Pluto's Demotion: What Will We Tell the Children?
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"My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums." That mnemonic device is just one way teachers and others are adapting to Pluto's loss of planet status.
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So says report The utterly impartial Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has published a report outlining how investment in space exploration can encourage youngsters to get into science and improve educational standards and skills.â¦
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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LAUREL, Md. -- NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter.
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A study of Plutoâs bright frosts suggests that the way the planet cools down is rapid and disorganised. The results were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin.Plutoâs surface is bright because its atmosphere periodically condenses onto the surface.
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An astronomer at Penn State University is not certain whether the latest discovery in outer space is a planet or a failed star.
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Pluto, now that it is no longer a planet, has been assigned the number 1340340 in the catalog of minor planets.
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By Michael Stroh< The Baltimore Sun  Call it a mugging in the Milky Way.   In a stunning reversal, astronomers who were ready to expand the solar system's number of planets by three just last week voted to shrink it Thursday instead, stripping Pluto of its status as a planet.
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The letter "Global Space Junk" (BDN, May 19-20) strains credulity. Showing that temperature records from some specific locations fail to display consistent warming is meaningless. Climate change effects are not evenly spread over the planet.
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By Gibson, Dirk C  This paper describes and documents the surprising importance of public relations to outer space tourism. It is no overstatement to suggest that the future of outer space tourism depends as much on public relations as on any other single factor.
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Sean O&#39;Keefe will soon step down as NASA Administrator. The formal announcement is expected this coming week. Where O&#39;Keefe will be heading and exactly when he will leave remain to be determined however he
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When New Horizons, NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft, swings by Jupiter on Feb.
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This is the second article in a series of four articles each with a separate explanation of different quantum phenomena. Each article is a piece of a mosaic, so every one is needed to understand the final explanation of the quantum astronomy experiment we propose, possibly using the Allen Array Telescope and the narrow-band radio-wave detectors being build by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling $25 "PLUTO IS A PLANET" T-shirts on the Internet.
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Astronomers describe a planet orbiting a star near the end of its life - a vision, perhaps, of Earth's future.
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite.
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Seiko Epson hopes the tiny robot will help in security, disaster and rescue and space exploration. Also: Apple recalls batteries from its 15-inch PowerBook G4 laptops & hellip;. Sony unveils eight new flat-screen TVs & hellip;. and more.