Forgotten Moons Of Dwarf Planets

[@UranusIsHere7]

I wish there could be another New Horizons-Like Mission to Explore the unseen up close dwarf planets like Eris, Sedna, Haumea and their moons

[@thealextrifier]

They're trying to time it properly with Jupiter's gravity assist. It's gonna be very difficult. But hopefully it happens anyway because Sedna can get super far. That mission is a must.

[@jackesioto]

Though I just don't see minor planets or their moons as being a high priority for space agencies. There's far more fascinating targets closer to Earth than any minor planet (except Ceres) to explore further first, like the ice moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

[@Chaotix_Good]

Oh hey UranusIsHere-

[@foxdavani4091]

Problem is, anything they want to study that far away would be nothing more than a flyby. So the only reason they would do another flyby mission is if there was more to study, so first, they need to find evidence of more bodies. Once they find evidence, they can send another fly by mission. It is different than studying the main solar system bodies because those are not fly by missions as often since they can be audited for long periods and studied.

[@thealextrifier]

@@foxdavani4091 that’s fair but you never know what more there could be *to* study. I quote Ferris Bueller: if you don’t stop and look you could miss it.

[@titan9259]

And many still go "it's just a rock, what's so special about it?"

[@oberonpanopticon]

To paraphrase, “It’s not just a rock… it’s a boulder!”

[@SomeAT-AT]

It's a drity Snowball!

[@isiuqer]

Yup, imagine calling a tiny mars a "rock". Imagine what that planet may have💀💀💀

[@lunamaria1048]

@@SomeAT-AT It is so cold that ice there is harder than rock. Not much snow in that environment lol

[@dcanimations9198]

And that's why there's a whole moon revolution going on right now... great job earth the moons of the solar system are planning an attack on you for being so selfish and insulting... it's not like you have fragile earthlings on your surface or anything

[@bepyn4ik]

0:00 Pluto's moons 5:48 Eris's moon 10:28 Orcus's moon 12:00 Varda's moon 12:34 Haumea's moons 14:47 Makemake's moon 15:02 gonggong's moon 15:11 Quaoar's moon 15:32 salacia's moon Hope this helps someone

[@wyattm6782]

It helped me :)

[@DivisionPrecision]

Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx Dysnomia Vanth Ilmarë Hi’iaka and Namaka MK2 Xiangliu Weywot Actaea

[@bepyn4ik]

@@DivisionPrecision hehe, weywot, funny name

[@DivisionPrecision]

@@bepyn4ik way what

[@fish_broski-w7f]

⁠​⁠@@DivisionPrecisionHydra,Cool name

[@thesnuggler9606]

Dreksler gives us god-tier astronomy videos and no ads. This is a criminally underrated channel. I've learned so much watching these videos. Keep it up Dreksler!

[@RobertRodgers-r5h]

My family and I have been enjoying your videos for years. Thank you for making and sharing them.

[@stryfe7467]

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[@Vue19]

Hey Dreksler astral. How have you been? I enjoy watching your vids. Keep up the dedication and hard work. I hope you become more popular in the future, and make people love and pay more attention to astronomy

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

Most fascinating, thanks Drex!👍👍

[@mindaugasjakubonis149]

Good to see you still making video's

[@SireDutchball]

I remember this channel being one of my main inspirations for being interested in astronomy. So happy to see it still going strong! If my planned astronomy career succeeds in the future, I will make sure to remember you, Dreksler Astral!

[@kalsizzle]

Your videos are so relaxing.

[@VenusProductions-r7]

Thank You for the Information you've been providing us!

[@scarletforest8421]

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[@masamune..]

I just love your channel. Thx for everything you do

[@ankushbisen1185]

Back in the days when I saw the first picture from Ceres, they showed a light source on the surface and it really amused me. Later got to know they were some light reflecting off salt deposits.

[@liminal-waves]

Nix's red spot is very interesting! Love your videos Dreksler. I always look forward to your uploads.

[@msn64man1]

Keep up the good work dreksler astral

[@summrsfrmpa]

love your videos bro been watching since 2020 these vids are so entertaining and educational at the same time you’ve taught me so much abt space in science I answer before the teachers keep up the good work

[@faresjouda8176]

شكراً على هذا المحتوى الرائع 🙏🏻

[@thealextrifier]

I compared a bunch of these moons to the comet video you did. It will basically be like floating unless we had artificial gravity machines that could help us stand on them properly and keep our bones strong

[@lavenderlilacproductions]

Bore into them, insert an O'Neill Cylinder. Spin gravity. See Isaac Arthur

[@djj949]

Great vid, nice to see a space topic I haven't seen before

[@hubtabtabhub2396]

Very interesting. Thank you for your perfectly clear pronunciation.

[@jackesioto]

Minor planets are throwing us curveballs! It's cool to think that like the gas giants, a few minor planets also have entourages of moons.

[@secondbeamship]

There are probably a lot of moons of these dwarf planets we’ve simply been unlucky to have not seen. (Like Dwarf planets themselves.)

[@secondbeamship]

There’s something hauntingly beautiful about these dwarf planets. So far away from light and still ease of movement for rockets.

[@vladghelu516]

Fascinating!

[@vanjapuskaric9860]

Beautifly explained. We should know more about our Solar sistem flouting archipelagos.

[@stellarstargazer3982]

What If our Moon (Luna) and Mercury (planet) switched places

[@Emdee5632]

It that were to happen instantly it would probably be a disaster for life on Earth. Mercury is about four and a half times more massive than the moon. Think about the sudden huge tides we would get! The Earth-moon system has a barycentre within the Earth. I'm not an expert but it could mean that the new barycentre is outside the Earth; maybe the Earth itself could get tidally locked to Mercury, but I really don't know. If that were to happen our new days and nights would get very long indeed. With terrible consequences for the climate. Probably more earthquakes too because of the sudden shift in distribution in which direction the Earth's internal layers want to move and how fast. I don't know.

[@monochromepolychrome]

well ya don’t wanna know

[@nineblackgoats]

Wrong channel

[@Flesh_Wizard]

"Dysnomia" is the coolest sounding name for a ball of ice I have ever heard

[@siennaactaea]

Finally someone talks about them!

[@trijizvy]

Thousand times my favorite video❤❤❤

[@Jameswebbtelescope7484]

I have a question for everyone to answer. Which planet/moon in this list would you like to explore the surface of?(it helps if you search up illustrations on chrome) Mercury ( u will have a sci-fi suit for all of these depending on the environment) Venus Mars Our Moon Phoboes Deimos Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Titan Enceladus Iapetus Dione Mimas Miranda Triton Pluto Charon For me I would wanna explore titan Mars, and Pluto. If u wish you guys can share your reasoning for me I wanna have oportunity to fly across titan surface in a wing suit and for Mars idk

[@oberonpanopticon]

Triton seems interesting. If nothing else, imo it’d be worth going just to see the geysers up close

[@redmohawkguy1]

I would probably visit Titan, Iapetus and Pluto. Titan because of the wing suiting potential, and the fact that the suit you wear on the surface would probably resemble the gear people use to climb Mount Everest more than an actual space suit due to surface pressure on Titan being so similar to that on Earth. Iapetus provides a view of Saturn from an angle where the rings are visible as more than just a hair thin line. On Pluto, I would want to see the Sputnik Planitia from the slopes/summits of the neighboring mountains.

[@kerrymandanny8135]

That's a great question. I've always been fascinated by venus ever since seeing the venera pictures. I think its venera anyway so I'd definitely pick venus with titan being second choice and then Pluto. Any moons would be awesome just to see the beautiful view of the planet right there almost looking like you could reach out and touch it.

[@Jameswebbtelescope7484]

@@kerrymandanny8135 yeah, it would be amazing to explore Venus. Assuming we had the equipment that allows us to deal with pressure and heat. It would be amazing to gaze at the landscape for Venus. And Pluto, I was facinated with the surface features that I always been wondering what it would be like to be on the surface. Did you know some of the snow on Pluto is red? Did you also know that it would likely smell like water ice on Pluto surface since the gases in the atmosphere is odorless?

[@kerrymandanny8135]

I heard about the red ice that was a fairly recent discovery right?the big heart looks awesome too imagine standing on that trying to pick out earth In the sky lol. Titan would smell like rotten eggs apparently due to the sulphur in the atmosphere tho we couldn't smell it anyway lol. Its sad we can never experience any of this in our lifetimes its something that has always bugged me not being able to see or experience any of it. But it does make me appreciate our beautiful earth more.

[@randomrhino4371]

Petition to get Makemake's moon an actual name. C'mon guys, it's named after a fertility god, it shouldn't be that hard to find an appropriate name

[@peterloohunt]

Superb photorealistic astrographics! Did you do them?

[@secondbeamship]

Charon’s subsurface ocean froze? Was the tidal heating not enough to maintain it being liquid? I know Pluto is known to still be hydrologically active.

[@mpetersen6]

I realize it is far too early to make a supposition that most drawf planets have large moons in comparison to drawf planets size. But l find it amazing that so many of the ones we do know about have large moons. What is the method of forming these dwarf planet-moon systems. Collisions? Capture? In addition the periodic close pass by another star would seem to offer up putting some Trans Neptunian objects into elliptical orbits.

[@secondbeamship]

Why do dwarf planets like Ocrus exist in a size range where they sometimes are spherical and sometimes not? What causes this?

[@pegglenights5236]

I would say the likehood of objects being captured by dwarf planets is quite low - due to their weak gravity and sheer distances between bodies in space. The differences between surface composition can have other explanations - such as different geological processes going on, especially considering for example - the moons of gas giants - they can look extremely different despite forming in similar circumstances.

[@malcolmabram2957]

I love the way you use cgi? to portray what it is like on other astronomical bodies. I would love to visit these places and even walk on their surfaces, though of course that is not going to happen. For instance what would it be really like to stand on Phobos, a moon of Mars.

[@titan9259]

He uses a game called space engine

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@titan9259It’s kinda a stretch to call it a game, it’s more of a simulator, or a database with graphics. At least, it was the last time I played it

[@oberonpanopticon]

also i think standing on any small asteroid would end up being like mountain climbing in a space suit since you’d need similar supports to avoid accidentally achieving escape velocity

[@titan9259]

@@oberonpanopticon I still play SE to this day, apparently they're working on a "flight simulator".

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Imagine standing on Namaka or Hi'aka and just seeing _🌒_ in the sky

[@secondbeamship]

Did the dwarf planets form closer to the sun and get kicked out or were they formed where they are now?

[@JutiliseGoogle]

Are you using space engine for some clips ?

[@victorsilveira2423]

"babe wake up, new dreksler astral video just dropped"

[@naevithekittycat]

💀

[@johnhodges5898]

Love your vids Dreksler! You’re the reason I know so much about space!

[@Martianig]

I live there thank you✊🏾

[@cavetroll666]

Very cool video thanks 🙃

[@secondbeamship]

Did Haumea get smashed by another dwarf planet to achieve its fast rotation?

[@deanmartin2332]

Imagine a permanent orbiter around Pluto. What sort of geological changes does Pluto and it’s moons undergo while orbiting our sun? Does it create a thicker atmosphere when it gets closer to the sun ? Are there geysers?

[@Jonas-ej7id]

0:44 LOTR reference?

[@themiddleman3060]

Youre the best man

[@smokythecat393]

Nice

[@trijizvy]

I watching every day this video 😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️

[@Kv535]

Good video

[@secondbeamship]

They seem to form in a descending function. Typically the first dwarf moon will be half the diameter of the dwarf planet.

[@secondbeamship]

I wonder how long until we find exo-dwarf planets and exo-dwarf moons.

[@EnzoRa-d4r]

Chair on is just crazy for charon

[@michellebeckham5310]

Why doesn't the definition of planet that demoted Pluto not also demote Neptune? Neptune's orbit is not clear if Pluto crosses it

[@SomeAT-AT]

Pluto actually never crosses Neptune. When there orbits are viewed from a top view it does but on a side view you would see Pluto never meets Neptune or goes anywhere near it. All a trick of perspective.

[@michellebeckham5310]

@@SomeAT-AT , what makes Pluto's orbit not clear ?

[@SomeAT-AT]

@@michellebeckham5310 Technically nothing. When they meant clearing it neighborhood it's basically saying if that body is gravitationally dominant enough to dominate and effect the other objects it's orbit and Pluto, Charon and there four moons do not. I mean Orcus is there and it's a dwarf planet in it's orbit (only mirrored) that's half the size of Pluto! Things that get effected by larger bodys are typically small asteroids that followed the larger body orbit getting drag along due to gravity. Not some other planet half the size of them happily chugging along by it's own accord.

[@petertuckergoettler5720]

Seeing Into Space...

[@Gsingapore-ee2uo]

I though eris would be colder than minus 250 degree celsius because it is so much further away than pluto

[@corrinflakes9659]

Shoutouts to the nerds naming a region of Charon “Mordor” and another “Gallifrey”. Actually, I wonder how Doctor Who lore acknowledges the latter in the diegetic sense, the Gallifrey Macula.

[@KennyG_420]

Why New Horizons wasn’t a satellite 🛰️ orbiting Pluto, instead of a fly-by?

[@usamong1129]

It is very hard to orbit Pluto because Pluto is small and doesn't really have a lot of gravity

[@KennyG_420]

@@usamong1129 thanks!!! That means we probably can’t even drop off any type of lander or rover either on Pluto either?

[@Emdee5632]

The New Horizons spacecraft didn't launch an orbiter or a lander during the flyby, because Pluto doesn't have gravity. Pluto has plenty of gravity, it has 5 moons, remember? Surface gravity is about 1/16th of that on Earth. The reason why it didn't was that it would have added too much complexity. The New Horizons had as few as possible moving parts to keep the design simple. They didn't want anything to go wrong during the long voyage from Earth to Pluto or during the encounter.

[@KennyG_420]

@@Emdee5632 thanks for that info. I can understand that, you only have one shot to do that mission perfectly, a nine year mission, try to keep it simple

[@vladghelu516]

One day we'll land feet in them moons 😉

[@Gsingapore-ee2uo]

You will freeze instantly 😂

[@Mefodon]

"Makemake is the second brightest object in the solar system after Neptune" .... yeah, the sun laughs at this XD

[@MerryTanaya-mh6id]

Haumea Not Howmia

[@davidwarren3095]

I love space

[@Reneuser]

i like Sticks (Styx)

[@Reneuser]

oh and kurberows too (Kerberos)

[@risu1982]

3:05 ORGANIC MATERIAL?!?!?!???

[@daniel4412]

I caught that too

[@adorablecockroach5131]

That could refer to any carbon based matter, not necessarily alive.

[@omaralkhatib3646]

You forgot to say that Ceres has no moon.

[@brick6347]

Styx... that's about all, peace out.

[@globey1]

i see a pattern bright dwarf planet dim moon

[@rubieaproject]

Charon is pronounced more like Karon, not literal CH-aron

[@kcglearningeverythingthati2599]

Discoveror of charon called Charon Sha-ron in honor of his wife charlene

[@evilbird4012]

No joke, I know them

[@ontoya1]

Double Planet🎉

[@GlandularZorro-mu3nc]

Imagine if theia never died

[@daxbashir6232]

👍 👍

[@phoule76]

Cobb Vanth

[@ncprimetime]

there not unknown in all honesty, were not in the club of people that do know. They have outpost on most of these moons already, im sure. But what ever i like your work!

[@Imaskull1234]

yOu FoRgOt CEreS

[@o80y1]

Stooloff

[@jayzee9164]

A Journey to Trans Neptunian Objects

[@donotreplybruh]

Wtf is that quality 💀

[@titan9259]

Change

[@donotreplybruh]

@@titan9259 nah i mean the graphics looks like an rpg game

[@SaneGuyFr]

You are a flat earther after all.

[@donotreplybruh]

@@SaneGuyFr lol 😂

[@SaneGuyFr]

@@donotreplybruh وانت قاعد تضحك على نفسك.

[@chrisanderson5317]

Pluto takes issue with being called a dwarf. He had no say in his demotion, and still considers himself a full planet.

[@dukeofglasgow9354]

Now say something about Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà and its moon Gǃòʼé ǃHú