only the 424 members present, the IAU (an organization of over 10,000 members) passed a resolution defining planet in such a way as to exclude Pluto and established a new class of objects in the solar system to be called "dwarf planets," which was deliberately designed to include Pluto.Wi...
Disgruntled scientists renewed their vows this week to call Pluto a planet despite an international governing body's latest ruling to reclassify the tiny world. On Wednesday, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) declared that Pluto will henceforth be known as a "plutoid," a new class of ...
Pluto Revisited: Is It a Planet? A Comet? or Something Else Entirely?The debate over Pluto's status has maintained its vigor eversince the International Astronomical...Thomson, Jason
Pluto is not the first “demoted” planet The word planet comes from the Greek planḗtai, meaning “wanderers”. It was used to describe the “wanderers of the sky”, namely the Sun (yes, our star was a “planet” once), the Moon, and five other points of light visible by the na...
Now, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has reignited the fierce debate over Pluto’s status by unexpectedly coming out in favor of it being a planet. “Just so you know, in my view, Pluto is a planet,” Bridenstine said in a tongue in cheek clip posted toTwitter. “You can write that...
It had to have a clear neighbourhood in its orbit and not be obstructed or have its path crossed by anything. Pluto, which had at that time been known as a planet, was downgraded. Instead of being downgraded to anasteroid, it became adwarf planet. A dwarf planet is a small planet that...
Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later 'This idea that it takes like 250 years for Pluto to orbit the sun, I think that's just bizarre.' Star Trek scion Adam Nimoy talks our favorite (dwarf) planet for...
【题目】Pluo是正星Pluto is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology.In science. Pluto is a small bady in outer space It orbits the sun at the edge of our solar system.It used to be considered a planet.However, new research has changed this idea.pluto is no longer considered a ...
Until there were tele-scopes, man knew a little about the moon. He did not know that the planet called Saturn(土星) had rings aroundit, his sight was so limited that he couldn't see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were onlysix planets. Pluto(冥王星) ,the...
SH26翻译: 宇宙的边疆 (卡尔·萨根) Translation: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (Carl Edward Sagan) (assembled by: alexcwlin; reviewed by: Adam Lam) 我索取荣誉的对象不应该是太空,而应该是我的灵魂。假…