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Pluto is alive—but where is the heat coming from? [Planet looks relatively young]
Science ^ | 07/18/2015 | Eric Hand

Posted on 07/18/2015 6:47:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
“It’s going to send a lot of scientists back to the drawing boards

You mean....science ISN'T settled? Well knock me over with a feather!!!

21 posted on 07/18/2015 9:15:24 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (#KohlsCurve = Reaganomics Illustrated)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pluto is most likely where the climate deniers are hiding the climate.


22 posted on 07/18/2015 9:19:52 PM PDT by tinyowl (penguin in transition)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

It is a good read. But only 9 pages? Cliffhanger.


23 posted on 07/18/2015 9:52:58 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Squawk 8888

I never stopped considering Pluto a planet any more than I ever considered homosexual marriage marriage.


24 posted on 07/18/2015 10:24:58 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Buttons12; plain talk

Actually, the density of crap out there might be greater, since a load of stuff was/is swept out there by solar wind.


25 posted on 07/19/2015 12:25:40 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: steve86

Coolant...


26 posted on 07/19/2015 12:27:56 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wait a minute. Methane??? Methane is an evyil hydrocarbon. A fossil fuel even. And we all know methane is caused by evyil cow farts. Who is raising cattle on Pluto? Probably evyil McDonalds clear cut the entire planet for hamburger meat.

SAVE PLUTO!!!


27 posted on 07/19/2015 3:17:57 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: SeekAndFind

All these oddities in our solar system are going to need a really simple explanation covering all of them. Right now the problems keep multiplying, while explanations become more convoluted and complex.

Easiest explanation to date: Once the solar system had only large gas giants with many moons. Something happened - maybe more than once (400 mya and 200 mya). Now only four remain - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Positions and distributions of the bodies were changed; now all other bodies, no matter their current classification, are simply escaped moons.


28 posted on 07/19/2015 4:02:15 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: hoosierham

Keep in mind that resolution of 4 kilometers per pixel is still going to miss important details

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We’re going to get higher resolution images in the weeks and months to come.


29 posted on 07/19/2015 4:11:03 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Charon’s a monster of a big moon compared to Pluto!

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The Earth’s moon is also considered large compared to the Earth and very close as is Charon to Pluto. Some have said the Earth and Moon should be called a binary planet.

Both systems were probably created by impact events.


30 posted on 07/19/2015 4:13:22 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Planet looks relatively young... yep just a few wrinkles.


31 posted on 07/19/2015 6:27:50 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Squawk 8888

Ok thanks.


32 posted on 07/19/2015 9:01:02 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...



33 posted on 07/19/2015 12:25:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: onedoug

Exactly.


34 posted on 07/19/2015 6:08:50 PM PDT by Mr Apple (http://www.angelfire.com/md2/Ldotvets/Bubba_47.html)
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To: SeekAndFind

Before this mission the temp on Pluto was believed to be near -400. Have they said if they still think that is correct?


35 posted on 07/19/2015 6:15:09 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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