Sending a Probe to Pluto - Bye Bye Planet Pluto - BBC Science

[boxxromantico123]

Pluto is my favorit planet but its to far from the sun....

[PatrickT22]

They want to probe Pluto? Fine by me, as long as they don't plan to probe Uranus...

[m50mm]

@PatrickT22 URANUS is YOUR ANUS

[afareni]

It's okay Pluto, I'm not a planet either.

[MrLouie670]

Why is pluto not a planet now u ask? It never was! It was just catagorized incorrectly at a time when we couldn't see as clearly what was going on out there. Since hubble we figured it was just an icy asteroid, like gazillions like it in the kuiper belt. Many are bigger than pluto.

[CORPARANOID]

PLUTO is a key plant in our solar system and the TREE of LIFE....in astrology it rules, sex, death (& taxes)...the I KNOW keyword for Scorpio's. So seeing how it holds the top position in the kabala tree of life, I believe it was a ruse to un-label it so fewer people would look into that direction. Interesting that they found a Moon next to it; like they couldn't see it was THERE b4...or did it just decide to orbit?

[nikolayzou]

Let's go visit the plutonians.

[TacoBurgher327]

Dear NASA,

Your mom thought I was big enough

Love,

Pluto

[Jewclops]

@TacoBurgher327 lol best comment i've seen in a while.

[tackiee9]

why pluto is not a planet now ?

[Jewclops]

@tackiee9 cuz its too small to be considered a planet.

[cnaeusflame]

I know! Captain Fwiffo is on planet Pluto you can bet on that... :) for those who understand what Im sayin...

[VajinalBloodFart]

@cnaeusflame Captain Fwiffo of the Spathi Eluder StarRunner is a 25-year veteran of the Spathi navy and the last member of the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za's Earthguard forces. Along with the rest of the Earthguard, he was assigned to Sol to keep an eye on the slave-shielded Humans.

XXDD

[MrKenichi20]

Considering that if we just stand off and say Pluto isn't a planet I feel we're selling ourselves short.

[MrKenichi20]

I agree with NobbyKNobbs, we won't know untill we get explore it

[NobbyKNobbs]

I say we call Pluto and all the objects in the Kuiper belt planets! Who's with me?

[WahnamStudent]

So we find larger "objects" out there, and then Pluto which was Photographed and Studied... Suddenly doesn't become a Planet any more??? Hmmmm... Seems we also need to change the definition of Astronomer or Scientist...... Pluto is still The Ninth planet to me.

[routex7044]

he should have asked brian cowan for the billion dollare sure he promised europe 109 billion, ask the big man brian for the money he'll steal it from impoverished kids but he'll get it for ya

[ijwi]

"Who cares if it's not a planet?"

Since no one who doesn't know about Ceres in school growing up will learn about Pluto, no one. The reclassification is designed to decrease the sum total of human knowledge to satisfy someone's desire to manipulate a philosophical debate about what is important and what is worth studying (the only real argument for reclassifying what is a planet and fine-tuning the def. to exclude Pluto).

[xmodmodifier]

4 more years and we will see pluto...

[xTheXFallenXOrderx]

10 years? so they still on there way?

[okevino]

@xTheXFallenXOrderx yea. July 2015

[xTheXFallenXOrderx]

@okevino Wow... what a trip..... It would be boring afterawhile though..?

[Rahavin1]

is there a playlist with the full documentary? what is it called. searched the description and didnt find much

[Hintsmaster]

pluto was first called planet x. its dumb. pluto is the ninth planet. not tenth!!

[Hintsmaster]

if u watch video discovery of pluto bbc they first all pluto planet x. is dumb. pluto is the ninth planet ! not tenth!!

[sushanalone]

Funny how people get childish and emotional about a particle out there in space and try to express their love for it, when it doesn't make any difference and no body cares. When asked most people don't even know why they like Pluto.Its a mistake corrected and we all should be happy about it.

[TheJaykaybay]

Only ten years to get there? Hell, thats fast!!! Thats around (My calculation) about

67 424.3867 Kilometers an hour!!!!!!!!!

[lilspark3000]

I don't care if pluto is a dwarf planet or what. It's still my favorite planet out of all the others.

[Graluini]

Can you say littlest planet...? Shouldn't you say smallest? :O

[vitruvian8807]

So why is it that we've seen galaxies very far away using Hubble's Deep Field and yet we don't have a good picture of Pluto? Is it because it's too dark and doesn't produce it's own light?

[makaveli828]

great fucking question i was thinking the same thing

[ssemo]

@vitruvian8807 You got it. It's small, dark, and not emitting huge amounts of light. I don't know this, but if Hubble is a camera (so to speak) Pluto might not be in it's focal range if it's built to look at such huge lengths

[CanadianCatastrophes]

galaxies emit a large amount of light, where pluto being so far from our sun it makes it very hard to see, thats my guess anyways, galaxies are made up of billions of stars and planets, so they would be much easier to see than a big hunk of ice/rock on the brink of our solar system...

[emcsnipez]

because the ppl that backed up the hubble project had alot of money, these guys dont got shit

[Dytex4]

yes,

[TheSpankymonkey]

No, it's cos the bastard won't stay still when we try and picture it. Always fucking playing the fool......

[elar55]

@vitruvian8807

ya hubble dont zoom in to take snap shots of the galaxies it catches their light wich has traveled millions of years here.

[ActinLikeaRobot]

Will there be enough light out there to take pictures on the surface and while orbiting??

[RichardSDetsch]

I think a pluto probe is a good idea for it will give us information not only about pluto but the 100's of other objects like it.

[ICI4MOR3VII]

0:49 i went to that building on a 5th grade field trip =D

[Love2GoHiking]

The trouble is havock, when you start creating complexity like this it moves away from the beliefs that are put across to people in a personal way in terms of God's personal and separate nature etc etc.

[SilverGunZoO]

even if pluto dissapears she's still in my heart as a planet, i love you sweetie lmao

[YetAnotherYTChannel]

haha, funny guy

[SilverGunZoO]

Your username is funny lmao

[rwtfallenjf25132]

i think they launched it in 2006?? right?

[TheReaverOfDarkness]

Despite it not being a planet, I think it's a worthy mission. It would be neat to study any Kuiper belt object up close, and why not pluto? After all, it'll generate a lot more enthusiasm from the general populace. And, I heard somewhere that pluto's tenuous atmosphere freezes to its surface during its winter. I'm eager to find out if that's true, aren't you?

[aschris87]

10 years to get there wow...

[littshepkid]

really i thought it was like 25k

[CrystalSoulslayer]

Nope. Ten years to Pluto. 25 thousand years would be outside our solar system (as far as I know).

[littshepkid]

what i thought

[sushanalone]

@aschris87 it could take 4 years for goods form Britain to reach china by land 1000 years back so its surely a leap of tech =)

[Ygr3ku]

@aschris87 take a "vacantion in spain" :)



[EugeMyster]

don't worry Pluto your still a planet to me ^^ love you

[AnInvitationToTheTru]

looooool nice from you

[notoncemoreagain]

Its not a planet...

[jimmytimtom]

Pluto is so gay, he hardly says anything...he just barks.

what planet?

[creedstat]

why are you morons minusin my comments i am dead serious

[SmartPorcupine]

it's just fun to piss you off

[N1DE0N]

for the word "morons" moron

[hrpman]

Go onto Google, type in New Horizons and you can sign up for regular NASA updates. The probe is due at Pluto in 2015 - it's already halfway there. After that they are going to decide on an even more remote Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) to target and explore ...

[creedstat]

i have flown through the kuper belt its like flying through a zillion bubbles

[hackalabac]

haha LMAO

[creedstat]

find someone (me ) who can fly there astrally it would be alot cheper(i'm cheap)

and it would only take me about 2 or 3 tries and i could tell you anything and everything you ever wanted to know about it

[Grinnripp3r]

Yeah, why is my picture blurry ?

Is it the radiation or what? got to the sun faster and easier then Pluto wtf?

[SmartPorcupine]

you embody everything that is wrong with human brain

[64malek]

IDEID

[Rahall001]

vacation :D:D:D:D hehehe

[typhlosion108]

It says loaded!

[fightforfair]

Wooohoooojaga vacation~~~

[TheAceManHimself]

calling all nerds

[mikeybrumbrum]

ha ha, that so funny, when he says "how do you get a billion dollars?"

[StinkyMudblood]

sci-fi? its science fact

[superlame64]

i wonder whether it would look any like the probe that was sent to mars.

[acemillenium]

when was it launched?

[KlipKultur]

True sci-fi.