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Mission to Pluto: a spacecraft journeys toward the new dwarf planet.(Cover story)
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Scientists kick Pluto out of the planet family, but that's not stopping a spacecraft from heading its way
Before You Read
Ask students: What do you know about our solar system? How many planets can you name? Why might Pluto no longer be classified as a planet?
Vocabulary
astronomer: a scientist who studies space
dwarf planet: a distinct class of space objects that includes Pluto, Ceres, and "Xena"
Kuiper belt: a wide band of icy and rocky objects on the outer edges of our solar system
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CONTRIBUTIONS OF CV RAMAN RECALLED
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...the epoch-making discovery of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on February 28, 1928 known as the 'Raman Effect', for which he was subsequently...Nobel Prize. Dr Goswami recalled Sir CV Raman for his contributions...
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Purdue University Chemists Develop Speedy Chemical-Sensing Microscope.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ...name: Near Infrared Raman Imaging Microscope...sounding process: Raman spectroscopy. Don...molecules is known as a "Raman spectrum." The spectrum draws its name from Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Goring Thomas, composer, 1850; Sir Leslie Ward ("Spy"), caricaturist...surrealist painter, 1898. Deaths: Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the...artist and novelist, 1969; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, physicist, 1970; Martin Tickner...
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ASTEC TO OBSERVE NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY ON FEB 28
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...national prosperity. The Day is observed in memory of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who on February 28, 1928, made known his epoch-making discovery "Raman Effect" to the world and for which he was awarded...
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WHY THE SKY IS BLUE: DISCOVERING THE COLOR OF LIFE
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
; ...Ages, and via the views of Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton, Hoeppe weaves a well-written tale...this area of study, including Nobel Prize Laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who correctly noted that the blue color of the...
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