Meteor, meteoroid and meteorite make a lot more sense if you unpack the parts. "Meteor" means "enterer," meaning "a thing that enters the atmosphere". Connoisseurs of Spanish-language pillow talk will recognize the verb "meter." It's different from an asteroid (a "star-like"), because meteors are smallish by definition. This seems silly until you realize that, when asteroids enter ("meteorize," if you like), they don't leave infrastructure like the internet in tact, so asteroids and meteors are only the same thing on worlds where no one makes videos about them. The "ite" ending is the same "rock" ending as "calcite" (calcium rock) and "magnetite" (magnet rock), so "meteorite" is just "enterer rock," or "space rock" if you rather. "oid" is the same "oid" in "humanoid" (human-like, but not human) or "spheroid" (ball-like, but not quite a ball), so "meteoroid" is "like an enterer that hasn't entered," or "space rock that's still in space." Of course, you're right that much of this terminology may be less helpful than confusing. But if we start tugging on the string of useless bits in language, we won't have much of a sweater left. I like to look at such vestiges as old poetry with new meaning.
Excellent comment re: origin of terms: however I think "meteor" comes from the Greek "meta + aerios" meaning "hanging above" or "up high in the sky" or "atmosphere". Hence meteorology for the weather, and Meteora in Greece where those monasteries are perched high up on rock pillars. Meteor used to mean any phenomena observed in the sky.
@@its_robbietime1333 It's only "leftover junk" because we're on the solar system, in the big picture both humanity and asteroids mean the same, we're just leftover junk from when the universe was created lol
I've been watching and enjoying Science Asylum videos for about a year now but I'd never seen one from this far back. It's like watching a Muppet Baby version of Nick! Nice to see your enthusiasm has remained a constant.
I truly love your videos!! Each one makes me a little bit crazier!! I miss Pluto, it was like the little baby of the solar system. You can never take away a baby, especially the one of the biggest family ever!
Well Science needs consistency. If Pluto would be allowed to stay then I would expect Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and probably dozens more to be added to the list of Planets. Pluto is not special among all these Dwarfplanets. The 8 Planet alternative to that whole mess is much appreciated though I'm sure.
I never really think about how weird it is that, that defining moment on earth when we verified planets orbiting other stars, is just a blip that everyone I guess takes for granted. I dunno. Just seems weird I guess when I was a child, there were no planets around other stars, now there are.
Well, the original term 'planet' came from the Greeks and means simply 'wanderer'. That is some object which 'wanders' against the general background of stars. If we applied this term rigorously to all such objects that we could observe, the number would be - literally - _astronomical!_
Unless I'm mistaken, which is often, those Greeks weren't aware that the 'wanderers' were reflecting light from the nuclear furnace we call the sun. To them, all the bright points in the night sky were 'stars', some of which wandered; some not so much... Further, their "naked eye" astronomy wouldn't have included the glacial paced Uranus & Neptune, let alone Pluto...
2:13. Most stars are red dwarfs/M type, and much, much smaller and dimmer than our sun. Our sun is not a “small star”, but much larger ones obviously exist.
*"Most stars are red dwarfs/M type, and much, much smaller and dimmer than our sun."* 100% accurate. *"Our sun is not a small star..."* Well, the word "small" is subjective. The Sun might be much larger than most stars, but the stars larger than Sun are _soooo_ much larger that the Sun is still _very_ small.
At first, I was bothered...peeved, even...that Pluto was demoted. But then I learned that Pluto is about the size of Australia. That's pretty small for a "planet". So...yeah. I am no longer peeved at Pluto.
Why not define a planet as an object of uniform shape (spherical) and having a uniform, primary orbit around the sun (Pluto's orbit is an ellipse and moons and satellites have uniform secondary orbits around planets.)?
Well, the idea is that a planet fits the following: 1) Orbits the Sun 2) Large enough to be spherical 3) Formed early enough to clear out it's orbit of large debris Pluto doesn't fit that last one.
Hey what about The Kuiper Belt and Ort Cloud? We spend too much time and money collecting space rocks and disregard the truly dynamic features of the solar system.
Wait 1:50 if they define a planet as orbiting the sun, what about the other planets that orbit other stars? They dont orbit the sun but are still planets
PapaKay I don't think most astronomers worry too much about the distinction. The ones that do, don't call planets around other stars "planets" ...they call them "exoplanets."
The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. The sun's not simply made out of gas. No, no, no. The sun is a quagmire. It's not made of fire. Forget what you've been told in the past. 👍YES!
So what do you think about Vera Rubin's duscovery? What did she discover exactly? Wait, did you do a video on dark matter? Does it even exist or did the make it up to fit Newtonian physics?
Yes, I did a video on Dark Matter. It's old, but it's still there: ruclips.net/video/vXJVi66qBg8/видео.html (Vera Rubin discovered the weirdness in the way stars orbit the centers of their galaxies, which I animated in that video.)
I think they should just list the dwarf planets with the other eight so that it’s basic knowledge. Most people have never heard of Ceres, Haumea, Eris, Makemake, or Quaoar.
'pluto' is actually a binary comprised of two planetesimals orbiting a central point between them, so at this point this fascinating combination should be considered plutocharon or something. it's still smaller than many countries, but it is interesting no matter what you call it.
Super Mario Galaxy is still correct, since the main hub (Rosalina's tower... thing) contains little houses you go into, which themselves have a star system in each of them. a collection of star systems, in other words a galaxy
@@ScienceAsylum right, that's what the game got wrong, but they're still collectively a galaxy. Mario's galaxy. (or more accurately Rosalina's i supposd)
you want to discuss words that people use incorrectly? How about Galaxy and stuff like Milky Way Galaxy? or There are other galaxies than the Milky Way. Technically, no, there are not. Milky Way is the English translation of Galaxy, with gala the Greek word for Milk. So saying Milky Way Galaxy is the same as saying the Galaxy Galaxy or the Milky Way Milky Way. Problem is that Greeks didn't know there were other "galaxies", so only stars existed and the dense band of stars across the sky is the Galaxy. Later when telescopes were invented and people saw that not every star was a star the name Galaxy became a generic term for conglomerations of star systems.
0:14 "What other planets are doing has nothing to do with your life" That's true, for most people, for now. But anybody who studies and/or wants to go to other planets does kinda care what they're doing.
Pluto being called a planet or not doesn't change Pluto in any way. The arbitrary labels we force onto the universe are just there to make it easy for us to think big thoughts more easily.
Flyboy1331 That is not how you define an orbit. By your logic, I orbit the Sun too, so I too can be considered a moon, correct? I don't think so, except if you are implying that I am obese. o_O
@Ten- Kel No. The moon is orbiting the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Or could it be that the moon is actually orbiting your ass because it is so massive that its gravity field can be the dominant factor on this local space? Actually, whole Universe is revolving around you and your ass?
i had the split second I had the notion that a planet should be independant of other planets in a gravitational way, but on second thought i have the idea that all planets in our solar system are affected by each other; the omission of pluto may destabelize the whole house of cards? maybe?
I am satisfied with the demotion of pluto as several other bodies would verge on being called planets if we didn't decide on making such things dwarf planets.
It's just a name. Don't think too much about it. "White dwarf" was already taken by a stellar remnant, so we couldn't call it that. Names aren't always well thought out.
To be clear, star system and solar system are the same thing? Or, is it that our Sun(star) is unique from all the others in the galaxy and is why we are the only ‘solar system’? For now until the other planets are identified
I agree about pluto but it would be nice to be told that we can make up a way to live on pluto then the sun. I said the sun isn’t possible i said can i pick pluto but she said it wasn’t a planet. 😔😠
I just did a time-lapse in a recent video of screenshots from older videos. You could _actually watch_ my hair recede. ruclips.net/video/5qCFct4AZGA/видео.htmlm1s
With Pluto, I get where the IAU is coming from. We have asteroids which share two big characteristics- they are similar in chemical makeup. Nickel iron and chondrites. They also share a particular section of the solar system roughly. Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects also share two similar characteristics. There are now several objects in our solar system that could be possible environments for life as we know it. To deny these objects any major status is just wrong. Pluto with its complex geology is also a candidate for higher consideration. So what do we do. The ancients left the definition of the word planets in simple terms - the wanderers. I think it is time to revert to that. We need to recognize the complexity of our neighborhood and quit trying to demote “lesser” objects. If science must lump objects into categories then it is time to quit defining solar system objects as planet, dwarf planet, etc. Take objects within our solar system and classify them according to shared characteristics. We need more data to complete this task, but for now we have enough to begin true scientific classification of our solar system objects.
When people say that, it really only means Saturn's density is lower than water. Technically, all planets float EVERYWHERE because they're in space. To get a planet to ACTUALLY float, you'd have to have enough water for it to fit in and they make sure it's experiencing a significant amount of gravity that makes it want to fall. Floating is weird... I made a video on it.
Didn't you told that as per IAU's defination planet are those who orbit Sun but then you said lots of other stars also have planets... They aren't orbiting sun ?? 🤨🤔
But they're orbiting an another star, which you can think of as "a different Sun." To be fair though, those planets are called "exoplanets" to distinguish them.
@@ScienceAsylum Thanks for helping... But I still think defination of planets should change.... As there is no reason to distinguish planets orbiting other stars to those which orbit sun
Mainly because it hasn't cleared out it's orbit of similar sized objects. There are a bunch of comet-like objects just like it at roughly the same distance from the Sun. It's called the Kuiper belt.
Heck, I think they should go traditional and define planet as an object orbiting the sun that is large enough to be spherical, and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye from earth's surface. Good bye Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus.
you might want new glasses, you can see all those planets with the naked eye. Correction: I can see them. Uranus is blue! Hard to see the others, but don't be lazy. Get up early!
I'm not comfortable with that "clearing out its orbit" part of the definition of a planet. After all, Jupiter's orbit has quite a few Trojan asteroids in it, so it seems to me that with respect to that part of the definition, Jupiter isn't a planet. To answer the question about Pluto though, I don't think that Pluto's reclassification is a demotion, it's just a reclassification, and a good one. I tend to think of it as the largest known KBO.
It has to clear its orbit of _similarly-sized objects._ Jupiter is a planet because it doesn't share it's orbital space with other jupiter-sized objects. The same cannot be said for Pluto.
That list at 0:43 is a single item in the list that spans this whole video. They're all the smallest things, after which I move onto moons and planets, and then stars, etc.
Actually, the Sun's light being yellowish is caused by our atmosphere. If anything, the light Sol emits is slightly green... solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html
Technically speaking, there's no such thing as a green star though because emitting several colors at once makes them white instead of green (which is exactly what happens with the Sun). However, I didn't say the Sun was yellow in this video. I said it was _called_ a yellow dwarf... which is true. That label has more recently started to shift to "yellow-white dwarf" to be less misleading. The new label is the one I've used in more recent astronomy videos.
Wait wait wait. You defended the IAU planet definition, but then went on to say lots of stars have planets. No they don’t. Only our sun does. The IAU definition starts with “orbits the Sun”. Those other stars have _exoplanets_, not planets. Exoplanets aren’t planets by definition. Or, if they are, so are dwarf planets (much like Peter Dinklage is a real person).
if Pluto pissed people off just imagine if we discover another "universe" and hence forth have to refer to our "universe" as part of a larger multiverse
It's not a misnomer. A g-type main-sequence star is often called a "yellow dwarf" or a "yellow-white dwarf" (depending on who you talk to). It's a perfectly reasonable name.
i don't understand why we have a name for everything scale of location but our solar system. we have a name for our address, city, county, state, country, continent, planet, and galaxy. no name for solar system...
There are a few things to mention here: 1) We didn't even really name the planet. It's called Earth. We named it after what we used to think it was _made of_ back in ancient times. I'm not entirely sure that qualifies as a real "name." 2) The solar system is also in the same vague area. "Sol" is "Sun" in Latin, so the SOLar system is the system belonging to the Sun. It's _kind of_ a name, but not really, just like the Earth. 3) The only reason we have a name for our galaxy is because we didn't originally know it was a place. We call it the Milky Way because we thought it was a milk-like smudge on the celestial sphere. TL;DR History is messy.
Many people remember the order of planets like My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets. But sadly it's now eight planets and last two word are not matching anymore. 😕
I prefer the one proposed by Randall Munroe's 8 planet proposal "Mary's 'Virgin' Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbor." Pluto was always more of a really large comet. Even if we kept Pluto as a planet, we've discovered all sorts of other objects now that would also have to be called "planets" thus meaning the phrase used to remember their order would still have to change.
My cousin is into astrology. So when pluto was no longer classified as a planet I asked her how that affected her life and how come other kuyperbelt objects were not considered for making horoscopes. It was an online question so she just gave it a like and didn't answer the question 😉
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never actually heard anyone mix up star-system and galaxy
Daniel Nyström me neither
Neither have I.
Me neither. Universe and Galaxy do get mixed up.
agreed, I've never heard someone eff that up.
It happened ALL the time in old science fiction movies. It still drives me nuts.
After 7 years I'm watching this video.
You gave so much info in just 4 minutes.
I talked so fast back then.
Took me 9 😛
@@ScienceAsylum fast fast!
I love you man, I'm so glad I found this channel.
I thought exactly the same 2 weeks ago ! he just needs more support !
IAU : sorry pluto you are not big enuf.
Pluto : that's not what your mom said last night.
I love my phone Samsung Star System S8
The definition is very clear, and this video is a good chance to get familiar with astronomy words. Thanks!
You're welcome :-)
Meteor, meteoroid and meteorite make a lot more sense if you unpack the parts. "Meteor" means "enterer," meaning "a thing that enters the atmosphere". Connoisseurs of Spanish-language pillow talk will recognize the verb "meter." It's different from an asteroid (a "star-like"), because meteors are smallish by definition. This seems silly until you realize that, when asteroids enter ("meteorize," if you like), they don't leave infrastructure like the internet in tact, so asteroids and meteors are only the same thing on worlds where no one makes videos about them. The "ite" ending is the same "rock" ending as "calcite" (calcium rock) and "magnetite" (magnet rock), so "meteorite" is just "enterer rock," or "space rock" if you rather. "oid" is the same "oid" in "humanoid" (human-like, but not human) or "spheroid" (ball-like, but not quite a ball), so "meteoroid" is "like an enterer that hasn't entered," or "space rock that's still in space."
Of course, you're right that much of this terminology may be less helpful than confusing. But if we start tugging on the string of useless bits in language, we won't have much of a sweater left. I like to look at such vestiges as old poetry with new meaning.
Ok Dr. Pedantic
That was some great info, thanks!
Excellent comment re: origin of terms: however I think "meteor" comes from the Greek "meta + aerios" meaning "hanging above" or "up high in the sky" or "atmosphere". Hence meteorology for the weather, and Meteora in Greece where those monasteries are perched high up on rock pillars. Meteor used to mean any phenomena observed in the sky.
@@psyclotronxx3083 If you can’t appreciate learning what are you even doing here?
@@psyclotronxx3083 They are Prof. Pedantic to you, plebeian peasant!
That's alright, Pluto. You're still a planet in my heart.
"Left over junk from when the Solar System was made." That is a deeply profound statement.
how
@@its_robbietime1333 It's only "leftover junk" because we're on the solar system, in the big picture both humanity and asteroids mean the same, we're just leftover junk from when the universe was created lol
@@eumim8020 well i suppose thats one way to look at it
2:26
“Or perhaps a miasma of incandescent plasma?“
*HECK YEAH!* I loved those TMBG DVDs when I was younger! Some of the songs are still amazing!
I've been watching and enjoying Science Asylum videos for about a year now but I'd never seen one from this far back. It's like watching a Muppet Baby version of Nick! Nice to see your enthusiasm has remained a constant.
This one is sooooooo old.
Still loving watching these old videos
I truly love your videos!! Each one makes me a little bit crazier!!
I miss Pluto, it was like the little baby of the solar system. You can never take away a baby, especially the one of the biggest family ever!
1:42 exactly little green dude exactly
Milton.
I think I'm going to download all of your videos into my pc to show them to my children in the future :3.
Mahian Ishraq you saying there won't be RUclips in future?
Yeah that's a better choice :3. But if there were a zombie apocalypse or something like that we'd have no internet.
in the future...ballsack? what do you mean?
Well Science needs consistency.
If Pluto would be allowed to stay then I would expect Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and probably dozens more to be added to the list of Planets.
Pluto is not special among all these Dwarfplanets.
The 8 Planet alternative to that whole mess is much appreciated though I'm sure.
If Pluto *were
I like this channel so much
I'm starting to have *'lucid'* dreams
😂
I always hated Pluto for hurting Popeye.
his name's bluto. pluto is mickey's dog.
I like that hes sharp on the things that people usually miss.
Poor Pluto way out in the cold all by itself rejected from the family of planets.
Pluto needs a BIG HUG.
Nice vocabulary lesson. Thank you very much.
IF PLUTO DOESN'T COME BACK I'LL BE A LOT OF CRAZY
I never really think about how weird it is that, that defining moment on earth when we verified planets orbiting other stars, is just a blip that everyone I guess takes for granted. I dunno. Just seems weird I guess when I was a child, there were no planets around other stars, now there are.
Well, the original term 'planet' came from the Greeks and means simply 'wanderer'. That is some object which 'wanders' against the general background of stars. If we applied this term rigorously to all such objects that we could observe, the number would be - literally - _astronomical!_
True. What's important is that we all agree on what a word means so we can communicate properly. Definitions are very important for scientists.
@@ScienceAsylum
Agreed :0)
Unless I'm mistaken, which is often, those Greeks weren't aware that the 'wanderers' were reflecting light from the nuclear furnace we call the sun. To them, all the bright points in the night sky were 'stars', some of which wandered; some not so much... Further, their "naked eye" astronomy wouldn't have included the glacial paced Uranus & Neptune, let alone Pluto...
love love love your work. i loved your explanation of the rotation...
2:13. Most stars are red dwarfs/M type, and much, much smaller and dimmer than our sun. Our sun is not a “small star”, but much larger ones obviously exist.
*"Most stars are red dwarfs/M type, and much, much smaller and dimmer than our sun."*
100% accurate.
*"Our sun is not a small star..."*
Well, the word "small" is subjective. The Sun might be much larger than most stars, but the stars larger than Sun are _soooo_ much larger that the Sun is still _very_ small.
Pluto is so special he gets a catagory of his own. Now are you happy?
Which category?
lmao have never imagined astronomy could be so hilarious
At first, I was bothered...peeved, even...that Pluto was demoted. But then I learned that Pluto is about the size of Australia. That's pretty small for a "planet". So...yeah. I am no longer peeved at Pluto.
Hey, but what about clusters, Hubble sphere, what is difference between planet and moon, that is not basics?
While watching this video I realized it felt different. Then I checked out the date. Yup. I knew it! Still a good video. and it deserves more likes.
Why not define a planet as an object of uniform shape (spherical) and having a uniform, primary orbit around the sun (Pluto's orbit is an ellipse and moons and satellites have uniform secondary orbits around planets.)?
Well, the idea is that a planet fits the following:
1) Orbits the Sun
2) Large enough to be spherical
3) Formed early enough to clear out it's orbit of large debris
Pluto doesn't fit that last one.
Hey what about The Kuiper Belt and Ort Cloud? We spend too much time and money collecting space rocks and disregard the truly dynamic features of the solar system.
Wait 1:50 if they define a planet as orbiting the sun, what about the other planets that orbit other stars? They dont orbit the sun but are still planets
PapaKay They still orbit their own "sun."
***** shouldnt the definition be changed to star then?
PapaKay I don't think most astronomers worry too much about the distinction. The ones that do, don't call planets around other stars "planets" ...they call them "exoplanets."
+The Science Asylum .....plus the Sun is a star 👍🏼
+The Science Asylum ya and clumps of round rocks dwarf planets and our sun a star
The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.
The sun's not simply made out of gas.
No, no, no.
The sun is a quagmire. It's not made of fire. Forget what you've been told in the past.
👍YES!
Electrons are free.
Plasma!
Fourth state of matter;
Not gas, not liquid, not solid.
@@ScienceAsylum The sun isn't a red dwarf. I hope it never morphs into a supernova'd collapsed orb
Orb, orb, orb
The sun is a miasma
Of incandescent plasma
I forget what I was told my myself
Elf, elf, elf
What do you have against Pluto? What did he do to you?
Great video; you’re funny and very intelligent. Thanks for the knowledge.
So, what’s the critical mass volume that a body (planet, planetoids, etc.) needs to be to colapse into a spherical shape?
Somewhere on the order of 10^21 kg. We're not exactly sure, but this might help: ruclips.net/video/qFJ14DZfKG4/видео.html
You’re the best. Thank you.
So what do you think about Vera Rubin's duscovery? What did she discover exactly? Wait, did you do a video on dark matter? Does it even exist or did the make it up to fit Newtonian physics?
Yes, I did a video on Dark Matter. It's old, but it's still there: ruclips.net/video/vXJVi66qBg8/видео.html (Vera Rubin discovered the weirdness in the way stars orbit the centers of their galaxies, which I animated in that video.)
Hi! Wonderful summary! Thank you so much! Nick you are the very best! 🤗❤️ btw, Pluto is absolutely astonishing! Its personal revenge… 😅
I think they should just list the dwarf planets with the other eight so that it’s basic knowledge. Most people have never heard of Ceres, Haumea, Eris, Makemake, or Quaoar.
'pluto' is actually a binary comprised of two planetesimals orbiting a central point between them, so at this point this fascinating combination should be considered plutocharon or something. it's still smaller than many countries, but it is interesting no matter what you call it.
Super Mario Galaxy is still correct, since the main hub (Rosalina's tower... thing) contains little houses you go into, which themselves have a star system in each of them. a collection of star systems, in other words a galaxy
But each star system is referred to as a "galaxy" in the game.
@@ScienceAsylum right, that's what the game got wrong, but they're still collectively a galaxy. Mario's galaxy. (or more accurately Rosalina's i supposd)
You made it to my online science class congrats
Pluto will always be a planet to me
Goofy is Mickey’s friend... but Pluto is a hunk of rock and ice in the solar boonies
the IAU's definition is fine, just change the last criteria a bit.
you want to discuss words that people use incorrectly? How about Galaxy and stuff like Milky Way Galaxy? or There are other galaxies than the Milky Way.
Technically, no, there are not. Milky Way is the English translation of Galaxy, with gala the Greek word for Milk. So saying Milky Way Galaxy is the same as saying the Galaxy Galaxy or the Milky Way Milky Way.
Problem is that Greeks didn't know there were other "galaxies", so only stars existed and the dense band of stars across the sky is the Galaxy. Later when telescopes were invented and people saw that not every star was a star the name Galaxy became a generic term for conglomerations of star systems.
Wonderful and excellent
Our garage band in 7th grade in Chicago was "the Tenth Planet" so, no I was not in favor of demoting Pluto!
Isnt pluto bk in our solar system?
0:14 "What other planets are doing has nothing to do with your life"
That's true, for most people, for now. But anybody who studies and/or wants to go to other planets does kinda care what they're doing.
Pluto being called a planet or not doesn't change Pluto in any way. The arbitrary labels we force onto the universe are just there to make it easy for us to think big thoughts more easily.
So why doesn't moon considered as planet i mean moon is :
Spherical object
Clear the orbit path
And orbiting the sun
??
Its not orbiting sun, its orbiting earth.
Which orbits the sun.
Flyboy1331
That is not how you define an orbit. By your logic, I orbit the Sun too, so I too can be considered a moon, correct? I don't think so, except if you are implying that I am obese. o_O
Touché
@Ten- Kel
No. The moon is orbiting the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Or could it be that the moon is actually orbiting your ass because it is so massive that its gravity field can be the dominant factor on this local space? Actually, whole Universe is revolving around you and your ass?
Starting on Pluto... Bold move... 😂
Psychachu Music By the IAU’s own definition, planets do not exist outside the solar system.
What is pluto?
A _really_ big dwarf planet.
1:52 BOOM Pluto IS a planet!
i had the split second I had the notion that a planet should be independant of other planets in a gravitational way, but on second thought i have the idea that all planets in our solar system are affected by each other; the omission of pluto may destabelize the whole house of cards? maybe?
"Pluto is a planet"--Jerry Smith
I am satisfied with the demotion of pluto as several other bodies would verge on being called planets if we didn't decide on making such things dwarf planets.
2:15 why is the Sun called a yellow dwarf if it's white?
2:35 wait.. THE SUN IS YELLOWISH WHITE?? I thought it was just white white...
It's just a name. Don't think too much about it. "White dwarf" was already taken by a stellar remnant, so we couldn't call it that. Names aren't always well thought out.
To be clear, star system and solar system are the same thing?
Or, is it that our Sun(star) is unique from all the others in the galaxy and is why we are the only ‘solar system’? For now until the other planets are identified
Technically speaking, only our star system can be called "solar" because "Sol" means Sun.
I don't think the Pluto thing was a big deal. If we're going to categorize things a certain way, we may as well be consistent.
Pluto deserves to be a planet! That guy went thru a lot!
"Planet" isn't a rank. It's just a classification. Pluto not being a planet doesn't make it any less important.
There's a joke somewhere about bringing back the planet Herschel
Even as a kid, I was never a big fan of Pluto. I could never get into its eccentric orbit.
I agree about pluto but it would be nice to be told that we can make up a way to live on pluto then the sun. I said the sun isn’t possible i said can i pick pluto but she said it wasn’t a planet. 😔😠
Watching in 2018, I feel you man, I had so many more hairs 5 years ago too. Stupid alopecia
I just did a time-lapse in a recent video of screenshots from older videos. You could _actually watch_ my hair recede. ruclips.net/video/5qCFct4AZGA/видео.htmlm1s
The Science Asylum ahahah I saw the video, I wonder when science will be able to help with that :P
*A MIASMA OF INCANDESCENT PLASMA*
The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.
The sun's not simply made out of gas. No, no, no
The sun is a quagmire. It's not made of fire.
Forget what you've been told in the past.
I never understood why people were so upset that Pluto got demoted. To be honest, I feel like they're just pretending to be upset for attention.
Also, people don't like change.
seriously now, why don't you have like thousands of view for god's sake
what about Bermuda triangle
With Pluto, I get where the IAU is coming from. We have asteroids which share two big characteristics- they are similar in chemical makeup. Nickel iron and chondrites. They also share a particular section of the solar system roughly. Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects also share two similar characteristics. There are now several objects in our solar system that could be possible environments for life as we know it. To deny these objects any major status is just wrong. Pluto with its complex geology is also a candidate for higher consideration. So what do we do. The ancients left the definition of the word planets in simple terms - the wanderers. I think it is time to revert to that. We need to recognize the complexity of our neighborhood and quit trying to demote “lesser” objects. If science must lump objects into categories then it is time to quit defining solar system objects as planet, dwarf planet, etc. Take objects within our solar system and classify them according to shared characteristics. We need more data to complete this task, but for now we have enough to begin true scientific classification of our solar system objects.
***** so people said that saturn can float on water. so it's wrong?
When people say that, it really only means Saturn's density is lower than water. Technically, all planets float EVERYWHERE because they're in space. To get a planet to ACTUALLY float, you'd have to have enough water for it to fit in and they make sure it's experiencing a significant amount of gravity that makes it want to fall. Floating is weird... I made a video on it.
yeah, i know that. i actually wanted to post there but somehow idk why ended up here
Oh, ok... Well, at least the question wasn't too out of place here.
Didn't you told that as per IAU's defination planet are those who orbit Sun but then you said lots of other stars also have planets... They aren't orbiting sun ?? 🤨🤔
But they're orbiting an another star, which you can think of as "a different Sun." To be fair though, those planets are called "exoplanets" to distinguish them.
@@ScienceAsylum Thanks for helping... But I still think defination of planets should change.... As there is no reason to distinguish planets orbiting other stars to those which orbit sun
Calling Pluto a planet or not wouldn't change anything. It's just what we name it.
This is true, but humans like categories.
Why is Pluto not a planet
Mainly because it hasn't cleared out it's orbit of similar sized objects. There are a bunch of comet-like objects just like it at roughly the same distance from the Sun. It's called the Kuiper belt.
I don't care if Pluto is a planet, i care if people care that Haumea, Makemake, Ceres, and Eris should also be planets, if that makes any sense.
I hear “Star system” used in movies and tv but not used by regular peeps
PLUTO WAS A PLANET WHEN I WAS A KID SO SHOULD BE A PLANET FOREVER. Right? Right.
Right!
Pluto FTW
Heck, I think they should go traditional and define planet as an object orbiting the sun that is large enough to be spherical, and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye from earth's surface. Good bye Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus.
you might want new glasses, you can see all those planets with the naked eye. Correction: I can see them. Uranus is blue! Hard to see the others, but don't be lazy. Get up early!
Are you okay with Ceres and 16 other asteroids being called planets too, then?
I think Pluto should not be dismissed as the larger no of planets in our system the bigger our system would be considered
That's cool 👨👨👨
Meteoroids, meteors, metroids and meteorites. Wait... one of them is wrong...
I'm not comfortable with that "clearing out its orbit" part of the definition of a planet. After all, Jupiter's orbit has quite a few Trojan asteroids in it, so it seems to me that with respect to that part of the definition, Jupiter isn't a planet. To answer the question about Pluto though, I don't think that Pluto's reclassification is a demotion, it's just a reclassification, and a good one. I tend to think of it as the largest known KBO.
It has to clear its orbit of _similarly-sized objects._ Jupiter is a planet because it doesn't share it's orbital space with other jupiter-sized objects. The same cannot be said for Pluto.
@@ScienceAsylum I've wondered about that for years! Just three sentences from you and the mystery has been erased. Thanks, Nick!
ruclips.net/video/qc2Sp9gFJ2c/видео.html Surely you said them from largest to smallest? I hate to be pedantic but I'm sure you'll want correct this :)
That list at 0:43 is a single item in the list that spans this whole video. They're all the smallest things, after which I move onto moons and planets, and then stars, etc.
Yeah, all of this stuff are pretty common.
Actually, the Sun's light being yellowish is caused by our atmosphere. If anything, the light Sol emits is slightly green...
solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html
Technically speaking, there's no such thing as a green star though because emitting several colors at once makes them white instead of green (which is exactly what happens with the Sun). However, I didn't say the Sun was yellow in this video. I said it was _called_ a yellow dwarf... which is true. That label has more recently started to shift to "yellow-white dwarf" to be less misleading. The new label is the one I've used in more recent astronomy videos.
Wait wait wait.
You defended the IAU planet definition, but then went on to say lots of stars have planets. No they don’t. Only our sun does. The IAU definition starts with “orbits the Sun”.
Those other stars have _exoplanets_, not planets. Exoplanets aren’t planets by definition. Or, if they are, so are dwarf planets (much like Peter Dinklage is a real person).
if Pluto pissed people off just imagine if we discover another "universe" and hence forth have to refer to our "universe" as part of a larger multiverse
Interesting you used the misnomer "yellow dwarf" in a video correcting terms lol...
It's not a misnomer. A g-type main-sequence star is often called a "yellow dwarf" or a "yellow-white dwarf" (depending on who you talk to). It's a perfectly reasonable name.
I think Pluto should get an honorable mention, every time one enumerates all the planets of our solar system, just for disguising as one for so long.
i don't understand why we have a name for everything scale of location but our solar system. we have a name for our address, city, county, state, country, continent, planet, and galaxy. no name for solar system...
There are a few things to mention here:
1) We didn't even really name the planet. It's called Earth. We named it after what we used to think it was _made of_ back in ancient times. I'm not entirely sure that qualifies as a real "name."
2) The solar system is also in the same vague area. "Sol" is "Sun" in Latin, so the SOLar system is the system belonging to the Sun. It's _kind of_ a name, but not really, just like the Earth.
3) The only reason we have a name for our galaxy is because we didn't originally know it was a place. We call it the Milky Way because we thought it was a milk-like smudge on the celestial sphere.
TL;DR History is messy.
Many people remember the order of planets like
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.
But sadly it's now eight planets and last two word are not matching anymore.
😕
I prefer the one proposed by Randall Munroe's 8 planet proposal "Mary's 'Virgin' Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbor."
Pluto was always more of a really large comet. Even if we kept Pluto as a planet, we've discovered all sorts of other objects now that would also have to be called "planets" thus meaning the phrase used to remember their order would still have to change.
I don't care about feelings. Because, science.
There are asteroids much larger than Mount Everest yet smaller than a minor planet.
...i.m.h.o. being no longer a 'real' planet makes Pluto even more interesting...!
I agree. It's the biggest comet in the solar system!
...in some ways, kind of...!
My cousin is into astrology. So when pluto was no longer classified as a planet I asked her how that affected her life and how come other kuyperbelt objects were not considered for making horoscopes. It was an online question so she just gave it a like and didn't answer the question 😉
That was probably the safest response from her. It avoids conversation. 😉
why the demoted pluto
It's too small... and it doesn't orbit in the same plane as the other 8 planets.
Pluto is too drawf to be called a planet
If I translate Star system literally from bulgarian, its a "Sun system". I've never heard someone mess that up back here.
I guess Nintendo is an unreliable source for scientific research, damn now I have to start over
"the sun is a star ?" - question clone