Pluto Experiment

Many issues have arisen from the debate whether or not Pluto is a planet. Some astronomers say that Pluto should be classified as a “minor planet” due to its size, physical characteristics, and other factors. On the other hand, some astronomers defend Pluto’s planet status, citing several key features.

This article relates to the upcoming lab because it talks about "ice volcanoes," and we will be talking about volcanoes during the next lab session. In general, volcanoes are an incredibly interesting thing to think about because they are mountains that erupt lava, hot vapor, rock fragments, etc. Ice volcanoes are an even more fascinating thing to think about because I was not aware that they even existed; the possibility that they might exist on Pluto is insane. Although the two mountains that have been seen on Pluto might not be ice volcanoes, it's still compelling to think that they might be, especially since they have "depressions similar to volcanoes found on Mars and Earth." This article does not affect me directly, but this discovery might help scientists get more of an understanding of what Pluto might look like in the future.

Pluto is beautiful. Whatever its status: planet or not, New Horizons’ recent flight by the littlest “planet” confirmed that the dwarf has a lot of “heart”; and over the next 16 months, images will pour in from New Horizons to an expectant audience. Even the few pictures received thus far have caused “hoorays!” from scientists who have gathered more intel about Pluto than ever before.

Scientists knew prior to the mission Pluto’s average temperature was about 45 kelvin, which allowed it to sublimate methane and nitrogen very slowly, but they were wrong about the temperature of the upper atmosphere. It was believed as Pluto moved away from the Sun, the atmosphere would freeze and drop onto the surface; however, that does not appear to be true, “even as Pluto edged farther from the Sun, its atmospheric pressure started rising, not falling.” The mission’s results shocked the team, “Pluto’s upper atmosphere is far colder than expected;” which means its exobase is far lower than expected: 2.5 times the radius of Pluto rather than the predicted 7 or 8. The smaller exobase allows the air to be held in place far more strongly by

Did you know Pluto’s not a planet? Pluto is a dwarf planet. The astronomers are going to find out how Pluto became a dwarf planet.

Today Pluto is now known as an icy gaseous white dwarf planet and is the second largest white dwarf planet with Eris being the largest. My submission will support my argument that Pluto should not be classified as a Planet or a Small Solar System Body, but a Dwarf Planet as classified in 2006, by the International Astronomical Union. First, the physical characteristics of Pluto support that Pluto has been properly reclassified as a dwarf planet. Pluto's density and size are much smaller than all other planets, as studies have confirmed that Pluto's width is 1582 miles long and the length is 1400 miles long and its mass is less than 0.024% of the planet earth.

I chose Pluto for this project because it seemed like an unpopular, but interesting subject. At first, I wanted to do the whole solar system, but I figured the explanations of each planet wouldn’t do them justice, because there are so many things to say about them. Also, the paper would most likely end up being fairly longer than necessary. After further thought, I figured Pluto would be the best subject for me, considering I did not know much about the so called planet that was removed from our solar system. I had a lot of research to do on the tiny dwarf.

Some think that these NASA findings should be cause for some change. After being demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006, Pluto has faced planetary discrimination. Having the dwarf planet label implies that it’s somehow inferior from other “real” planets. Now with the dwarf planet showing signs of an active surface, atmosphere, and perhaps life inside their ocean, maybe it’s time to give credit where credit is due. For the time being, it Pluto will remain a dwarf planet until more details about its ocean are revealed.

With the technology available to humans in the twenty-first century, travel at near-light speeds was still a thing of science fiction. That was why even for a journey to Pluto from Earth, an almost laughably short distance by modern standards, was due to take around twenty years. Naturally nobody was willing to give up two decades of their life to drift through space only to arrive on a rock that was no longer large enough to even be considered a planet, especially when it was known to be a lifeless and barren icy waste. But, signals sent into space years before had returned readings of a new element on the planet, with completely unknown properties other than that it was seemingly highly stable and lightweight. If the readings were correct,

Conspiracy theorists say that the pictures of Pluto from New Horizons are just inconsistent and pixelated holograms made with CGI. Others claim that what they have seen on the telescope differs a lot from the official photos from NASA.

Pluto was visited on the new Horizons mission. Is to help us understand words at the edge on our solar system. Research clone on this planet.caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet.Life on his planet.

The New Horizon Mission brought a new information on Pluto and the surrounding moons. Based on the crater count on Pluto’s surface the dwarf planet has been geologically active the past four billion years. In particular, a massive ice plan large than Texas named Sputnik-Planum shows signs of being geologically active within the past ten million years. Also Pluto’s surface is still puzzling to scientists as its composition is unlike any of the other Jovian planets. The surface goes from Nitrogen based to methane based to Oxygen based. In addition the atmospheric temperature is much colder than what scientists believed, by about 70 degrees F. Also thanks to the New Horizons probe scientists now believe they can theorize how Pluto’s atmosphere haze layer formed. The process of its formation is based on atmospheric buoyancy waves or gravity waves. This affected is caused by the winds blowing over the mountainous surface of Pluto.

In a move that 's already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten, Pluto will now be dubbed a dwarf planet.

Thesis Statement: With the advances in technology, scientist have opened the door to the discovery of Pluto,

In the outer limits of our solar system there is a planet unlike any other, Pluto. Pluto was discovered in February of 1930 by an American astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh. It is the only planet to have been discovered by an American. All though we have known of the existence of Pluto for over thirty years now, there are still many mysteries surrounding this celestial body. Being the farthest planet has made it difficult to study Pluto, Adding to the obscurity of this strange planet is that the capability to send spacecraft such distances has never been achieved. Through the wonders of science and astronomy, there are many things that can be determined, concluded, and hypothesized about this obscure planet.