Plutoʻs Plight and the New Solar System
Pluto’s Plight and the New Solar System
Topic for Maunakea Skies March 20 at ‘Imiloa
Hilo, Hawai‘i –‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s “Maunakea Skies” program welcomes guest speaker Dr. Chad Trujillo from Gemini Observatory, on Saturday, March 20, at 7 p.m. to talk about The New Solar System: the Downsizing of Pluto and New Frontiers in Our Solar System.
In the last decade, our picture of the solar system and its outskirts has changed dramatically. Once thought to be a lonely place only inhabited by Pluto and the occasional comet, we now know that there are a vast number of icy asteroids in Pluto’s neighborhood. The largest of these is Eris, sometimes called the “10th Planet” because it is larger than Pluto.