Kuiper Belt Orbiter, Naming Planet 9, Most Perfect Spheres | Q&A 246 

It's part of the process of developing a successful channel. He's not doing it as a present. He's obviously doing it to build something which takes effort.

I am sure he has noticed that human appreciation pays the bills

It's not just Fraser, he has a team of people!

Voice of sanity if you want to know if they've found life ask a chemist differing pressure regimes make an enormous difference to how the reactions occur.

I agree, I think life has to form somehow first. THEN you get all the extremophiles everyone talks about.

It’d have to be the Roman equivalent to keep the planet naming convention we somewhat follow (looking at you Uranus)

@@noahpilarski I submit to a higher authority, A C Clark had it named Persephone in Rendezvous with Rama 🙂

It's also the name of the planet that is discovered in the outer solar system in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that confuses the astrologers, and the forgotten planet in the film Serenity.

@@akamikeym I guess I have to re-watch Serenity. And re-watch the series which unfortunately doesn't take that long...

I think the Bible deserves a few names too, I suggest Moses for obvious reasons. (he was a shepherd just like this planet allegedly is doing) I'm not religious at all, but greek mythology has been hauled as a hat with names in it, but that hat is quite empty now and serves no purpose anymore. Unless there's a mythological shepherd of some kind in greek mythology... I'm open to change my mind hehe.

Call it Terminus, be embarrassed 50 years later when we discover ten more. "Scotus" yet the only way we find it is through reflected light. "Antevorta" she isn't a goddess yet, she hasn't even been born yet. Purportive potential deity. Besides, once we find the planet, the discovery in the past, and the future still persists. That name would be a nod to the past-looking-forward, a period that you happen to idolize merely because you're in it right now. For "forethought", the name would also be making her all about us, more mere typical modern anthrocentrism. We can be better than selfish. Besides, "Prometheus" would be better than "Providentia" (a name fit for a Crater or Mare at best), but as Prometheus is chained in Hell for giving wisdom to humans - like Satan - and as Satan is Lucifer, the light-bringer - like Venus - the name has been taken. Me, I say we sell the name to fund NASA. Let it be Planet CryptoStaples.com (including the hyperlink)

So, SCOTUS is the god of darkness and shadow? That explains the black robes.

It’d probably be brighter and starrier but probably not a massive difference. The bright stars shine through the dust, and the dim ones would be hard to see anyways.

without any space dust, we'd probably be more vulnerable to interstellar radiation

Look, I grew up with it too, but all science has to be open to change. IF you want to define planet in a way that includes Pluto, then you need to include Ceres (and the other dwarf planets), in which case Pluto still wouldn't be #9 but #10 out of like 15 and counting. If you want a set list that never changes then you're not participating in science but rooting for a sports team.

No.

It should be honorary like the vowel "sometimes" Y.

If they find another orbiter in the Kuiper belt it is, by the new rules, probably not a planet. Unless it is significantly larger than everything else out there, it did not clear its orbit.

@@zak7181 The current definitions of planets for our solar system is absurd, its not "science", Its opinion. You can tell its not science cause it isn't due to a discovery, its due to the IAU voting on definitions with the goal of limiting the number of what they call a planet. Pluto, or Ceres, has more in common with earth then Jupiter, or Saturn yet they are still called planets, but not the other ones. This is cause they wanted to use a stupid metric like clearing the neighborhood, which Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune haven't done so in the last few billion years. Several very prominent astronomers even point this out, Earth has tens of thousands of asteroids close to it, with more discovered every day. Mars, has even more with the asteroid belt starting near its orbit. Then we have Jupiter the king of our solar system's planets, which shares its orbit with an estimated 600,000 asteroids with a diameter of over 1km! Then we have Neptune, that shares its orbit with Pluto, among others. Even worse is Venus, (or Earth for that matter) one of the original planets of ancient times, wouldn't clear its orbit any better then Pluto clear's its if its further from the sun where the so called 9 planet might be. So we currently have an IAU definition where Venus/Earth (and Mars/Mercury might be a planet if its a few AU from the sun but if its further from the sun its not, but then if its not even orbiting the sun its a planet again. Talk about an arbitrary criteria. The IAU wanted to try to make their classifications scientific looking by trying to jump through hoops to make it a smaller number that then makes them look stupid. Just do the simple thing, cut that classification criteria out, and leave the other two criteria. Then you can sub classify if you want grouping planets with similar characteristics, Gas giants, ice giants, terrestrial, and so on. Who cares if our solar system has 50 planets, we can still call the 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or whatever planets the traditional ones, or whatever you want to call them cause of their historical impact. You might claim that classifying an object one thing or another wont change anything, but it will, scientific probes depend on funding, I doubt Pluto would have had a mission sent there if it was not considered a planet leading up to that point.

Thanks a lot

Noice. I'd like Persephone too.

Agreed. For a person I'd prefer "Athena," but her older name is less ambiguous and more planet-ey. Either way, she deserved a planet!

Already in use for an asteroid.

@@cuteswan Athena has an asteroid. Three, actually.

You need to get a life

Good one!!

It is such an amazing series!! I hope whatever the next one is called is good!

As an added bonus Erebus doesn't appear to be in use yet, so the IAU would be more inclined to go for it.

Thanks for bringing this point up. See also my comment where I give some more reasons why the question makes no sense.

That was a great explanation, preceded by a very dismissive statement. Just because you know the question makes no sense doesn't mean everyone does. Stating that any question should never be asked is rude in my opinion. None the less your explanation was factual and informative, I now know to never ask you anything lest I want to be belittled.

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Pretty sure that isn’t how it works

we can calculate the roche limit using the equation: d = 2.4R (ρM/ρm)^1/3 where R is the distance between the bodies, ρM is the density of the main body(earth), ρm is the density of the satellite(the moon), and d is the roche limit. i don’t know the answer but i’d recommend doing the math for it! it’s a ton of fun, and you can get to know the answer!

I’m pretty sure the moon’s Roche limit is inside of geostationary orbit. That being said, doing so would still have unbelievably cataclysmic results

Yea but the property value for the lucky person who gets it over their house would be huge. Or the government would pay you fair market value. Moon elevator anyone?

neutron stars and black holes? if they don't rotate, there's nothing to distort them from a spherical shape.

@@mrxmry3264but they all rotate, and real fast at that.

You could probably count the gravitational field of any given elementary particle as a spherical “thing” if you’re counting the effects of forces as things. Of course, then you get into trouble regarding the definition of “spherical”, since gravity has infinite range.

How about Persephone? She was taken hostage by her uncle Hades (Pluto)

Not everything is magnetic or is it..... not everything is x-ray gamma ray light ray detectable but chemical and partical signatures may b the way to start upgrading our planet based telescopes or no?

Later this year Esa will launch the Hera mission to go and study the asteroid in detail in the aftermath of DART to answer those questions.

Its proximity to Jupiter's radiation zone likely blasted off any atmosphere it had a long time ago.

Idk, I have “planet 9 discovered” on my bingo card

IX gosh darn it!

why? (my history isn't so good)

@@DrDeuteron As far as I know he was the first to measure the curvature of the earth and its aprox size a few hundred years bc.

I’ve heard we’d need a mirror around 2 kilometres across to resolve a decent image of an exoplanet. Not very specific i know, but hopefully that gives a rough sense of scale.