Pluto is so unlike any planet we've ever visited. It's this strange little duck, sitting out there, this mixture of rock and ice but with an atmosphere. There is so much to learn about this planet.
Quotes about pluto (16 Quotes)
If Pluto is a planet, it seems reasonable that something that's bigger than Pluto, and further away than Pluto, should be called a planet, too.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler SilcoxThe electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores O tempora O moresIt should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.
We have ignition and liftoff of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on a decade long voyage to visit the planet Pluto and then beyond.
We know of 17 objects that could be called planets, most of which are ice dwarfs. So Pluto is typical of what is probably the most populous type of planet in our solar system. It probably mimics other Kuiper Belt objects.
If Pluto was discovered today, it would not be a planet.
Since UB 313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB 313 is not also given this status.
The answer is that we have surveyed roughly half of the sky and found one object bigger than Pluto and two that are almost the size of Pluto. As we finish the other half of the sky we will almost certainly find a few more of around the same size and maybe one or two even larger.
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
I don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.
Pluto has always been a problem because it's less massive than the moon...and it's only about one 500th as massive as the Earth. So is it just a rock or is it a real planet
If, as our new Hubble images indicate, Pluto has not one, but two or three moons, it will become the first body in the Kuiper Belt known to have more than one satellite.