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The Mystery Beyond The Realm of Pluto: The Search for a 10th Planet 2 years 3 days ago

However, the mystery was still not solved. Pluto seemed to be tiny, and astronomers doubted its ability to create the irregularities in the orbit of Uranus-as well as newly discovered disturbances in Neptune’s. Scientists’ doubts were confirmed in 1978 when Pluto was found have a satellite, later named Charon. The movement of Charon reveals that Pluto’s mass is only a tiny fraction of Earth’s; it is incapable of disturbing Uranus and Neptune.

Pluto New Moon Discovered By Hubble Space Telescope 44 weeks 1 day ago

News from NASA in Houston says that tiny Pluto has been hiding something from Earth: namely another moon.

NASA announced July 20, that the Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a 4th moon circling Pluto, which had been reclassified from a full planet to "dwarf" planet.

Is Pluto a Planet? Take our poll 2 years 14 weeks ago

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the planet Pluto. However, since 2006 Pluto is no longer considered a planet but a mere dwarf planet, along with Ceres and a few others. The main problem is that Pluto's orbit overlaps with Neptune's. Yet on the plus side Pluto does have moons orbiting it. So... should Pluto be given back its place as a fully grown up planet in our solar system. You can vote on it during February 2010.

Moon Star Tattoos 1 year 39 weeks ago

Moon Star Tattoos, Moon Star Tattoo, Moon Star Tattoos and last night I couldn't sleep and as I stared up into the sky at the moon and the stars I cried aloud " My next tattoo blog will be Moon Star Tattoos " and then I was silent as the neighbours banged on the wall. But I was happy and fell asleep like a baby knowing I was going to discover Moon Star Tattoos, and why do they say sleep like a baby, jeeez babies cry all night.

PLUTO’s New Images Of A Changing World 2 years 15 weeks ago

Pluto, once called the ninth planet, but, recently downgraded to a dwarf-planet, has been revealed to be a dynamic changing world. First photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994, these new images photographed by Hubble in 2003 and 2004, were only a few pixels in size.

astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, built 10 computers at a cost of $450 each to bring these few pixel-sized images....