About 1900, the astronomer Percival Lowell calculated where the distant planet should be to account for the discrepancy, and he looked for it. In 1930, a young astronomer, Clyde William Tombaugh found the "planet" on the same place Lowell predicted and named it Pluto mostly because the first two letters stood for Percival Lowell. In 1965 Pluto was scheduled to pass very close to a certain faint star. If Pluto was as large as Earth, its surface would be far enough from its center to hide the star as Pluto passed it. In fact, the larger Pluto was, the longer the star would remain hidden. Pluto passed the star exactly on schedule, but the star kept right on shining, unconcerned. It wasn't hidden for even a fraction of a second.
Apparently Pluto was so small that its surface wasn't far enough from the center to reach the star. The fact that Pluto was about where Lowell thought it should be was simply an extraordinary coincidence.
And that leaves us with a question: If it isn't Pluto that's affecting the other outer planets, what is? And the search continues... There were also theories that the planet is actually a star and we're living in system with two stars.
Apparently Pluto was so small that its surface wasn't far enough from the center to reach the star. The fact that Pluto was about where Lowell thought it should be was simply an extraordinary coincidence.
And that leaves us with a question: If it isn't Pluto that's affecting the other outer planets, what is? And the search continues... There were also theories that the planet is actually a star and we're living in system with two stars.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
