Pluto is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and used to be considered the ninth and most distant planet from the sun.
The strange world is located in the Kuiper Belt, a zone beyond the orbit of Neptune brimming with hundreds of thousands of rocky, icy bodies each larger than 62 miles (100 kilometers) across as well as 1 trillion or more comets.
Pluto stopped being a planet in 2006 when it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, a demotion that attracted controversy and stirred debate in the scientific community and among the general public.
American astronomer Percival Lowell first suggested that Pluto existed in 1905 when he observed strange deviations in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. Lowell thought there must be another whose gravity is tugging on these ice giants, causing discrepancies in their orbits. Lowell proceeded to predict the mystery planet's location in 1915 but died 15 years before its discovery. Pluto was eventually discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory, based on predictions by Lowell and other astronomers.
Pluto got its name from 11-year-old Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, who suggested to her grandfather that the new world get its name from the Roman god of the underworld. Her grandfather then passed the name on to Lowell Observatory. The name also honors Percival Lowell, whose initials are the first two letters of Pluto.
WHAT DOES PLUTO LOOK LIKE?
Since Pluto is so far from Earth, little was known about the dwarf planet's size or surface conditions until 2015, when NASA's New Horizons space probe made a close flyby of Pluto. New Horizons showed that Pluto has a diameter of 1,473 miles (2,370 km), less than one-fifth the diameter of Earth, and only about two-thirds as wide as Earth's moon.
Observations of Pluto's surface by the New Horizons spacecraft revealed a variety of surface features, including mountains that reach as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters), comparable to the Rocky Mountains on Earth. While methane and nitrogen ice cover much of the surface of Pluto, these materials are not strong enough to support such enormous peaks, so scientists suspect that the mountains are formed on a bedrock of water ice.
Pluto's surface is also covered in an abundance of methane ice, but New Horizons scientists have observed significant differences in the way the ice reflects light across the dwarf planet's surface. The dwarf planet also possesses ice ridge terrain that appears to look like a snakeskin; astronomers spotted similar features to Earth's penitentes, or erosion-formed features on mountainous terrain. The Pluto features are much larger; they are estimated at 1,650 feet (500 m) tall, while the Earth features are only a few meters in size.
Another distinct feature on Pluto's surface is a large heart-shaped region known unofficially as Tombaugh Regio (after Clyde Tombaugh; regio is Latin for region). The left side of the region (an area that takes on the shape of an ice cream cone) is covered in carbon monoxide ice. Other variations in the composition of surface materials have been identified within the "heart" of Pluto.
WHAT IS PLUTO MADE OF?
Some of Pluto's parameters, according to NASA(opens in new tab):
Atmospheric composition: Methane, nitrogen. Observations by New Horizons show that Pluto's atmosphere extends as far as 1,000 miles (1,600 km) above the surface of the dwarf planet.
Magnetic field: It remains unknown whether Pluto has a magnetic field, but the dwarf planet's small size and slow rotation suggest it has little to no such field.
Chemical composition: Pluto probably consists of a mixture of 70 percent rock and 30 percent water ice.
Internal structure: The dwarf planet probably has a rocky core surrounded by a mantle of water ice, with more exotic ices such as methane, carbon monoxide and nitrogen ice coating the surface.
PLUTO MOONS
Pluto has five moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra, with Charon being the closest to Pluto and Hydra the most distant.
In 1978, astronomers discovered that Pluto had a very large moon nearly half the dwarf planet's own size. This moon was dubbed Charon, after the mythological demon who ferried souls to the underworld in Greek mythology.
Because Charon and Pluto are so similar in size, their orbit is unlike that of most planets and their moons. Both Pluto and Charon orbit a point in space that lies between them, similar to the orbits of binary star systems, For this reason, scientists refer to Pluto and Charon as a double dwarf planet, double planet or binary system.
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Ceo at my company be like "in order to encourage collaboration I've decided to make all my employees constantly tired, in a bad mood, and sick.
Found out the mental health and wellness benefit from my work, which I knew was just a site and assumed was some online therapy thing, is just a bunch of links to pdf's and podcasts :blob-no-thoughts:
Hell yeah. Glad you found something that works and are sticking to it. May you reach your goals and find fulfillment
Hell yeah.
I'm just going to throw it out there that at 5'7", 140 is probably close to a healthy weight than 120 is.
What's your plan for staying at weight?
whats got ya hooked? i find that confronting the consequences first always helps me think twice
working class lifehack: get a second job in the evenings so you never have any time to do anything that costs money.
:agony-minion: :agony-minion: :agony-minion: im tired :agony-minion: :agony-minion:
When I did the two jobs thing, I ended up buying a meal between my jobs every day, what's your secret?
Can someone explain how Trump deregulating something makes Biden innocent not re-regulating it?
I used to behave and think the exact same way at my last job but I kept it up for three years
sort of felt like I left that job just as the house of cards was collapsing though lmao
I miss that job
Add points to your stealth, pickpocket, and speech craft skill trees so if it does catch up you can slip out of it.
Same. Went to see my therapist today for 2 hours and still took an hour lunch. Not a single soul noticed. I'm not terrible at my job though, I'm just terrible at getting around to doing it.
I have to be at work in person, but I have several places where I work so I can easily explain not being in the "main office".
Spend a shockingly large amount of time just idling on my phone.
Feeling strange about something: I keep hearing nice things about myself sort of third hand. For example: I recently met the roommate of a classmate, and they said something like "it's great to finally meet you! [Classmate] talks about you all the time." And I was very surprised at that. And things like this have been happening a lot recently. On the one hand, it's very nice and flattering to hear that people think I am cool, interesting, intelligent, or even attractive. On the other hand, I am fairly lonely and have been trying very hard recently to socialize more and make more friends. And it feels like like I always have to initiate things, like I always have to start a conversation, ask somebody to hang out, etc. It's just kind of weird, like if someone is interested in hanging out with me, then why don't they ask me ever? It's hard always having to do that when I am very shy and have social anxiety. I feel sometimes like people find me intimidating, and are like afraid to talk to me or something, but seem happy when I start the conversation and talk to them? Idk what to think/do about that.
this very much vibes with me. no advice im a basket case but its nice to know we aint lonesome aint it :brace-dark-cowboy:
True. I guess I've always felt like I'm particularly bad at socializing, but maybe everyone else is as bad as me.
hexbear has been really fast and responsive for quite some time now. maybe we could relax the timewall by a few months?
Feel like I've gotten slightly dumber. Just a little bit, like the finer points were worn off of my memory. I'm a little worse playing along at Jeopardy, sometimes the words for things that I know don't come to me as quickly on the spot as they used to, even if I can picture the thing - and it's only very slight, but it was never an issue before. :thinking-about-it: I'll have to keep an eye on this.
Brain is a muscle ect. Are you learning stuff and all that still?
Just now, so as to procrastinate working on my creative interests, I was looking through one of my stacks of unread books. I picked up The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed. and skimmed the preface, which predictably was of little use to me since it was mostly about changes from the previous version. I contemplated maybe finally diving in to theory. Then I looked at the introduction, which is only twenty three pages, and decided now isn't a good time because I have shit to do. Then I picked up the book sitting underneath The Marx-Engels Reader which was The Chapo Guide to Revolution, a book I purchased in early 2020 and then also never read. I opened it up to the first page, and it struck me that it would be amusing to read this book in 2023, three years after the Sanders campaign was crushed by the dnc.
But no, I said, I have to work on my novel. Or learning to draw. Or reading one of the books I have already started to read but never finished. I can't ironically read an advertisement for a podcast I already listen to now, there's work to be done. I especially can't justify ignoring Marx to read an advertisement for a podcast I already listen to so that I can avoid working on my creative pursuits. So I stacked the books back together.
Then I came here and wrote this, since Marx and Chapo were involved, thus successfully procrastinating even longer.
Man fuck food who saying you need to eat anyway? The CIA?? Calories are a psyop
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