RE: [meteorite-list] Artist conception of view from Pluto (life-size d)

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Schoner
Looks like a planet to me, with two spherical moons. And I read somewhere that Pluto (a planet) may actually have a thin atmosphere of hydrogen. We shall in nine years (if all goes well with the Pluto space mission) see how well this representation holds up to fact. And maybe by then the fact

RE: [meteorite-list] Artist conception of view from Pluto (life-size d)

2006-08-27 Thread Larry Lebofsky
Steve: Pluto's thin atmosphere is nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane and it has a haze layer, too. This atmosphere is getting a little thicker now even though Pluto is moving away from the Sun, but it is thought that the atmosphere will eventually freeze out for the winter as Pluto get