Pluto Could Be Made A Planet Again, Along With 102 Other Celestial Bodies
This proposed new definition of "planets" would bring back Pluto, but would also reclassify over a hundred other celestial bodies -- including our moon! Do You Know What Color Pluto Really...
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Hey everyone, I know things look a bit different, but we’ll explain all that at the end, I promise. Way back in 2015, when the world made sense, NASA’s New Horizon mission flew by the dwarf planet, Pluto waay out near the Kuiper Belt -- an asteroid field that encircles our solar system. At the time scientists felt they had this planet figured out. Then these images and the accompanying data from Pluto completely blew their collective braincases. Since 2006 when the International Astronomical Union updated their classification of the word “planet” there’s been a huge debate in the public, and in the scientific community, about the fate of dwarf planets. The IAU says a planet has to be a sun-orbiting body that is massive enough to be round, and wil...
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Hey everyone, I know things look a bit different, but we’ll explain all that at the end, I promise. Way back in 2015, when the world made sense, NASA’s New Horizon mission flew by the dwarf planet, Pluto waay out near the Kuiper Belt -- an asteroid field that encircles our solar system. At the time scientists felt they had this planet figured out. Then these images and the accompanying data from Pluto completely blew their collective braincases. Since 2006 when the International Astronomical Union updated their classification of the word “planet” there’s been a huge debate in the public, and in the scientific community, about the fate of dwarf planets. The IAU says a planet has to be a sun-orbiting body that is massive enough to be round, and wil...
