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To: 4rcane
What problem?


Earth is 8 minutes from the sun. Pluto a bit further depending on where in its highly elliptical orbit it is in. Figure maybe 45-60 minutes on average.

Bigger impact is how far out Pluto is: there is very little solar radiation that far out, so a change in the sun's output _ which many assume may be causing earth's 1/2 of ONE degree possible warming - will also change Pluto's warmth.

Not by much, but by some.
37 posted on 07/26/2006 7:05:54 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Nope.

Between 4 and 7 hours... depending on where it is in its orbit.

47 posted on 07/26/2006 7:10:58 PM PDT by bigLusr (Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Couple of other web sources show Pluto's average radius is 40 times that of earth.

So if earth is 8 light-minutes from the sun, Pluto is 40 * 8 minutes or 320 light-muntes from the sun.

Solar particles are slower than light waves, so they travel slower. Heat is transmitted by what's radiating from the sun, and any "gasses" emitted from earth are meaningless. In fact, ALL of the greenhouse gasses are too heavy to be released from earth's gravitational pull away. Only the lightest gasses would leave earth into free space.
51 posted on 07/26/2006 7:14:26 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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