{"id":135,"date":"2017-08-02T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2017-08-13T18:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T17:52:30","slug":"pluto-and-other-minor-planets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/?page_id=135","title":{"rendered":"Pluto and other Dwarf Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>When I was a lad Pluto was a PLANET!<\/ul>\n<p>It is relatively recently, 2006, when International Astronomical Union (IAU) agreed the definition of Dwarf Planet and re-categorised Pluto as one of these rather than as a Planet. The first 5 Dwarf Planets are named Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris. Eris is, in fact, more massive than Pluto. This Dwarf Planet categorisation has been controversial with many different strong views held amongst the astronomical community. Estimates of the number of objects that could be classified as a Dwarf Planet vary greatly but around 50 are generally accepted to be &#8216;likely&#8217; with 10 of those &#8216;nearly certainly&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Basic Data<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<div class=\"su-table su-table-alternate\">\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Object<\/th>\n<th>Size<\/th>\n<th>Orbit<\/th>\n<th>Period<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ceres<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pluto<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eris<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Haumea<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MakeMake<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/dwarf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA Dwarf Planets Pages<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/planetary\/factsheet\/plutofact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA Pluto Factsheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dwarf-planets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-249\" src=\"http:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dwarf-planets-1024x508.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dwarf-planets-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dwarf-planets-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dwarf-planets-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dwarf-planets.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a lad Pluto was a PLANET! It is relatively recently, 2006, when International Astronomical Union (IAU) agreed the definition of Dwarf Planet and re-categorised Pluto as one of these rather than as a Planet. The first 5 Dwarf Planets are named Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris. Eris is, in fact, more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/?page_id=135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pluto and other Dwarf Planets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/302"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacc.rushin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}