New Horizons reaches Pluto Venetia Phair was an English 11 in 1930 when she named Pluto. The 2008 documentary explores the planets naming and documents Phair as she sees Pluto for the first time through a telescope, 77 years after naming it. (Courtesy of Father Films) The morning of March 14, 1930, was a fairly ordinary one in the Oxford home of 11-year-old Venetia Burney. The schoolgirl was eating breakfast in the...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Pluto Mission Gets A Poetic Tribute
What"s After Pluto? NASA"s New Horizons Will Find Out Tuesday morning, the New Horizons space probe zipped past Pluto going 30,000 miles per hour. It carries the ashes of the man who discovered the dwarf planet, along with several spectrometers to analyze Pluto"s surface and one telescopic camera. That camera has been busy for the past decade, snapping hundreds of photos of Jupiter first, and then Pluto. Those...
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