Ylurus, My Planet

Ylurus

Ylurus is a small planet at the end of our solar system. When you look at it with a telescope you can see that it has the colour red. Scientists think that fires are ruling the planet and that it always is warm on Ylurus. We haven’t found any concrete life on the planet yet, but there has been made a discovery that there might be water fog on some parts of the planet. The water means that there is a little chance for life to live. It’s actually just theories, because if it would be true, the water would have turned into steam and disappeared as fast as it came into the area of Ylurus. 

Ylurus was discovered in 1999. Until now, scientists didn’t have many interested reactions to the planet. They always thought it was to small to even care about. This changed fast as the satellite Pluto was sent out to the area where Uranus, Pluto and Ylurus were. They saw that Ylurus was bigger than they had thought and that it was red. This confused the scientists. Because why would a planet be red as fire if it was in the end of the solar system, which means that it’s always cold? 

In April 2015 NASA will send another, better satellite to take pictures and maybe even land on the planet. Questions like if the red colour really is fire or what the mysterious fog actually is will hopefully be answered by 2020, when/if the satellite is planned to return to the Earth.