Pluto's life story is more fascinating than any other planet's. In the middle of the 19th century, astronomers noticed some abnormalities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, and thought that this was happening due to the attraction of a planet further outside the solar system. They all named this planet Planet X or Planet X and started searching for it.
Pluto was photographed once in 1915 and again in 1919 but no one paid attention to it because it was so small and dim. Everyone was looking for something bigger as a planet that could change the course of Uranus and Neptune. Not finding anything, the astronomers lost enthusiasm in the middle.
Who first took the initiative, Percival Lovell died in 1916. Little by little the enthusiasm began to wane. In 1929, the search for the mysterious Planet X was renewed at Arizona's Lowell Observatory. 16 inches. Photographing the sky with a telescope and camera was entrusted to a young amateur astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh. Clyde Tombaugh's life is as fascinating as Pluto's.
His interest in planets and stars since childhood. Uncle used to look at the sky with a small telescope. After growing up, he made a telescope with an eight-inch reflector. Although the first telescope was not very fine, Clyde Tombaugh's hobby of making telescopes started with it. He built about forty telescopes throughout his life. In 1928, Slade Tombo built a very fine telescope with a 9-inch reflector.
In the same year, he was admitted to the university and studied astronomy. Just as he was enthusiastically togbogging, a heavy hailstorm destroyed all their family's crops. A dire financial crisis. Clyde Tombaugh could no longer afford to go to university. Holding his despair in his chest, he concentrated on the family's farming work, keeping his sadness in his heart, he looked at the sky through his telescope at night. After observing Jupiter and Mars, he carefully painted their pictures and one day sent them to Lowell Observatory.
Fascinated by the picture, the observatory offered him a job, as they were short on money. Real astronomers cannot be paid, but amateur amateur astronomers can be hired at low salaries. Clyde Tombaugh went to work with great enthusiasm. The task is not very pleasant, looking for the planet by taking pictures of the dotted area in the part of the sky where "X planet" is supposed to be found.
On February 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh's labors paid off, he found a tiny dot on the camera plate that was moving—a new planet. A month later, this new planet was announced and named Pluto. Pluto is the god of the dead and ruler of the underworld in Greek mythology. Pluto is so far from the Sun that light almost never reaches it, so everyone accepted this naming as correct.
After discovering a new planet, the young amateur astronomer became famous overnight. He has no university degree. A university showed interest in giving him a scholarship for his studies. Clyde Tombaugh then (in 1932) enrolled to study at the university. He graduated in 1939 with a bachelor's and master's degree. His love for astronomy remained intact for the rest of his life, and he worked for it throughout his life. After the planet was finally found in 1930, instead of solving all the mysteries, new problems started to arise. The main reason is that the newly discovered planet Pluto is very small.
Its diameter is only 1375 miles, one-fifth the size of the Earth. The biggest problem with Pluto is that its orbit is not circular at all, at its furthest from the Sun it is 4.5 billion miles, and at its closest it is 2.7 billion miles. Not only that, but when it approaches the Sun, it breaks all the rules and enters through the orbit of Neptune! All the other planets in the solar system are roughly in the same plane, except that the orbits of two are at an odd 17° angle to this plane. There is a similarity between the planets of the solar system, the first four planets are rocky, the next planets are airy, so Pluto is also supposed to be airy. But Pluto is not gaseous, it takes 248 Earth years for Pluto to revolve around the Sun.
Therefore, one day on Pluto is 6 days and 9 hours on Earth. Pluto is very cold because it is so far from the Sun. Temperatures range from 212 to 228 degrees Celsius below zero. Little is known about Pluto because it is at the very end of the solar system. Astronomers could not even observe it well. So they were surprised when they discovered that Pluto had another moon, almost half a century after its discovery. This is mainly because the moon is half the diameter of Pluto and is only 12,000 miles from Pluto.
There is no other planet in the solar system whose moon is half the diameter of the planet. This peculiar moon of Pluto is named Keren. Astronomers looked up at the sky and discovered something else. One of them is that an object larger than Pluto has been found at the far end of the solar system beyond Pluto. It is named 2003 UB313 and simply called 'Jena'. If Pluto is a planet then why is something bigger than Pluto not a planet? The International Astronomical Association held an emergency meeting earlier this year to discuss Pluto. In that discussion they created a new definition of what is meant by a planet.
The definition is as follows – Planets are the only objects in the solar system that individually orbit the sun, are large enough to be spherical due to their own gravity, and can exert an influence on their surroundings during their orbits. Due to this new definition, Pluto was deprived of the honor of the poor planet.
It revolves around the sun, Its shape is spherical but it cannot exert its own influence on its orbit. As the other planets orbit the Sun, they clear away all the debris around their orbits. Asteroids are anything else that is very insignificant compared to the parent planet, Pluto being the only exception. There are numerous small and large debris in the orbit of this planet. The object that can not clear its orbit is called a planet object! They are now called “dwarf planets” – there are 44 such dwarf planets in the solar system! But astronomers are not all in agreement, they are still arguing in their own way. Many are not willing to remove Pluto from its planetary position so easily.
Pluto has had the honor of a planet for so long that it is not easy to suddenly remove it. A spacecraft was sent by NASA to reach Pluto and its moon Keren in 1915. Again everyone will be interested in two, Even though he is a dwarf planet, there is no doubt that his honor is different from all other dwarf planets! Pluto has already been removed from the list of planets in text books or planetariums. It's no doubt a bit disconcerting to see a planet that has so historically captured everyone's attention suddenly be relegated to the list of more than 40 other dwarf planets as a relatively minor dwarf planet.
But there is nothing to do, in the world of science we have to remove the feelings of the mind and proceed with logic and analysis. So goodbye proto, we'll miss you! Pluto has already been removed from the list of planets in text books or planetariums. It's no doubt a bit disconcerting to see a planet that has so historically captured everyone's attention suddenly be relegated to the list of more than 40 other dwarf planets as a relatively minor dwarf planet.
But there is nothing to do, in the world of science we have to remove the feelings of the mind and proceed with logic and analysis. So goodbye proto, we'll miss you! Pluto has already been removed from the list of planets in text books or planetariums. It's no doubt a bit disconcerting to see a planet that has so historically captured everyone's attention suddenly be relegated to the list of more than 40 other dwarf planets as a relatively minor dwarf planet. But there is nothing to do, in the world of science we have to remove the feelings of the mind and proceed with logic and analysis. So goodbye proto, we'll miss you!
