August 23, 2011 | Author: Greg - Staff Writer
Not only is this a trick question, it’s a tricky question to answer. When you think about the colors of the 9 planets in the Solar System, you are actually thinking about the old definition of the Solar System. There are now only 8 planets – 5 years ago (on August 24, 2006) Pluto was demoted to the classification of a dwarf planet. It’s a tricky question because each planet has more than one color so it’s not easy to describe each planet with only one color.
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July 26, 2009 | Author: Greg - Staff Writer
The Oort Cloud is named after Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort. Oort speculated that the Solar System was surrounded by a vast spherical cloud of comets.
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July 25, 2009 | Author: Greg - Staff Writer
Our solar system is a nine planet system and is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. There is a bit of controversy around exactly how many planets there are in the solar system because some astronomers don’t count lowly Pluto.
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