Pluto is a planet!

cleanbluesky · 1 Sep 2006 at 22:59

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/sc_nm/space_pluto_dc

For shame on those who say it is not...

asim · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:04

Make up your mind people!!!

This must be a really good one for game shows. "How many planets are there"..... uhh uhh.

Sequoia · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:08

asim said:
Make up your mind people!!!

This must be a really good one for game shows. "How many planets are there"..... uhh uhh.

Easy.

Is it an even-numbered week or an odd-numbered one?

Odd numbered? Oh, it must be 8 this week, then.

agw_01 · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:08

WTF?!?!

Who makes up these rules?

beaNN · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:09

Make ya minds up!

malfunkshun · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:11

I wonder how many dissenting scientists are American. No offence but it is the only planet that an American discovered, IIRC

Jokester · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:12

I wouldn't class Pluto as a planet for the simple fact that it crosses the orbit of a larger body. But the current definition is a shambles.

Jokester

Sleepy · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:56

cleanbluesky said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/sc_nm/space_pluto_dc

For shame on those who say it is not...

Well if you know what a planet is then give us your definition.

In the other thread on this subject you'll find lots of reason why this IAU decision is considered ill thought out at worst and temporary at best.

Lord_Kokain · 2 Sep 2006 at 00:11

omg! Just make up your mind about what it is! I cant live with the bothering thought of not knowing what Pluto is...

Kreeeee · 2 Sep 2006 at 00:12

Wyrdo · 2 Sep 2006 at 00:26

Kreeeee said:
What's with posting every article to appear on BBCNews,/Yahoo/CNN?

Obviously most of us don't venture outside of OcUK and have to have news brought in.

Greenlizard0 · 2 Sep 2006 at 00:52

Kreeeee said:
What's with posting every article to appear on BBCNews,/Yahoo/CNN?

I don't really mind when news articles are brought in. I just hate it when a glut of similar ones are threaded and don't do anything apart from post count +1/evoke the keyboard warrior within. I'm also not a fan of link and runs./OT

I thought it had to be a planet because it had Charon orbiting it? I don't know I've not studied the planets for ages. Saying that there was this programme on UKTVhistory tonight as far as I can remember.

Mindriot · 2 Sep 2006 at 01:18

Why i believe Pluto is not a planet:

1. It orbits on a completely different plane to the rest of the planets
2. For some of its orbit, it is closer to the sun than Neptune is
3. If's moon is so much larger in proportion to the "planet" itself than any other planet in the solar system
4. More pluto-like objects are being discovered at an alarming rate
5. It is basically just a very very cold rock with even less going on than all other planets.

Also partly because of the fact that it's the only planet America has discovered as mentionned before.

ps. Mindriot - physics student!

cleanbluesky · 2 Sep 2006 at 01:20

I think we need 13 planets TBH. Or maybe 12, and the sun.

Bear that in mind at all times while playing planet accountancy.

G|mp · 2 Sep 2006 at 01:24

Hes a dog you dumbass :rolleyes:

Amp34 · 2 Sep 2006 at 01:29

My geology degree will be interesting next year. Theres a whole Unit on space and the solar system. :eek:

I can see he point of the nay sayers but I think pluto has been classed a planet too long for its status to be taken away. Make it 12 not 9!

Sleepy · 2 Sep 2006 at 01:34

Mindriot said:
Why i believe Pluto is not a planet:

3. If's moon is so much larger in proportion to the "planet" itself than any other planet in the solar system

That could just make it a double planet.

cleanbluesky said:
I think we need 13 planets TBH. Or maybe 12, and the sun.

Bear in mind that as more of the sky is surveyed off the ecliptic more KBOs will be found, the predictions for the number of Pluto size KBO's that will be found range from 30 to hundreds. Thats a lot of new planets to learn the names of.

G|mp said:
Hes a dog you dumbass

Amp34 · 2 Sep 2006 at 01:39

Sleepy said:
Bear in mind that as more of the sky is surveyed off the ecliptic more KBOs will be found, the predictions for the number of Pluto size KBO's that will be found range from 30 to hundreds. Thats a lot of new planets to learn the names of.

/70 years time

"In my day there were only 9 planets"

grandkids "GASP" :eek:

Zip · 2 Sep 2006 at 02:01

If Pluto does stay demoted then we will need to think of a new saying to remember them

Ive come up with: My Very Elderly Mother Jumped Someone Up North

Cybermyk · 2 Sep 2006 at 02:18

Zip said:
Ive come up with: My Very Elderly Mother Jumped Someone Up North

That's a damned lie son, we were just good friends

My thought on Pluto is, if "they" told me red is not a colour or the Pacific is not an ocean, they'd have to have a better reason than it not fitting into one of "their" categories. It's a planet because it's always been described as such and people like it that way.

Pluto is a planet!

Wise Guy