Skip to Main Content

Communication Studies 001 (Todd): Jim Matthews: Informative Speech Searching

Topic: 8 or 9 planets and what is a planet anyway?

Background Database on information about the solar system

Search Terms:Basic Search (pluto)

Sort by:

·  The Gale Encyclopedia of Science

Topic overview

Pluto,  page(s): 3402-3408. Word Count: 4738.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Science Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner .  Vol. 5.  4th ed.  Detroit: Gale, 2008. 

Until August 2006, Pluto was defined as the outermost planet from the sun in the solar system. A decision by the International Astronomical Union in August 2006, however, effectively changed

Journal and Newpaper article searching

Searching: Academic Search Premier

1.  Pluto

2. Planet

3.

Search Results: 1 - 10 of 5,739

By: Battersby, Stephen. New Scientist. 6/13/2015, Vol. 226 Issue 3025, p28-33. 6p. 7 Color Photographs.

The article discusses the New Horizons space probe launched in January 2006 by the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) to explore and study the dwarf planet Pluto. Topics incl...

Subjects: PLUTO (Dwarf planet); RESEARCH; OUTER space; SPACE probes; KUIPER belt; NEW Horizons (Spacecraft); UNITED States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration; Space Research and Technology; EXPLORATION

Tools

More Videos from the Films on Demand Database

Pluto: Oddball or Planet?

From Title: The Pluto Files

How does Pluto measure up to other planets in the solar system team? It is tiny by comparison to the rest. Scientists discuss whether the planet is an "oddball" by most planetary standards.

  • 0:06:42
  • Documentary

Library Books, DVD and Video??