{"id":39242,"date":"2021-07-30T23:11:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39242"},"modified":"2021-07-30T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:11:16","slug":"the-man-who-killed-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39242","title":{"rendered":"The man who &#8216;killed&#8217; Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 2005 Professor Mike Brown and his team discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He spotted Eris in the Kuiper belt \u2013 a region of icy objects beyond Neptune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It was more massive than Pluto and left astronomers with a dilemma: whether to add it and other larger bodies, to the list of planets or to strip Pluto of its 75-year status as the ninth planet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mike Brown spoke to Witness History about his discovery and the public outcry that followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004t1hd\/clips\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">: The stories of our times told by the people who were there.  <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-57989204\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005 Professor Mike Brown and his team discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system. He spotted Eris in the Kuiper belt \u2013 a region of icy objects beyond Neptune. It was more massive than Pluto and left astronomers with a dilemma: whether to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119645959_mikebrown.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}