Is Pluto a Planet? Dr John K. Davies & Dr Suzie Ramsay Howat UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Is Pluto a Planet? Dr John K. Davies & Dr Suzie Ramsay Howat UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland

The classical solar system

Planet Uranus imaged from Voyager 2.

Planet Neptune from Voyager 2.

Percival Lowell

Lowell’s Tomb, shaped like Planet Saturn

Clyde Tombaugh and the Pluto Telescope.

Discovery of Pluto, 1930

Orbits of Pluto and Neptune.

Nucleus of Halley’s Comet

Pluto is Shrinking

Pluto is covered with ice.

Pluto and Charon (Gemini Observatory)

Pluto should have vanished by now !

Mercury and Venus: Planets without Moons

9064 Johndavies. A minor planet Discovered 1993 Status: Main belt asteroid Diameter: about 6km Brightness: V=17-18 Composition: Rocky Dist from Sun AU

243 Ida and Dactyl Ida: Size about 56 km long. Dactyl: Size about 1.5 km.

45 Eugenia and its moon. Eugenia size ~215km Satellite size ~13 km Period ~4.7 days

Eugenia, The Movie

Pluto has an atmosphere

Pluto Express Mission. 2020?

Comets in the Oort Cloud

Comet Hale-Bopp

Comet Orbits Long Period Comet, like Hale-Bopp Short Period Comet. Interstellar comet (never seen)

Gerard Kuiper

Kenneth Edgeworth

Jane Luu and Dave Jewitt

University of Hawaii 2.2m Telescope

Discovery of 1992 QB 1

The Classical Kuiper Belt

The Plutinos

1998 WW31 a Kuiper Belt Object with a satellite

Some of the the largest known Kuiper Belt Objects

Stop Press – ‘Sedna’

Sedna: EKO or Oort Cloud Object?

Sedna. Planet10?

Orbital Elements and Stable Regions

Comet Ring as predicted by Fred Whipple in 1964, virtually what we today call the Kuiper Belt

But 4 of these are no longer in lists of planets published today Ceres Vesta Pallas Juno Sun Venus Earth Mars According to ‘First Steps to Astronomy and Geography’, Hatchard & Son, London, 1828 there are 11 planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn and Herschel (Uranus)

Tradition in Astronomy Constellations Lunar Sea!

What makes a planet? It goes around a star.

Io and the Moon are not planets because they don’t go around a star.

What makes a planet? It goes around a star. It does not generate heat internally.

Jupiter is a planet. since it is not heated by nuclear reactions.

What makes a planet? It goes around a star. It does not make heat by nuclear reactions. It is spherical.

So MOST asteroids are not planets since they have not collapsed to spherical shapes.

What makes a planet? It goes around a star. It does not make heat by nuclear reactions It is (more-or-less) spherical. It is bigger than 1000km in diameter

Is Pluto a Planet? Please raise hands for yes

Or not ? Please raise hands for NO

Pluto is a small icy planet Like Neptune’s moon Triton

..and a member of the Kuiper Belt Pluto

Pluto could have dual status Piazzi 2000 Herschel 3000 Leonardo 4000 Hipparcus 5000 IAU 6000 United Nations 7000 Curie 8000 Isaac Newton 9000 HAL Pluto?

ATC Clapometer Clap Cheer Standby Mode: Quiet Please

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Clap for Yes, Pluto is a Planet Cheer for No, Pluto is NOT a planet Yes No

Thanks very much!

Bye for now, Drive safely.

Is Pluto a Planet? Presented by: John Davies and Suzie Ramsay Howat. Written by: John Davies Thanks to: Jason Cowan, Chad Trujillo, Lowell Observatory archives, NASA, Yerkes Observatory, Dave Jewitt, Jane Luu, Martin Duncan and John Spencer

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