Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoYall hear what they did to Pluto?message-squaremessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up147arrow-down1message-squareYall hear what they did to Pluto?Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square56linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·8 months agoReal planets aren’t tidally locked to a moon.
minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 months agoYou realize that Earth’s moon is tidally locked, right?
minus-squareonwardknave [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 months agoEarth isn’t tidally locked to its Moon, though.
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoYeah, but Earth, as a real planet, isn’t tidally locked to the Moon. Earth spins as it wants.
minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoThe moon actually steals energy from the earth. It’s estimated that before the moon formed, earth days were around 10 hours.
minus-squarecontext [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agobut the moon gets farther away as that happens. it will escape orbit completely before the earth is tidally locked.
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoreal planets don’t orbit empty space
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·8 months agoThe Jupiter-Sun barycenter is in empty space
minus-squareClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoOh shit I didn’t actually know that that’s cool. I knew Jupiter was big enough that it made the sun move a good bit but I didn’t realize it was outside the suns surface.
Real planets aren’t tidally locked to a moon.
You realize that Earth’s moon is tidally locked, right?
Earth isn’t tidally locked to its Moon, though.
Yeah, but Earth, as a real planet, isn’t tidally locked to the Moon. Earth spins as it wants.
The moon actually steals energy from the earth. It’s estimated that before the moon formed, earth days were around 10 hours.
but the moon gets farther away as that happens. it will escape orbit completely before the earth is tidally locked.
Yup.
real planets don’t orbit empty space
The Jupiter-Sun barycenter is in empty space
Oh shit I didn’t actually know that that’s cool. I knew Jupiter was big enough that it made the sun move a good bit but I didn’t realize it was outside the suns surface.
Jupiter does…
…oh oops