Posted on 07/07/2015 11:07:06 AM PDT by lbryce
Edited on 07/07/2015 1:26:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In a few days, NASA
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
(F**K the political correct crap having changed the original quote to where no ONE has gone before.)
Where no Man has gone Before Ping List
Great comprehensive article with lots of media, video, imagery. No Trump or anyone Fax-Challenged.
Pluto has 5 moons. But it’s not a planet.
(Just keeping the record straight.)
Did I call it a planet?
I know they don’t consider Pluto a planet any more. But I always thought he was a dog.
I guess the dopes don’t know that Man, spelled with a capital M, represents ALL mankind: men, women, boys, girls, even Bruce Jenner types.
With all due respect I am SICK of all the artist renderings. Where are the REAL images of Pluto & its moons
No, I was just responding to the first post of the thread, not addressing you.
Sorry.
Just trying to bring up an old argument.
But never mind, the posted article is interesting and the graphic is amazing.
Thanks for posting.
Hello Pluto.
It’s so nice to finally meet you.
I’ve been reading after this mission you might become a planet again.
http://www.popsci.com/nasa-missions-may-re-elevate-pluto-and-ceres-dwarf-planets-full-planet-status
Pluto, a planet,
Long before it wasn’t one
And will be again!
Classified...wouldn't want you to see the Hildebeast's hidden mansions...
I didn’t know this was a manned craft.
Meh. After decades of insisting there was no 10th planet, suddenly astronomers found THREE. To cover their asses, they degraded Pluto BEFORE widely disseminating their discoveries. They tried to carefully create a new definition that would exclude their discoveries, but leave in tact the eight other planets. They failed. Under the definition by which Pluto was deemed to not be a planet, neither Earth nor Mars is a planet. They had added the requirement that a planet has cleared its orbit of debris. Since then, several objects have been found at Earth’s LaGrange points, prompting a new “well, that doesn’t count.”
I agree. I think Pluto is a planet and I think its some kind of weird kind of perverted political correctness to think otherwise.
I have a leftist co-worker who inadvertently backs me up on this by saying “only Americans think Pluto is a planet”, which, if you knew this guy, you’d know that it’s the worst thing he could say about anybody, that they are American (though he is one himself, of course... go figure).
“From 1992 onward, many bodies were discovered orbiting in the same area as Pluto, showing that Pluto is part of a population of objects (which is called the Kuiper belt). This made its official status as a planet controversial, with many questioning whether Pluto should be considered together with or separately from its surrounding population. Museum and planetarium directors occasionally created controversy by omitting Pluto from planetary models of the Solar System. The Hayden Planetarium reopened—in February 2000, after renovation—with a model of only eight planets, which made headlines almost a year later.[59]
As objects increasingly closer in size to Pluto were discovered in the region, it was argued that Pluto should be reclassified as one of the Kuiper belt objects, just as Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta eventually lost their planet status after the discovery of many other asteroids. On 29 July 2005, the discovery of a new trans-Neptunian object, Eris, was announced, which was thought to be substantially larger than Pluto. This was the largest object discovered in the Solar System since Triton in 1846. Its discoverers and the press initially called it the tenth planet, although there was no official consensus at the time on whether to call it a planet.[60] Others in the astronomical community considered the discovery the strongest argument for reclassifying Pluto as a minor planet.[61]
IAU classification:
The debate came to a head in 2006 with an IAU resolution that created an official definition for the term “planet”. According to this resolution, there are three main conditions for an object to be considered a ‘planet’:
1) The object must be in orbit around the Sun.
2) The object must be massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.
3) It must have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.[62][63]
Pluto fails to meet the third condition, because its mass is only 0.07 times that of the mass of the other objects in its orbit (Earth’s mass, by contrast, is 1.7 million times the remaining mass in its own orbit).[61][63] The IAU further decided that bodies that, like Pluto, do not meet criterion 3 would be called dwarf planets.
On 13 September 2006, the IAU included Pluto and Eris and its moon Dysnomia in their Minor Planet Catalogue, giving them the official minor-planet designations “(134340) Pluto”, “(136199) Eris”, and “(136199) Eris I Dysnomia”.[64] If Pluto had been given one upon its discovery, the number would have been about 1,164 instead of 134,340.
There has been some resistance within the astronomical community toward the reclassification.[65][66][67] Alan Stern, principal investigator with NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, publicly derided the IAU resolution, stating that “the definition stinks, for technical reasons”.[68] Stern’s contention was that by the terms of the new definition Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune, all of which share their orbits with asteroids, would be excluded.[69] His other claim was that because less than five percent of astronomers voted for it, the decision was not representative of the entire astronomical community.[69] Marc W. Buie, then at Lowell Observatory, voiced his opinion on the new definition on his website and petitioned against the definition.[70] Others have supported the IAU. Mike Brown, the astronomer who discovered Eris, said “through this whole crazy circus-like procedure, somehow the right answer was stumbled on. It’s been a long time coming. Science is self-correcting eventually, even when strong emotions are involved.”[71]”
Very good point. Can’t say that I blame you. Nevertheless, the Times image deserves some (non-political) acknowledgement.
If only it was manned.
Houston..
Crackle crackle delay..
Copy Pluto.
It’s a Death Star.
Crackle crackle
Copy that.
How the heck did Obammy build that?
Crackle crackle
Oh noh doors are opening
Crackle .. Zaaap.
Thanks all, extra to APoD et al!
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