What would it be like to descend to the surface of Pluto? A Traveler’s Guide to the Planets: Pluto and Beyond : TUE FEB 16 10P et/pt : channel.nationalgeographic.com
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22Apr
Posted by Pluto @ 1:58 am
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25 Responses
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
I’d like to go to another planet to get away from the law. xD
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Takes me back to when Pluto was still a planet.
It’s okay, little ball of ice, shhh. I still love you.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Nice video! I wonder if Pluto was once a moon of Neptune? I wonder if Neptune’s moon Triton has some sort of history with Pluto? I doubt Triton was formed within Neptune’s gravitational field. It was probably captured from the Kuiper Belt. Maybe Triton collided with Pluto long ago, and knocked Pluto out of orbit, or if Triton and Pluto are both Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO’s)? Either way, they’re so simiar in atmospheric composition, and close in size. IDK, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
@cosmosgato Or a creationist…oh wait, same thing. They are really just pissed that these researchers are not finding god floating on a cloud when they peer into their telescopes
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Pluto will always be a planet in my heart!
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
@cosmosgato Nope, because a Republican, like me, knows that government investing in science is a Constitutional concept… so whoever said they are wasting our money was just lame.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
@crazboy21 venus doesnt have any moons. the reason it isn’t a planet is because it cant clear its own orbital path.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
the song at 0:22 is awesome
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Long Live Pluto! 9th planet in the Solar System!
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
its a planet cause it revloves around the sun shows aggersesion and has a moon the main charchtertics of a planet I think nasa was bored and just needed 2 talk about somthing.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
I suspect that Pluto was downgraded from planet status because it was discovered by a non-scientist (Clyde Tombaugh)
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
When i heard that pluto wasn’t a planet anymore I cried for 8 weeks…
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Pluto is a planet, i don’t give a fuck.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
@AwesomeExploder not with crap thats mars but with ice
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
so is it a planet or what. magic school bus said we have 9 planets and thats what im sticking to
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Actually it’s no longer a debate, pluto is a planet techinally, just not labeled as it would be if it was in our solar system thus the term dwarf planet.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
anyone know what the name or the song is, if it has any name.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Pluto is a lifeless rock filled with crap.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Pluto is like your pinky toe… : [/—
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
nassa stop wasting my fucking money!!
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
@djme1bd 1st?? i was the first veiwer yeesh
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
@ed3396296 your dumb idiot
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
The question of whether Pluto is still considered a planet is the subject of ongoing debate. Only four percent of the IAU voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Hundreds of professional astronomers led by New Horizons Principal Investigator Dr. Alan Stern signed a formal petition opposing the demotion.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
Pluto is a planet because it accreted enough material to be pulled into a round shape by its own gravity, a state known as hydrostatic equilibrium. A celestial body does not have to dominate its orbit to be a planet. Dwarf planets are planets too.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:58 am
One does not learn much by asking the wrong questions.
The Church of Mainstream Astrophysics asks: “How does gravity alone account for the structures throughout the universe?” Instead of simply: “What could account for the structures throughout the universe?”
NASA & the ESA have tools that are collecting mountains of data – MOST of which contradicts their standard model. But, instead of adjusting the model, they try to hammer the square pegs of data into the round holes of their model.