QQC 2

"This was the first American discovered planet, and no one was going to be distracted by the thought that it was really just a distant icy dot. It was named Pluto at least partly because the first two letters made a monogram from Lowell's initials."

Along with a lot of other cool facts about pluto that i found , i thought this one was my favorite. First of all, i didnt know that none of the planets were discovered by americans and i thought it was cool that we found the farthest away one. i got really sad when someone tol dme pluto wasnt a planet anymore, i mean how can you just decide one day that its not going to be a planet? it didnt disappear, its still there! Anyways, i thought it was weird that they said that pluto got its name from a monogram of lowells initials because i did a little research and i found out that it was actually given the name by Venitia Burney because the planet's description reminded her of the Greek god Underworld which is sometimes referred to as Pluto. So i was a little confused about that but i thought it was an interesting fact that he decided to include that i cant really seem to find any more info about on the internet!

pluto facts

"A lot of astronomers believe it isnlt a planet at all, but merely the largest object so far
found in a zone of galactic debris lmown as the Kuiper belt"

"It is certainly true that Pluto doesn't act much like the other planets."

"So if Pluto really is a planet it is certainly an odd one. It is very tiny:
just one-quarter of 1 percent as massive as Earth. If you set it down on top
of the United States, it would cover not quite half the lower forty-eight
states"

"Even at the speed of light, it would take seven hours to get to Pluto"

"The best speeds yet achieved by any human object are those of the Voyager 1 and 2
spacecraft, which are now flying away from us at about thirty-five thousand
miles an hour"

"Even so, it took them nine years to reach Uranus and a dozen to cross the orbit of Pluto"