How old am I?

[justalurkr]

nialla42 pointed out that I'm not even five yet on Jupiter, which got me to wondering:

How old am I on other planets?

As of the time I plugged in my birthdate, even that site agreed I wasn't quite 50 yet, but 49.9. :D

On Mars, I'm still in my 20s. On Venus, I'm an exceptionally spry octogenarian. The site wins my undying and fanatical (if somewhat oversentimental) loyalty for including Pluto as a planet.

Comments

[nialla]

You're welcome! ;)

While I personally prefer Pluto remaining as a planet for sentimental reasons, after I spent hours going through each book we own that might have any reference to it as a planet to weed it out, as a librarian, I have to say it's a dwarf planet.

They make me say it. I don't care that Eris is bigger, Pluto's a planet, dammit. It's got more street cred than Eris.

Pluto: The Velveteen Planet

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Once you are real, you cannot be unreal ever again.

If you don't already have it, you should probably stock How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (http://www.amazon.com/How-Killed-Pluto-Why-Coming/dp/0385531087) by Mike Brown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Brown), the man who had the most at stake with Pluto's status. For a book about the practice of astronomy, it's hysterical, what with side trips into the mating and reproduction habits of your common astro-nerd. (Parenthood-related exhaustion nearly made him pour kitty litter into the detergent tray, for example.) Oh, and there's some stuff about exactly how dull astronomers can make the fate of a planet, though Brown somehow makes it interesting.