain because water ice is less dense than nitrogen ice.

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Ob by Hognoxious · 2016-02-07 05:34 · Score: 3, Funny

And it's still not a planet? You bastards!

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1. Re: Ob by Namarrgon · 2016-02-07 09:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It's spherical, it orbits a star, it should be a planet.
  And by the same definition, so should Ceres. Nobody ever thinks of Ceres. Always being kicked around and forgotten by school teachers, and then exploited by both Earth and Mars.. #freeceres #waterislife #opa
  
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Re:Space Sex by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-07 05:37 · Score: 2, Funny

Try it on Earth first, then you can compare.