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数十年来，科学家普遍认为太阳系有九大行星，但随着一颗比冥王星更大、更远的天体的发现，使得冥王星大行星地位的争论愈演愈烈。一是由于其发现的过程是基于一个错误的理论；二是由于当初将其质量估算错了，误将其纳入到了大行星的行列。因此在国际天文学联合会大会上，是否要给冥王星“正名”成为了大...
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...
It would eventually be named Pluto after the Roman god of the underworld. Despite being smaller than several known moons, it was deemed large enough to be considered a planet. However, it soon became apparent that Pluto was not big enough to exert the kind of gravitational pull necessary to...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto tothat of a dwarf planet because it did not meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define afull-sized planet Essentially Pluto meets all the criteria except one-t "has not clearedit neighboring region of other objects....
Q: Why Is a Pluto No Longer a Planet?Byline: Bill Robertson Brian Diskin In recent years astronomers discovered a number of...Robertson, BillNational Science Teachers AssociationScience & Children
Why is Pluto not a planet anymore? When the IAU officially defined the word “planet” for the first time, Pluto didn’t fit. To keep its planetary status along with Earth, Saturn, and the rest, it needed to pass three tests: A planet must orbit the sun. A planet must be (mostly)...
We went through this in 1850, and Ceres, which had been a planet, was demoted. The minor planets were invented. We compounded this by inventing Dwarf Planets. Now we get to argue if a Dwarf Planet is a Planet or not. But the minor planet center gave Pluto a number. With the dynamic...
Eventually, Ceres was lumped into a group of rocky bodies, called "asteroids", of which we now know of hundreds of thousands of these in the asteroid belt alone. Pluto was found and classified as a planet in 1930 (note the IAU was formed in 1919) when astronomer Clyde Tombaugh of the ...
When Pluto was "demoted" from a planet to a dwarf planet back in 2006, it was a sore subject for many. Then, in 2015, a spaceship gave us our first-ever close-up of Pluto. Read why Pluto is no longer a planet, how it got its name and more cool facts.