Do you still consider Pluto a planet. Mooch doesn't care anymore .. it's a planet to him

bapu


Who burned out about 100,000 years ago?

Jonbouy


All I know is that Mooch is a star.

bapu


Who burned out about 100,000 years ago?

Mooch4056

bapu


Who burned out about 100,000 years ago?

Do you even pay attention to threads you post in or just randomly think about unrelated stuff?

Mooch4056

bapu


I wonder what Mooch is writing about in his threads?

you burnt out a decade ago stupid face

I should get a yellow helpful banner thingies. (or should I?)

bapu

Mooch4056

bapu

I should get a yellow helpful banner thingies.
(or should I?)

trimph1


Bipsi Am Pluto

bitflipper

So was Pluto really a dog at all, or something else? Only Walt knew, and he took the truth with him to the grave.

quantumeffect

While we are on the topic of Uranus, what circles Uranus hunting for Klingons?

craigb


Pluto and Charon, Mooch and Bapu.  Some combinations really don't need to be labeled (correctly or otherwise).


As for the actual OP, I'm just as liable to believe that both Pluto and Charon (as well as many of the moons around the larger planets) were originally part of the "missing" planet that should be between Mars and Jupiter according to the normal distribution algorithms.  This is exactly where the asteroid belt is (not a coincidence in my opinion).  It's not hard to imagine that there was a planet there that was hit by something like a large comet and destroyed.  Other evidence is the fact that all of the planets have more craters on one face instead of all around (which is what you'd expect to see if planet debris was spread out instead of normal impacts from wayward asteroids or smaller comets).  It could also explain the tilted orbits of planets as well - if left to form under normal circumstances, you would think that a planet's axis would be perpendicular to a line from the sun.  This sudden of a change in the Earth's axis might even be why we hear really old tales that the entire Earth was always at a moderate temperature while now we have seasons (which I prefer anyway) and also why entire forests can be found intact under two miles of ice in the Antartic (with old maps showing exactly where rivers were - only confirmed by the Space Shuttle).  Maybe there really were prior civilizations that the woo woo crowd call Atlantis or Lemuria (aka Mu) - who knows.  In any case, it's a fun story to think about.