8 planets in our solar system! 8 سیاره های منظومه شمسی

Experts say Pluto is NOT a planet

Loads of school textbooks are going to have to be rewritten after it was decided Pluto is NOT a planet anymore.
Pluto has been called a planet since it was discovered in 1930, but now a meeting of important astronomers has decided it isn't.
Until Thursday it was the smallest of nine planets in the solar system. Now there are only eight left.
The decision was made by about 3,000 space experts in the Czech Republic, who have re-named Pluto a dwarf planet.
At the meeting the experts agreed for the first time a set of rules that will decide what is and what isn't a planet.
Pluto will now be known as a dwarf planet, as will two other space objects that were being discussed at the meeting, Ceres and Xena.
The decision to take away Pluto's status hasn't been made because it is much smaller than the remaining eight planets.
Instead, the rule that it broke is about its orbit, which crosses the orbit of its neighbouring planet Neptune.

Obesity چاقی و ضررهای آن

One million kids 'obese by 2010'

One in five children living in England could be dangerously overweight by the year 2010, according to a report.
It found a million kids aged between two and 15, along with 12 million adults, could be obese by then unless they are given help to get fit.
People who are seriously overweight are at risk of developing poor health such as problems with their heart.
The report also found that kids with two obese parents are five times more likely to be dangerously overweight.
The results were announced a day after politician Caroline Flint was given the job as 'minister for fitness'.
She will have to come up with ideas for how to get people more active and more into doing sport.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has said that parents should seriously think about how they can help make their children's lifestyles healthier.

Talk about your eating habits. How can we stay healthy?

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Too sweet swimشنای شیرین در خمره کاکائو در

US man gets trapped in chocolate

It may seem like heaven to some people, but for a US man, being trapped in a vat of chocolate wasn't so sweet.
No-one is quite sure how the 21-year-old man ended up in the giant container at a chocolate factory, but it took two hours to get him out.
Some reports suggest the man fell into the vat while others say he climbed in to sort out a problem.
Rescuers had to mix cocoa butter into the chocolate to make it thin enough to pull the man out of.

The unlucky man had to go to hospital after the incident, but he's okay now.
The local police chief in Wisconsin said the chocolate was "pretty thick" and admitted he'd never heard of anything quite like it.

Health Quiz تست سلامت

Quiz: Healthy eating

Question 1
How often should you eat fish, according to experts?
A: Once a week B: Twice a week C: Every day
Question 2
What contains the most vitamin C?
A: Milk B: Sprouts C: Oranges
Question 3
How much water do experts reckon people should drink every day?
A: 1 litre B: 2 litres C: 3 litres
Question 4
How much calcium do our bodies need to be healthy?
A: 100 mg per day B: 400 mg per day C: 700 mg per day
Question 5
Which fat is the worst type for our health?
A: Polyunsaturated fat B: Saturated fat C : Monounsaturated fat
Question 6
What percentage of our daily calorie intake (energy) should come from carbohydrates?
A: 50 per cent B: 80 per cent C: 100 per cent


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The proposed new planetsسیارات منظومه شمسی زیاد می شوند؟

Number of planets set to rocket

It looks like school books will have to be re-written as space experts are set to overhaul our Solar System!
The number of planets around the Sun could rise from nine to 12 - and that number may even rocket!
Experts are re-thinking what should be called a planet because of the discovery of space objects bigger than our smallest planet Pluto.
In a new proposal, these objects would become planets, but they would be called plutons.
Plutons would include Pluto, its moon Charon, a new object UB313, which is nicknamed Xena, and the largest asteroid Ceres.
About 3,000 astronomers are meeting in the Czech Republic and the final decision will be made on 24 August.
The new plan would see eight ordinary 'classical' planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - and four plutons - Pluto, Charon, Xena and Ceres.

Plutons would differ from ordinary planets in that they have orbits round the Sun that take longer than 200 years to complete and their orbits are not circular.

New category
Top space expert Professor Owen Gingerich said: "In a sense we're demoting Pluto by taking it off the list of classical planets.
"But we're promoting it by making it the prototype - the first of its kind - of this new category of plutons."

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