Posted on 12/07/2013 5:10:59 PM PST by lee martell
Came for the Pluto the Pup reference.
Leaving satisfied.
New Horizons is currently 4 light hours out and 4.65 AU from Pluto.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/whereis_nh.php
Now that’s just plain Goofy....
Well ... Pluto will always be one of the nine planets of our solar system, to me.
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"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet.
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If it wasn’t for Venus already existing her first name Venetia would have made a fine name for a planet I suppose...
ETA?
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Some of them.
My dad was running around barefoot and picking cotton. He learned life lessons instead of book learning.
When I was a child I learned that Pluto was chosen because it started with “Pl,” which were the initials of the astronomer Percival Lowell.
July 14th 2015.
Hey, nowhere in that post , does it give credit to Clyde Tombough, who discovered it! I knew him as he was a member of the Las Cruses astronomical society. I sat next to him at one of the meetings and noticed his watch, a Walt Disney Pluto time piece. He was a kind and gentle man.
Clyde Tombough does certainly deserve credit for his discovery y and recognizing this object for what it really is. He should be spoken of in our discussion. of today.
I should have said the education standards were far higher back then, to where you’re average 12 yr old who stayed in school had already learned more than a high school graduate of today.
We are going in the opposite direction of what we should be.
very true
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