With the same namesake as the planet it came to explore, plutonium powered this spacecraft to Pluto, the last planet of any type in our Solar System proper. This mission was possible only because ...

although it would have been a good thing to be named after given what plutonium is capable of doing." Soon after Pluto's discovery, Disney named its cartoon dog Pluto. It's not clear whether the ...

Powered by a plutonium radioisotope ... And he dismissed the critics of Pluto as a planet and he said a quote I love. He said just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still ...

As a cartoon-obsessed kid with glow-in the dark solar system stickers, I had a deep affinity for both dog and planet. It wasn't until my work on The Pluto ... was made of Plutonium-239.

A post-mission encounter with Pluto's mysterious Kuiper Belt neighbors, however, appears a likely casualty of the plutonium pinch. NASA had considered postponing the New Horizons launch a full ...

Space probe isn't done after historic Pluto flyby. &#151 ... probe with a battery that converts radiation from decaying plutonium into electricity. New Horizons loses about a few watts of ...