Which Planet is Your Fave?

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Q: Which planet(s) in the solar system is your favorite?

EDIT: Mars for me.

Can't wait for the eventual Sailor Moon memes. lol

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

Uranus

[PictureGuy]

Uranus

Hey! There are kids on this forum!
Come on! You had to expect someone to have that reaction! ;-)

But seriously, my favorite planet is still Earth. Although it apparently won't be inhabitable for long. Nice planet while it lasted.

[Digimon_Sommelier]

The Digital World is my second choice. Does that count?

[PictureGuy]

The Digital World is my second choice. Does that count?

It's about as real as anyplace.

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Pluto, though . . .

Not classified as a planet anymore? B***s***.

[PictureGuy]

My second favorite is The Tenth Planet.

[CapnJack]

Never thought about it, but I suppose I'd go with Uranus since is rotates on its side compared to the rest of the planets.

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Planets are so beautiful!

[DeathBlade/13.666]

Earth is my favorite, mostly because I live on it so I'm kind of attached... lol

[CapnJack]

Do any of you get that odd fear that is you were to look up into the sky and seen a large planet taking up most of your view it would freak you out? Like go to your window, look out and just imagine if Jupiter or Neptune or even our own Moon was really close to us. Would you get some kind of intense claustrophobic feelings?


That being said... enjoy.

[Miss Moonlight]

Well, the moon isn't technically a planet...but that.

[PictureGuy]

Well, the moon isn't technically a planet...but that.

The moon is a satellite of love.

[PictureGuy]

My favorite is The Tenth Planet:

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Q: Which is the hottest planet?

[PictureGuy]

Vulcan.

Or Mercury.

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Astronomers are trying to make Pluto one of the main planets again!! Yay!!

[PictureGuy]

Astronomers are trying to make Pluto one of the main planets again!! Yay!!

Someone has to post this.

[Digimon_Sommelier]

And someone has to say this:

Big Picture, Guy!!

[PictureGuy]

And someone has to say this:

Big Picture, Guy!!

Which brings to mind:

[.:neuko:.]

I don't really have a favourite planet. I kind of like them all for different reasons, though I suppose if did have a favourite it might just be the one that's furthest from the Earth.

Do any of you get that odd fear that is you were to look up into the sky and seen a large planet taking up most of your view it would freak you out? Like go to your window, look out and just imagine if Jupiter or Neptune or even our own Moon was really close to us. Would you get some kind of intense claustrophobic feelings?

Imagining about it as a fantasy, that'd be more of a pleasure than a fear for me.

Imagining about it as a reality though... well I think I'd have more pressing things to worry about - like the Earth getting gradually sucked into the gravitational field of a much larger body and why the government didn't warn us about this. Then again I wouldn't trust the government in such a situation, so maybe I'll just enjoy the show while it lasts. At least I might get to see a decent eclipse for once.

[Harorudo]

I was always fascinated by Pluto but now it's not a planet.

[DOOM!]

[Digimon_Sommelier]

I was always fascinated by Pluto but now it's not a planet.

Will be again soon!!

[Clayton_n]

I like the 10th planet... or planetoid if you want to nit pick.



Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest (by volume) dwarf planet (and plutoid) known in the Solar System. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its discovery was verified later that year. In September 2006 it was named after Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Eris is the ninth most massive object directly orbiting the Sun, and the sixteenth most massive overall, because seven moons are more massive than the known dwarf planets. It is also the largest which has not yet been visited by a spacecraft. Eris was measured to be 2,326 ± 12 kilometers (1,445.3 ± 7.5 mi) in diameter.[8] Eris's mass is about 0.27% of the Earth mass,[10][16] about 27% more than dwarf planet Pluto, although Pluto is slightly larger by volume.[17]

Eris is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) and a member of a high-eccentricity population known as the scattered disk. It has one known moon, Dysnomia. As of February 2016, its distance from the Sun was 96.3 astronomical units (1.441×1010 km; 8.95×109 mi),[13] roughly three times that of Pluto. With the exception of some long-period comets, until 2018 VG18 was discovered on December 17, 2018, Eris and Dysnomia were the most distant known natural objects in the Solar System.[13]

Because Eris appeared to be larger than Pluto, NASA initially described it as the Solar System's tenth planet. This, along with the prospect of other objects of similar size being discovered in the future, motivated the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term planet for the first time. Under the IAU definition approved on August 24, 2006, Eris is a "dwarf planet", along with objects such as Pluto, Ceres, Haumea and Makemake,[18] thereby reducing the number of known planets in the Solar System to eight, the same as before Pluto's discovery in 1930. Observations of a stellar occultation by Eris in 2010 showed that its diameter was 2,326 ± 12 kilometers (1,445.3 ± 7.5 mi), very slightly less than Pluto,[19][20] which was measured by New Horizons as 2,376.6 ± 3.6 kilometers (1,476.8 ± 2.2 mi) in July 2015.[21][22]