{"id":785839,"date":"2024-07-16T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785839"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:16:55","slug":"a-new-formula-for-defining-a-planet-still-keeps-pluto-out-of-the-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785839","title":{"rendered":"A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Pluto is a dwarf planet<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A mathematical formula to determine whether objects in space should be classed as a planet could make it easier to identify objects around other stars \u2013 but it is bad news for anyone hoping that Pluto could regain its planethood.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) infamously demoted Pluto from planet to dwarf planet status in a controversial decision that left our solar system with eight planets. The IAU cited the fact that Pluto hadn\u2019t cleared its orbit of other debris as a critical factor in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2439717-a-new-formula-for-defining-a-planet-still-keeps-pluto-out-of-the-club\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluto is a dwarf planet NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute A mathematical formula to determine whether objects in space should be classed as a planet could make&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}