Score one for common sense !!

[lapsedpacifist]

Take that you kuiper belt object you

So get working on your new mnemonics!!

ps

Its so wrong that this makes me so happy :-)

Comments

[nick_styles]

What have they decided should be he definition of a planet then?

[lapsedpacifist]

"a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit"

The last bit discounts pluto.

From here

[zombywuf]

If that's the definition, and pluto fails because of it's orbit intersecting that of Neptune, why is Neptune still a planet?

[djw]

I hope they didn't keep the "pluton" moniker. Or I may have to hit them all very hard with a cluestick.

[lapsedpacifist]

That was the one pissing off the geologists right ?? Nowt wrong with annoying the rock people in my opinion :-)

[djw]

Oi! I love my... rock! And stuff.

[tjoff]

Frigging Pluto. Never have I seen anyone so ranty about anything, as you were about Pluto. At least we'll hear the end of that particular rant for good! :-)

[lapsedpacifist]

yeah ranty I might have been but know what .... I WAS RIGHT :-P

engage vindicated mode ... vindicated mode activated