pluto

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-pluto-reclassified-planet.html Pluto pulled itself into a round shape, is geologically the second most complex solar orbiting object, and was most disgracefully red carded. Thank you for this revising revisionism.

Since the Rosetta/Philae and Dawn missions have their own threads, I thought it was time for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto to get its own thread too. :) Only five days to go before the event. The glitch encountered a few days ago has been resolved and the spacecraft is back on track to resume...

From the BBC News App today: One should expect that somebody speaking on behalf of the Seti Institute would at least understand that the concept of north and south poles derives from a body rotating about an axis, surely!

Is that an actual picture of Pluto in the 1-Spet-2006 Swift commentary? A close-up picture? Taken by a space probe that made a Pluto fly-by? When was this picture taken? When did a probe fly by Pluto? Was this a NASA probe, or an ESA probe? I feel so out of the loop here!

Below are pasted a couple of today's news articles regarding Pluto and astrologers. Crawford is actually a friend of mine. He replied to me with a long emotional response yesterday after I e-mailed to him my favorable opinion of the removal of Pluto from the list of major planets. His thoughts...

Good morning. This just off of CNN. Pluto Gets the Boot Anyone know of any Astrology sites that are coping with this? Perhaps this is the reason Astrology doesn't seem to work. Pluto was messing it all up. JPK ETA: Scorpio's might be in trouble.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060814_pluto_fate.html All I know is they'd better keep Pluto as a planet or I'm going to rise up and slay them! :D

Does this mean that Pluto's orbital axis is like Uranus's (ie <10 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic)?

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission.htm df