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CCP you're out of date? AU unit has changed

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2012-09-15 03:29:24 UTC
MinefieldS wrote:
Nova Fox wrote:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=astronomical-unit-or-earth-sun-distance-gets-an-overhaul

So what does that mean for us?


That means Pluto is a planet.


You take that back! Evil

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ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2012-09-15 09:40:35 UTC
I,m not surprised that the new measurements are so good with laser tech and computers to do all the maths.

Back when it was first done the poor guy had telescopes, bits of string, a chalkboard and a slide rule. Lol

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Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#23 - 2012-09-15 12:14:19 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
MinefieldS wrote:
Nova Fox wrote:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=astronomical-unit-or-earth-sun-distance-gets-an-overhaul

So what does that mean for us?


That means Pluto is a planet.


You take that back! Evil



+1 for Pluto, Should be a Planet poor thing.

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Sirinda
Ekchuah's Shrine Comporium
#24 - 2012-09-15 12:19:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Sirinda
Bloodpetal wrote:
CCP Atlas wrote:
Pfft, we always knew it was fixed.

const.AU = 149598000000.0

...close enough Bear


You're 129,300m off.

129km! That's huge!

My scanner is gonna totally get screwed up now SadSad

PirateBear


129.3 kilometers. It makes all the difference.

Also, silly people don't know Pluto is a dog.
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#25 - 2012-09-15 13:04:05 UTC
Sirinda wrote:
Bloodpetal wrote:
CCP Atlas wrote:
Pfft, we always knew it was fixed.

const.AU = 149598000000.0

...close enough Bear


You're 129,300m off.

129km! That's huge!

My scanner is gonna totally get screwed up now SadSad

PirateBear


129.3 kilometers. It makes all the difference.

Also, silly people don't know Pluto is a dog.


Some think Austria citizens are actually Australians Lol

brb
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#26 - 2012-09-15 13:27:32 UTC
A real life AU may be 149,597,870,700 meters, but an EVE AU is what a BS warps in roughly 0.333 seconds.

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Jiska Ensa
Estrale Frontiers
#27 - 2012-09-15 13:29:47 UTC
The average eve-player probably doesn't even know what AU actually stands for. So it could be 500 million inches and they wouldn't know the difference.

If you're going to pick on scientific inconsistancies, start with planet/star age, temperature, mass, radius, pressure etc. I've come across gas giants that are thinner than Mars' atmosphere, and ice planets hotter than Mercury...As well as stars older than the age of the universe.

Also why is every single moon that boring shade of grey? I demand ice moons!
Rakshasa Taisab
Sane Industries Inc.
#28 - 2012-09-15 13:48:02 UTC
Alice Saki wrote:
+1 for Pluto, Should be a Planet poor thing.

This political correct thing is going too far, there's nothing wrong with calling him a dwarf planet.

Nyan
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#29 - 2012-09-15 15:07:57 UTC
Alice Saki wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
MinefieldS wrote:
Nova Fox wrote:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=astronomical-unit-or-earth-sun-distance-gets-an-overhaul

So what does that mean for us?


That means Pluto is a planet.


You take that back! Evil



+1 for Pluto, Should be a Planet poor thing.


I am going have to agree with nasa on this considering there are other 'planetiods' the same size or larger than pluto in the same belt this would also meanc ceres and its sister would be a planets as well making mars 6th from the sun. If it can't dominate its orbit then it shouldnt be a planet.

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