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That's one point of the current definition of planets, having enough mass to be a sphere. It's the last point, clearing the neighborhood of its orbit, where Pluto runs into trouble.

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(I haven’t even addressed that the U.S. has no unilateral authority to declare what is and isn’t a planet.)

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Plus, given that Pluto is the only planet (and to be clear, it’s still a planet! It’s just a dwarf planet) discovered by an American, this whole thing feels very political at a time when NASA’s science budget is being slashed.

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But making Pluto a planet again because of nostalgia is a non-starter to me. I completely understand why people have feelings about it, and those feelings are valid!! But that’s not a reason to change the scientific status of a planetary body.

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If the scientific community expands the definition of a planet to include Pluto, that’s great. But that definition should then also include similar bodies like Eris and Ceres as planets.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Here’s the thing about Pluto. I don’t care if it’s a planet. I do care if there’s a clear scientific definition of a planet, whether that encompasses Pluto or not.

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The cover for Supernatural Special: CASTIEL written by me with art by Pasquale Qualano. It shows Sam and Dean standing on either side of the angel Castiel, in his trench coat and suit, with giant dark angel wings sprouting out of his back. There's a comically large halo over his head.

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I don’t think this telescope has been to JSC! It was built here at Goddard.

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OK that’s helpful context — thank you! I haven’t experienced using someone else’s mentions that way before.

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Yes! Just not sure why you were sending it to me

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this corrosion @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Drove a couple of hours to see a space telescope—this is the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launching no earlier than September

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Please note that as of 12:34 am EST on April 21st, this post had the perfect Bluesky ratio of actually relevant science related comments : do you see the same weird animal I see if I turn my head a little comments

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VERY good!! It means that all the testing and adjustments to trajectory NASA made likely worked

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This was Artemis I’s heat shield. The capsule enters at an angle which creates these marks

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Yeah I mean there was a fair reason for concern but NASA also did a ton of work in ensuring it would be safe

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This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.

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They wouldn’t, the mission will likely be delayed

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Going to go see a guy (Goddard) about a telescope (Roman) tomorrow

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They'd love to if they're ready but they aren't going to be ready. It's unclear if lander hardware will even be ready by the time they want to launch that mission.

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Apparently not, and it's going to come back to haunt them

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aww katie that is such a cute description

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This wasn't a revolutionary report. Most of this we already knew, it just lays things out more clearly. The one thing I did find super interesting was this -- basically NASA didn't set a uniform spacesuit standard for Artemis contracts and that's a problem. Report: oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

NASA is already encountering compatibility challenges with spacesuit and vehicle designs for future
Artemis missions. Blue Origin requires specific suit information to finalize its Blue Moon Human Landing
System design. To this end, Blue Origin utilized the Agency’s government reference spacesuit interface
design document to develop a don/doff area—where suits are put on and removed. Axiom, the presumed
spacesuit provider, subsequently decided to use a different don/doff connection. For the Axiom
spacesuit to be compatible with the Blue Moon lander, Blue Origin must either make significant changes
to the crew module airlock layout or develop its own don/doff hardware to support Axiom’s design,
potentially increasing the cost to NASA. A uniform spacesuit standard could have mitigated this issue

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Basically it says that if the new spacesuits (built by Axiom) adhere to the same schedule as previous spacesuits, they won't be ready until 2031. That being said, Axiom is taking steps to reduce delays -- but even so it's not looking likely they'll be ready for a 2028 landing

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