Pluto Not a Planet?

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  1. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    Why? What's the big deal? It's just a chunk of ice waddling along somewhere out there. *points vaguely upwards*
     
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    Telcontar Well-Known Member

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    Well what the hell are they going to use the word "pluto" for now?
    And it's not like anybody is going to forget what is is, i.e. a planet.
    ITS DISPICABLE I TELL YOU ALL!
     
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    The Pluto is the same kind of planet as the Jupiter is baby-star. Pluto is just a big asteroid: it's similar to them in "materials" and it has shape of something average between an oval and sphere like asteroids. And who cares what's it if nobody lives there?
     
  7. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    I've always known that Pluto was the last planet found in around about 1930. If they take that away from me, what will I do for astronomy questions in trivia competitions?

    Edit astrology istead of astronomy
     
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    For astrology questions you just must tell you borned under the influence of Fish or Virgin (or any Zodiak sign) upon the Sun or Mercury. But the astronomy question would be incredibly shitty. :)
     
  9. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    Thanks for picking that up. Astronomy questions can be damned hard.
     
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    Just say "kvazar" and all of them would fall in awe.
     
  11. Xz

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    Isn't it like two weeks since they made that decsision? In anycase the so called clear definition of a planet isn't so clear. In anycase it means that Uranus isn't a planet either.

    One of the criterias was something like "A planet must have cleared it's way around the sun" And because Uranus overlapped Plutos way, it couln't be considered a planet. But if this si true then pluto must also overlap Uranuses way which would downgrade Uranus aswell.
     
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    Pluto's King of the Kieper belt. There's actually a whole mess of pluto's out there, basically another asteroid belt, just past lump-of-rock pluto. Heck, pluto's 'moon' is almost the same size and they both orbit one another, no wonder it lost its status.

    Here's a question for you though, why aren't the moon's planets too? Is it because they orbit another rock instead of the sun?
     
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    I think I heard they used the word pluton (sic) for a waddling-rock-and-ice-chunk-spinning-somewhere-out-there-and-of-sort-of-Pluto's-size.

    So something good did come out of this, and Pluto's memory will live forever, echoing down the halls of terrestrial astronomy.

    Or whatever.
     
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    Meh whatever the name is used for now, people will still think of the planet until it becomes bred out of the population, which could take quite a while.
     
  15. Vorak

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    Well it was only a planet for 76 years.
     
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    And everyone knows it is or was a planet. I just dont see it's denouncement as a planet being accepted, after 76 years.
     
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    Considering the denouncement was made by the Astronomical fraternity itself and that Pluto's planet status has always been in question ever since it was discovered, I don't see why anyone wouldn't accept it.
     
  18. Vorak

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    Well people can be pretty stuborn about this sort of thing.
     
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    And until people start dying, they won't accept anything new.
     
  20. Grossenschwamm

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    Yes, killing in the name of Pluto, the planet that isn't.
    I can see it now;
    "Tens of people are enraged over Pluto's loss of its planetary status. Shortly after the Astronomical Fraternity's statement thus, some thirty-four irate amateur stargazers stormed an observatory, in the hopes of decapitating the head of operations there.
    The rebellion was quelled when three police officers with traffic cones stood in the angry mob's way, saying, 'Go home.'
    The tiny militia's plans foiled, they returned home, where they would look up japanese cartoon pornography, and fondle themselves to the web phenomenon known only as Loituma."
     
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