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Intriguing images of Pluto and beyond: Looking more carefully at Pluto
8 intriguing images of Pluto and beyond
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Robert
Oct 14 2011 at 1:32 PM
Telegraph remember smoke signals can travel in the vacuum of space, that is how we were first notified of Pluto's exsistence!!!!!
jakc
Sep 16 2011 at 5:49 PM
tell me you really meant cannot be seen WITHOUT a telescope (you got pictures from telescopes in your images).
Enteryourname - Pluto sent a telegram in 1930. I remember my grandfather telling me about it when i was only a young lad
Enter your name
Sep 16 2011 at 1:15 PM
Pluto cannot be seen by a telescope? That's news to everybody who has seen pictures of it. Hubble should be particularly distressed at seeing things it really can't see. How do you suppose it was found in 1930? Do you thing it sent us a letter; maybe a telegram?
Looking more carefully at Pluto
This artist's rendering from NASA shows what the surface of the dwarf planet might look like. With Charon at a crescent, you can see patches of methane. The sun "appears about 1,000 times fainter than on Earth," according to NASA. Pluto, which cannot be seen without a telescope, was first discovered in 1930. It was named for the Roman god of the dead, the suggestion of 11-year-old English schoolgirl Venetia Burney. But Pluto lost its planet status when the IAU determined that it was not the dominant gravitational body in its orbit around the sun, a requirement of all planets.
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