Pluto - February 18

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Today is Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day and Pluto Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Misty Copeland

• Firing Line - Misty Copeland
• To The Contrary - Misty Copeland Discusses the History and Future of Ballet
• Open Studio with Jare Brown - Misty Copeland Broke Barriers and Made History
• American Masters - Misty Copeland American Ballet Theatre Soloist

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Pluto

ON THIS DATE

• 1885  - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published.
• 1930 -  Clyde Tombaugh finds photographic evidence of Pluto.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1848 - Stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany
• 1931 - Novelist Toni Morrison*
• 1950 - Director John Hughes
• 1950 - Actor Cybill Shepherd
• 1954 - Actor John Travolta
• 1968 - Actor Molly Ringwald

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Gustav Holst - Pluto: The Renewer - LISTEN
• Bjork - Pluto - LISTEN
• Sufjan Stevens - Pluto - LISTEN

THEME: PLUTO

• Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go!  - Dear Little Frozen Pluto (1:09) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go!   - Pluto is Not a Planet (1:44) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Is Pluto a Planet? (6:06) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Chasing Pluto (53:07) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Why Study Pluto and Dwarf Planets? (3:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Changing Views of Pluto - VIEW, READ, DO (Available in Spanish) - (5:15)
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Pluto, A Dwarf Planet in the Kuiper Belt (4:58) - VIEW, READ, DO 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Is Pluto a Planet? (14:03) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  Be Smart - What Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto? (5:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Star Gazers - What Happened To Pluto? (4:30) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339