SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
Vol. 33, No. 37
Are you a careful reader?
Read the article below and see
if you can circle all eight errors.
Then, rewrite the article
correctly on a sheet of paper.
Pluto:
Is it a planet or not?
Billions of miles from Earth is tiny Pluto. We learned
more about it when a NASA spacecraft passed by it
for the very first time.
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There is a belt in the outer
Pluto was
discovered
February 18,
1930 by
scientists
at
the
Lowell
Observatory
in Arizona.
reaches of our solar system.
But it isnt a belt you can wear.
It’s called the Kuiper
(KY-ber) Belt and it is like a
large space road filled with
millions of object that are
Photo courtesy NASA
Visit Pluto. Lose Weight.
orbiting together.
To date, there are five objects orbiting the sun that are
called dwarf planets. Pluto is one of them. Write down
the letters on the correct path through this maze to
discover the name of another of the dwarf planets.
Millions of small, icee
object like asteroids, comics
and even dwarf planets like
Pluto are in the Kuiper Belt.
Even though Pluto is a little,
If you visited Pluto, you would weigh much less there than you do on
Earth. Do the math to find out how much less each person weighs on Pluto.
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dwarf planet in the Kuiper
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Belt, it is the largest object.
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Albert weighs 75 pounds on
Earth. He weighs (3+2)
____ pounds on Pluto.
Mrs. Aster weighs
120 pounds on Earth.
She weighs (12-4) _____
pounds on Pluto.
Cosmo the cat weighs
15 pounds on Earth.
He weighs (100-99)
___ pound on Pluto.
No spacecraft has ever
visited the Kuiper belt. The
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exciting news is that one is
on its way know. This is
NASA’s New Horizons
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mission which has flown by
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Pluto and is now on its way
to the Kuiper Belt. Hopefully
Circle every other letter to find the names of the
other three dwarf planets.
Mr. Wilson weighs 200
pounds on Earth. He weighs
just (7 + 7) ____ pounds
on Pluto.
An 80 lb. bag of cement on
Earth weighs only
(10 - 4) _____ pounds
on Pluto.
An elephant weighs
6,000 pounds on Earth.
It weighs (210 + 210)
_____ pounds on Pluto.
Use this chart to answer
these questions.
1. Pluto orbits the sun at a very
high rate of speed.
True
False
2. The diameter of Pluto is about
the same as the distance
between New York City and
Houston, Texas.
True
False
EARTH
3.6 BILLION MILES
248 EARTH YEARS
10.7 MILES PER HOUR
6.5 EARTH DAYS
1,473 MILES
5
93 MILLION MILES
365 DAYS
70,000 MILES PER HOUR
JUST A BIT OVER 24 HOURS
7,926 MILES
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DISTANCE FROM THE SUN
TIME TO ORBIT THE SUN
ORBIT SPEED
LENGTH OF DAY
DIAMETER
NUMBER OF MOONS
How Pluto Got Its Name
When Pluto was discovered in 1930, it was called simply,
Planet X. Because Pluto orbits in the dark, outer reaches
of space, the name of the Roman god of the underworld
seemed like a good fit to this clever namer.
Use the code to find out the name of the 11-year-old
English girl who suggested the name Pluto.
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fax about this huge region
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LOSE
MATH
which is so very fur away.
Pluto
Adjectives
Look through
the newspaper
to find five
adjectives
that describe
Pluto.
Complete the grid by using all the letters
in the word DWARF in each vertical and
horizontal row. Each letter should only
be used once in each row. Some spaces
have been filled in for you.
Standards Link:
Language Arts: Follow
simple written
directions.
I T R E L O S E D M
B L A L
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P L U T O R B
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H T E K A M E K A M
D L R O W R E D N U
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D H T N
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P L A N E T
This week’s word:
REGULAR
The adjective regular
means arranged in a
distinct pattern.
The desks were placed
at regular intervals.
Try to use the word
regular in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family.
Write Words
Wonderfully
Measure It!
There are so many things to measure in a
newspaper. Measure with a ruler and find out:
• The size of a person standing in a photo
• The length of the longest headline
• The length of the longest word you find
ANSWER: A rocket chip.
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
we will find out many new
Write a sentence in which all
of the words, or nearly all the
words start with the same
letter. Example: Red rockets
rarely reach radar range.
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