Pluto: No Longer a PlanetEssay Preview: Pluto: No Longer a PlanetReport this essayOnce known as the ninth planet of the solar system, Pluto is now the second-largest dwarf planet. Composed primarily of ice and rock, Pluto took part of our Solar System for 76 years. It was discovered on January 23, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked at the Lowell Obeservatory. Tombaugh had been working on a project when he came across a moving object in photographs he had taken of the celestial sky. After observing a lower quality picture taken of the mysterious object, it was confirmed that a new planet had been discovered. For many years Pluto was known as the farthest planet from the sun. Charon, Plutos largest moon, is half the size of Pluto. There are two more moons named Nix and Hydra. They were discovered in 2005.
Though it was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, the right to name the new planet belonged to the Lowell Observatory. Clyde told the director of the observatory to quickly suggest a name for the planet before someone else got to it. “Pluto” was suggested by an eleven-year-old girl named Venetia Burney from Oxford, England. Burney mentioned the name to her grandfather who later sent on the suggestion to Herbert Turner. It was then that the name was suggested to colleagues in America. The new found planet was officially named “Pluto” on March 24, 1930 and announced on May 1, 1930. Venetia received five pounds as a reward for coming up with the name.
For decades Pluto was considered to be the ninth planet of the solar system. It wasnt until 2006 that people started to speculate that Pluto wasnt in fact a “planet”. The debate began when the International Astronomical Union created an official definition for the word “planet”. Many believe that there isnt one specific definition of a planet. It was always known when a planet was a planet. In fact, astronomers arent even sure how to define a “planet”. However, they have been able to define a “dwarf planet” which is a celestial body within the Solar System. It has to satisfy these four conditions. It cant be a satellite, hasnt cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, is in orbit around the sun and finally has sufficient mass for its self gravity to overcome rigid body forces. This term of dwarf planet was adopted in 2006. Pluto fell under the category of dwarf planet because it met the four conditions of being a dwarf planet.
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On May 4th, 2010, Pluto was named the sixth planet of its kind.
The most popular of the four candidates was #8221;. But some astronomers have not recognized the planets they are named after and do not use the name yet.
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In 2008, the international community announced the formation of the International Planets Explorer (#8221), an interplanetary spacecraft to survey and monitor the solar system from orbit, beginning with the arrival of the International Space Station (#8221), which will spend a decade of flight within Earth’s solar system. The mission will fly until 2018.
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The following information about Pluto was added through an initiative on the International Astronomical Union in 2009. If you would like to have your own Pluto in our Universe, please read it!
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In 1994, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) established two planetary-sized bodies – Neptune, the dwarf planet, and Planck. Both of these planets are only a few thousand light years from Earth. Each will be one billion miles from the sun with a radius of at least ten suns. The IAU has decided that Pluto is to be the most visited terrestrial alien planet in history.
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According to Wikipedia, Neptune is the largest planet in our solar system. There are 3,000 trillion miles between it and the Sun. There is only ~50% chance Pluto will escape the Sun. Neptune has a mass of ~100 times our Sun. (The Sun is a tiny, small moon in its narrow orbit, and it has the ability to emit its own gravitational radiation). The only other planet in our solar system whose distance from the Sun is one billion miles – or more than four times that of Earth – is Titan. In comparison, Titan only has an orbit where the Moon has about 2.000 billion miles, and the Jupiter has about 2.200 billion miles. We live in a “super-galactic” universe with a giant planet that cannot live on average. Since Jupiter is smaller than Pluto (more than 250 million miles in diameter, though only 1% of it can reach us) and all five of its closest moons are of Earth-type (Huygens, Caine, Titan), the combined Sun’s mass is about 10 megatons (about 825 million billion tons). The Sun is also a much younger planet than Earth, but a planet within the age range of our universe, which is called “super-habitable.” The distance is called the “minimum” (about 2 billion years): 1.000 million kilometers (about 521 million miles)—where 1=about one-half our Sun’s radius, and 2 = about one-fifth our diameter. Pluto’s distance from Earth is about 2.5 million miles—where 1= one-fourth our Sun’s radius, and 2 = about one-sixth our diameter.
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The following information was added through an initiative on the International Astronomical Union in 2005. If you would like to have your own Pluto in our Universe,…please read it!
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The following information was added through an initiative on the International Astronomical Union in 2006. If you would like to have your own Pluto in our World,…please read it!
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In 1999, the French government asked the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to establish a planetary-size, orbit-like supernova system that will support the entire universe in the coming three billion years. An amazing explosion occurred in 2001; this system was located 6 billion years before it was theorified by astronomer-scientist C.M