Relativity aside, something going the speed your mention would only hypothetically be able to escape the black hole before the event horizon. After it crosses the event horizon it could no longer escape the black hole's gravity.

But I think the answer to your question is no, since the faster something goes the higher it's mass. To reach the speed of light for anything with mass is effectively impossible, as at the speed of light any thing (no matter how small) would have an infinite mass and therefore require infinite energy.

But this hypothetical “mass” would be traveling faster than the speed of light, which no mass can theoretically do.

Even a massless photon cannot escape a black hole, not because of the gravity (the photon has no mass and therefore immune to gravity), but because space through which the photon travels is itself warped. So the “escape velocity” exceeds any information, mass or massless, matter or energy, past the event horizon.

I think it's pretty likely that the majority of planetary bodies throughout the universe which have hosted life have done so for a comparably short period of time. Worlds like our Earth where life persists for several billions of years and develops into advanced multi-cellular life are probably fairly rare. Though on the other hand, there are so many stars and planets even in a single galaxy that there may be many such worlds in the Milky Way even if they make up a tiny percentage.

What???? This is such a lie. Every history book I had growing up talked about the ancient Aztec's amazing understanding of astronomy and how it took western civilization generations to catch up to them. Don't make shit up and act like it is some gotcha go read a book.

Half of the Kids can’t memorize 7 planets either so I don’t see an effective difference

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Kids. They can't learn easily 30 names.

Lives in both places and Nevada is a great place to see the sky.

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It's my favorite part about going back and visiting home in Nevada. My mom's house is high on a hill over Reno (NV hill, in the US Mid-Atlantic it would be a mountain) so it's outside of the city light pollution. I can go in the yard and look up and actually map out a bunch of constellations.

When I lived in DC for a few years, I was lucky to pick out 10 stars at night.

Now in an east cost suburb, I can see stars, but still nowhere near the level of the Nevadan night sky.

Is this the father of renowned scientist Scroopy Noopers?

Fuck yeah

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It's a rock in space. It doesn't care how you categorize it.

Thank you. It’s starting to make sense, this question was a lot deeper than I thought. Is minor the same as dwarf?

They’ve created a class of object called a minor planet. It’s large enough to pull itself into a sphere, but it has an odd orbit, and hasn’t cleared its local area.

It is, however, quite different from an asteroid like Vesta which are oblong and in a “belt” of other objects.

Regarding the last two paragraphs, I understand now. Basically I can view Pluto however I want to.

Neptune and Pluto are pretty much never any where near each other so Neptune can’t clear Pluto. Plus Pluto is on a different plane than the rest of the solar system. Neptune is like 8000 time more massive than Pluto so it would most definitely clear it if they ever ran into each other, it’s just that they never have and likely never will.

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What kind of permission is needed to mess with the space junk of others which presumably still belongs to the company or country that launched it

Keep your friends close and your moos closer. Not so true

I have some questions that need to be answered.

• Should Ceres be a planet? It's the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt (by a very wide margin) and is round, and about 9.1 × 10^20 kg. (Pluto is 1.30900 × 10^22 kg, so only about 10x bigger)
• Should Eris be a planet? It's the largest object in the Kuiper belt that we know of. It's also round, and is bigger than Pluto (1.67 × 10^22 kg, so like 25% bigger than Pluto)

Really what's going on is that there's kind of four "zones" of planetoids.

• The rocky planet zone
• The inner asteroid belt (where Ceres is)
• The gas giant zone
• The outer asteroid belt (where Eris and Pluto are)

The definition of planet makes it that it basically rules out the two asteroid belts because who knows where to draw the line between what in there is a planet and what isn't a planet.

So if we're including the stuff in those two zones, where should the line be drawn?

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But it will at some point?

Based on the definition of a planet currently, I am asking if Pluto will ever be able to fit that description of a planet. Even if it takes a billion years or so.