These were two images of a region of the sky, taken two weeks apart. Any moving object, like an asteroid, comet or planet, would appear to jump from one photograph to the next. After a year of observations, Tombaugh finally discovered an object in the right orbit, and declared that he...
I was always excited by the idea of Pluto as a planet had gone un-noticed for a long time, but while the sentimentality of its status is lost, the change creates a great opportunity for education and understanding of science as a changing body of knowledge, not static.Fraser Cain April ...
It's somewhat ironic that a 2002 paper of his (and Levison) on the dynamic definition provided a major boost to start the SCIENTIFIC process that ultimately resulted in Pluto being OFFICIALLY declared as "not a planet". "Stern and Levison (2002) remarked that some bodies in the solar system...
in my view, Pluto is a planet,” Bridenstine said in a tongue in cheek clip posted toTwitter. “You can write that the NASA Administrator declared Pluto a planet once again. I’m sticking by that. It
"the people who discovered pluto were looking for planets. when they found it, they were in that mindset and declared it a planet. that label stuck with pluto." pluto remains the only planet that has not been visited by a probe of some kind. rick sanjour, a lecturer at the california...
Incidentally, a wave of extremely cold weather began around the same time, which some climatologists later declared was part of a “Little Ice Age.” Coincidence? One of the main reasons for assaulting astrology in the 17th century was the question of fate. The idea that our fate may lie ...
It’s not a planet. Get over it and move on. There is nothing gained scientifically in calling it a planet. The “make Pluto a planet again” crowd is acting out of emotion and not any interests in advancing science. Another thing: it is also only American’s making all the noise abo...
must immediately be discontinued. Like Watson & Jones wrote, “Just last week (Feb 2013), the Justice Department re-affirmed its position that the Obama administration can use armed drones to assassinate Americans. Under the NDAA, the whole of the United States has been declared a “battlefield...
2003 UB313 had been officially declared the 10th Planet by the IAU, until August 24, 2006. On this date, they voted on an official definition of the word "Planet", and this body was reclassified. It is now one of the three members of a new classification, "Dwarf Planet", along with...
took form elsewhere.In Iran, the Báb, who declared that he was the "Promised One" on May 23, 1844, and became the herald of the "The End of the Islamic Era" in October 1844. During 1844 in Europe, Karl Marx published a prelude to the Communist Manifesto of 1848:Economic and Philoso...