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by gizmo59
on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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This is a video I made with my friend Julie as my co-host.�
In this video, I discuss the question about whether or not Pluto is or is not a planet, and it doesn’t matter what we call Pluto, ...
by jtg
on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 08:11 AM PST
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It's L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday . Sure, I could just as easily have used Bobby Rydell or Neal Sedaka, except that it really isn't Bobby Rydell's Birthday and Neal Sedaka never invented a religion. We ...
by enhydra lutris
on Mon Mar 13, 2023 at 06:06 AM PDT
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I was going to write about COVID, but this is more uplifting…Hubble Finds Oldest Star Yet. OK, This story is more understandable. And even though the flyby of Pluto was almost 7 years ago, there’s still active research on the data generated by that...
by tampaedski
on Wed Mar 30, 2022 at 01:29 PM PDT
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I used to be a dog person until I got bit by one...now I am much more uncomfortable around meat-world dogs….however the cartoon type I still love. My favorite Walt Disney character is one, Pluto, that I admit is not a common favorite, but for some...
by CameronProf
on Tue Dec 29, 2020 at 06:17 PM PST
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Good day, Gnusies! We are in the thick of probably one of the worst years any of us have ever experienced and still we have music, humor, friendship and hope. And good news, too! At the bookstore a ...
by niftywriter
on Tue Apr 28, 2020 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Days until Election Day: 273! The GOTV box is back at the end of this diary.
Good evening, Kibitzers! Today, we’re up to 10 hours, 13 minutes, 25 seconds of daylight, a gain of ...
by belinda ridgewood
on Tue Feb 04, 2020 at 05:30 PM PST
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It’s not a matter of if, but when. We will find life on another planet, another moon, something. But will you and I live to see it? I’d say we’ve got a good shot at it. I’m not necessarily talking about “intelligent” life, the kind that beams episodes...
by skralyx
on Wed Dec 25, 2019 at 09:33 PM PST
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Caltech astronomer Michael Brown lost a bet earlier this month, but he made that bet because he’s confident that the big news — finding our 9th planet — is on its way:
Brown, along with Konstantin Batygin, Fred Adams, and Juliette...
by skralyx
on Sat May 25, 2019 at 06:27 PM PDT
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Via the BBC:
Controllers have sent Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft a final set of commands ahead of its historic flyby of a distant icy world on Tuesday.
The probe's pass of the 30km-wide object known as Ultima Thule will set a new record for...
by xaxnar
on Mon Dec 31, 2018 at 05:50 AM PST
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for the various valleys, crevices and craters on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon.
According to the IAU, many of the feature names in the Pluto system pay homage...
by AKALib
on Sat Apr 14, 2018 at 04:39 PM PDT
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A charming letter from 6-year old Cara O’Connor to NASA has delightfully brought back the debate over the status of Pluto — is it a Planet or is it a Dwarf Planet?
Cara O’Connor is a six-year-old student of Glasheen Girls’ School in Glasheen, Co...
by AKALib
on Mon Feb 26, 2018 at 06:09 PM PST
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World History this day
1797 -- A fleet of 18 British warships invaded Trinidad.
1861 -- Victor Emmanuel II assumed the title of King of Italy.
1942 -- The Japanese began exterminating perceived ...
by enhydra lutris
on Sun Feb 18, 2018 at 06:13 AM PST
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NASA and the New Horizons team are asking the public for help in giving the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) “(486958) 2014 MU69” a nickname.
On Jan 1, 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft, which made a spectacular flyby of Pluto in 2015, will swing by this...
by AKALib
on Sat Nov 11, 2017 at 05:07 PM PST
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Is Pluto a planet or a dwarf planet, that is the question.
We all grew up learning that Pluto was the ninth planet in the solar system. However, discovery of several objects of similar size in the Kuiper belt led the International Astronomical...
by AKALib
on Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 05:05 PM PST
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How Pluto is changing our understanding of the Solar System — BBC Earth has a write up by Marcus Woo on data coming back from the New Horizons mission, currently heading out past Pluto into the Kuiper Belt. This video, posted in 2013 before New...
by xaxnar
on Sat Sep 03, 2016 at 06:28 AM PDT
with 32 Recommends
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OpEdNews.com
POSTED ON JANUARY 11, 2016 UPDATED ON JANUARY 11, 2016
by The Reasonable Voice
on Mon Jan 11, 2016 at 08:04 PM PST
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This stunning image derived from the latest pics of Pluto sent back by the New Horizons spacecraft, now on its way into the void.
This global view of Pluto is a mosaic of 15 individual LORRI frames ...
by jpmassar
on Sat Sep 12, 2015 at 10:03 AM PDT
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With more brutal killings and ...
by Mark Fiore
on Fri Jul 31, 2015 at 06:50 AM PDT
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We've done two "dwarf" Planets this year. Now where to next?
by YoursT
on Tue Jul 28, 2015 at 05:16 PM PDT
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