Today's awesome science link:

[theweaselking]

The Solar System Visualiser.

Click, view, play around. Holy crap!

Comments

psst...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jeremiad/]

Pluto's not a planet anymore, guys.

Re: psst...

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Sure it is. It's a special kind of planet.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

It's still a thing orbiting the sun, though.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

And more importantly, it's a thing that has other things orbiting it...

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Well, if we defined that as a planet, would we have to rule out Mercury and Venus?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jeremiad/]

I'm no astronomer, but I believe there are lots of things orbiting the sun and some of them are bigger than Pluto.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

It's still a planet... in our hearts!

Re: psst...

[thormation.livejournal.com]

Maybe Jonathan Coulter should write a song about this?

Oh, wait, he did.

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/08/25/thing-a-week-47-im-your-moon/

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/I'm%20Your%20Moon.mp3

Re: psst...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Coulton.

[heraldofchaos.livejournal.com]

this is wikkid!