Plutoids

Source: www.plastic.com --- 34 days ago
Plastic::SciTech::Space: Now that the category of "dwarf planet" has been created, any old chunk of rock in the Kuiper Belt might qualify as one. ...

Source: www.clusterflock.org --- 28 days ago
Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a plutoid not long ago and now the third such object has been named Makemake (pronounced MAH-keh MAH-keh). Pluto, Makemake and a third object — dubbed Eris — are all classified as Plutoids, as well as dwarf planets. The solar system’s largest asteroid Ceres is also a dwarf planet, [...] ...

Source: digg.com --- 40 days ago
Things may be looking up for Pluto, which got stripped of its planetary status two years ago. Astronomers are going to name distant bodies of its size "Plutoids". Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun, after being stripped of planetary status by astronomers two years ago. ...

Source: gray3.wordpress.com --- 30 days ago
Images Suggest Water Once Covered Mars - AOL News I was expecting something like this after the earlier indicators of water on Mars found by the Mars Phoenix Lander though certainly not to the scale suggested. It makes for some interesting consideration on what happened some 4 billion years ago on Mars to cause the [...] ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 31 days ago
SPACE.com - A dwarf planet circling the sun out beyond the orbit of Neptune has been rechristened Makemake after a Polynesian god and designated the third of the solar system's new class of Plutoids, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced Saturday. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 70 days ago
AP - Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun, after being stripped of planetary status by astronomers two years ago. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 70 days ago
-- Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun, after being by astronomers two years ago. From now on all similar distant bodies in the solar system will be called 'Plutoids. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 70 days ago
It was the 2003 discovery of Eris -- a body bigger and farther from the sun than Pluto -- that eventually led to Pluto's demotion. But the astronomers expect more Plutoids to be discovered in the future. ...

Source: slashdot.org --- 70 days ago
Kligat writes "The International Astronomical Union has decided that Pluto and Eris should be classified as "Plutoids," alongside their 2006 classification as dwarf planets. Under the definition, the self-gravity of a plutoid is enough for it to achieve a near-spherical shape, but not enough for it to clear its orbit of its rocky neighbors, and the plutoid orbits the Sun beyond Neptune." Reader FiReaNGeL links to a similar story at e! Science News. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 22 days ago
The solar system seems to be getting more crowded by the day as its once nine-world population gives way to a realm of planets, dwarfs and the dim and distant Plutoids But in reality, the solar system is still the same. ...

Source: www.accuweather.com --- 35 days ago
Good morning, astro-nuts! Its been awhile; things got a little hectic the past week! I've been meaning to talk a bit about star clusters for awhile now, as well as another very interesting constellation, Sagittarius. On top of that, it turns out we can't escape the Plutoids....another one has been named. Heads Up! We're heading into a time frame that ...

Source: space.newscientist.com --- 70 days ago
In deference to Pluto's fallen glory, dwarf planets beyond Neptune's orbit will be classed as 'Plutoids' – but not everyone is happy with the term ...

Source: www.livescience.com --- 70 days ago
One of the people on my list to call for today’s rendition of the ongoing Pluto fiasco was Alan Stern, recently departed NASA space sciences chief, principal investigator the New Horizons mission to Pluto, and an outspoken “Pluto is a planet” proponent. I knew he’d have an opinion about the IAU reclassification of Pluto. Well, I never [...] ...

Source: www.neatorama.com --- 41 days ago
Things may be looking up for Pluto, which got stripped of its planetary status two years ago. Astronomers are going to name distant bodies of its size "Plutoids": From now on all similar distant bodies in the solar system will be called "Plutoids." That’s the decision by the International Astronomical Union, which met last week in [...] ...

Source: www.postchronicle.com --- 30 days ago
Makemake, a dwarf planet orbiting the sun beyond Neptune, is the fourth entity in the solar system's new class of Plutoids,... ...

Source: www.fanboy.com --- 30 days ago
While I think that Makemake is easier for kids to remember than minor planet 136472 it's going to be rough on science students trying to keep track of all of these Plutoids — although as an astronomy fanboy I think these are good problems to have: Fourth Dwarf Planet Named For Polynesian God "A dwarf planet circling the sun out beyond the orbit of Neptune has been rechristened Makemake after a Polynesian god and designated the third of the solar system's new class of Plutoids, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced Saturday. Makemake is a small, red-tinged world that ranks among the largest objects in the outer solar system. But it is still smaller and dimmer than the already demoted dwarf planet Pluto, which astronomers reclassified as a plutoid last month." Below: It sucks to be Pluto which is now reduced to being one of eight trans-Neptunian objects . ...

Source: orbitingfrog.com --- 37 days ago
These are the top stories from the Digg Space category for the week ending Saturday 12th of July 2008: 1 Spot the Space Station 2 Pluto Gets Respect: Dwarf Planets to Be Called “Plutoids” 3 Mystery of the Great Attractor Pulling the Milky Way 4 Rare “Star-Making Machine” Discovered In a Distant Universe 5 Discovery… ...