{"id":31338,"date":"2011-02-14T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-big-is-pluto-anyway\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:51:20","slug":"how-big-is-pluto-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/how-big-is-pluto-anyway.php","title":{"rendered":"How big is Pluto, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, a question like that is easy to answer: type it in to Google, click on the Wikipeadia entry, and read the answer: 2306 +\/- 20 km. The &nbsp;+\/- (to be read &ldquo;plus or minus&rdquo;) is important here: every measurement has limitations and an often critical &nbsp;part of science is correctly quantifying those limit. The correct interpretation of 2306 +\/- 20 km is that 2306 km is the most likely value, <\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeBrownsPlanets?a=UAVG-dMzTqo:v0zP8hkEYGM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a7830_MikeBrownsPlanets?i=UAVG-dMzTqo:v0zP8hkEYGM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeBrownsPlanets?a=UAVG-dMzTqo:v0zP8hkEYGM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a7830_MikeBrownsPlanets?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeBrownsPlanets?a=UAVG-dMzTqo:v0zP8hkEYGM:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a7830_MikeBrownsPlanets?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeBrownsPlanets?a=UAVG-dMzTqo:v0zP8hkEYGM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0babd_MikeBrownsPlanets?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0babd_UAVG-dMzTqo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, a question like that is easy to answer: type it in to Google, click on the Wikipeadia entry, and read the answer: 2306 +\/- 20 km. The &nbsp;+\/- (to be read &ldquo;plus or minus&rdquo;) is important here: every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/how-big-is-pluto-anyway.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}