Images of the dwarf planet Pluto taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute) Pluto is so far away from Earth that everything we know about it can be written down on a couple of 3 x 5 inch index cards. Pluto will come into...
It has a half-life of about 82 million years and decays into uranium-240 through alpha decay, according to the Jefferson Lab. Plutonium was named after the planet, Pluto. This is because it came after Uranium, which was named after the planet Uranus, and neptunium, which was named after...
Anyone interested in science and astronomy is in for a treat with this article. Today we will be talking about the jilted planet Pluto. Though it has been long since Pluto has been stripped of its title as a planet in our Solar System, many people still have their hearts attached to the...
Pluto sometimes has an atmosphere. When Pluto elliptical orbit takes it closer to the Sun, its surface ice thaws and forms a thin atmosphere primarily of nitrogen which slowly escapes the planet. It also has a methane haze that overs about 161 kilometres above the surface. The methane is diss...
The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.
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Under this definition, Pluto is NOT a planet, but has been deemed a dwarf planet because it has not yet cleared its orbit. This definition is under discussion, particularly by members of the planetary science community, and it may yet be further refined. Sources: https://solarsystem.nasa.go...
Plus you can learn more about what’s in our Solar System with our Top 10 Facts on the Sun and the Moon; the planets Earth, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and the dwarf planet Pluto. Mars has been a source of fascination for humans for centuries, and our understan...
NASA originally planned to send two spacecraft past Jupiter, Saturn andPlutoand two other probes past Jupiter,UranusandNeptune. Budgetary reasons forced the agency to scale back its plans, but NASA still got a lot out of the two Voyagers it launched. ...