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| Pluto (New Horizons photo taken 7-13-15) |
Pluto used to be the “Pizza” in “My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.” (Diehard
romantics may prefer “My Velvet Eyes Make Johnny Stay Up Nights Proposing”).
Pluto is no longer considered to be Pizza, and is no longer bent on Proposing. At this point, Pluto is just a little old dwarf planet. Which goes to show, size does matter.
All is not lost, however. Pluto just moved up a notch “in girth.” According to Irene Klotz of Reuters,
scientists have now discovered that Pluto is “some 50 miles (80 km) wider than previous predictions.”
Although this newfound swelling of Pluto’s belly may not be vast enough to win back “Pizza” status, it is still large enough to matter. It means that “Pluto consists of slightly more ice and a little less rock than predicted,” which provides important information about how the solar system was formed.
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-horizons-probe-finds-pluto-bigger-predicted-190113978.html
Copyright July 14, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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