The Lab With Brad

The Lab With Brad


Ep 342: From Pluto, with love

June 09, 2022

From Pluto, with love

If you count it as a planet, it is the furthest away and smallest. Whether or not you think it’s a planet, it might harbor life.

Here are a few links that cover the ongoing debate over Pluto’s status as a planet.

Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, scientists argue

Pluto and the Solar System | IAU

Here are links that talk about how Pluto might have one of them subsurface oceans.

Pluto has likely maintained an underground liquid ocean for billions of years

Liquid water may have erupted from Pluto's icy volcanoes, study finds

Pluto Might Have a Liquid Water Ocean?!

Here are a couple of things on Pluto’s giant icy heart.

New Horizons Spacecraft Displays Pluto’s Big Heart

And here’s a quick article on Pluto’s oddball orbit.

Pluto’s Orbit is Surprisingly Close to an Unstable Zone