Pluto: The Frozen World
Over four billion kilometers away from us lies a distant, frigid world. On its barren surface, nitrogen falls as snow. Vast plains of frozen methane lie in the shadow of ice water mountains. From the surface of this hostile place, the sun appears nothing more than a star, a single pinprick of light among millions. The name mankind gave this silent world? Pluto. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Source/Further reading: (Overview): https://www.britannica.com/place/Pluto-dwarf-planet Key dates in Pluto history: https://www.britannica.com/list/10-important-dates-in-pluto-history Percival Lowell: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Percival-Lowell Lowell’s searches for Pluto: http://www.astronomy.com/year-of-pluto/2015/05/percival-lowells-three-early-searches-for-planet-x Clyde Tombaugh: https://time.com/3956963/pluto-planet/ Pluto discovery: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pluto-discovered Alan Stern and New Horizons: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/06/feature-how-alan-stern-s-tenacity-drive-and-command-got-nasa-spacecraft-pluto Demotion to dwarf planet: https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-pluto-no-longer-a-planet https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33462184 History of photos of Pluto: https://qz.com/927404/the-dramatic-way-our-view-of-pluto-has-changed-over-the-past-87-years/ Charon: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/pluto-moons/charon/in-depth/ Early days of the New Horizons mission: http://discovermagazine.com/1993/may/thelastworld215 Neptune as the 13th planet: https://books.google.cz/books?id=ELd-ve_35R8C&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=neptune+13th+planet&source=bl&ots=eecJNKemzR&sig=ACfU3U3G3Ola48dDuua5AnBiz5Ywxy7BQw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPwLGc8pbkAhXB86YKHYe8AaYQ6AEwCnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=neptune%2013th%20planet&f=false
