Ninth Planet Beverage Solutions

Unlike brown glass bottles, there is absolutely zero chance that any light will penetrate the packaging and adversely affect the beverage contents.

They are cheaper to ship than glass, easier for consumers to carry, and therefore more likely to be carried to a greater variety of places including the great outdoors.

No can will ever become a safety hazard after being mistakenly dropped on the floor. For this reason, cans are the preferred packaging for many outdoor venues such as parks, pools, beaches, boats and golf courses as well as places where large groups of people gather, such as stadiums, concert venues, festivals and commuter transit terminals.

The space efficient design of cans allows more units to fit in a defined space, such as a manufacturer or distributor’s cold box, a shipping container or truck, a retailer’s shelves, and a consumer’s fridge.

The conductivity of metal is greater than glass. This allows cans, and their liquid contents, to be cooled significantly quicker than glass bottles.

The physical aspects of cans make them an attractive choice to bring anywhere and everywhere that a person could possibly want to enjoy a beverage.

The larger surface area of cans allows for greater and more diverse product marketing opportunities.

All of these beneficial characteristics have been embraced en masse by craft breweries and RTD beverage producers, but it is a recent phenomenon. A contract brewery in Wisconsin sold the first canned craft beer in 1991, but it was only in 2002 that the first craft brewery began packaging their own production into cans. RTD beverages in cans are even more recent.

Pluto is very, very far from the sun, and quite dark as a result.

Pluto is a minor or dwarf planet, and is now recognized as such because it is so small in mass that its orbit does not dominate the area around it.

While Pluto was still considered a full on planet, it was the only planet with no oxygen whatsoever in its atmosphere—instead the atmosphere is composed of nitrogen and carbon-oxygen bonded atoms among other gases.

Part of the reason that the ninth planet was “plutoed” is that it exists within the Kuiper asteroid belt, a collection of many other objects including similar dwarf planets.

Being one of the furthest known objects from the sun makes Pluto very cold and the distance rather easily keeps it so cold.

Pluto does not have a regular, near-circular orbit the way Earth or other planets do—it is rarely ever in the same place at the same time each year.

Pluto was selected as 2006’s word of the year for its use as a verb—demoted and devalued, Pluto has gained a new awareness and widespread group of admirers as a result.

Pluto was reclassified in 2006 from its status as the ninth planet to a dwarf planet.

NASA’s New Horizons space probe finally reached Pluto in 2015 and the images (like the one in the background) and information being transmitted back to Earth will continue to change and evolve our understanding of Pluto.