Financial Times (July 18)
“Pluto is indeed a heavenly body and deserves to be treated with full planetary respect.” It’s status as a planet should be reinstated. “Far from being the featureless frozen fuzzball visible from the most powerful terrestrial telescopes, Pluto turns out on close inspection by the Nasa probe to be an adorably colourful character…. Inside, too, Pluto has an unexpectedly warm heart, heated by processes that remain a mystery…. Pluto has all the attributes that common sense associates with a planet.”
Tags: Common sense, NASA, Planet, Pluto, Reinstated, Telescopes
New York Times (July 16)
“There was something wonderfully childlike in the delight of scientists and the public at the rendezvous of the New Horizons spacecraft with that most distant and mysterious of the planets, Pluto…. But there was nothing childish in the extraordinary science and engineering required to send half a ton of highly sophisticated instruments hurtling through space at speeds of up to 47,000 miles an hour for three billion miles.”
Tags: Childlike, Engineering, New Horizons, Pluto, Science, Sophisticated, Space
