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From Mathias Pedersen, with permission
This is excellent, even got the planets accurate and as close to scale as one might manage.
Good stuff.
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Maybe no one will notice next time.
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Mathias Pedersen great Art Work on Poor Pluto. I feel that Pluto has not been demoted but placed in another catagory and Pluto won't be forgotten soon.
Apparently the only reason Pluto isn't considered a planet is that it's not the biggest object in its orbit.
Solution: Blast Neptune out of the sky, or change Pluto's orbit.
Anyway, a really great image. I love the sneer on Jupiter's Red Spot.