{"product_id":"explore-alliance-presents-how-do-you-know-episode-15-identifying-and-classifying-moons","title":"Explore Alliance Presents: How Do You KNOW? – Episode #15: 'Identifying and Classifying Moons'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn August of 2006 the International Astronomical Union famously downgraded Pluto, which was considered the 9th planet in our solar system, to be recategorized with a family of \"dwarf planets\" along with\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Eris, Ceres, Haumea, and Makemake as well as other objects in the distant Kuiper Belt of our solar system.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" aria-label=\"Ceres\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)\" class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe term moon has likewise changed over the millennia. Every culture had a name for our companion in the night sky; how could they not? It would be interesting to compile a list of all the names for the Moon, but we must acknowledge that any such list would be incomplete. There are hundreds of vanished cultures, many of whom never had a written language, whose name for the Moon we will never know!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDr. Barth helps us understand the cultural and scientific reasons for classifications of these orbiting bodies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon this episode of  'How Do You KNOW?'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"How Do You KNOW? Index of Programs\" href=\"https:\/\/explorescientificusa.com\/pages\/explore-alliance-presents-how-do-you-know-with-dr-daniel-barth\"\u003eReturn to the How Do You KNOW? index of programs\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Explore Scientific","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46518264037516,"sku":"sku-40012274139308","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0577\/5858\/0876\/files\/HowDoYouKnow_COLORcopy_5cfb6704-b08b-4e13-9392-55cff2c4de81.png?v=1772695484","url":"https:\/\/gobekusa.com\/products\/explore-alliance-presents-how-do-you-know-episode-15-identifying-and-classifying-moons","provider":"GobekUSA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}