Pluto bigger than they thought
 

With the New Horizon's probe getting closer to Pluto and its 5 moons Nasa is learning more about the planet. Including that it's bigger than thought!

Hopefully this means Pluto will get its full planet status back. Also, Hydra is about the size of Denver. *lol*

http://www.space.com/29924-pluto-lar...asa-flyby.html

Hail Hydra

I just wish the spaceprobe could send landers with rovers to Pluto.

There's a PBS documentary on it, if anyone's interested:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/chasing-pluto.html

The amount of dedication and patience (having to wait for 9 years from launch to arriving near Pluto) is quite admirable, not to mention that there is a 9 hour time-delay in communication in receiving and sending information to the space probe.

Hopefully it will be able to shed more light on the Kuiper Belt, dwarf planets, and of course the origin of the solar system.

This is one the coolest thing of our time. The only problem is that during the Apollo project, people used to follow this on TV and radio a lot and still remember it, now people just live their social lives on Facebook and forgets this within some weeks. There's need for a manned Mars-landing project as quick as possible.

Pluto may be bigger, but it's still going to be considered a dwarf planet.

There's too many risks and challenges that our current technology has to have a manned Mars-landing project, plus let's not forget the social, psychological, and health consequences as well, in addition the incomprehensible cost for it. One significant step toward accomplishing this though is to wane ourselves off of fossil fuels and develop others forms of propulsion technologies first.

One big reason many people forget about it in a few weeks is because the Cold War and its immediate threats are over, and the pursuits of human planetary exploration and colonization are too exorbitant to justify a reason to do so currently. ...But the "space race" isn't necessarily abandoned since other nations are trying to develop anti-satellite weaponry... for example, China:

Yes, in other words Pluto is considered a "plutoid". I wish it can regained its status back to the ninth planet.

I don't care that Pluto now is called a dwarf planet.

I don't see why it cannot be re-classified as a planet again. The satellite images confirmed that Pluto isn't any of the wild theories that were conjured a few years ago; there were actual speculations about Pluto being anything from one of Neptune's moons that somehow broke free from its orbit and "escaped", to it being a piece of space debris that originated from the Oort Cloud.

We need Pluto back
 

was never a fan of taking it's planet status away

If Pluto gets "planet" status back, then we need to give Eris planet status as well. Ten planets FTW!!!

Next destination, Edgeworth–Kuiper belt!