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Originally posted by Nerdling
I'm throwing an official strop over this one.
Just think of all the out of date textbooks and confusion this will bring.
hmph.
Under a new definition approved on August 24, 2006, 2003 UB313 was designated a "dwarf planet".[2]
Originally posted by D4rk Kn1ght
To deny pluto planet status just because its far away and smaller than every thing else appears at first glance lunacy. (No pun intended).
As an amateur astronomer, I cannot for the life of me see why they have taken away Pluto's planet status.
Originally posted by Shar
Can someone tell me what Pluto is now. If Pluto is not a planet what is it?
Originally posted by Apass
Originally posted by Shar
Can someone tell me what Pluto is now. If Pluto is not a planet what is it?
It was said already. A dwarf planet.
Originally posted by Apass
Originally posted by Shar
Can someone tell me what Pluto is now. If Pluto is not a planet what is it?
It was said already. A dwarf planet.
Originally posted by Shar
Once again this makes no sense cause their taking it out of text books etc.... so how can they call it a planet of any kind dwarf or anything.... a dwarf planet to me seems to say its still a planet that is not what they are saying. a dwarf star is still a star.
to say its a dwarf planet will be to leave it alone.
Originally posted by Shar
Originally posted by Apass
Originally posted by Shar
Can someone tell me what Pluto is now. If Pluto is not a planet what is it?
It was said already. A dwarf planet.
Once again this makes no sense cause their taking it out of text books etc.... so how can they call it a planet of any kind dwarf or anything.... a dwarf planet to me seems to say its still a planet that is not what they are saying. a dwarf star is still a star.
to say its a dwarf planet will be to leave it alone.
Originally posted by Vegemite
This is good. Pluto should have never been a planet
Originally posted by Vegemite
its just another kbo.
Originally posted by Vegemite
But i dont understand ehy peaple are so attached to pluto being a planet.
Originally posted by Vegemite
Its not like its being destroyed, its still there but labeled different.
Originally posted by Vegemite
Its like someone getting upset because some one decided that small donuts are gonna be called donettes
Originally posted by Timeseer
You are not smart enough to understand this subject. Please reframe from speaking any further.
This isn't a matter of destruction of physical objects. This is about the destruction of science and of the common man.
Let me ask you this at the meeting to discuss what Pluto should be identified as... do you honestly think there were any Middle Class people there? People who make less than a hundred thousand dollars a year.
Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
Originally posted by Blaine91555
Originally posted by Timeseer
You are not smart enough to understand this subject. Please reframe from speaking any further.
This isn't a matter of destruction of physical objects. This is about the destruction of science and of the common man.
Let me ask you this at the meeting to discuss what Pluto should be identified as... do you honestly think there were any Middle Class people there? People who make less than a hundred thousand dollars a year.
Whoa, dude. You need to cut back on the coffee a little. No way did this person deserve that.
Originally posted by spanishcaravan
Ok,well it seems no one posted the actual requirements laid out for being classified a planet,so here you go.
Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
Wired News article
I was skeptical before about the pluto drama going on,but i have to say that i agree with this recent decision. If we didnt then we would be calling numerous objects in the kaiper belt planets.
Originally posted by elitegamer23
lets just hope we dont piss any aliens off calling pluto a dwarF planet. this could lead to galactic war. im very sad to hear its been demoted. i grew up thinking there were 9 planets and pluto was always interesting because so little seemed to be known about it, and we never had awesome pics of it like the other 8. what about the probe we sent to pluto? now its just going to check out a "dwarf planet" . what a waste of money. jk. all i have left to say is................................ SAVE PLUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ps : cmdrkeenkid is on record i think saying pluto shouldnt be classified with the other 8. his word and thoughts on such mean alot, so i guess ill accept this fact that pluto is not longer the 9th planet. but damn lets all have a moment of silence for we lost one of our brothers. peace
[edit on 24-8-2006 by elitegamer23]
Originally posted by Edn
Timeseer I'm not exactly sure where your comeing from. What exactly is wrong with reclasifying Pluto as a Dwarf Planet?
Originally posted by Edn
The main reason this is needed is because we are finding more and more Pluto sized objects creating a new clasification for these tiny objects simply makes sense.
Originally posted by Edn
Take the following example you have a metre rule its what you mesure with and is what you have always measued with however everything you measue has always been a metre or more.
Originally posted by Edn
Now as the years go by you have to measue things smaller than a metre this is starting to pose a problem to you because you can only measue in metres so what do you do?
Originally posted by Edn
You create a new measurement to fit your situation thus the centimetre is born.
Originally posted by Edn
This is exactly the situation we are faceing now. 8 planets fine, 9 planets ok, but as the years go on were now finding 10-15-20 objects that are actually bigger then Pluto. Haveing 20 planets starts to complicate things so what it the easiest solution?
Originally posted by Edn
Split them up into catagorys and now we have Planets and Dwarf-Planets.