Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Why Pluto is Not a Planet



Read more about Pluto at Kids Astronomy. 
Debate topic:  Should Pluto be a planet?
What is your opinion?  Why?
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Enjoy this unrelated article about the comet ISON.

7 comments:

  1. Maybe because it's too small...

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  2. Girl Who Loves One Direction (Not Eryn)April 24, 2013 at 7:24 PM

    Interesting fact: An 11 year old girl suggested the name Pluto. I think she got the name from Mickey Mouse's pet dog Pluto. :P

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    1. Girl Who Loves One Direction (Not Eryn)May 1, 2013 at 8:37 AM

      Was that sarcasm? I can't tell.

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    2. The name Pluto was proposed by Venetia Burney (1918–2009), an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England.[37] Burney was interested in classical mythology as well as astronomy, and considered the name, a name for the god of the underworld, appropriate for such a presumably dark and cold world. She suggested it in a conversation with her grandfather Falconer Madan, a former librarian at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library. Madan passed the name to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, who then cabled it to colleagues in the United States. -- source: wikipedia

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  3. Hey,hey,hey. Watch it there. It's kind of obvious that it is AIMEE, but just because it's her does NOT mean I do not like One Direction. Geesh...

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