Title : Pluto the Kids Planet Duration : 04:07 Posted : 14 May 2016 - 11:05
Pluto the Kids Planet
Pluto the Planet is a character in the upcoming children's book "Pluto, the little planet that could." Although Pluto had to deal with the struggles of not fitting in with the solar system family at first, he eventually prevails and gets the support and respect that he deserves. If you want more info on the new Pluto children's book then check out these links: http://www.indiegogo.com/pluto-for-planet?a=1635771 http://www.plutoforplanet.com The discovery made headlines across the globe. The Lowell Observatory, which had the right to name the new object, received over 1,000 suggestions from all over the world, ranging from Atlas to Zymal.[34] Tombaugh urged Slipher to suggest a name for the new object quickly before someone else did.[34] Constance Lowell proposed Zeus, then Percival and finally Constance. These suggestions were disregarded.[35] The name Pluto was proposed by Venetia Burney (1918--2009), an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England.[36] Burney was interested in classical mythology as well as astronomy, and considered the name, a name for the god of the underworld, appropriate for such a presumably dark and cold world. She suggested it in a conversation with her grandfather Falconer Madan, a former librarian at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library. Madan passed the name to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, who then cabled it to colleagues in the United States.[37] The object was officially named on March 24, 1930.[38][39] Each member of the Lowell Observatory was allowed to vote on a short-list of three: Minerva (which was already the name for an asteroid), Cronus (which had lost reputation through being proposed by the unpopular astronomer Thomas Jefferson Jackson See), and Pluto. Pluto received every vote.[40] The name was announced on May 1, 1930.[36] Upon the announcement, Madan gave Venetia five pounds (£5) (£234 as of 2012),[41] as a reward.[36]
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