Dive into the frozen mysteries of Pluto! From its unexpected landscapes to the quest for a subsurface ocean, explore the dwarf planet's secrets and why it's more intriguing than ever!
I'm still waiting for the Uranus episode. There has to be something other than juvenile humour that wasn't featured in his original Geographics video. 😁 Edit: Not that there wasn't juvenile humour in that video, or that it's not amusing. 🙂But there has to be more scientific data that isn't common knowledge.
I have been following astronomy since I was a very young child. Had a computer and would browse wikipedia and watch documentaries as I got older. I was a physics major for one semester until realizing I just wasn't cut out for math and data as the rest of my life. This video was greatly made, I feel a bit of frustration at those who either argue against the dwarf planet desgination (a term that is VERY useful) or Pluto as a whole. There is a real tendency we hold to dismiss the "lesser" as not worth attention and they seem to perpetuate it. Dwarf planets are insanely fascinating, they have rekindled my recent lowered interest in astronomy. That and the Ice Giants. Thanks for this channel.
I just love this video. The one thing you didn't mention regarding the possibility of Pluto having a subsurface ocean is that the tidal, gravitational squeezing that Pluto gets from it's close dance with Charon (which is the most massive moon relative to its planet in the solar system) may help generate enough heat to keep a subsurface ocean liquid. #TeamPluto
I remember in the 80s and 90s in the astronomy section of some large World Atlases, the only photos of Pluto showed it as a mere white dot among many other white dots and an arrow pointing to it. Also back then, no one knew if any extra-solar planets existed at all. The advances in astronomy since then have been amazing!
I actually initially failed a science project in school because I put Pluto (correctly) inside of Neptune's orbit as it was at the time and my science teacher had no idea that its orbit shifted so much. It was kinda odd to teach something to your teacher for the first time in your life... lol. Needless to say, she corrected my grade to an A once she found out I was actually correct! 🤓
That happened to me in math class. One time in 6th grade, the entire class, including the teacher, got the answer to one of the teacher's made-up algebra problems wrong, and I was the only one who had the correct answer. I ended up having to get my mother and the principal involved, and provided multiple forms of proof including source code for a computer program that proved me right and a chat log with numerous math experts on IRC who asserted that my answer was correct. They had to also get the computer teacher involved because they didnt understand what source code was.
At the moment , my favourite planet is embarking upon its longest eliptical course, away from us. Probably another reason they won't send another mission quite so soon.
For everyone saying/joking Neptune isnt a planet for not clearing pluto from its orbit: pluto is heavily skewed from the orbital plane, so while it does get closer than neptune the orbits never actually intersect. Pluto is never "in" neptune's orbit because its either far above or below it.
@@samuelpaech5628 its not Neptune in its orbit, its other dwarf planets. Its part of the keiper belt so like a more spaced out asteroid belt filled with pluto-like objects.
Enceladus is also volcanic if we're including cryovolcanos. There is also a chance Charon is volcanic too. I do personally think Charon should also be considered a dwarf planet in a binary system instead of a moon. IAU said they may reconsider it in the future.
Another hypothesis on how there could be liquid water still, is from the water freezing. I know it sound weird. But as water freezes, it release heat into its surroundings. Not a lot, but some. Scaled up to a dwarf planet sized subocean, and taking into account the salts and ammonia lowering the waters freezing point, it is possible this is enough to keep much of the water liquid to this day.
Pluto is a cool dwarf planet, water that farfarout (intended ;) is really interesting.. however.. all (yes all) the Moons mentioned are so much closer and easier to study (except for radiation) that I am far more excited about enciladus then Pluto.. also are they now also teaching about Eris, Sedna etc. in schools? They should..
I thought it was so weird when the new pics of Pluto came in and you can see a profile that looks like the Disney dog Pluto. Guess that was an aptly named character.
Maybe, but not likely. They are too close in size. The most likely source of the heat to keep water liquid, is oddly enough, the water freezing. It is a weird thing that happens. When water freezes, it has to release that heat. So when just going down to freezing, the surrounding will temporarily get a burst of heat added to them. You can actually measure it yourself with a cup of water, some ice, and a thermometer. Just get the water down to freezing, and right when it gets under 32, you will see a sudden temperature spike. It isn't a lot. But scale it up to a dwarf planet sized subocean freezing, and also take into account that the water likely has salts and ammonia in it lowering its freezing point drastically, and it would be enough to keep much of the water liquid.
So I finished Grade 8 in the 1999/2000 school year and I remember somewhere around 5th grade someone would always toss in the fun fact that Pluto isn't actually currently the Ninth planet farest from the sun and was currently technically the Eighth. And then the teacher would usually say they just teach it as always the Ninth planet for simplicity sake but; yeah it comes in close enough to be closer than Neptune at points in its orbit
don't know if it's right but i heard that the ability to "clear its orbit" depends on distance from the sun so that if pluto was closer to the sun it would have been classed a planet.
Stargate Atlantis: Dr Rodney McKay talking to Neil DeGrasse Tyson "Hey at least I didn't declassify Pluto from planet status. Way to make all the little kids cry Neil. Did that make you feel like a big man?"
I hope that in the near future we discover there really is microbial life on other worlds or moons. It would be a sad thing indeed if life only existed on Earth. How fragile that would be.
The hard part is getting things to/past Saturn in a reasonable amount of time yet slow enough to not go flying past the target, or needing to double the fuel volume for a slowdown.
@@thatfuzzypotato1877 I wonder if you could use gravity assists off of Saturn's moons to help slow down, with better engines and control available today and in the near future.
The Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter and Lander was a 2017 phase I report funded by the NASA Innovative Aevanced Concepts (NIAC) program. The report, written by principal investigator Stephanie Thomas of Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc., describes a Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) mission to Pluto. A fusrion reactor would be used to send a 1000 kg orbiter and lander to the Pluto system in only four years (more than twice as fast as New Horizons).
Pluto lost its status down to a vote, and not even a unanimous vote. Which means it could get it back by yet another vote. Wherever he is, Clyde Tombaugh patiently waits. ;)
As Dr Tyson said: Pluto had to coming. We thought it was a planet... but as we discovered more, it became smaller and smaller, and just a cloud of debris. The crime isn't that Pluto got demoted. The crime is that that cluster of rocks was ever named Pluto. Also, problem with "geological activity" as a definition is... well, Jupiter.
It is thought that the main reason for the massive volcanism of Io and the probable ocean inside Europa is heat produced by tidal flexing produced by gravity has each of these moons of Jupiter orbits Jupiter. It could be that a reason or the reason for Pluto having cyro volcanoes and possible sub-surface oceans is tidal flexing produced the gravitational interaction with Pluto's moon Charon.
Wait a minute, I just realized this. If Pluto got demoted because it crosses Neptune's orbit, then shouldn't Neptune also be demoted because it crosses Pluto's orbit?
The whole “clear its orbit” thing was a clumsy attempt to make a definition that excluded Pluto. It fails. They should have just gone with one of those “not you” memes.
It’s interesting; if Saturn had an elliptical orbit that crossed every other planet, then would all planets except Jupiter be demoted? Or would Jupiter cause Saturn to be demoted, which would disqualify it from demoting others even though it is larger?
@@billcook4768Yeah, and the thing is that they'd almost certainly have to accept Eris as a planet since it's very similar to Pluto from what we know, and has a higher mass. It would also be hard to exclude Haumea, Makemake, and potentially several others. Easier for everyone if you can just lump them all as TNO/KBOs instead.
@@darth856 you would be correct. If my math is correct, Neptune's mass is approximately 7,865.6 times that of Pluto. The Sun's mass is only 1,047 times that of Jupiter. For a closer to home reference, the Moon's mass is about 1/81st that of Earth's. Pluto is almost incomprehensibly tiny on planetary scales, and like the video mentions it is FAR too small to have any effect whatsoever on Neptune.
I dont get why people are so upset that pluto is "not a planet". It clearly is. A "dwarf planet" is still a type of planet. Just one that has a different set of categorical attributes from a regular planet. The word "planet" is still there, after all. It was merely given a more specific classification. It's not like it was reclassified to an asteroid. Also, the Earth IS round. An oblate spheroid is round. "Round" doesn't mean perfectly spherical. Round means like or approximately like a circle/cylinder/sphere. You can find this in the dictionary.
Because if Pluto and Neptune decided to break their resonance, the former will either get thrown out, eaten up or captured. The latter meanwhile will just continue on its merry way. “Clearing the orbit” doesn’t mean making everything nearby go away, nothing in the solar system does that. It does mean establishing dominance in its area. Neptune has achieved it, Pluto hasn’t.
8.05 "chambers full of liquid warm enough to remain fluid" eh? yes, that is how states of matter work. if the liquid wasn't warm enough to be fluid it would be a solid. the statement is utterly redundant.
when it comes to the guy whgo thought there should be 150 planets..... Buddy, a notable signature of scientific progress is the the reclassification, addittion, and reorganization of thr classification systems we use to parse data into digestible and rememberable chunks. Sure back in the ancient days when there was the sun, the moon, five regularly visible moving points of light and the occasional comet or supernova/ calling just aboutr everything a planet made sense. But now that we are aware of, and have measured properties of all these other things, it makes perfect sense to update your classifications. Sure call all the geological bodies planets. Everyone else will simply subdivide the category anyway. you would end up with Major and minor planets or some such thing. Oh...Wait... we already did. Just instead of adding everything into one category and subsequently subdividing it, we simply added a category to what we already had. use your noggin peoples. :)
I think Simon created this channel just so he could make Uranus jokes 😂
As far as I can tell, at least one per episode
I'm still waiting for the Uranus episode. There has to be something other than juvenile humour that wasn't featured in his original Geographics video. 😁
Edit: Not that there wasn't juvenile humour in that video, or that it's not amusing. 🙂But there has to be more scientific data that isn't common knowledge.
If so: Totally worthwhile.
Even Simon can’t pass on an Uranus joke, beautiful 😂😂
RIP Pluto. You will always be a planet in my heart.
It is a planet, a dwarf planet. But not a planet like Earth or Mars or whatever.
@@LisaAnn777 Whatever you say, boomer
@@Tenmo8life lol 😂
It's my favorite planet. Scientists have turned in parrots that repeat everything they are told.
I recommend you seek medical attention
@ 7:40 "weird ass space shit " had me dying Simon
I have been following astronomy since I was a very young child. Had a computer and would browse wikipedia and watch documentaries as I got older. I was a physics major for one semester until realizing I just wasn't cut out for math and data as the rest of my life.
This video was greatly made, I feel a bit of frustration at those who either argue against the dwarf planet desgination (a term that is VERY useful) or Pluto as a whole. There is a real tendency we hold to dismiss the "lesser" as not worth attention and they seem to perpetuate it.
Dwarf planets are insanely fascinating, they have rekindled my recent lowered interest in astronomy. That and the Ice Giants.
Thanks for this channel.
Dudes, sooooo much has changed in astronomy since I was in school.
The universe is amazing.
I just love this video. The one thing you didn't mention regarding the possibility of Pluto having a subsurface ocean is that the tidal, gravitational squeezing that Pluto gets from it's close dance with Charon (which is the most massive moon relative to its planet in the solar system) may help generate enough heat to keep a subsurface ocean liquid.
#TeamPluto
"Weird ass space shot"
Simon is the best!
Pluto has been my favorite since i convinced my very young cousins that i was born on Pluto and moved to Earth in the 80s
I remember in the 80s and 90s in the astronomy section of some large World Atlases, the only photos of Pluto showed it as a mere white dot among many other white dots and an arrow pointing to it. Also back then, no one knew if any extra-solar planets existed at all. The advances in astronomy since then have been amazing!
"Did you hear about Pluto? That's messed up, right?"
I actually initially failed a science project in school because I put Pluto (correctly) inside of Neptune's orbit as it was at the time and my science teacher had no idea that its orbit shifted so much. It was kinda odd to teach something to your teacher for the first time in your life... lol. Needless to say, she corrected my grade to an A once she found out I was actually correct! 🤓
That happened to me in math class. One time in 6th grade, the entire class, including the teacher, got the answer to one of the teacher's made-up algebra problems wrong, and I was the only one who had the correct answer. I ended up having to get my mother and the principal involved, and provided multiple forms of proof including source code for a computer program that proved me right and a chat log with numerous math experts on IRC who asserted that my answer was correct. They had to also get the computer teacher involved because they didnt understand what source code was.
Surprised and delighted to hear the soundtrack for Stellaris in the background
Pluto, my favorite planet
Now we need Casual Criminalist: Who wronged Pluto
That Brenden Frasier joke was uncalled for. He is a national treasure. 😂❤
Clowned on George of the jungle. he was the protagonist in the mummy, he saved the world and us in it, Simon. 😏
Crazy to think this has already been almost a decade ago
we knew about pluto and neptune trading places when i was a kid, ny projects reflected as much
Simon: Dwarf planet
Me: Planet
Binary Dwarf Planet.
At the moment , my favourite planet is embarking upon its longest eliptical course, away from us. Probably another reason they won't send another mission quite so soon.
Pluto is amazing.
Thank you for ruining my childhood for telling where Pluto actually was during that time period.
For everyone saying/joking Neptune isnt a planet for not clearing pluto from its orbit: pluto is heavily skewed from the orbital plane, so while it does get closer than neptune the orbits never actually intersect. Pluto is never "in" neptune's orbit because its either far above or below it.
So surely that means Neptune isn't in Pluto’s orbit, meaning Pluto should technically still be a planet (according to those 3 rules)?
@@samuelpaech5628 its not Neptune in its orbit, its other dwarf planets. Its part of the keiper belt so like a more spaced out asteroid belt filled with pluto-like objects.
Ah, gotcha@@thatfuzzypotato1877
How dare you take a jab at Brendan Fraser, good sir! That man is a treasure!
Back to the space facts.
TIL Simon has yet another channel
I, for one, welcome Whistle Boy as our benevolent overlord
10:14 Bloody hell; did not expect a 'Kubla Khan' reference, but here we are...
A highly elliptical orbit might mean strong enough tidal forces to make and expelled liquid water from ice.
Enceladus is also volcanic if we're including cryovolcanos. There is also a chance Charon is volcanic too.
I do personally think Charon should also be considered a dwarf planet in a binary system instead of a moon. IAU said they may reconsider it in the future.
Another hypothesis on how there could be liquid water still, is from the water freezing. I know it sound weird. But as water freezes, it release heat into its surroundings. Not a lot, but some. Scaled up to a dwarf planet sized subocean, and taking into account the salts and ammonia lowering the waters freezing point, it is possible this is enough to keep much of the water liquid to this day.
I’m from where Tombaugh is from we have murals and sculptures all over town, his family still lives in the area
Bro how many channels does this guy have???? This has to be like number 10
Neptune hasn't cleared Pluto of its orbit, so Neptune isn't a planet.
23:29 Jesus Simon that caught me off guard lmao
Shout out to New Mexico and Illinois for keeping the fight alive!
Thank you for this video
I am proud to state that I made a grade school solar system model that correctly had Pluto closer! Because I was a huge nerd.
Great job 👍
Don’t you dare disrespect Rick O’Connell like that good sir
Pluto is a cool dwarf planet, water that farfarout (intended ;) is really interesting.. however.. all (yes all) the Moons mentioned are so much closer and easier to study (except for radiation) that I am far more excited about enciladus then Pluto.. also are they now also teaching about Eris, Sedna etc. in schools? They should..
Pluto will ALWAYS be a planet!!!
Well dawrf planets are a type of planet, so yes.
I thought it was so weird when the new pics of Pluto came in and you can see a profile that looks like the Disney dog Pluto. Guess that was an aptly named character.
"A deeper probing of Uranus"😅
Heh,heh.
Pluto has a moon relatively large for the planet. Charon would have a gravitational effect on it. Could that help maintain the heat?
Maybe, but not likely. They are too close in size. The most likely source of the heat to keep water liquid, is oddly enough, the water freezing.
It is a weird thing that happens. When water freezes, it has to release that heat. So when just going down to freezing, the surrounding will temporarily get a burst of heat added to them. You can actually measure it yourself with a cup of water, some ice, and a thermometer. Just get the water down to freezing, and right when it gets under 32, you will see a sudden temperature spike.
It isn't a lot. But scale it up to a dwarf planet sized subocean freezing, and also take into account that the water likely has salts and ammonia in it lowering its freezing point drastically, and it would be enough to keep much of the water liquid.
So I finished Grade 8 in the 1999/2000 school year and I remember somewhere around 5th grade someone would always toss in the fun fact that Pluto isn't actually currently the Ninth planet farest from the sun and was currently technically the Eighth. And then the teacher would usually say they just teach it as always the Ninth planet for simplicity sake but; yeah it comes in close enough to be closer than Neptune at points in its orbit
Me over here laughing at giving the planet a good and hard probing.
PLUTO FOREVER
According to the international community, the right pronunciation for "Uranus" is "Ur AH nus".
Fact Boy doing a New Horizon video? Yes please! That's getting a like before i even finish the video.
“Nasas #1 priority should be giving uranus a good and hard probing” 23:28
We'll all give you a pass on how much you love your own voice. Only because we love it so much too Simon.😊
23:28 The scriptwriters knew what they were doing ;)
don't know if it's right but i heard that the ability to "clear its orbit" depends on distance from the sun so that if pluto was closer to the sun it would have been classed a planet.
Amazing new content from our favorit fact boi
every day I discover a new fact boy channel.. you should put your pic in the thumb nail idk how I went so long without knowing of this channel
Stargate Atlantis:
Dr Rodney McKay talking to Neil DeGrasse Tyson
"Hey at least I didn't declassify Pluto from planet status. Way to make all the little kids cry Neil. Did that make you feel like a big man?"
Neil Degrasse Dyson vs the little sphere
I hope that in the near future we discover there really is microbial life on other worlds or moons. It would be a sad thing indeed if life only existed on Earth. How fragile that would be.
Lowell has a long "O" sound, like in pole, not like ouch.
Excellent video! Can I request more Solar System moons please Simon
We should have a stationary probe above every planet, especially with orbital launch costs dropping.
The hard part is getting things to/past Saturn in a reasonable amount of time yet slow enough to not go flying past the target, or needing to double the fuel volume for a slowdown.
@@thatfuzzypotato1877 I wonder if you could use gravity assists off of Saturn's moons to help slow down, with better engines and control available today and in the near future.
@@lord6617only if they are correctly aligned, its why the voyagers were just perfect timing.
pluto is like the alphabet, it’s the “sometimes Y” of planets
Pluto's Biggest Secret: The Mass Relay hidden inside Charon.
_/Mass Effect reference_
as a diver, id recommend a dry suit
The Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter and Lander was a 2017 phase I report funded by the NASA Innovative Aevanced Concepts (NIAC) program. The report, written by principal investigator Stephanie Thomas of Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc., describes a Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) mission to Pluto. A fusrion reactor would be used to send a 1000 kg orbiter and lander to the Pluto system in only four years (more than twice as fast as New Horizons).
Pluto lost its status down to a vote, and not even a unanimous vote.
Which means it could get it back by yet another vote.
Wherever he is, Clyde Tombaugh patiently waits. ;)
it will always been and is a small double planet system.
Pluto. Is. A. Full. Planet.
Keep giving it to the imperial system simon 👍 maybe one day our less educated American friends will catch on
"Give uranus a good hard probing" 😂🤣😂
They should send Mike Brown to Pluto
Doesn't this also mean Neptune is also not a planet since it has not cleared its orbital path of debri?(AKA Pluto and Charon)
Okay, if Pluto isn't a planet because it hasn't cleared Uranus out of its orbit, what about Uranus clearing Pluto out of its orbit? Demote Uranus!
As Dr Tyson said: Pluto had to coming. We thought it was a planet... but as we discovered more, it became smaller and smaller, and just a cloud of debris.
The crime isn't that Pluto got demoted. The crime is that that cluster of rocks was ever named Pluto.
Also, problem with "geological activity" as a definition is... well, Jupiter.
It is thought that the main reason for the massive volcanism of Io and the probable ocean inside Europa is heat produced by tidal flexing produced by gravity has each of these moons of Jupiter orbits Jupiter. It could be that a reason or the reason for Pluto having cyro volcanoes and possible sub-surface oceans is tidal flexing produced the gravitational interaction with Pluto's moon Charon.
If the crossing of Neptune and Pluto orbits downgrades Pluto, shouldn't it also downgrade Neptune?
If that was the only criteria then yes, but it isn't, so no.
the ice on pluto isn't "like rock", it IS rock. a rock is a crystaline solid. like ice.
FOOD FOR MY ASTRO FESTISH
So the deplanetation of Pluto happened near the defenestration of Prague.
Wait a minute, I just realized this. If Pluto got demoted because it crosses Neptune's orbit, then shouldn't Neptune also be demoted because it crosses Pluto's orbit?
The whole “clear its orbit” thing was a clumsy attempt to make a definition that excluded Pluto. It fails. They should have just gone with one of those “not you” memes.
It’s interesting; if Saturn had an elliptical orbit that crossed every other planet, then would all planets except Jupiter be demoted? Or would Jupiter cause Saturn to be demoted, which would disqualify it from demoting others even though it is larger?
@@billcook4768Yeah, and the thing is that they'd almost certainly have to accept Eris as a planet since it's very similar to Pluto from what we know, and has a higher mass. It would also be hard to exclude Haumea, Makemake, and potentially several others. Easier for everyone if you can just lump them all as TNO/KBOs instead.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Neptune still dominates it's orbital path. The mass of Pluto is insignificant compared to Neptune.
@@darth856 you would be correct. If my math is correct, Neptune's mass is approximately 7,865.6 times that of Pluto. The Sun's mass is only 1,047 times that of Jupiter. For a closer to home reference, the Moon's mass is about 1/81st that of Earth's. Pluto is almost incomprehensibly tiny on planetary scales, and like the video mentions it is FAR too small to have any effect whatsoever on Neptune.
You really shouldn't tell us the famous landmarks you can see from your home/office. Some crazy person out there might try to find out where you are.
Another one simon 😂😂😂
SPAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!! ASTROGRAPHICS!
Bruh. What did Brendon Frasier do to you?
I think Ganymede is a planet. That happens to be a moon as well.
Who did you give the finger to? Hha I saw it. It was subtle but funny
Don't hate on my Brendan like that D: he's sweet
Soon all of my daily YT'ing will be narrated by Fact Boy xD
Haha that Brexit joke was fantastic - do it again!
Wouldn't that third rule also make Neptune NOT a planet? Pluto can't cross Neptune's orbital path without Neptune also crossing Pluto's.
I dont get why people are so upset that pluto is "not a planet". It clearly is. A "dwarf planet" is still a type of planet. Just one that has a different set of categorical attributes from a regular planet. The word "planet" is still there, after all. It was merely given a more specific classification. It's not like it was reclassified to an asteroid.
Also, the Earth IS round. An oblate spheroid is round. "Round" doesn't mean perfectly spherical. Round means like or approximately like a circle/cylinder/sphere. You can find this in the dictionary.
Why is Neptune a planet but Pluto is not, if neither have cleared their orbit?
Because if Pluto and Neptune decided to break their resonance, the former will either get thrown out, eaten up or captured. The latter meanwhile will just continue on its merry way.
“Clearing the orbit” doesn’t mean making everything nearby go away, nothing in the solar system does that. It does mean establishing dominance in its area. Neptune has achieved it, Pluto hasn’t.
8.05 "chambers full of liquid warm enough to remain fluid" eh? yes, that is how states of matter work. if the liquid wasn't warm enough to be fluid it would be a solid. the statement is utterly redundant.
1,000th like 🎉
Ayee, another one
If Pluto fails Test 3 because it crosses Neptune's path, doesn't Neptune fail Test 3 because Pluto crosses its path?
when it comes to the guy whgo thought there should be 150 planets..... Buddy, a notable signature of scientific progress is the the reclassification, addittion, and reorganization of thr classification systems we use to parse data into digestible and rememberable chunks. Sure back in the ancient days when there was the sun, the moon, five regularly visible moving points of light and the occasional comet or supernova/ calling just aboutr everything a planet made sense. But now that we are aware of, and have measured properties of all these other things, it makes perfect sense to update your classifications.
Sure call all the geological bodies planets. Everyone else will simply subdivide the category anyway. you would end up with Major and minor planets or some such thing. Oh...Wait... we already did. Just instead of adding everything into one category and subsequently subdividing it, we simply added a category to what we already had. use your noggin peoples. :)
Since NASA not sending anything to Pluto anytime soon, hopefully ESA, China, or any other space agency are working on something
KEEP PUMPING MEE THESE VIDEOS FACT DADDY
3 billion - too much for science, pocket change for war
Isn't neptune not a planet because it doesn't clear it's orbit?
The joke about Brendan Frasier was a bit much.