[NEWS] Some Pluto links

[rfmcdonald]

The above is such a cool photo.

• Yesterday I linked to, among other things, three Centauri Dreams posts looking at early speculation about Pluto and Charon. Centauri Dreams today has more
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• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait analyses some of the first pictures of Pluto and Charon.


• io9 noted the crowdsourcing of names form Pluto's new detailed map, while the 70s Sci Fi Art tumblr shared vintage depictions of Pluto. Discover's Imageo blog has more.


• Wired noted the posting on Instagram of the first Pluto photo and observed that Pluto is so low-mass that if it disappeared we would not notice.


• The Telegraph and MacLean's both look at Clyde Tombaugh, the American astronomer who found Pluto in the first place.