My Dear Pluto…

Hello – Funny One here. Today is Pluto. Is it a planet or not? It was a planet for 76 years until it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. It’s the farthest planet from the Sun and also the smallest planet. It’s atmosphere is composed of a thin layer of gas containing carbon monoxide, methane, and nitrogen. The atmospheric pressure has been estimated to be 1/700,000 compared with that of Earth. It’s the only planet to have been discovered in the Twentieth Century. Pluto has 5 moons. In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god of the underworld. I still think that Pluto is a planet. My picture is of me on Pluto which is now American.

I’ve drawn another “Funny One” cartoon.  Another attempt at getting into America. One Day I will return.

#3 “Funny One’s Gonna Fly Now”

Holy Neptune!

Hello Funny One here. Today’s planet is Neptune. It’s named after the Roman god of the sea. The picture is of me as a mermaid. It would be so cool to be a mermaid. Ok, back to the planet. It’s the eighth planet from the Sun in our solar system. It has 13 moons, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larisaa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe and Neso. It’s a gas planet so it doesn’t have a hard surface.

I’ve drawn another “Funny One Cartoon” today. I’m trying a boat instead on a plane. “Funny One Goes boating”

#2 Funny One Goes Boating

The Days Never End on Mercury

Hello, It’s the Funny One. As I’ve finished doing the glourious 50 states of America, I thought I’d do something different. I thought I’d go out of this world and draw the planets. The picture is of me on Mercury. It’s like a cartoon picture as anything is possible in cartoons.

What do we know about Mercury? Well, Mercury and Venus can each make appearances in Earth’s sky both as a morning star and an evening star because they are closer to the sun than the Earth. At times, Mercury can technically be regarded as a very bright object when viewed from Earth; but its proximity in the sky to the Sun makes it more difficult to see than Venus. Did you know that the sun appears 2 and a half times larger in Mercury’s sky compared to the Earth’s? Mercury has almost no atmosphere. It has a very small amount of it and it consists of minute quantities of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Sodium, Potassium and argon. A day on Mercury is equivalent to 176 Earth Days. Now that’s a long day! Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, it’s not the warmest. (That’s Venus!) Mercury can actually be one of the coldest planets in the solar system. Mercury orbits around the sun in a wild non-circular orbit that takes it as close as 47 million km and as far as 70 million km from the Sun. Mercury was named after the Roman mythological messenger god. In Roman mythology, he was the god of commerce and rhetoric, who also acted as a messenger between humans and gods. His symbol is the caduceus which is a winged staff entwined with two serpents. Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the solar system, and has a rocky form like the Earth. It’s surface resembles the moon’s. The largest known crater is the Caloris Basin and it’s diameter is 1,550 km.