{"id":989,"date":"2005-07-29T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=989"},"modified":"2005-07-29T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T23:02:43","slug":"poor-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/07\/29\/poor-pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2005\/050725\/full\/news050725-13.html\">like<\/a> Pluto&#8217;s got some competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTwo sets of astronomers have spotted a new planetoid in the outskirts of our Solar System. It is the brightest object in the region after Pluto, and it has its own small moon.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn recent years astronomers have spotted several Kuiper-belt planetoids, including ones named Quaoar and Varuna; the latest has been nicknamed Santa. Philosophical debates continue about how large such objects have to be before we call them &#8216;planets&#8217; rather than simple lumps of rock\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny, I thought the earth was simply a lump of rock.  Am I wrong?  Is the earth really made of cheese or some other non-rock substance?  And what&#8217;s with the philosopher bashing?  Surely philosophers do more than just debate what one should label a planet! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Pluto&#8217;s got some competition. Two sets of astronomers have spotted a new planetoid in the outskirts of our Solar System. It is the brightest object in the region after Pluto, and it has its own small moon. &#8230; In recent years astronomers have spotted several Kuiper-belt planetoids, including ones named Quaoar and Varuna; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/07\/29\/poor-pluto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poor Pluto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}