{"id":874,"date":"2006-08-14T22:52:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/experts-meet-to-decide-pluto-fate\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:52:58","slug":"experts-meet-to-decide-pluto-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/experts-meet-to-decide-pluto-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts meet to decide Pluto fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define exactly what counts as a planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hopes to settle the question of Pluto, which was first spotted in 1930.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are divided over whether Pluto &#8211; further away and considerably smaller than the eight other planets in our Solar System &#8211; deserves the title.<\/p>\n<p>The stakes were raised when a bigger planet-type body, known as 2003 UB313, was discovered by a US astronomer.<\/p>\n<p>Any decision to downgrade Pluto would send shockwaves through the scientific community, instantly outdate textbooks, and change how the basics of the Solar System are taught in schools.<\/p>\n<p>There are suggestions the scientists could decide to include Pluto in a new classification system that marks it out as different to the eight larger planets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/08\/planets.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4789531.stm#graphic\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define exactly what counts as a planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hopes to settle the question of Pluto, which was first spotted in 1930. Experts are divided over whether Pluto &#8211; further away and considerably smaller than the eight other planets in our Solar System &#8211; deserves the title.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/experts-meet-to-decide-pluto-fate\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Experts meet to decide Pluto fate&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}