July 30, 2022
Re: Pluto
Neil de Grasse Tyson: "Pluto is a disinteresting rock†and led the charge to demote Pluto from status as a planet.
Then we had the New Horizon mission to learn:
1) Pluto is very seismically active with mountains of nitrogen / water ice as tall as the Rockies. There are "lava†flows of nitrogen/water ice onto the Sputnik Planum.
2) Pluto is too small to have much radiogenic heat and it is too far distant to be affected by tidal pumping from the gas giants, ergo it has a mysterious internal heat source driving the seismic observations. The explanation not appreciated is the internal fission reactor, just like the GeoReactor at the Earth’s core and all major celestial bodies.
3) Charon is not a moon of Pluto. Charon is about the same size as Pluto and they form a binary planet system, rotating around one another like bolos.
4) Pluto vents CO2 and methane. It shares a wispy reddish atmosphere of tholins with Charon. Tholins are the precursors to amino acids. The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is comprised of tholins. This reddish gas circulates around the North Pole of Charon. The astronomers have named this cloud of reddish tholins as "Mordor†after the character in Lord of the Rings.â€
Disinteresting indeed.
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Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 30, 2022 03:35 PM (4RkSa)
Posted by: signwriting Gold Coast at August 01, 2022 03:51 AM (dES2r)
I don't think Tyson is anywhere close to as bright as he and some think he is - but that's true of most television personalities.
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