{"id":633,"date":"2015-03-01T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/?p=633"},"modified":"2015-03-01T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:05:08","slug":"is-pluto-a-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/2015\/03\/01\/is-pluto-a-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pluto a planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-634\" style=\"width: 732px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NASA_Pluto.jpg\" alt=\"The artist's concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the smaller moons. Pluto is the large disk at center, right. Charon, the system's largest confirmed moon, is the smaller disk to the right of Pluto. Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)\" width=\"732\" height=\"549\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artist&#8217;s concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the smaller moons. Pluto is the large disk at center, right. Charon, the system&#8217;s largest confirmed moon, is the smaller disk to the right of Pluto.<br \/>Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Astronomical_Union\">International Astronomical Union<\/a>\u00a0 in 2006 declared Pluto a &#8220;Dwarf Planet&#8221; after being spurred on by the eminent American\u00a0Astrological physicist Neil de Grasse Tyson.\u00a0\u00a0 However, there are quite a number of people who object to this classification and support Pluto&#8217;s status as an official planet.\u00a0 Neil de Grasse Tyson thinks that the overwhelming interest in Pluto is due to the cartoon character of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Come hear our interpretation of Pluto as we perform a new composition by local composer Ronald Parks at our upcoming <a title=\"June 2015 Concert \u2013 The Planets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/2015juneconcert\/\">Planets concert<\/a>! <a title=\"June 2015 Concert \u2013 The Planets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/2015juneconcert\/\">Click &gt;&gt; here &lt;&lt; for more info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The International Astronomical Union\u00a0 in 2006 declared Pluto a &#8220;Dwarf Planet&#8221; after being spurred on by the eminent American\u00a0Astrological physicist Neil de Grasse Tyson.\u00a0\u00a0 However, there are quite a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/2015\/03\/01\/is-pluto-a-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Pluto a planet?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-planet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlottecivicorchestra.org\/cco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}