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Pluto Has a Tail?

07/18/2015 1:21 PM

interesting stuff recently detectedhttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasa-just-found-something-big-205800491.html
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07/18/2015 1:49 PM

Yep, I found it too!

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07/20/2015 6:49 AM

Hmm, I thought everyone knew that ;-)
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07/20/2015 11:51 PM

Tell Roger!

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07/21/2015 10:35 AM

I was going to go with OM on this, but he definitely upstaged everyone.

This is interesting, surprisingly low solar wind at this distance, and low G on Pluto, both contribute to this factoid. I forget, does solid nitrogen exist on Pluto, or is it in a liquid state, and if solid, does it sublime the way water does, through solid-vapor equilibrium, or is the solar wind able to plasma etch the surface of Pluto? The sketch appears to show a vapor pressure atmosphere that is being excited to N2 plasma products?

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