Pluto

To me, Astronomy is the science relative to space. It is the answer to very natural questions: the exploration of time and space. When I go and wonder about what there is above the sky, or what was there at the beginning, astronomy, through its different sections (such as planetary, cosmology etc…) helps me to answer this questions. I’m grateful to live in an age already advanced in this matter. However, there is so much more to explore, and so much more answer to find, and finding these answers…

Space is a vast and unexplored region, the exploration of which is necessary to satiate mankind’s curiosity and answer the enduring question, “What is our place in the universe?” The need to explore and understand the universe we live in has driven us to establish government agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), whose main goal is to study outer space. NASA’s projects have led to many great advancements, including the…

Neptune since there were irregular patterns in Uranus’s orbit, and scientists think since new little patterns of random tugging at Uranus that’s when a new theory comes in about a 10th planet by Percival Lowell. 1930 they kept the project going found Pluto realized it was too small to be tugging at Uranus. But the voyager comes in with calculations that…

newest addition to the Solar System. 2014 UZ224, located some 4.83 billion miles beyond Pluto, joined Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and the aforementioned Pluto, as the most recently discovered Solar System Dwarf Planet. To understand the definition of a Dwarf Planet, one must understand the definition of a regular planet. In a 2006 assembly that has gained notoriety for “killing” the planetary status of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union, or IAU, resolved definitions for both planets…

The Hunt for Planet X Ever since the proposition of a ninth planet within our solar system by Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo in 2014 (Hunt 1) the hunt has been on for the elusive object. The use of extreme Kuiper Belt objects (eKBOs) which are objects believed to not be significantly influenced by Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, contributed to the idea of another object in the solar system influencing them (Malhotra 1). The study of the eKBOs orbit around our sun lead to the…

I believe students are more engaged when there is real life application and meaning behind learning. This unit integrates all aspects throughout the lessons. To take this unit to the next level, there were two things I would like to integrate: “is Pluto a planet?” and “is there life outside of our solar system?” To address the first question, I would have the students research the controversy of the dwarf planet. I would set up the research with small groups and teacher selected website as a…

eternity. Proserpina shed six tears, one for each month she were to be held captive by Pluto. As the chariot rode off into the dark woods, Ceres fell to her knees, knowing the eternal darkness she would feel as a result of missing her daughter for such a long period of time. As the chariot pulled up to King Pluto’s immense castle, Proserpina was quickly taken to her room. Before she was locked into her room, Pluto invitingly said, “dinner will be in 2 hours in the dining room. Be there, or be…

speaking. It was actually quite comical. "Pluto." He immediately turned to look at me, shocked I answered and gave him acknowledgement that didn 't sound angry. "I am not angry with you, but I think we need to talk. I know you have feelings for me and I 'll admit in the beginning I was not fond of you. Now though I can see you do have a heart, I do not want to be miserable here if I 'm stuck here for eternity. I want you and I to have a chance. Although Pluto I love my mother and I always…

18th, 1930 the dwarf planet known as Pluto was discovered! It was discovered by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh and named by an 11-year-old girl. It was the farthest planet and the smallest. However when it was discovered it was named a planet because they did not have much information about it. They assumed it was a planet. It looked like a planet so they thought it was a planet. 76 years after Pluto was discovered on August 24th, 2006 astronomers demoted Pluto from planet status to dwarf…

Thresholds 1, 2, & 3: In threshold 1, 2, and 3 the beginning of the Greco-Roman universe was never truly empty, there was nothing but Chaos. Chaos as it was called, was described as darkness and disorder. According to Greco-Roman theory, there were no gods present in the beginning- though in time, a god of nature separated light and dark, soft and hard, weight from weightless, etc. The godly being separated those spaces with gods that we know of today. Then, 4 forces appeared fire, light, air…