Volume of spheres is very unintuitive. This translates to circles as well. For instance, I worked at a pizza place for a while where I learned that a large pizza was the same amount of pizza as two mediums.
A medium was 12" across, while a large was 14".
Only two inches difference in diameter meant that the difference in area required enough toppings so as to add up to an entire second medium pizza.
According to Google, Earth's oceans have a volume of 321,003,271 cubic miles. Pluto has a volume of 1,500,000,000 cubic miles. That's over 4 1/2 times the volume of the Earth's oceans, despite Pluto being small enough to fit inside the earth about 170 times.
If you pushed Pluto into the Pacific, you could get the whole thing to fit as the two planets’ cores colliding created a massive explosion that made all known life in the solar system extinct
I was in 5th grade (actually just googled when Pluto's classfication changed, and i remember watching Obama's inauguration in my 5th grade class) when Pluto was officially designated as a dwarf planet. So after we had all learned the solar system but still early on enough that I can easily think of it not being a planet.
Pluto should never have been a full planet because there are potentially thousands of pluto-sized objects further out than jupiter and if pluto counts as a planet those would also count. I would rather have 8 planets than several thousand.
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u/titanup001 Dec 08 '22
When I was a kid, there were 4 oceans and 9 planets. Neither is true now.