The Solar System used to have nine planets. Maybe it still does? Here’s your catch-up on space today
- Written by: Sara Webb, Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
ShutterstockSome of us remember August 24 2006 like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the exclusive “planets club”.
I (Sara) was 11 years old, and my entire class began lunch break by passionately chanting “Pluto is a planet” in protest of the information we’d just received. It was a touching...