Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 days agoYall hear what they did to Pluto?message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareYall hear what they did to Pluto?Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·5 days agoReal planets aren’t tidally locked to a moon.
minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 days agoYou realize that Earth’s moon is tidally locked, right?
minus-squareonwardknave [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·5 days agoEarth isn’t tidally locked to its Moon, though.
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoYeah, but Earth, as a real planet, isn’t tidally locked to the Moon. Earth spins as it wants.
minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days 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-up3·4 days 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-up6·5 days agoreal planets don’t orbit empty space
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·5 days agoThe Jupiter-Sun barycenter is in empty space
minus-squareClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days 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