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Wait, can someone confirm, is pluto really this small?
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According to Wikipedia, Pluto's mean radius is ~1200 km, whilst Earth's moon is ~1700 km. The distance between Sydney and Perth is ~3300 km.
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Pluto’s diameter: 2400km
Length of Australia: 3300km
So, yes it is that small. No wonder people were questioning if it was a planet.
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No, Australia is just that big.
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Errmm well you still have to unwrap it since it's a sphere and then it's about 5 Australias or if you're from America 38 texases or slightly smaller than Russia.
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There's a reason it was downgraded to a dwarf planet.
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Pluto being slightly more habitable than Australia.
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Because there are no Australians on Pluto
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So you're telling me we calculated how to send a satellite to a small planet that's smaller than a country on our planet with accuracy?
Edit: thanks for all the karma!
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At several billion kilometers after a 9-years flight using the gravity of jupiter to assist the trip using small corrections. Shit's crazy yoh
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Yes. Crazy what you can do with math and money.
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Amazing what we can do with science considering only a few hundred years ago we we still figuring out how to travel to a specific country by boat.
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We’ve sent probes to asteroids
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They also did the same with Ceres, which is much smaller (less than half the diameter) than Pluto.
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Yes but we also sent this same satellite to Ultima Thule which is half the length of Rhode Island.
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edit: disregard, I was wrong