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18 lut 2015 · Read TIME’s original coverage of how Pluto got its name, here in the archives: Percival? Cronos?
2 dni temu · To be fair, Pluto had it coming. The word " planet " never had an official definition, and astronomers had always played fast and loose with its use. To the ancient Greeks, a planet was any ...
9 lip 2015 · The Path to Pluto. 9 minute read. After a nine-year journey, a NASA space probe is nearing one of the solar system’s final frontiers. Photo composite by Lon Tweeten for TIME.
16 paź 2015 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made the first exploration of Pluto, culminating on 14 July 2015; it collected numerous remote sensing and in situ measurements of Pluto and its system of five moons. We report the first scientific results and interpretations of that flyby.
24 sie 2021 · Astronomy. The definition of planet is still a sore point – especially among Pluto fans. Some astronomers disagree with the distant orb's 2006 reclassification. Fascinating geology should re-earn...
15 gru 2015 · The alien landscapes of Pluto and its moons dazzled scientists and nonscientists alike this year. More than eight decades after its discovery, Pluto became much more than a nondescript point of...
2 dni temu · From afar, Pluto once seemed boring and dead. After all, the dwarf planet is only two-thirds the size of our moon and resides more than 30 times farther out from the sun than does Earth. Before ...