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1 posted on 12/07/2013 5:10:59 PM PST by lee martell
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It could have all been so different.


2 posted on 12/07/2013 5:16:44 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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New Horizons is currently 4 light hours out and 4.65 AU from Pluto.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/whereis_nh.php


4 posted on 12/07/2013 5:19:19 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Well ... Pluto will always be one of the nine planets of our solar system, to me.


7 posted on 12/07/2013 5:26:24 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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In honor of Venetia Burney, the new planet should be named "Pluto" or even "Plutoo (or Plu-two or Plu-II)".

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8 posted on 12/07/2013 5:31:56 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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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...


10 posted on 12/07/2013 5:35:56 PM PST by mowowie
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12 posted on 12/07/2013 5:48:02 PM PST by GOP Poet
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11 year olds back then were more educated than most 21 year olds are today.
13 posted on 12/07/2013 5:58:47 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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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.


15 posted on 12/07/2013 6:05:20 PM PST by untenured
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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.


17 posted on 12/07/2013 6:31:30 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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Popeye’s nemesis “Brutus” was renamed Pluto in honor of the new planet also.


21 posted on 12/07/2013 8:15:31 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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