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Why Pluto was Named by an 11 Year Old Girl (2015x73)

Udgivelsesdato: Jul 13, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: How Many Burgers Come from One Cow? ...and 8 other food facts http://bit.ly/1LrP2wI How the Modern Calendar Came to Be http://bit.ly/1HLujjv Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1HLvFLb In this video: The girl was Venetia Burney of Oxford, England. Venetia’s great uncle, Science Master of Eton Henry Madan, in 1877 suggested the name for the two dwarf moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos (fear/panic and dread/terror). This was referencing the fact that Deimos and Phobos were twin brothers, the children of the god Ares (Mars in Roman mythology), specifically being the offspring of Ares and Aphrodite. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/09/the-name-for-the-dwarf-planet-pluto-was-suggested-by-an-11-year-old-girl/ Resources/Further Reading: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595145019/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0595145019&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20 http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/transcript_pluto_naming_podcast.html http://www.amblesideonline.org/PR/PR62p030PlanetPluto.shtml http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/New%20Frontiers/2006/news_063006.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/europe/11phair.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Venetia%20Phair&st=cse http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4596246.stm http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question48.html http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/venus_name.shtml http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/mars_name.shtml http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=OverviewLong http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term