pluto too small Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/pluto-too-small/ Astronomy author and speaker Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:36:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png pluto too small Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/pluto-too-small/ 32 32 166732936 Planet Nine (and a reminder of what is and isn’t a planet) https://www.colinstuart.net/planet-nine-and-a-reminder-of-what-is-and-isnt-a-planet/ https://www.colinstuart.net/planet-nine-and-a-reminder-of-what-is-and-isnt-a-planet/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:39:23 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=2000 The internet and news media are awash with news of “Planet Nine”. For the last few years astronomers have known that some of the objects orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto appear to be mysteriously aligned. One possible explanation for this is that there is a large body even further out and the gravity of that […]

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