{"id":10090,"date":"2015-07-09T17:25:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2015-07-09T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:25:37","slug":"give-planet-status-back-to-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10090","title":{"rendered":"Give planet status back to Pluto!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10091\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"pluto\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto.jpg 600w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pluto-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend Dan has it right.<\/p>\n<p>Pluto deserves planet status. None of this dwarf planet nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>The picture here is taken from a spacecraft that any day now is going to zoom right past the ninth planet in our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s small. It&#8217;s cold &#8212; as in, well, beyond frigid! It doesn&#8217;t have life, that we know of.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers demoted Pluto some years back. They called it a dwarf planet.<\/p>\n<p>But it has five moons orbiting it. How many does Earth have? Just one. We&#8217;re a planet, though. Pluto is a dwarf.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re about to get an up-close-and-personal look at Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>I echo my friend: Return it to planet status! As Dan says: &#8220;Don&#8217;t listen to those astrologers! Pluto is real!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Dan has it right. Pluto deserves planet status. None of this dwarf planet nonsense. The picture here is taken from a spacecraft that any day now is going to zoom right past the ninth planet in our solar system. It&#8217;s small. It&#8217;s cold &#8212; as in, well, beyond frigid! It doesn&#8217;t have life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give planet status back to Pluto!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1486,1497,3615,4306],"class_list":["post-10090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dwarf-planets","tag-earth","tag-pluto","tag-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}