Pluto is no longer a planet.

[TigerRaptorFX]

This is kind of hard to except.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14489259

[Dipset]

I heard about this on the news today. I don't know what to personally make of this, since I'm not a scorpio, but I pretty much bet this is going to screw up elementary school lessons.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

We won't let Pluto be a planet but Solvania is still a country?

[Evil_Koala]

Bull ****!!!

[SangoStrummer]

And now 1+1=3 v.v

Y'all need to start moving with the times..

[Scandiadream]

I maintain the Juvenile Science collection at my library.

So you bet I will have A LOT of weeding and re-ordering to do during the next months.

Unless they revoke that decision, that is.

[blackknight]

This just beats the hell out of the mnemonics, doesn't it? And I heard a really good one recently.

Mickey verily evades Michael Jackson sniffing Underoos in Neverland Playhouse.

Then again, that one makes as much sense without Pluto as with it, so it all works out.

[Bradster]

So.... what exactly happened during my absence this afternoon that got the thread I made on this in the morning deleted?

[sailornyanko]

It was about time the sicentific community says what I've said for years: Pluto isn't a real planet anyways.

But I bet kids will get kicks driving their elementary teachers nuts with school projects of an 8 planet solar system.

[Evil_Koala]

Pluto!!!! We need you, without you...That episode of the Magic School bus will be useless! Damn you science! The one where Arnold took his helmet off and got frozen. :( We need to write a song about Pluto, in its memory.

[Meson]

Bah... This was so they didn't have to call Ceres a planet.

[Evil_Koala]

They didn't have to do anything. :( Life is a void. A void in which I have lost all faith in Science.

[ffl]

Pluto's an ice dwarf. It's just being classified differently and correctly now.

[Evil_Koala]

Pluto's an ice dwarf. It's just being classified differently and correctly now.

No way man. Pluto is a planet. Everything I've ever read and seen says that it is.

Damn this is almost as bad as the time I found out Jesus's real name was Yeshua...

[seba_boi]

I heard about this on the news today. I don't know what to personally make of this, since I'm not a scorpio, but I pretty much bet this is going to screw up elementary school lessons.Oh, man!... Sucks to be a Scorpio now... You got no more planet!!!

[neXus]

Take that Pluto! That'll teach ya to be 2.67 billion away. Maybe if you were more like Nepute...but its too late for that!

[seba_boi]

*points at Pluto* HA-HA!!!!

[Chousho]

But my science book would never lie to me!

If it did, then....

*looks at history book*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Undrave]

Who cares... it was about time they settled on an actual definition for 'Planet'. It was just an arbitrary term before but with all those (now classified as) plutonian object found beyond Pluto's orbit...

Hey at least it's moon Charon got a promotion XD it's a Plutonian Object too!

As I said in the previous thread that somehow got deleted: Pluto was the bottom of the barrel of planets and now it's the king of Plutonian Object, the template for 'em. Pluto didn't get demoted, it just got a better gig in a smaller company XD

[Mr. Nice]

Who cares... it was about time they settled on an actual definition for 'Planet'. It was just an arbitrary term before but with all those (now classified as) plutonian object found beyond Pluto's orbit...

Hey at least it's moon Charon got a promotion XD it's a Plutonian Object too!Actually, it's a Dwarf Planet, and the prototype for a yet unnamed class of dwarf planet TNO's (Trans-Neptunian Objects). Resolution 6b would have specifically named them Plutonians, but it failed to pass.
Secondly, Charon got no where. The draft resolution from the start of the conference last week, which would have raised (as a minimum) Charon, UB313 and Ceres up to planets, specifically dealt with the issue of double planets, defining them interms of the barycenter of the two bodies lying outside of both of them. However, this definition of a double planet was dropped from all the resolution(s) voted upon, so Charon is still merely a moon/satellite of Pluto.

In summary, the new Dwarf Planets are Ceres, Pluto and UB313 (which should finally be getting a proper name fairly soon now that its status is settled), and there are a dozen or so candidates which may well be classed as dwarf planets in the next couple of years, and in the long term there will probably be dozens if not hundreds of them.

[SousukeSagara]

why can't they just leave stuff alone...?

[Undrave]

why can't they just leave stuff alone...?
Because scientists need CLEAR definition to work.

[master terrence]

Because scientists need CLEAR definition to work.


ya, im a bit confused on what they define as a planet. Why isn't it an astroid, why isn't it a moon, why is earth a planet? It's just a big rock after all. I don't get it, but I can't be bothered to learn that aspect of science thoroughly.


---also---
why do we have to call our moon "Moon". Allt the other planets have cooler names for their moons.

[Chousho]

ya, im a bit confused on what they define as a planet. Why isn't it an astroid, why isn't it a moon, why is earth a planet? It's just a big rock after all. I don't get it, but I can't be bothered to learn that aspect of science thoroughly.


---also---
why do we have to call our moon "Moon". Allt the other planets have cooler names for their moons.

We dont' call our moon "Moon", we call it "THE moon".

[Ashitaka]

I thought the moon had an actual "scientific name" but i can't really remember at the moment

[Chousho]

I thought the moon had an actual "scientific name" but i can't really remember at the moment
The Moon, Luna, Selene - all names used in America scientists refer to the moon or related.

[Leader Desslock]

You know, given how bad the movie Pluto Nash was, we should've expected there'd be some kind of retribution.

[Haro!]

You know, given how bad the movie Pluto Nash was, we should've expected there'd be some kind of retribution.
Ha! that made me laugh out loud Dess. How could I forget that movie? Hell why would I want to?

[SousukeSagara]

Because scientists need CLEAR definition to work.
for the one "planet" that was the least important to us? lol it's been defined as a planet for over 50 years, why couldnt they just say "hey, if it ain't broke, why fix it?" and just leave it alone.

eh, whatever....

[Chousho]

for the one "planet" that was the least important to us? lol it's been defined as a planet for over 50 years, why couldnt they just say "hey, if it ain't broke, why fix it?" and just leave it alone.

eh, whatever....
Because they found another body in space that would be classified as a planet if Pluto was. Why not just give us 10 or more planets than take away. Greedy scientists.

[Animegrl/Parnaz]

I'm sad from this news. :( Now that Pluto is no longer a planet, that probably means Sailor Pluto doesn't exist anymore. :crybaby:

[Evil_Koala]

I am hereby defying all things Scientific.

[lil' warrior]

Uhhh...I...ummm...hmmmm....yeah, don't know what to say...it makes me kinda sad for some reason though, lol...^^;

[Evil_Koala]

Pluto forever, y'all!

[Holy Knight]

Seems to me that the original definition of Pluto as a planet was not for scientific purposes but rather for the sake of it and overall sensationalism. As science has nothing to do with that, Pluto has now been deemed not to be a planet.

But really, it doesn't matter to me either way. On the one hand you have the romantics vying for keeping Pluto as a planet for history's sake and pure sentimentalism. On the other hand, there's the "scientifically correct" crowd that wants a clear definition. Personally, I opt for whatever makes the job easier for scientists.

[Evil_Koala]

Pfft...What have scientists ever done for anyone...? (excluding Docters and cure finders and technology makers...and Bill Nye)

[miko hanyou]

These scientists have too much time in their hands.

My Opinion.

[Meson]

... they give Bill Nye his material?

[Jinto117]

Other alien species still might consider Pluto a planet. Just cause Earth humans don't consider it one doesn't mean it can't be one. Earth, always picking on the little man.

[Evil_Koala]

... they give Bill Nye his material?

Wrong! Bill Nye told me Pluto was a planet! :( He also explained about the continents and told me how the Dinosaurs may have died!!!

[Jinto117]

Wrong! Bill Nye told me Pluto was a planet! :( He also explained about the continents and told me how the Dinosaurs may have died!!!

I stand by his side on this as well. . .

[SDAnimeFan]

I will always call Pluto a planet I don't care what the Scientist say.XD

And Sailor Pluto can live on.^_^

[MonkeyBoy0314]

Why must they discriminate against Pluto just because it's smaller than its peers. Saying Pluto isn't a planet is like saying babies and midgets aren't human.