If Planets Had Social Media: Mercury’s Tweets, Saturn’s LinkedIn, and Pluto’s Petition
If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Pluto Is Still a Planet (Sort Of)
According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...
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How Many Planets Are in the Solar System?
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
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What's a Planet and Why Is Pluto Not in the Planet Club Anymore? by Andrew Fraknoi
To understand what happened to Pluto, we must actually go back to the ... eventually showed it to be much smaller than Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In many ways it more nearly resembled ...
What If Planets Had Jobs – Who’s the CEO and Who’s the Intern?
If the solar system had a corporate structure, Jupiter would be the CEO, while Saturn ensures rules are followed. Venus ...
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How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was ...
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Star Codes: January 24-30
This week’s aspects echo both on a very personal level, as Venus lingers close to Saturn in sensitive Pisces, and on a collective and communal level, painting the zeitgeist of ...
On this date: Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn.
NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...