{"id":43561,"date":"2014-07-14T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/learn-about-pluto-before-everything-changes.html"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:42:14","slug":"learn-about-pluto-before-everything-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/learn-about-pluto-before-everything-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"Learn about Pluto before everything changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Or, perhaps, &quot;Learn what we know about Pluto before the New Horizons probe shows us how much we <i>didn&#39;t<\/i> know about it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112943946047332492941'>WIRED<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Get ready to learn a bunch of awesome new science about the little planet that was, Pluto:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wrd.cm\/1nyiwMD\">http:\/\/wrd.cm\/1nyiwMD<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7SilxjwnSbI\/U8QNH7okn4I\/AAAAAAABFvM\/LjrcNDIl65w\/2851-1e419a2a28aba2a753ed6fd0214a1b77.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cmBxRuRSb6M' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, perhaps, &quot;Learn what we know about Pluto before the New Horizons probe shows us how much we didn&#39;t know about it.&quot; (h\/t +Les Jenkins) Reshared post from +WIRED Get ready to learn a bunch of awesome new science about the little planet that was, Pluto: http:\/\/wrd.cm\/1nyiwMD\ufeff View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2851-1e419a2a28aba2a753ed6fd0214a1b77.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137076,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/its-not-too-late-for-planet-pluto.html","url_meta":{"origin":43561,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s not too late for Planet Pluto!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Sep-18 4:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A new paper says the IAU's claims around its definition for what a planet should be are flawed, and that Pluto fits the important aspects of planethood. 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