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Pluto — a Complex and Changing World

Posted by timothy on from the can-imagine-quite-a-bit dept.

astroengine writes "After 4 years of processing the highest resolution photographs the Hubble Space Telescope could muster, we now have the highest resolution view of Pluto's surface ever produced. Most excitingly, these new observations show an active world with seasonal changes altering the dwarf planet's surface. It turns out that this far-flung world has more in common with Earth than we would have ever imagined."

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  1. High res? by XPeter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it just me, or do the photos look like a big blob of yellows and grays?

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  2. i'll grant you pluto is a planet by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if you grant me the other seven dwarves are planets: eris, makemake, haumea, sedna, orcus, 2001OR10, and quaoar

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/EightTNOs.png

    and the other 100 or so such objects of pluto size likely to be found in the coming decades in the oort cloud

    or keep it easy and say its not a planet

    your choice, but the third graders of 2080 who have to memorize 80 planets might not be too happy with you

    face it, pluto is chump change

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    1. Re:i'll grant you pluto is a planet by mbone · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The solar system does not exist to make things easier for third graders. If there are 80 planets, then so be it.