Thursday, October 28, 2010

QQC 10/28/2010

"As for Pluto itself, nobody is quite sure how big it is, or what it is made of, what kind of atmosphere it has, or even what it really is"



Pluto is definitely the underdog planet. In the introduction the author was saying that astronomers can tell you almost anything about any planet millions of light years outside of our galaxy, but it seems like nobody really cares to learn about Pluto. Everybody wants to get to know the exotic new stars and planets, but they're all pretty bored with poor Pluto.

In this same paragraph the author goes on to explain that astronomers believe it's not a planet, while most believe otherwise, so I'm wondering when exactly this was written. I was under the impression that Pluto was confirmed to be a star or asteroid of some sort, not a planet; then again i may very well have my facts wrong.

1 comment:

Holly Ryan said...

I am interested in your blog post because I too want to know more about pluto, and feel bad that is has been ignored for so long. However, I am one of those persons who wants to know more about exotic stars and planets, so I disagree with you there. But I do agree with you when you say "Pluto is definitely the underdog planet".