Pluto: Planetary Orbits

My Thesis statement is Phuto was once considered to be a planet but now Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet in our solar system. Pluto is made up of ⅔ of rock and ⅓ of ice. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh on January 23, 1930. Pluto is very very cold you can't even imagine how much colder it is than Antarctic.If that happen in Earth the air would turn into snow that's how cold it would be about 230 degrees below zero Celsius. When you want to see Pluto up in the sky you can't even see Pluto with your naked eye. Pluto is very hard to see once you look in the telescope it look a little like a star even with the telescope.

An artificial satellite is a man-made instrument that orbits another object. To counter that, a year later, the U.S. launched its own satellite, Explorer 1, designed by the U.S. Army under the direction of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, and from that, it was known that the Space Race was underway (History.com Staff).

Most people my age and older likely grew up learning that Pluto was a planet their whole lives. In elementary we were always taught that Pluto was the ninth, smallest, and farthest planet in our solar system. It seemed odd when the planet was reclassified because you had been taught something for so long and it just changed out of nowhere. Even though Pluto does not meet the requirements and is no longer considered a planet I feel like most people still consider it a planet and have been taught that for most of their lives and it will always be a planet in their minds for as long as they live. The way they keep trying to define what it means to be a planet maybe one day we will be able to call Pluto a planet

Many issues have arisen from the debate whether or not Pluto is a planet. Some astronomers say that Pluto should be classified as a “minor planet” due to its size, physical characteristics, and other factors. On the other hand, some astronomers defend Pluto’s planet status, citing several key features.

Every planet in the Universe has it’s own place including Earth. Earth is located inside the galaxy called the Milky Way, which includes millions of planets, including the solar system. Therefore up above Earth, in space, is the solar system in which the Earth resigns. This solar system consists of eight planets, one sun and one dwarf planet. Each of the planets or in Pluto’s case, a dwarf planet, are different sizes and have a different distance from the Sun. Earth, for example is one of the smaller planets in the solar system but bigger than Mars, Mercury and Venus. Mars is about two times smaller than Earth but Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are bigger than Earth. Since Pluto is a dwarf planet it is also smaller than Earth. Interestingly

Did you know Pluto’s not a planet? Pluto is a dwarf planet. The astronomers are going to find out how Pluto became a dwarf planet.

Pluto is very popular in the world and there is a lot of conversation on whether or not it should be considered a planet. Its size and unusual orbit are two factors that make it part of the dwarf family.

With the new dates and photographs from the New Horizons mission (http://clapway.com/2015/07/11/new-horizons-journey-through-the-cosmos-124/) that made a flyby of Pluto on Tuesday, July 14th, scientists are now reporting that, unlike the earth and the moon’s orbit, Pluto and Charon’s orbit is much different. It’s so different in fact, that it is the only instance of this orbit in the Sol solar system.

When looking at whether Pluto should be a planet a consideration must be made of if it meets certain qualifications. We saw in the qualifications in the latest chapter, and the biggest one that takes Pluto out of the planet discussion. The qualification that it must be able to clear its own orbit. Which Pluto does not do that at the moment, and that is why it should not be considered a planet. That is the reason it is called a dwarf planet, even though it orbits the sun. Furthermore, when Pluto is close to the sun it is still billions of miles away. (Dunbar). When you look at a lot of the figures that are considered planets they have a lot of the features that Pluto does not have. Mainly in sharing the Kuiper belt with

Once upon a time on the now dwarf planet pluto; the milky way galaxy which was home to three heros. The hero's names were green fluff the oldest of them all at 50 years old, Green Fluff was the most unspoken one and the one that had made the move at the very end and saves everything. Green Fluff had randomly saved a cat that was on the roof for 3 hours and couldn’t get down he had always had something weird in his fluff that covers his whole body to use to be useful like the small pillow that he had pulled out of his fluff so that the cat could fall safely of the 4 story roof.

Pluto is smaller the Earth's moons and a handful of others moons. Like the galilean moons I mentioned in a previous journal entry. Pluto has 5 moons. Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, is the largest of the five moons, but did you know that Pluto used to be a Neptune moon, but somehow left its orbit.

Terrestrial planets are more towards the sun, while the Jovian planets are farther. They are both different in size, but have the same solid center. The core of the Terrestrial planet are larger than the Jovian planet.

The newest high-resolution eye-candy images of Pluto were released by the New Horizons mission team at a press conference today and, again, they did not disappoint. Details flow in and questions continue to mount as the formerly most-mysterious body in the solar system drops her veils. See below for images and video.

Satellites orbiting earth will experience external perturbations that can affect the orbit. The primary force acting on the satellite depends on the altitude of the orbit. The most significant effect is caused by atmospheric drag which affects satellites in low earth orbit. Outside of low earth orbit, satellites still experience external forces that could change the orbit however unlike atmospheric drag, the orbit altitude will not necessarily decrease. In addition to atmospheric drag, satellites are subject to thermal drag and gravity perturbations.

The USA, USSR, PRC and many other countries conducted numerous space explorations activities to the celestial bodies in solar system in the past sixty years. Some of these explorations are extremely monumental and remarkable. For example, in 1957, the Soviet Union first succeeded in launching an artificial satellite Sputnik I into the space (Goodrich, 1987) ; in 1969, the United States launched the Apollo 11 to the