Tag: pluto
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Makemake, the Rest, and a Bonus ISS!
Today are taking a look at one of the dwarf planets, along with some of the candidate dwarf planets, with a digression to discuss the ISS as well. The dwarf planet Makemake is pretty much of the last dwarf planet, in our current list of official dwarf planets at least. Really, Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea…
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Eris: The Dwarf Planet that Caused all the Strife and Discord
Today we will be continuing our look at various objects in the Solar System, which now means continuing with dwarf planets. I do of course want to continue reminding people about the currently visible comet, C/2023 A3, as well. It’s still there, just barely visible as we come to the end of October. This is…
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Pluto, and What is a Planet Anyway
In today’s piece, although we are going look at the dwarf planet Pluto, this serves mainly as a background to a discussion of the naming conventions around what planets, dwarf planets and asteroids and comets, also known as minor planets. There are different usages of the word planet, but I wish to be upfront here…
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Dwarf Planets and other Small Distant Objects
In today’s piece we are going to be taking a look at a different class of objects, the dwarf planets. Almost every month I briefly highlight a given planet, you can go back through the archives if you’d like to see some examples. Later this month we will be talking about Neptune, so I will…
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