Alright, planets, we’ve had our beef with you before. First, Pluto is one of you, and then he’s not. Then, you classify him as a dwarf planet, and make us believe he’s the only of his kind. Then, you start telling us that there are 14 more dwarf planets. Now, you’re telling us that there are even more that you didn’t know there were before! Are you planets or a soap opera?
Yes, astronomers have confirmed that some bright space rocks have been peeking through Pluto’s neighborhood, seeing if he wants to hang out and stuff. These new rocks were discovered in a section that starts beyond the orbit of Neptune and keeps going for 5.1 billion miles from the sun called the Kuiper belt.
Astronomer Scott Sheppard and his team at the Carnegie Institute of Washington say they would have found them sooner, but there was no way to see them until they built a 1.3-meter Warsaw University Telescope at Las Campanas in Chile. We built one too, but we didn’t want to go bragging about it…
Basically, from this study we want to know two things: 1. Do they have aliens, and 2. Do they need anyone to travel to them? Because after watching all of the PLANET OF THE APES films, we’d understand if NASA can’t find any volunteers. (We know it was earth all along, but you can’t be too careful). Regardless, we’d volunteer!