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Our View
Somewhere
out there
Something could happen in the astronomical world that could forever change science curriculum taught globally. Our ninth planet Pluto could be on the edge of a black hole disappearing forever as we know it. Right now, there’s an International Astronomical Union meeting in Prague and one of the items on their agenda is Pluto and whether it is, or is not, a planet. Well, as they’ve pointed out, it is smaller than our moon. But it does have its own atmosphere. And speaking of moons, it has three of its own. Oh, and it goes through seasons. Percival Lowell started the search in the early 1900s for a Planet X. He believed that there was another planet out there that might explain why some of the existing planets weren’t gravitating around the sun in the manner that astronomers thought they should. The existence of another planet could explain their dilemma. Lowell died never discovering his Planet X. But nearly 25 years later, a fellow named Clyde Tombaugh did after exhaustive years photographing the same sections of sky looking for something somewhere out there that might register differently - and then in February of 1930 he did see something different. It was Lowell’s undiscovered planet. And the name?
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