Below are previous posts about Pluto.
Astronomers
anticipate 100 billion Earth-like planets
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03
April 2013 13:32
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The
planet formerly known as Pluto now just plutoid!
Pluto
and Charon
Charon
After
weeks of online ballot casting by people around the world, the poll
asking the public to name two of Pluto's moons — currently called
P4 and P5 — ended Monday.
As
of 12 p.m. (1700 GMT) Feb. 25, the polls closed with a total of
450,324 total votes cast since Feb. 11 with 'Vulcan,' a Pluto moon
name proposed by Star Trek's William Shatner, is the clear winner.
*
First,
the planet Pluto was demoted and re-classified as a dwarf
planet.
I
don’t know whether this made dwarves happy or mad.
But
hold the phone---the cell phone!
Now
Pluto is being called a plutoid.
And
I just read today that Pluto…or rather Plutoid the Dwarf
Planet…
Has
ice water!
And
lo and behold, its core is an iron-nickel alloy!
And
Pluto’s round!
*
“No
longer a planet,
Pluto is just a member of the Kuiper Belt; a collection of
icy objects that extend out past the orbit of Neptune. If you brought
Pluto into the inner Solar System, it would start to act like a comet
– blasting out gas and particles from the solar wind. It’s a good
thing Pluto is in the cold, dark outer Solar System, far away from
the Sun.”
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/13875/what-is-pluto-made-up-of/#ixzz2M3gpDq13
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/13875/what-is-pluto-made-up-of/#ixzz2M3gpDq13
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Captain
Kirk has taken time from his space travel and work as
a commercial for Priceline to tell
us that one of Pluto’s moons should be named Vulcan.
I
don’t know if this made Spock happy or sad.
Sure,
name it Vulcan…or
Cerberus…or Pluto’s Son…
But
call Pluto a planet again!
IT’S
ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!
Pluto....
Not
the Disney dog...
NoT
THE planet....
But
THE dwarf planet.
This
dwarf planet will soon get its day in the sun.
(It
takes over five hours for the sun's rays to reach this plutoid.)
Really
close-up pictures of this dwarf planet will be seen next Week.
In
the meantime, let's do some eavesdropping.
AlPHa:
Well,
the cat will soon be out of the bag.
Beta:
Cat?
Alpha:
Alright,
no cat, but us, and where we live.
Beta:
We
knew that humans would eventually travel here. Well, not them, but
their machines. There's no place to hide.
Alpha:
Especially
now, because sources of their fresh water are getting so low.
Beta:
Give
them time. They'll soon be here to steal our water.
Alpha:
And
put their fast food restaurants here.
Beta:
And
their cars, Politicians, and Lawyers.
Alpha:
Let's
get the blue blazes out of here.
Beta:
O.K.
Let me pack. Go fire up the Chariot.
IT'S
ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND PLUTO!
Monday,
July 13, from a distance of 476,000 miles.
How
would you feel if someone told you one day that you were no longer a
human?
Now
imagine that you were a planet one day (or for almost a century), and
then you were told that you were no longer a planet.
Zap!
Goodbye!
Good
Riddens!
The
solar system's ninth planet has been eliminated.
Number
nine has been voted out.
This
is not so much sad as it is wrong.
Poor
Pluto.
After
being so far away for so long.
After
having a dog given its name.
After
possessing a mystery that none of the other planets had.
Then...Poof!
You're
out of here you round and puny ball of cosmic dust!
And
how would Pluto's expulsion make its discoverer Clyde William
Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) feel?
Bring
Pluto back!
Bring
Pluto back!
Can
the Long War President do anything about this?
(P.
S. Pluto’s new title is dwarf planet. Better than
nothing, I suppose.)
IT'S
ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!
http://madplatonews.blogspot.com/2006/01/visit-to-small-ice-dwarf.html
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