Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

What is Pluto doing so close to Australia?

That shouldn't be allowed. Someone tell it to go back to it's usual orbit, this is not on.

Fuck off Pluto, we're full!
You didn't know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn't really a planet.
It's their payback for that whole "clears its orbit" business.

Still, the surface area is much bigger. Pluto is a real continent

Discreetly insulting both Australia and Pluto in one sentence! Absolutely love this; will share it with all my Australia and Plutonian friends! If Earth gets attacked, it's not my fault, but yours :'P
- If Australia attacks Earth you’ll know you’ve been attacked.

First they came for Pluto's planethood.

Next they're coming for Australia's continenthood.

When they came for Pluto, I said nothing because I wasn't a planet
When they came for Australia, I said nothing because I wasn't a continent
When they came for Bielefeld, I said nothing because I wasn't a city
When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything
– Martin Niemöller

Wow, Pluto has approximately the same surface area as Russia

So... Does this mean Australia is no longer a continent?

Dwarf continent
Or does it mean Australia is a planet?
- Australia would have to round up its edges and clear it's orbit of little islands before being called a planet.
- I'm sure the rest of the world would agree!
- Mostly just a cunt
If that photo was taken right before impact, none of the continents will remain continents because it's all about to melt and we might have another moon when everything settles down and we evolve back from scratch over the next several billion years.
- The only survivors would be Australia's infamous Magma Spiders.
- Just in time to get baked by the sun!
Sand Mass?
Seems like it amounts to a gas giant down under.
It never was. The concept of Australis is part of spherical world order.
Do you really think a Platypus is a real animal? A mammal that let's eggs and has bioluminescent fur. Get the fuck outta here.

Pluto is still a sphere, this is an unfair comparison because Pluto hasn't been unwrapped

Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.

No shit? Wow, it's amazing that we were even able to find it.

Even more amazing that it was found in the era it was. People were pouring over the skies looking for the next big planet, and instead they found this little guy.
There are still some orbital dynamics suggestions that something large and dark is lurking out there -- an ice giant. But it's still largely conjecture. It'd be interesting to see how they define it should they find something very large (say Neptune mass), but it hasn't cleared its orbit. Is it a planet or not? :D
- Actually 🤓 it was James Cook who found Australia and he didn't go there by ski but by ship and he didn't find one little guy but exterminated a whole indigenous population
- They only found it because it's more like a binary dwarf planet system than a planet/moon system, so the telescopes were able to pick up light reflected from both Pluto and Charron, while Pluto alone might have not been bright enough.

This picture is inaccurate, Pluto is actually much farther away.

No it's just really small
Telephoto shot, using a 1e50 mm lens.
- if anyone wants to do the math, how far away from the sun would the camera have needed to be to take such a photo?
- Probably not necessary to use a lens so long it can reach distant galaxies!

And thats why you'll never be a real planet!

Heresy! Australia will always be a planet.
- No! Austria will never be a planet nor continent. It is a white, European country and I'm willing to die on that hill!
Absolute size isn't really in the criteria for a planet though. Pluto isn't a planet because it shares its orbit with lots of other icy bodies in the Kuiper belt.
- Exactly. That's also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn't a planet either.

Small little fucker, no wonder it’s not a planet anymore.

As a former Plutonian, I can confirm it's small, that's why we immigrated to Earth. And fucking cold!

I have this Tshirt

I get groans

What is this, a planet for ants?!

It's a close-up shot; the planet in this photo is actually much bigger than Australia.
- Then again it could be super close and the size of a potato.
Extremely venomous ants.

Meanwhile, Australia is down there like "WTF mate?"

Still can't unsee Pluto(the dog) on Pluto

No way!

Take that King Flippy Nips!

introscene for the next mecha anime confirmed

In future news; Donald X Musk III, worlds first quintillionare, decided to alter Pluto's orbit to collide with Mars "Becauth it would be thoo cool!".

Is Neil deGrasse Tyson hiding somewhere in Australia?!

I saw him in my mates house the other day kissing a mirror? He said he is the only person he can kiss in the mirror or something.

I can see why they no longer call it a planet, what's the cutoff for asteroid size?

It is still a dwarf planet. Basically when it hits hydrostatic equilibrium, i.e. when it's round, it is considered a dwarf planet. More here

The Alice Springs Pluto Observatory has opened considerably under-budget.

TIL australia has hydrostatic equilibrium.

Do it.

I'm digging the way the map shows Tasmania as part of the continental plate.

Is it on purpose or is it because of ocean depth?
- The light blue part is shallow and when it's underwater, they call it "continental shelf".
  Tasmania and mainland Australia are connected by the same, shared continental shelf.