Pluto not a planet anymore

[thegathering]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

who's definition? not mine! What planet are you from?

I know it, you know it, THEY know it - lets stop pretending they are planets and call them what they really are.

rocks?

[Richard Wallace]

What's all the fuss about? It's not like some secret board of inquisitors met and voted to kick Pluto out of the solar system! It's still there!

Besides, NASA already launched the mission to go look at Pluto, hopefully arriving on the scene circa ten years hence. It's probably too late to turn back now.

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by Richard

Besides, NASA already launched the mission to go look at Pluto, hopefully arriving on the scene circa ten years hence. It's probably too late to turn back now.

I watched this launch go up

Man, New Horizons is going to be really confused once it gets to its destination.

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

who's definition? not mine! What planet are you from?

This whole thing stemmed from the lack of a true definition of planet until they voted on one this morning. Now there is a unified definition agreed upon by astronomers. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...24-pluto_x.htm (see the sidebar for the actual resolution)

Remember Ceres was once a planet as well, not just an asteroid. Also Pluto's statis has been debated since it's discovery in 1930 which isn't that long considering how long we've known about many of the other planets.

[Greg Marra]

Man, if Pluto wasn't a planet in 3rd grade I would have had a way easier time on that Solar System test.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by mocat1530

They can still keep Disney happy...My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Dwarfs (for all the dwarf planets)

First, the speed of light is found not to be a constant, now Pluto is not a planet, when will the insanity ever end?!?

When they find a strange black monolith on the moon.

[JaneYoung]

The revolving styrofoam ball solar system for science fairs -
somehow changed with time, no longer the same
Pluto - the unplanet, always dwarfed in size, now a true dwarf -
- still revolving, still styrofoam or no?

[KenWittlief]

Pluto has become the underdog of our solar system

When it was discovered they named it after the god of the underworld,

and now to add further insult its been demoted to drawf status.

I would not be one bit surprized if Pluto decided to go rouge, and wander off through the Galaxy alone, taking one of its moons with it, and flinging the other in our direction in a parting shot.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

and now to add further insult its been demoted to drawf status.

They demoted it further from "dwarf" to "drawf"!?!?! Cwazy scientists and being mean to little 'ol Pluto

[Peter Matteson]

I have no words to describe my feelings on what this says about our society. I will now go curl up in a fetal position and wait for the apocolypse.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/bench...on_sues_i.html

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

I have no words to describe my feelings on what this says about our society. I will now go curl up in a fetal position and wait for the apocolypse.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/bench...on_sues_i.html

Well, guess anyone who chooses to live on a rock where the average temperature is real close to absolute zero, and it takes about four hours for radio signals from Earth to reach them, probably has standing to sue if they want.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

I have no words to describe my feelings on what this says about our society. I will now go curl up in a fetal position and wait for the apocolypse.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/bench...on_sues_i.html

This just means we are attached to our planets by more than mere gravity.

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

I have no words to describe my feelings on what this says about our society. I will now go curl up in a fetal position and wait for the apocolypse.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/bench...on_sues_i.html

Hey! Now how long would it have taken for our television broadcasts to reach pluto? The residents shouldn't even be aware yet that their meteor isn't even a real planet anymore.

[KenWittlief]

The world has not heard the end of this incident, not by a long shot.

There is a huge grass roots ground swell of rebellion, esp in the US.

After all, Pluto is the only planet that was honored with a Beatles song being dedicated to it, complete with 9 minutes of actual radio transmission from the distant world: Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine.

The rebellion has started: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/.../selling_pluto