Planetary Science Hot News, Part 2
This year’s European Planetary Science Congress is over. It’s been exciting, full of news and interesting people and really well-organized. What wer...
Tag: dwarf planet
Planetary Science Hot News, Part 1
As some of you already know, I and my colleague Tomas Petrasek are currently at the European Planetary Science Congress in Nantes, thanks to the Department of G...
Pluto: a world more fascinating than we’d hoped for
Pluto and its largest moon Charon proved to be extremely interesting objects during the recent New Horizons flyby. While the spacecraft is on its way further in...
A new article: Realms of Dark, Deep and Cold
These places never see sunlight, are buried deep under thick ice crusts and warmed mostly by radioactive decay and tidal forces: subsurface oceans of celestial ...
On the awesomeness of 2012 VP113
Earlier today, NASA announced the discovery of a probable new dwarf planet 2012 VP113. Its perihelion is even futher than Sedna’s, at around 80 AU. Though...
