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Pluto has dunes, but they're not made of sand
Space.com ^
| May 31, 2018
| Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Posted on 06/01/2018 6:44:44 PM PDT by ETL
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This photo taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its July 2015 flyby of Pluto
shows the mountain range on the edge of the dwarf planet’s Sputnik Planitia ice plain.
Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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posted on
06/01/2018 6:44:45 PM PDT
by
ETL
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/01/2018 6:45:21 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
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posted on
06/01/2018 6:47:04 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: ETL
New Horizons was one of NASA’s greatest success stories. We all expected a cratered moonscape. Who could’ve ever imagined Pluto would be so dynamic?
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posted on
06/01/2018 6:49:00 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: wally_bert; Drew68
Sorry, just realized I screwed up a bit with the excerpt. Not easy doing this stuff on a tablet.
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posted on
06/01/2018 6:58:36 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
Fat fingered me tries to use a regular keyboard whenever possible.
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posted on
06/01/2018 6:59:36 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wally_bert
I don’t believe much of any of this FAKE SCIENCE. These folks are taking nothing more than digital data and fantasizing about what it could mean.
FANTASY it is. Its about selling new generations on fake possibilities.
To: ETL
Are we talkin’ about the Planet Pluto?
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posted on
06/01/2018 7:08:48 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Just Pluto isn’t it or did it get planet status?
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posted on
06/01/2018 7:10:34 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: ETL
> Pluto has dunes <
Funny, but in all my years of watching cartoons I never noticed that.
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posted on
06/01/2018 7:16:12 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: All
"Pluto has dunes, but they're not made of sand." They are made of SPICE!!!!
To: wally_bert
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posted on
06/01/2018 8:10:33 PM PDT
by
ak267
To: wally_bert
Pluto is a
Dwarf Planet
officially
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posted on
06/01/2018 8:35:13 PM PDT
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
To: ETL
The only way to 'pute is with a PC and a good ol' fashioned mouse.
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posted on
06/01/2018 8:58:24 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
To: knarf
Absolutely. Only I don’t have regular access to a PC these days.
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posted on
06/01/2018 10:24:42 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: txnativegop
Isn’t the word “Dwarf” verboten? Don’t they now use “height challenged” or “size challenged”?
Re the photos of the “ice mountains”. Guess there will be no skiing for visitors.
To: ETL
I read another article on Pluto this week.
A new theory is becoming popular - that Pluto did not coalesce from dust particles and gas like a planet.
Instead, it may be an aggregation of as many as one billion comets!
To: LegendHasIt
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posted on
06/02/2018 1:30:07 AM PDT
by
Stormy_2021
(It's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain...)
To: ETL
As long as Uranus doesn’t have piles.
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posted on
06/02/2018 4:58:51 AM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
apparently it doesn’t apply to celestial bodies . . .YET
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posted on
06/02/2018 11:16:52 AM PDT
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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