Word: pluto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, televiewers had a look this week at Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, Goofy and other characters in the enchanted animal kingdom created during the past twelve years by Walt Disney. The Christmas Day offering was put together by sponsor Coca-Cola in a $150,000 package called One Hour in Wonderland. Filmed in ten days at the Disney Studio in Burbank, Calif., the show had a plot line (a Christmas party on a sound stage), supporting actors (Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Bobby Driscoll), a jazz band and a parcel of applauding teen-agers (including Disney...
Most televiewers would have preferred fewer human actors and more Disney cartoons. What they saw was some polished foolery in bits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Song of the South, The Clock Cleaners and a chase sequence featuring Pluto and a vindictive bulldog. The bonus offering was a "thumbnail" preview of the Mad Tea Party scene from the new Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, scheduled for release late in 1951. Alice boasts the usual high level of Disney invention: Ed Wynn's voice is dubbed in for the Hatter, Jerry Colonna's strident accents...
...Gerard P. Kuiper's closeup of Pluto with the 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, which revealed the planet to be 3,550 miles in diameter (a previous estimate: about twice this size) and the second smallest planet in the solar system (TIME, June...
...Pluto, the outermost planet of the solar system, is so small, dim and far away (3.7 billion miles) that astronomers have seen it only as a point of light like a star, have had to estimate its size by calculating the apparent effect of its gravitation upon the motion of Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...
Using the great telescope visually (it is normally used as a camera), Dr. Kuiper caught Pluto on a night of unusually good "seeing." The disc was clear enough and steady enough to be measured with a special instrument. It proved to be only 3,600 miles in diameter. So Pluto has less than half the earth's diameter (7,920 miles) and is about one-tenth its mass. It is slightly larger than Mercury and considerably smaller than Mars, less than one five-hundredth the size of its neighbor Neptune (over 30,000 miles in diameter...