• Question: what is your favourite planet

    Asked by anon-202031 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sarah O'Sullivan

      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Earth, we’ve got a pretty sweet deal going on here and there’s still so much we don’t know about it. Plus I like having readily available oxygen and an atmosphere that protects me from most solar radiation

    • Photo: Sophia Pells

      Sophia Pells answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I’d have to say Earth as well because it definitely has the best food. Although I do feel sorry for Pluto, even though it was always clear that it wasn’t really a planet.

    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Physicists talk about a “Goldilocks zone” around stars where the temperature isn’t too hot such that water would boil away, nor too cold such that water would freeze. Earth is in this zone for the Sun, since the Earth is just right.

    • Photo: George Fulton

      George Fulton answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I’ve always thought Jupiter was cool. As a child I loved the ‘Great Red spot’ on Jupiter. There’s something amazing about a storm the size of earth. Makes earth seem small!

    • Photo: Andy Buckley

      Andy Buckley answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      51 Pegasi b — the first planet to be discovered orbiting a “normal” star like ours. It’s a “hot Jupiter” planet, so we wouldn’t have a great time there, but water has been discovered in its atmosphere, meaning there could even be life there.

    • Photo: Emily Lewis

      Emily Lewis answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Pluto if it counts. Mainly because I feel sorry for it, keeps getting kicked out of the planet club.

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