Is This Cool Or What?? (APOD 2008 Oct 20)

Invisidrone · Post by **Invisidrone** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:23 am

Looking at the recent Cassini pic from Saturn, I know it has been said a million times, but I still can't get over that human beings built a machine and sent it millions of miles away and it's orbiting the coolest planet in our Solar System. I have a hard time, as I imagine most of us do, trying to contemplate the distance to that planet. It is sooooo far away from here.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081020.html

Dr. Skeptic · Post by **Dr. Skeptic** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:06 pm

... and sent it millions of miles away and it's orbiting the coolest planet in our Solar System.

Maybe the second coolest planet, I would need to give the amazing blue orb of Earth first place.

Also, welcome to APOD!

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:44 pm

I think Pluto is the coolest ... uh, never mind.

jesusfreak16 · Post by **jesusfreak16** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:28 pm

In terms of temperature it would be coolest

emc · Post by **emc** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:56 pm

Welcome to APOD Invisidrone! Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to contemplate infinity for a long time? I do sometimes but the annoying honking at the traffic light distracts me.

Other than Earth, Saturn is the aesthetically coolest planet system IMO. I mean those rings and now the geometric polar storms and the possibly seasonal colors.

Ask a kid to draw a picture of a planet you’re typically going to get a circle with a ring around it. Kids know what’s cool!

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:35 pm

apodman wrote:I think Pluto is the coolest ... uh, never mind.

jesusfreak16 wrote:In terms of temperature it would be coolest

Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:54 pm

bystander wrote:
apodman wrote:I think Pluto is the coolest ... uh, never mind.
jesusfreak16 wrote:In terms of temperature it would be coolest
Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.

Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)

Orin

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:27 pm

orin stepanek wrote:Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)

Obviously you are non-union

So, would Pluto / Charon be a double planet?

iamlucky13 · Post by **iamlucky13** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:56 am

orin stepanek wrote:
bystander wrote:Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.
Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)

Orin

Hmmm...do you two know each other?