Did you know an eleven year old schoolgirl from Oxford, England gave Pluto its name? Watch this Rocket Science Show episode to discover more interesting facts about our Pluto and our solar system with NASA scientists and Angry Birds!
The long-awaited flyby took place at 7:49AM ET, NASA “teased” the final full-frame color image of Pluto take by New Horizon:
Hello #Pluto! We’re at closest approach. Congrats to all! Follow our story & view new images using #PlutoFlyby. pic.twitter.com/8JVlJrcUkY
— NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) July 14, 2015
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Interesting. The speaker mentioned that it was a dwarf planet and was reclassified from being a regular plant. I have read that some do not consider it to be a planet at all. I assume this speaker still considers it to be a planet but a small one.
I always thought Pluto was blueish-puurple like everyone else, but then i saw it was actually BROWNish- which totally set me back
@rowdypup
If it is brown coloured, then, why is it blue in the game?
Obviously, the Solar System update for the ABSpace was done before New Horizons sent back the clearest photo of Pluto.
They did not know the color