Facts About Pluto The Planet 2, Hot Facts Model Jamie Join your Hot Facts Teacher Jamie for interesting astronomy science facts about Pluto the dwarf planet. How did Pluto get its name? What color is Pluto? What is Pluto made of? Who named the planet Pluto? Does Pluto have rings? Whats the temperature of the Pluto? How many moons does Pluto have? How far is Pluto from the Sun? What about the Pluto’s moon? Why is Pluto not a planet? Why was Pluto named after the god of the underworld? What are 10 interesting facts about Pluto? Fun Facts Girls aka Hot Facts Girls www.youtube.com www.funfactsgirls.com http Music By Jimmy Gelhaar www.jimmyg.us http youtube.com Copyright 2009 Target Public Media. All Rights Reserved.
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11Jun
Tags: astronomy, color, facts, far, Hot, Interesting, Jamie, made, model, moon, not, planet, Pluto, science, Sun, teacher
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30Apr
Fascinating footage with the original plates that identified the planet Pluto. Great video from BBC horizon science show, ‘Bye Bye Planet Pluto’.
Tags: astronomy, BBC, Educational, Free, Goodbye, Horizon, Hot, Interesting, planet, Pluto, science, space, video
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27Apr
Scientists arrange for a probe to be sent to the planet Pluto in a ground breaking exploratory mission. Find out here how they got their funding from NASA! Brilliant video from BBC Horizon show ‘Bye Bye Planet Pluto’.
Tags: astronomy, BBC, Educational, Free, Goodbye, Horizon, Hot, Interesting, planet, Pluto, science, space, video
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18Apr
Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com Hubble’s Universe Unfiltered 15: Changing Views of Pluto While it may seem that the astronomy community’s views on Pluto changed radically with its reclassification in 2006, the truth is that our understanding of Pluto has always been shifting. This small, icy world in the distant reaches of the solar system is so difficult to observe that, even with Hubble’s keen resolution, it only shows up as a few pixels in an image. Only with patience, lots of observations, and huge amounts of computing power have we been able to create approximate surface maps of Pluto and discover some surprising alterations to its surface. Improved imagery yields improved insight. We now comprehend Pluto’s place within the solar system, and the exploration of that region has really just begun. Hubble’s Universe Unfiltered is a collection of video podcasts. Each episode offers an in-depth explanation of the latest news story or image from the Hubble Space Telescope, presented by astronomer Frank Summers. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — NOTES * In the video podcast, I jokingly refer to “Percival Lowell’s Greatest Mistakes” being 1.) the claim that Mars had a civilization using canals, and 2.) the prediction of a large planet beyond Neptune. Some may recognize this phrasing as an oblique reference to similar wording used in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker series. (If you’re going …
Tags: astronomy, Belt, Dwarf, horizons, Hubble, Kuiper, mission, moons, new, objects, planet, Pluto, reclassification, solar, space, surface, system, telescope, universe
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15Apr
Pluto was kicked off the list of major planets. It seems to have responded by turning a mysterious red color, according to scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope. They’re now trying to find out what makes its surface so dynamic. From the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Tags: asteroids, astronomy, Belt, comets, earth, esa, Hubble, jupiter, keck, Kuiper, NASA, neptune, Pluto, saturn, solar, space, spitzer, Sun, system, telescope, universe, uranus
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03Apr
Bill Nye talks about why Pluto should’t be called a planet.
Tags: astronomy, Belt, bill, Dwarf, ICE, Kuiper, Nye, planet, Pluto
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28Mar
An animated music video with an original, humorous, song. Pluto, no longer considered a planet, is very sad.
Tags: astronomy, Cartoon, music, planet, Pluto, sad, song, video, xena
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26Mar
Dr. Robert Hurt explains why Pluto got… well… plutoed.
Tags: animation, ask, asteroids, astronomer, astronomy, Ceres, Eris, Juno, Pallas, planet, planets, Pluto, Quaoar, Sedna