Latest Pluto Stories
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Ever wanted your say in the naming of a cosmic object such as a moon? Well, scientists are opening up that door by asking people to vote for the name of two of Pluto's small moons. Currently, the two moons getting a name change are "P4" and "P5." Astronomers have specified that these small moons are in need of names that coincides with Pluto's theme for names associated with the Greek god Hades, ruler of the underworld. Pluto's other...
PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney: Mickey's Typing Adventure Starring Mickey Mouse and Friends takes players on a medieval adventure and is designed to teach children ages 6-12, to touch-type by allowing them to be the hero and rescue Mickey Mouse and friends from a mysterious enchantment in Typelandia. Children are taught all of the keys on the keyboard as they journey through Typelandia and free characters from the enchantment on their way to the Palace....
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cemtrex, Inc. (OTC: CTEI), a leader in emissions monitoring & environmental control systems, today announced that it has acquired a stake in mobile startup Pluto Technologies Inc. "Since becoming the CEO, one of my focuses has been to diversify into new growth areas and shift away from regulatory-driven businesses that have not yielded the desired results for Cemtrex in the past," said Mr. Saagar Govil, "thus we recently entered...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is nearly seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its moons, but that journey is still far from over. As the spacecraft travels through space, its team has become aware of the possibility that dangerous debris may be orbiting in the Pluto system. "We've found more and more moons orbiting near Pluto -- the count is now up to five," Dr. Alan Stern, principal...
Lowell Observatory recently announced plans for a new Library and Collections Center which will house the Observatory's extensive historical collections and provide much-needed library and office space for its growing science and support staff. To make this critical facility a reality, a public capital campaign was launched this month. More than $2,000,000 of the $3,000,000 campaign target has already been raised. Included in this goal is an endowment to support the maintenance and repair of...
NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pluto Technologies Inc., a New York-based startup founded by Saagar Govil, has announced the BETA version release of Pluto, a new mobile app for iOS. Pluto is the first city discovery tool designed to benefit both consumer and merchant. By introducing users to businesses with products, services, and events that are relevant to their unique specific interests, Pluto brings qualified consumers to businesses that use Pluto's service. With mobile...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists announced on Wednesday they have discovered the smallest moon yet, orbiting around the dwarf planet Pluto. The discovery was made by a team of scientists who used the Hubble Space Telescope to scout out Pluto's neighborhood ahead of a NASA spacecraft that is scheduled to arrive in 2015. The new moon, known as P5 currently, appeared as a small fleck in the Hubble images, and scientists believe it is about 6 to 15 miles...
A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across. It is in a 58,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around Pluto that is assumed to be co-planar with the other satellites in the system. “The moons form a series of neatly nested orbits, a bit like Russian dolls,” said team lead Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain...
DETROIT, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pluto, a creative content studio based in Birmingham, MI, has expanded their business with the opening of a second studio located in downtown Detroit. The new studio is scheduled to open in May 2012. Pluto's new 5,000 Sq. Ft. Detroit studio is located on the third floor of the Display Group Building at 1700 W. Fort Street. The building is one of the classic 1920's era warehouses characteristic of Corktown and is located on the corner of Fort...
WUXI, China, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest producer of solar panels, today announced that its industry-leading Pluto cell technology set a world record 20.3% efficiency for a production cell using standard commercial-grade p-type silicon wafers. Developed by Suntech's research and technology development (R&D) team, in collaboration with the University of New South Wales, the incremental innovation in...
Latest Pluto Reference Libraries
Planet -- A planet is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that doesn't produce energy through nuclear fusion. Until recently, only nine were known (all of them in our own Solar system). As of the end of 2002 over 100 are known, with all of the new discoveries being extrasolar planets. Astronomers often call asteroids minor planets, and call the larger planetary bodies (those which are commonly called planets) major planets. Planets within the solar system can be...
Asteroid -- An asteroid, also called a minor planet or planetoid, is a member of a group of small, planet-like bodies that are part of our solar system. They are believed to be remnants of the interstellar clouds, nebula, that were not incorporated into planets during the formation of the solar system. The largest asteroid in the inner solar system is Ceres with a diameter of 1003 km. It also was the first to be discovered, by Giuseppe Piazzi on January 1, 1801. Nowadays, over 9000...
Quaoar -- Quaoar ("kwah-oh-ahr", /kwA o Ar/) is a Trans-Neptunian object circling the Sun in the Kuiper belt, discovered in 2002 by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Mike Brown at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Quaoar is estimated to have a diameter of about 1,280 kilometres, which would make it the largest Solar System object discovered since Pluto and, indeed, the largest known minor planet. Larger than all the asteroids put together, it is about one...
Kuiper Belt -- The Kuiper belt is an area of the solar system extending outwards from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to 50 AU. The largest of the objects in the Kuiper belt are the planet Pluto and its moon Charon. A new Kuiper belt object, currently called 2001 KX76, has been found that is about the size of Charon, and larger than Ceres. Another such object, Quaoar, discovered in 2002, is half the size of Pluto. Other known Kuiper belt objects are progressively smaller. The exact...
Planet Charon -- Charon is the only known satellite of Pluto. Charon was discovered by astronomer James Christy in 1978 using photographic plates which showed a bulge moving around Pluto. Christy named it after the Greek mythological figure Charon but pronounced it differently. The "ch" at the beginning of the moon's name is soft so it sounds like "Sharon," after the astronomer's wife Charlene, nicknamed Char, which both have soft ch sounds. The mythological figure's name is...
