Pluto is out!

[DQuaN]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/5282440.stm

To me this makes much more sence than making Ceres, Charon and 2003 UB313 Planets. 8 is better than 12!

 

[Nøz]

OMG! no more pretending I live on pluto then

 

[Flerbizky]

Good thing we got rid of that. There's too many planets in the solar system anyway...

Anyone remember Abe Simpson writing the President ?.. ."There are too many states in America - Please eliminate at least two" ? :-)

 

[Gabkicks]

i thought i read somewhere this week that it was decided for pluto to be kept a planet at this meeting?

 

[Solid Lifters]

I saw this on the local news a while ago. One less planet for kids to learn about.

 

[Pupik]

There's always a bunch of jealous Clyde Tombaugh-haters out there taking away his claim to fame.

Elliptical orbit, or not, it's still a planet, it's even got it's own satellite (Charon). Of course, there's that other more distant, and larger-than-Pluto planet out there...which is also not considered.

Of course, Famine's going to come by and tell us all that it shouldn't be a planet, and that will be the end of it.

Why can't the IAU do something more important, such as removing the Air Pump constellation? And just combine Ursa Major and Minor into the "Pots and Pans".

 

[Nøz]

Good thing we got rid of that. There's too many planets in the solar system anyway

does GTPlanet count?

 

[Alex.]

he'll be back when they find out an evil ice squid is living on pluto

 

[Flerbizky]

does GTPlanet count?

GTPlanet can stay... For now...

 

[NSX-R]

There's always a bunch of jealous Clyde Tombaugh-haters out there taking away his claim to fame.

Elliptical orbit, or not, it's still a planet, it's even got it's own satellite (Charon). Of course, there's that other more distant, and larger-than-Pluto planet out there...which is also not considered.

Of course, Famine's going to come by and tell us all that it shouldn't be a planet, and that will be the end of it.

Why can't the IAU do something more important, such as removing the Air Pump constellation? And just combine Ursa Major and Minor into the "Pots and Pans".

There is a distinct possibility that they WILL come up with a new category for this... thingy...

Great, one more thing to learn...

 

[DQuaN]

Why can't the IAU do something more important, such as removing the Air Pump constellation? And just combine Ursa Major and Minor into the "Pots and Pans".

 

[Omnis]

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.

... there goes my catchy phrase thingy that I made up in 2nd grade. Why talk about pickles and pie when you can talk about planets?

Apparently, Geologists are pissed because they want to call pluto, ceres, charon, and UB Plutons.

 

[FoolKiller]

This is something that would have eventually had to happen as our abilitiesw to study atronomy become better and better. Eventually we would be finidng all these little things out on the outskirts that are bigger than Pluto and maybe even have their own small satellites. Eventually we would have been looking at hundreds of objects that could have technically been called a planet as long as Pluto was.

This will also help us identify planets as we begin to discover other star systems in our galaxy. Once an object orbiting a star is identified a few "simple" tests can be used to judge if it fits this definition. If not mark it down for later study and add it to the record books and keep looking for planets. If it does then begin studying it in depth in order to discover what kind of planet it is and if there are any observable signs of life.

While I would enjoy hanging on to the nine planet system that I learned in grade school I think that this is for the best. Now I just need to reprogram my brain to not automatically say nine whenever someone asks how many planets there are in our solar system. I also have to go destroy my solar system model I built in eight grade as it should now be worth a failing grade.

 

[TheCracker]

...opps, sorry - i thought this was a thread about a gay cartoon dog.

 

[NSX-R]

Did you HAVE TO mention that?

 

[Nøz]

GTPlanet can stay... For now...

why don't they teach you about GTPlanet in school?

GTPlanet is the BEST planet in the solar system & will (hopefully) NEVER dissapear or blow up or not get counted as a planet any more or...um...can't think of anything else to say!!

 

[PLmatt91]

Fantastic.

 

[Evolution.]

Convenient that it happened the day school started for us. Our first lesson is the solar system and the 9 (8) planets.

 

[Kylehnat]

Man, talk about rejection. I hope Pluto doesn't make the mistake of getting a rebound fling too quickly. There's a lot of mean solar systems out there that will take advantage of a poor, depressed, little ex-planet.

 

[Famine]

Elliptical orbit, or not, it's still a planet, it's even got it's own satellite (Charon). Of course, there's that other more distant, and larger-than-Pluto planet out there...which is also not considered.

Of course, Famine's going to come by and tell us all that it shouldn't be a planet, and that will be the end of it.

Hell yeah.

Ida - an asteroid only 31km across - has its own satellite, called Dactyl. Should that be a planet? In fact Pluto doesn't have a satellite. Pluto and Charon orbit around a point which isn't within either body, making them a binary pair, rather than satellite/planet system.

If an astronaut to Mars took a leak, midway, out of the poop-chute, the blob of urine would form itself into a "hydrostatic equilbrium" (spheroid) and orbit the Sun. Would that be a planet?


Pluto is the lollygagger of the Solar System. Everyone was so desperate to find a 9th planet that when they found a big thing sort-of going round the Sun, they called it the 9th Planet automatically, without bothering to check. It's about time the apron strings were cut.

 

[OZZYGT]

Hell yeah.

Ida - an asteroid only 31km across - has its own satellite, called Dactyl. Should that be a planet? In fact Pluto doesn't have a satellite. Pluto and Charon orbit around a point which isn't within either body, making them a binary pair, rather than satellite/planet system.

If an astronaut to Mars took a leak, midway, out of the poop-chute, the blob of urine would form itself into a "hydrostatic equilbrium" (spheroid) and orbit the Sun. Would that be a planet?


Pluto is the lollygagger of the Solar System. Everyone was so desperate to find a 9th planet that when they found a big thing sort-of going round the Sun, they called it the 9th Planet automatically, without bothering to check. It's about time the apron strings were cut.

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Ciao!

 

[Law93]

aw......that cuts out people saying ALIENS are from there.......oh well....

 

[WallRunner]

Darn, now i'm going to have to learn all the planets, again........

Murcury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. plu...wait now i can only say that if im talking about a dog!






<---------Didn't you know im from pluto

From,
Wall51

 

[Black Bird]

I guess Sailor Pluto no longer exists.

 

[red70mach1]

Progress, I'm questioning right now with these astronomers.

 

[OZZYGT]

Maybe he got deported (pluto) because he didn't have a green card at all and the INS department found out about that.



Ciao!

 

[guska]

But Pluto was my favorite planet, all small and distant and alone...poor poor pluto.

If an astronaut to Mars took a leak, midway, out of the poop-chute, the blob of urine would form itself into a "hydrostatic equilbrium" (spheroid) and orbit the Sun. Would that be a planet?

^^^Sigged^^^

 

[DQuaN]

I guess Sailor Pluto no longer exists.

That was Bluto.

 

[FoolKiller]

This morning on the radio they were trying to figure out if the ACLU or some other civil rights group will get involved because Pluto got kicked out for being a dwarf planet...err little planet (you have to stay politically correct).

I mean, really, little planets have rights too!

 

[HACKr]

They got bored and just decided to kick it out for the hell of it.