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minus-squaretiny_hedgehog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down6·1 month ago“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.” This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it. It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?
minus-squareEtterra@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoWell it’s a good frame of reference because it’s where most of us keep all our stuff.
minus-squareZos_Kia@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoTalk about putting all our eggs in the same basket smh
minus-squareKichae@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 month agoIt didn’t. It’s 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?
minus-squaretiny_hedgehog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down6·1 month agoIf we are 1AU from the sun, and this planet is 90AU from the sun, then it is between 89 and 91 AUs from earth depending on the progress of our orbits (assuming perfectly circular orbits). So they did change the frame of reference.
minus-squaretiny_hedgehog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYou are right. I stand corrected.
minus-squareremotelove@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 month agoThey didn’t change the reference, they defined an AU.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoLike, give or take one AU, throughout the year.
minus-squaretiny_hedgehog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·1 month agoFair, but annoying to the pendantic.
minus-squarepowerofm@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month ago“It’s 20.5°C outside or roughly 20 notches on your thermometer (except for americans)”
minus-squareThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoHere’s another article that doesn’t do this for anyone else that would prefer it: https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-planet.html
“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.”
This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it.
It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?
Well it’s a good frame of reference because it’s where most of us keep all our stuff.
Talk about putting all our eggs in the same basket smh
It didn’t. It’s 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?
If we are 1AU from the sun, and this planet is 90AU from the sun, then it is between 89 and 91 AUs from earth depending on the progress of our orbits (assuming perfectly circular orbits). So they did change the frame of reference.
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You are right. I stand corrected.
They didn’t change the reference, they defined an AU.
I mean, they said “roughly”.
Like, give or take one AU, throughout the year.
Fair, but annoying to the pendantic.
“It’s 20.5°C outside or roughly 20 notches on your thermometer (except for americans)”
Here’s another article that doesn’t do this for anyone else that would prefer it:
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-planet.html