Re: BBC Weather forecast

Roger wrote:

> No, I read off-line so rarely go to the trouble of following up links.

Would you like me to tell you the answer then? Or does anyone else want to
play first?

> Incidentally ISTR that Pluto has had a bad press for years.
> Not only is it very small,

The tenth planet is so called because it's bigger, but three times further
away.

> it also has an orbit that puts it closer to the Sun
> than Neptune from time to time and its orbit is also a bit out of the
> plane of the ecliptic (or whatever).

Yep, more like an asteroid than a planet. It takes around 250 years to
orbit the sun (we haven't even seen a complete orbit yet since it was
discovered) and it spends around 70 years of that orbit closer than Neptune
IIRC. We're in that closer phase now as it happens.

Paul


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