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Alas, poor Pluto

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It's official, Pluto has been stripped of it's status as a planet:

Pluto Demoted

It kind of saddens me, I always liked the little bugger.
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That was the funniest news today! I really laughed at the debate which cosmic objects to call "planet" and which not... :lol:

R.I.P. Pluto
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Uhm.... How the hell do you demote a planet?
They can't say it's not a planet anymore... It's not right :S
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Sad for Pluto, but I'm delighted that there will probably be several more planets, including Xena and its (her?) moon Gabriella! Hillarious...
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Well, they did it because otherwise we´d soon have around 20 to 30 planets. Pluto is very different from the planets (I almost wrote "the other planets, but that would´ve been wrong now :P ), both in the plane of rotation as well as the form of its rotation. The planets could all be said to rotate on a single plain, as if on a disc, but not pluto.
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Good. The only reason it was ever made a planet in the first place was because it was the only one discovered by an American...
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The debate on what is a planet and what isn't kind of reminds me of the philosophical/mathematical question: how many rocks do you need to have a big pile?

It has long been suspected that Pluto was more of a big clot of space debris, rather than a planet.
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Why now? Just when I got used to good old Pluto, they kick him off... :lol:
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But Pluto was never a planet. He was a dog... :P
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On the plus side for poor Pluto all the other "planet things" have been named after it, they are called Plutons.
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Just when I got used to good old Pluto, they kick him off...
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Post by Kreoss »

Well I heard that if all Pluto's ice were to melt, it'd be about the size of our moon. So that's doesn't exactly sound like a planet to me.

I heven't heard much about these other planets that may be added, though...
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*Sniff* I heard of this the other day, I was most dismayed :(. That whole primary school rhyme for remembering planet names is ruined...what are you supposed to remember naming?? :P
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How about a team "Pluto"? ...
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now its screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alas, poor pluto indeed!
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Ant wrote:Good. The only reason it was ever made a planet in the first place was because it was the only one discovered by an American...


Typical Brits, just jealous that it took a German (Uranus) and a Frenchman (Neptune) to legitimately discover the last couple that the ancients didn't...

I'm sad to see it go, one of the first in the piles of mnemonics I have learned was those in elementary school when I remembered the order of the planets by:

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Now what I am going to do with this? The best part is gone.

However it will always be a planet to me. God Bless America, and the Planet Pluto.
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how bout this langmann?

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When it comes to shoring up british pride, I think Pluto was named by a british girl ;)

I was liked the aura of mystery surrounding pluto. It should be a planet, not some psuedo-planet...
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just you watch pluto will be the only planet with intelegent life and when they here we have kicked them out of the club they will be pissed. other than that i just wish they could leave well enough alone.

p.s. i think they did this for the money. they get to sell all new books on the solar system to all the schools :shock: that is a ton of money.
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its been a planet for 70 years, and i was taught it was a planet at school, its still a planet in my book. litterally :P
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Post by Kreoss »

crazyhorse wrote:p.s. i think they did this for the money. they get to sell all new books on the solar system to all the schools :shock: that is a ton of money.


I doubt it, new science/astonomy books come out at least every two years. Unless you're in a really poor private school, than your school has been buying new ones fairly often.

The reason they did it is because there were tons of other celestial objects that would have to be called planets if they kept Pluto as one. So they dropped Pluto to avoid a dozen new "planets".
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Post by Crazyhorse »

ok, ok ruin my dreams with your knowledge. however what Acronym will be used to help kids remember the order now? i don't remeber the ones i heard on npr today (wait wait don't tell me i think) forgive spelling in hurry :oops:
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Post by Tezrek »

Well Kreoss, your argument here sound reasonable enough, althougt I can't stop myself to think it's kind of strange. Pluto is a important part of the Cthulhu Mythos and even of Starship Trooper and certainly many other fantasie/Sci-fi thingie. Man, that's like a witch hunt of sort. Remember what they to Copernic? Well it's Pluto turn now to be shutted up...
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Do you know what this will REALLY mess up?, Astrology, Know that Pluto is gone, that changes everything. Make no mistake, I also miss Pluto. Still, it is sort of funny when you think about, " Bad accidents will happen to you because of the planet Plu.. I mean Venus is at a wierd angle." :D
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A tragedy of truly epic proporortions

which starsign has pluto as their planet? you guys must be gutted now...
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