Poor Pluto. Long considered the ninth and outermost planet of our system, Pluto has faced an astronomical onslaught from critics who claim it is not a planet after all. Others maintain that it is. Using different definitions, both sides are still warring over whether Pluto is our ninth planet, or just another of the dwarf planets in an area called the Kuiper belt. Pluto is named for the Roman god of the underworld, counterpart to the Greek god Hades. The music is said to be from Gustav Holst’s seven-movement orchestral suite, The Planets Op. 32. But Holst died before Pluto was discovered, so this particular movement, called “Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld,” was written later by another composer.
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03Mar
Posted by Pluto @ 7:15 pm
25 Responses
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
I would imagine so. I mean, the craft will be making a flyby? only about 100 miles above the surface of the planet, I don’t think they would wait so many years for such a close flyby and not snap a picture or two. Just think. If you got that close to Pluto, wouldn’t you take atleast one picture?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
I can’t? wait either! When is that, 2015?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Actually, its size, along with its mass, had alot? to do with it. Yes, many other reasons were that its orbit was weird (elliptical, and a an 18 degree tilt, if I remember correctly), and the fact that they had found many other similar objects in the area (the Kuiper belt), a few of which are bigger than Pluto. Also, Charon, Pluto’s biggest moon, is so big compared to Pluto, that its tidal pull actually moves the entire planet of Pluto. Those are the main reasons it was demoted.
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
whoa pluto is almost? more brutal than mars
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Ceres is in the asteroid belt,Charon is one of? Pluto’s moons
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
0:14 was? Eris
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Please Dont Type Like This. It? Is Very Annoying
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Pluto is NOT getting smaller. Neither is it moving away. They just? decided that Pluto was too small to ever have been a planet in the first place, so they demoted it.
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
From my? 6 years old i knew Pluto is not a planet, he is Mickey’s pet, a crazy dog you fools..!
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
So who wrote? this? It wasn’t Holst, and definitely not Colin Matthews. Who? I want to know, so I can get a score from them.
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
USA is? larger than Pluto 😀
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
we would all have sex with pluto?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
second image? is of Eris, not pluto.
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
DEAR VIEWERS, FOR INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT PLANETS,? JUST TYPE IN THE BOX:
Quran and Science
SEVEN PARTS!
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
more like *a few hundred? trillion* or more lol =D
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
more like? a *a few 100 trillion* or more
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
i thought that pluto isnt considered a planet anymore?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
It is conceivable, but life as we know it will surely have disappeared by then. Don’t? worry. That’s a long, long time from now.
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
But it will still? happen?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
More like a million…?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Please Reply To This If You No.. You See,If Pluto Is Getting Smaller And Moveing Away…Jn 100 Years? Or So…Will The Same Thing Happen To The Other Planets?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
can u plz send the vid of uranus 2 me too??
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
I’ll? send it to you.
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Do you have videos? on uranus
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm
let! pluto! be! a!? planet!