Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Al-Bishr
Pluto is one of the planets, asteroids, or dwarf planet belonging to the solar system. Controversy has been raised and is still being raised about it. Controversy is an inherent human characteristic since man knew language, starting with the language of patter, which is considered the beginning of man inventing a language in which he communicates with his peers. Some primitive tribes in Africa still continue to do so. You speak it, and it later developed into the languages that we know now. Perhaps the Semitic languages were the most developed languages at a certain time. Debate can either be positive, leading to truth and agreement, or it can be an argument with falsehood to refute the truth. This is a negative matter, and the fields of debate are: Many times have passed in history and literature books since the beginning of history, and we find this among the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Pharaohs, and Greeks who are known for their Byzantine controversy, as well as the Persians, Romans, Chinese, and all of the ancient and modern world, and it was and still is present among the Europeans and other peoples of the world, and fields of controversy. There are many, including literature, religious sciences, history, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, and others. As for our present era, we must add to it the controversy in and around sports, and controversy in sports often leads to nothing, and may be marred by some quarrels.
Pluto is an asteroid that was given this name after its discovery in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty. Scientists have become accustomed to naming the planets after the names of mythical gods. According to the Romans, it is the god of the lower creatures. According to the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans, it is the star of the angel of death, while according to the Hindus it is the guardian of hell, and because of the name of this star. The name is a story. One of the astronomers had a twelve-year-old girl who was fond of reading ancient myths. The discovery of this star and the search for a name for it had spread in the media available at that time, so the girl suggested the name Pluto to her father. Her father conveyed this suggestion to His fellow scientists chose this name after comparing it with proposed names, so he took the name that remains to this day. It is funny that geologists and astronomers used to name newly discovered minerals after stars. The name platinum is derived from the star Pluto, and the name uranium is derived from the planet Uranius. Thus, a new mineral may be discovered to be named after one of the planets.
Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun, although it is now classified as a dwarf asteroid. It is small in area and size, as its area is less than the area of Russia. Its size is one-fifth the size of the moon, and its surface consists of ice and rock, like the rest of the Kuiper asteroids. It is more than four billion and four tenths away from the sun. Kilometers, that is, a little less than forty times the distance of the Earth from the sun, and the distance of the Earth from the sun is called the cosmic unit, and its gravity is small, and because of its limited gravity, if your weight on the ground was seven hundred newtons, then your weight on the surface of the newton would become forty, while a newton is the amount The force that pushes a kilogram over a distance of one meter per square second. Due to its distance from the sun, its average temperature is about two hundred and thirty-four below zero, meaning, oh, very cold, and its year is two hundred and forty-eight years, its axis is tilted and skewed, and its atmosphere consists of methane and nitrogen gas.
An asteroid with these specifications has caused a lot of controversy among scientists about its classification, and the controversy still exists. Some scientists saw that it is not a ninth planet among the planets orbiting the sun, as was common before, but rather only eight, after excluding it, as they set three conditions for those who meet the characteristics of it. Planet, and deserves to be named, the first of which is that the object must revolve in an orbit around the sun, the second must be large enough in size, and the third must be that the space surrounding the orbit is empty and clean, and the Astronomical Complex claims that Pluto did not fulfill the third condition, so it is not a planet, but rather an asteroid. , or a small or dwarf planet, but other scientists protested against this because the Earth itself has the moon that revolves in its orbit and it is large in size, and if we take into account the previous conditions, this means excluding the Earth, Mars, Neptune, and Jupiter, but the argument of those who exclude it is that its mass is much less than The total mass of the volumes that revolve around it, while the Earth’s space is almost empty if we exclude the moon, and this is how the controversy was, and will continue, and the division still exists, and the controversy over the classification of Pluto is raging, and it was as if someone was saying:
Among the afflictions is the humiliation of those who do not shepherd it
About his error and the speech of those who do not understand
Or as if when they complained to the Astronomical Council about the error in classification, and the Astronomical Council responded to them without justification, with a bit of arrogance, the same applies to them as was applied to the people of Al-Sawad in Iraq when they came to Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf, complaining to him of the bad condition and the lack of manpower due to taking their young men as soldiers. He gave them a cunning response, and their poet said:
We complained to him about the desolation of blackness
So he forbade us from beef
It was as it was said before us
I will show her the Saha and she will show me the moon
Yes, they were forbidden from eating cows so that they could use them for plowing and increasing the yield, and that would also increase the number of bulls, as if they wanted to look at Al-Sahha, which is a very small star that can hardly be seen, and perhaps it is Pluto, and show them the moon, to distract them from what they came for.