Why “Pluto” is being discussed
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the goalposts are on Pluto at this point.
by anthonypasq · Sep 8, 2026
Both were known to be Kuiper Belt objects, so it was expected there would at least be a family resemblance. I don't think anyone expected Pluto to be more active than Triton; th…
by idlewords · Sep 8, 2026
Fair enough, though how common was that belief that Pluto would look like Triton? Before the first photos from New Horizons pretty much every artistic rendition of Pluto I'd see…
by yellowapple · Sep 8, 2026
No shade on New Horizons intended, but I was talking about the early 2000's revolution in understanding of ice moons/ocean worlds, and that preceded the Pluto flyby by a lo…
by idlewords · Sep 7, 2026
Analog Devices Pluto SDR has a fairly integrated tutorial program for zynq fpga. https://www.analog.com/en/resources/evaluation-hardware-and-... > I’ve…
by Joel_Mckay · Sep 4, 2026
They do new stuff all the time. Ask your AI to draw a gerbil riding a unicycle around Pluto and you'd get an image that hasn't been there before. If by genuinely new you mean wi…
by tim333 · Sep 4, 2026
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Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets. Pluto has roughly one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third of its volume. Originally considered a planet, its status was changed when astronomers adopted a new definition of the word with new criteria. Read more on Wikipedia