For this evening viewing pleasure at my local dinner theatre (TV in the TV den): The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1977)
For me, one of the best actors ever, one of the stars of this 1970s TV series: Karl Malden.
I simply love Karl's acting style, chops, spunk. He's really good in everything I've ever seen him in.
Visiting Our Neighbor Sedna: Feasibility Study of a Mission to This Planetoid - Image of Sedna, taken by the Hubble Space telescope in 2004. (Credit: NASA)
While ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/visiting-our-neighbor-sedna-feasibility-study-of-a-mission-to-this-planetoid/ #space #pluto #sedna
Here is a more precise but more complex proposal in the paper for the definition of a planet.
The authors state that meaningful action on the proposal does not appear likely until the next IAU General Assembly in 2027 at the earliest.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad55f3
#Pluto
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A new definition for planet was presented at the IAU General Assembly earlier this month -
A planet is a celestial body that
1. orbits one or more stars, brown dwarfs or stellar remnants and
2. is more massive than 10^23 kg and
3. is less massive than 13 Jupiter masses (2.5 X 10^28 kg).
The new definition will allow exoplanets to be referred to as planets.
But, Pluto will still fail to gain planetary status since its mass is only 1.31 x 10^22 kg.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/proposal-to-change-scientific-definition-of-planet
#Pluto
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18 years ago on August 24, 2006, Pluto was demoted in status from Planet to Dwarf Planet, as the International Astronomical Union (IAU) revised the criteria for a full-sized planet:
A planet was defined as a celestial body that
1. is in orbit around the Sun.
2. has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape).
3. has “cleared the neighborhood” around its orbit.
Pluto fails to meet the 3rd criterion.
https://www.iau.org/static/resolutions/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/
#Pluto
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"This time, we get to know anime's pioneering force, #MaruyamaMasao. His illustrious career spans over 330 titles, including classics like Ninja Scroll, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and In This Corner Of The World. Plus, discover the untold story behind his latest work 14 years in the making, #Pluto."
Success! I discovered Pluto! 
This blink GIF consists of two sets of one-hour-total exposures from 5 and July and 7.
You're looking at a deep star field in Capricornus. The bright star near the center is 10th magnitude HD192431 (completely invisible without a telescope) and the fuzz below it is some unnamed galaxy.
The jumping dot is #pluto moving against the backdrop of distant stars as it slowly chugs its way around the Sun.
37C3: You Think It’s Bad With Pluto? A History of the Planets - Not every talk at the Chaos Communication Congress is about hacking computers. In ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/12/30/37c3-you-think-its-bad-with-pluto-a-history-of-the-planets/ #chaoscommunicationcongress #astromony #science #planets #space #pluto
Simulacra Navigans — First draft finished (76k words). Follow the odyssey of Cyclica's crew on their way to #Pluto (and back?)
Inspired by Stanisław Lem's #Solaris and Kim Robinson's #Aurora, it's a story of community, conscience and adaption to space and time.
THANK YOU to everyone who stuck with me for this 2023. I hope next year can bring you even more stories!
#Scifi #Book #Solarpunk #Postgender
https://clockwooork.github.io/cyclica.html
PDF —> https://sam.nl.tab.digital/s/BcrHqYybfxwAiNr
EPUB —> https://sam.nl.tab.digital/s/3i3ZH9pNAQHN9ZQ
Was Pluto considered the 9th, 13th or 14th planet on discovery, and by whom? Unclear! Help with better sources welcome!
Note how this article:
https://www.universetoday.com/164456/where-are-all-the-double-planets/
has to do a bunch of hand-wringing work that is not a part of the model they are discussing in order to exclude all the binary planets in our solar system. They artificially call out the Earth-Moon and Pluto-Charon systems as being not quite applicable, even though the model and its mechanism actually apply directly to them, and nothing about the model actually use the IAU definition.
…Which is because there is no scientific reason behind that definition and using it only confuses actual research.
Science Magazine Astronomy Covers
A new horizon (2016) - The Pluto system seen up close
At left is the bright white Sputnik Planum, a plain of nitrogen ice. Its numerous surface pits are probably formed by sublimation. On the right are the dark red highlands of Krun Macula, rising 2.5 kilometers above the plains.
Credits: NASA/Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute; Image composition and processing by P. Engebretson
Change of Plans for New Horizons Sparks Debate - In 2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity with the first up-close v... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/17/change-of-plans-for-new-horizons-sparks-debate/ #newhorizons #kuiperbelt #deepspace #space #pluto
Pluto Icy Mountains...
Suggested to zoom in on the full size image 45 MP: https://flic.kr/p/2obHbu3
Full Video: https://flic.kr/p/2otktTW
Mission: #NASA #NewHorizons
2015-07-14 at 18000km
#Pluto #Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy
Credit:
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/AndreaLuck
The Singularity Is Here: Pluto in Aquarius Reflections On Changing Artistic Directions
On pivoting from more traditional esoteric paganism and polytheism to technopaganism and transhumanism
https://mageofa.substack.com/p/the-singularity-is-here-pluto-in
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