Pluto no longer a planet

[gsdx]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

Well, I mean these are the same people who convinced us it was a planet originally. So we basically have to just believe whatever they say. They're the experts.

I feel so 'used'!!

 

[Lube]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

I feel so 'used'!!

Yeah, sorta like a one night stand for the past 50 years.

 

[gsdx]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

Yeah, sorta like a one night stand for the past 50 years.

Oh! That was good!

 

[justsimon]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

We should make solidarity buttons.

 

[JakeBequette]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

Pluto may be asteroid number 134340, but it will be always be #1 in our hearts...​

 

[looseliam]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

How can so few people have such power?

I've been asking that question for a while.

 

[justsimon]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

I've been asking that question for a while.

Good point.

 

[Kuja]

Re: Pluto is now just a number: 134340

I grew up calling it Pluto. It will stay Pluto.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

One of the reasons Pluto was demoted, was that Eris was considered to be bigger than Pluto.

This seems to be [URL="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/eris-smaller-than-pluto-101109.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)&utm_content=My+Yahoo]no longer[/url] the case.

 

[just_mills]

I like Pluto.

 

[diamondstar]

Pluto will ALWAYS be a planet in my eyes. Furthermore, this is an insult to Sailer Pluto


P.S.: Didn't scientist denounced Pluto a LONG time ago as a planet during the 90's?

 

[Telstra]

all i can see is a lot of inactive members in this thread

 

[ChickenGuy]

Fixed your link for you, Harke.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/eris-smaller-than-pluto-101109.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+(SPACE.com+Headline+Feed)&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Pluto is not a planet.

It's more accurately a large Kuiper Belt object, along with Charon, Eris, Sedna, and many others.

It's orbital eccentricity and high degree of inclination are further facts against it.

(i.e. unlike the other eight, it has a very non-circular and non-centred orbit, and a very largely tilted one as well)

So I think the IAU got it right in the reclassification.

I shouldn't worry - it's still the largest and most famous object in it's new category.

Anyway, here's a picture of the nine of them that I liked:

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Pluto.​

 

[Críostóir]

They left the rings off the other gas giants. Saturn has the big ones visible from Earth, but apparently having rings is a property of all gas giants.

And now we can say that "all planets orbit in the ecliptic." That always bothered me before.

 

[Críostóir]

Wishing to avoid embarrassment, the other gas giants asked if they could doff their rings for the photo recognizing there was just no competing with Saturn.

This implies a certain amount of gracelessness on the part of Saturn, who (and I'm sure Miss Manners would agree) ought to have doffed its own rings to avoid unseemly ostentation.

 

[evanrick]

i knew earth was small but had no idea it was that much smaller than neptune or uranus.

horray for 4 year old threads.

 

[Críostóir]

Can we say diva? She doffs for no one.

She's fat and gassy (positively titanic), that's why she wears that wide belt. I think she needs to Rhearrange her priorities. I'd visit her, but I don't want to Dione a gas giant. Besides, she probably has little lapdogs that would Iapetus if we came close.

 

[TheFireGod]

So basically the planets are a huger Destiny's Child?

Pluto is out, will we see Uranus and Neptune get replaced?

 

[jaysizzles]

i knew earth was small but had no idea it was that much smaller than neptune or uranus.

horray for 4 year old threads.

maybe yur anus...




now I know what I was doing August 24, 2006 at 5:03 pm...




nice to see Andreus again...if only in spirit....cosmic?

 

[star-warrior]

If Erin was measured to be slightly smaller now than it was previously, obviously it's shaped like a jelly bean.

I have a tub of jelly beans in the larder. They're all different flavours too. Therefore Erin is different to Pluto.