"New Horizons" spacecraft nears Pluto.

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Originally Posted by Discodance

Ow gawd ! now you've done it ... a Dwarf Planet with a moon ?
Gee , I think that will open another can of worms lolol

does that make it a planet if it has a moon ? :eek: lol

PS ..there is quite a bit of stuff kicking around on Eris , I have watched quite a bit on it .. darn interesting too ..

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I think you might be confusing Eris with Eros which is a minor planet in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In my opening post I used the term minor planet incorrectly also.:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros

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Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

It's also running opensource Linux as windows is too unreliable.:D

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VxWorks is not open source linux.

NH is actually running Nucleus RTOS, not VxWorks.

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Originally Posted by Ausfree

I think you might be confusing Eris with Eros which is a minor planet in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In my opening post I used the term minor planet incorrectly also.:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros

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Nar, heaps of vids on it ... https://www.google.com.au/search?q=p...I6O7mwXg85m4AQ
I personally love watching these types of vids mate .

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFuA0c0Yfmk[/ame]

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In my opening post I used the term minor planet incorrectly also.:)

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:eek: strewth!! lol

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Originally Posted by Ausfree

Here is another Dwarf Planet called Eris which was discovered in 2005 and is three times as far from the sun as Pluto. I wasn't even aware of its discovery until a few months ago.:)

ps. It also has a moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)

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there about 4 post-Neptune objects that are larger and more massive than pluto

Thanks for that, interesting vid.:)

Pluto was no doubt still a proper planet when this spacecraft departed earth.....

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Originally Posted by VladTepes

Pluto was no doubt still a proper planet when this spacecraft departed earth.....

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my uni text books still have it as a planet.

i have a very very old text book from 1960
pluto was estimated to be more massive than earth and had no moons at the time.

I didnt think it was this big?
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/07/641.jpg

yea,, ok,,
worth a shot.;)

i liked that movie