[fishtank]

ICR article image.

[ClearCase_guy]

Pluto is ready for its closeup, Mr. DeMille.

[onedoug]

Global warming.

[Charles Henrickson]

Botox.

[ctdonath2]

Once again: just because you don’t instantly understand something doesn’t mean it’s proof of a conspiracy (or other crackpot theory).

The fact that Pluto suffers violent tidal effects with it’s “moon” Charon is enough to explain why ancient impact sites have been wiped.

[dirtboy]

Earlier this year, New Horizons flew past dwarf planet Pluto and its sister Charon, rapidly capturing data. That information continues to trickle in, revealing a surprisingly smooth heart-shaped plain called "Tombaugh Regio." The countless craters expected from billions of years' worth of impacts are nowhere to be found.

And there are other regions of Pluto that are cratered. What a stupid article.

[Red Badger]

Young? It could be a year old or a millenium or and eon...............

[ETL]

Tombaugh Regio, nicknamed The Heart after its shape,[2][3][4] is the largest bright surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto.[5][6][7] It is just north of the equator, to the northeast of Cthulhu Regio and to the northwest of Krun Macula, both dark features.[8] Its western lobe is named Sputnik Planum.[9] --Wikipedia

[JimRed]

The countless craters expected from billions of years' worth of impacts are nowhere to be found.

A late arrival, maybe?

[Ken H]

Richard Hoagland will explain it all.