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New Horizons has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto -- the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space. Beginning an hour and half after closest approach, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument observed a cavity in the solar wind -- the outflow of electrically charged particles from the Sun -- between 48,000 miles (77,000 km) and 68,000 miles (109,000 km) downstream of Pluto. SWAP data revealed this cavity to be populated with nitrogen ions forming a “plasma tail” of undetermined structure and length extending behind the planet.
http://www.nasa.gov/nh/pluto-wags-its-tail

Most scientists believe Pluto and the rest of the solar system were formed several billion years ago. If Pluto is that old shouldn't it have lost all of its atmosphere a long time ago?

On the other hand if Pluto was created only a few thousand years ago there is no reason it shouldn't still have an atmosphere.
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I think basically Pluto gave up its will to live, and keep its atmosphere when it was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.

Pluto already suffered from self-esteem issues because it was the smallest planet. And since Zoloft isn't available 4.67 billion miles from Earth, Pluto just gave up the will to go on.

I think if you look at how much of its atmosphere Pluto has lost, you'll find it's consistent with my hypothesis.
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All kidding aside,

If Pluto looks young, it may mean that Pluto is young. This article seems to show that Pluto is young. Well, young compared to the rest of the solar system. They seem to think Pluto is less than 100 million years old.
The “most stunning thing” about the whole stunning image is that the scientists have not found a single impact crater seen in the frame. “This means this is a very young surface,” Spencer says, because “Pluto is being bombarded by other objects in the Kuiper Belt.” They guesstimate it has to be “less than a hundred million years old, which is a small fraction of the 4-and-a-half billion year age of the solar system” (in fact, 1/45th that time span). Not only that, “It might be active right now,” he added. “With no craters, you just can’t put a lower limit on how active it might be.” - See more at: http://crev.info/2015/07/pluto-is-young/#.dpuf
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theophilus wrote:
New Horizons has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto -- the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space. Beginning an hour and half after closest approach, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument observed a cavity in the solar wind -- the outflow of electrically charged particles from the Sun -- between 48,000 miles (77,000 km) and 68,000 miles (109,000 km) downstream of Pluto. SWAP data revealed this cavity to be populated with nitrogen ions forming a “plasma tail” of undetermined structure and length extending behind the planet.
http://www.nasa.gov/nh/pluto-wags-its-tail

Most scientists believe Pluto and the rest of the solar system were formed several billion years ago. If Pluto is that old shouldn't it have lost all of its atmosphere a long time ago?

On the other hand if Pluto was created only a few thousand years ago there is no reason it shouldn't still have an atmosphere.
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Hey, pay no attention to Gappy Guy! If Pluto looks young it's because he IS young - in DOG years!

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Umm...Pluto wasn't named after something silly, like a fictional dog. Pluto was named after the Roman God of Death.

As you can see from the photo, Pluto was named after a real guy with a three headed psycho dog.
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Pluto does NOT drool! y[-(
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Philip wrote:Pluto does NOT drool! y[-(
Umm...Philip...that's Cerberus, the 3 headed dog that's drooling. Pluto is the guy. y#-o
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Pluto is the guy. y#-o
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The planet is named for the mythical god of the underworld. And Lowell got the idea for the name from a young girl. Walt Disney named his cartoon character soon after the "planet" was discovered - around 1930 - so he likely named it after the planet.
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RickD wrote:Umm...Pluto wasn't named after something silly, like a fictional dog. Pluto was named after the Roman God of Death.

As you can see from the photo, Pluto was named after a real guy with a three headed psycho dog.
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I thought it was named after a South Devon Railway Gorgon class locomotive. :?
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:swhat: this actually ties in? :clap:
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theophilus wrote:
New Horizons has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto -- the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space. Beginning an hour and half after closest approach, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument observed a cavity in the solar wind -- the outflow of electrically charged particles from the Sun -- between 48,000 miles (77,000 km) and 68,000 miles (109,000 km) downstream of Pluto. SWAP data revealed this cavity to be populated with nitrogen ions forming a “plasma tail” of undetermined structure and length extending behind the planet.
http://www.nasa.gov/nh/pluto-wags-its-tail

Most scientists believe Pluto and the rest of the solar system were formed several billion years ago. If Pluto is that old shouldn't it have lost all of its atmosphere a long time ago?

On the other hand if Pluto was created only a few thousand years ago there is no reason it shouldn't still have an atmosphere.
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