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Conclusion
When I was a kid, Pluto was a speck of light in the sky. I was 14 when they discovered it had a moon, and that was probably the first new thing learned about Pluto for decades. Now we know it has two other moons at least, an atmosphere, an interesting interior... maybe even liquid water inside it like Jupiter's moon Europa does. Clearly, it's more than just a dot in a telescope. It's a world unto itself, a place that we've learned a considerable amount about, but (of course, and as always!) there's much more to find out. In 2015, when New Horizons screams past the little ball at thousands of kilometers per hour, who knows what new features we'll discover? All I know for sure is that it will surprise us once again... and show us that there are far more than ten things we don't know about Pluto.
March 13th, 2009 at 8:44 am
[...] Things You Don’t Know About Pluto Ten Things You Don’t Know About Pluto by Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) …avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth — [...]
March 13th, 2009 at 10:26 am
It’s Pluto Day!
Just recently the Illinois senate decided to honor the underdog of the planet world by not only declaring that within the Illinois border it shall be known as a planet, but by declaring that today, March 13, 2009 will be the first annual Pluto Day.
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March 13th, 2009 at 11:30 am
[...] take a few moments to look at this Discover Magazine presentation about the ex-planet Pluto. It is very well done and not at all [...]
March 13th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
[...] try as some people may to belittle it, is too beloved to simply go away. Even anti-Plutonians are fascinated by it. So to celebrate the state of Illinois’ very first Pluto Day, since [...]
March 13th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
[...] I mentioned in the Pluto post, Neptune and Pluto never get really close together, so New Horizons isn’t exactly dropping by [...]
March 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
[...] Phil Plait (Bas Astronomy): 10 coisas que você não sabe sobre Plutão [...]