Pluto The Pup

It’s the question being asked by many. A lot of people choose to not believe it! But believe it or not, Pluto is no longer a planet, and I explain why. Beyond Our Earth is my own segment that I create for Homework Express using Adobe After Effects CS5

Links to information about Pluto’s moons: Facts about Charon: solarsystem.nasa.gov Facts about Hydra: solarsystem.nasa.gov Facts about Nix: solarsystem.nasa.gov What does ‘Clearing the neighbourhood of it’s orbit” mean? In the end stages of planet formation, a planet will have “cleared the neighbourhood” of its own orbital zone, meaning it has become gravitationally dominant, and there are no other bodies of comparable size other than its own satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence. A large body which meets the other criteria for a planet but has not cleared its neighbourhood is classified as a dwarf planet. This includes Pluto, which shares its orbital neighbourhood with Kuiper belt objects such as the plutinos. The IAU’s definition does not attach specific numbers or equations to this term, but the extent to which all the planets have cleared their neighbourhoods is much greater, by any measure, than that of any dwarf planet or any candidate for dwarf planet known so far. Answered by Wikipedia. If there are any spelling errors please comment and I will correct it with an annotation. Don’t forget to comment, rate, subscribe! Music found on computer called ‘untitled’ or ‘title’. I found it on my old PC at: C:\Windows\system32\oobe\images\title.wma?

An Incantation for the Restoration and Repair of Eternal Planethood. The song features the 4th Graders of Barrow Elementary School providing tasteful back-up vocals. The video stars Kiran and Sophie Fernandes (reunited for the first time since starring in the hit movie Major Organ and the Adding Machine, except that they are a brother and a sister and live together), and features a comic turn from Mr. Kevin Barnes, a departure from the more serious roles he has become famous for in the videos of the modern rock band “Of Montreal”. Official video for “For the Planet Pluto” by The Music Tapes.

Discovered because of a mistake, Pluto was a planet that turned out not to be a planet at all, thanks to a still-disputed decision made in 2006. Join us for an engrossing tale of the ups and downs of Pluto, its strange appeal, the reasons behind its demotion, and the reasons why it should be set back in the planetary pantheon. Alan Boyle is msnbc.com’s science editor and the creator of Cosmic Log and a Plutophile. Boyle is the recipient of AAAS Science Journalism Award, Science in Society Award and the National Academies Communication Award.

Get the mp3 on iTunes: phobos.apple.com Two astro-challenged guys set a date with recently-dumped dwarf planet Pluto. Thanks Heidi Klum!

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 …

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.

A brief look at The Dwarf Planet Pluto and some quite interesting facts. I hope you enjoy it. Music: Dark Island, by Mike Oldfield.

The lonely planet.