We've lost a planet. It's official. Pluto has finally been demoted and we're l;eft with only 8 planets in our Solar System. I for one am going to spend a few days reflecting on this new stae of being.
Pluto is now a dwarf planet along with Ceres (a rather large asteroid just past Mars), Charon, one of Pluitos three moons with is more or less the same size as Pluto and 2003 UB313 with is actually larger than Pluto but waaaay past Pluot in the Kuiper Belt.
If this doesn't interest you, then panic not, but the universe will never be the same again. I don't suppose Pluto ever was going to be a favourite holiday destination with a day of 6.8 earth days though that would certainly make my life more manageble. And with a temperature of -233C you were never going to get a sun tan. Yet it's gravity is only 6% of Earths. Good for the dieter among us.
But suddenly the ground (or the vacuum of space) has shifted and we now see things that have always been there, which we haven't in the past, because we understood things differently.
So good-bye Pluto, hello dwarf planets and a universe, deep in mystery and intregue, promise and adventure. Hey, that's all a bit like being a seeker. Welcome onboard spaceship Faith boldly gong where we've probably been before but seeing it all differently again.
Beam me up...
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