I vaguely remember when our pal Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status a couple of years ago, much to the chagrin to Mickey's non-anthropomorphic dog and the god of the underworld (who are probably one and the same). Apparently, I never got the memo that there's a dwarf planet named Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and there's a dwarf planet larger than Pluto, farther away from the sun than Pluto.
Check out the proportions of everything depicted above, relative to the Earth, and think of how you/I/everybody fit(s) into all of this...
Waxing poetic about the cosmos is a surefire way put to our petty, immediate, mundane, human things in perspective. I'll be back tomorrow for some probable trivia and other timely matters.
Solar System proportion diagram by NASA.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Dwarf Planets other Than Pluto
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Labels: astronomy, greco-roman, planets, science
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