How the planet Pluto got its nameGerry Rising
He is well known for his demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Tyson said not deleting Pluto as a “planet” would insult all the other planets in the solar system. The decision to reclassify Pluto was not meant to diminish its significance but rather to clarify the definition of what make...
Astronomers began to search for this missing planet, and in 1801, an Italian astronomer named Giuseppi Piazzi found a faint body at that distance that he called Ceres. However, Ceres was fainter than Mars or Jupiter, so Piazzi concluded it was much smaller. Astronomers later found other small ...
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aThe cycle of the planet Pluto shows our group karma, or the purpose of our particular generation and the part we must play as individuals. It specifically shows how one generation impacts the next and what to expect when each one begins to stamp its mark on the world⋯⋯ . Hence, pe...
Was Pluto-the-planet suddenly different? No, of course not. The definition changed, but Pluto was exactly the same as it was, and still is, as when I learned about it back in middle school. All of its properties are still exactly the same. Getting a depression diagnosis for Pluto-the-...
When I relocated to Key West back in 1986, I stopped into a small independent bookstore situated just off infamous Duval Street. The bookstore owner had just bought a collection of astrology books from an estate that came from my home town on Long Island! What was the probability of that...
"This morning, the ultimate dream of a planet watcher was come true: all of the planets condensed before me into one straightforward, nowhere peripheral view. It struck me like nine-branched lightning, held me still as a (deeply breathing) statue. All the planets at once."...
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“tenth planet” in accompanying NASA press materials. At that time it was thought to be slightly larger than Pluto—and if we called Pluto a planet, then Eris deserved planethood as well. Even when better observations downgraded Eris to slightly sub-Pluto in size, the issue remained. How ...