Comments | mundanemage: Pluto not a planet...?

mundanemage

Pluto not a planet...?

Aug 25, 2006 00:32

Wow, now I remember why I liked science so much. First off, wait just a second, everyone seems to be jumping the gun without "listening" to everything. Pluto is still a planet, this is for all the English Majors, the astrological community (the few hundred of 10,000 some memebers who actually voted) is presently in agreement that there is 8 ( Read more... )

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cdrfrost August 25 2006, 13:49:55 UTC

You think WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too much.

mundanemage August 25 2006, 20:44:09 UTC

Yeah...a lot of people say that. The thing is this is normal thinking for me. I the only work I really did was the research, which is amazing that I did that. The thinking part was pretty much passing thoughts or the equivalence there of.

But yes, lots of people say I think too much.

:)

frinkiac76 August 26 2006, 20:47:36 UTC

The main reason why this change was made is that in the last few years astronomers have found other object in the outer solar system which are Pluto's size or larger, and suspect that there may be hundreds more out there. When Pluto was first discovered in 1930 no one knew about the Kuiper belt, and it's mass of random chunks of rock, and so it was made a planet. Now astronomers realize that if they keep Pluto a planet, they will have to make other objects out there planets to, and we could end up with hundreds of them if we're not careful. Hence the new definition, and our new eight planet solar system.

mundanemage August 28 2006, 02:30:09 UTC

Now that is a reason I can understand and some what accept. I still think they need some work on the wording though. I would like to know what the measurable area of a planet's neighbourhood is. That is somthing that needs to be defined since some of thoses dwarf planets fall with in the "charted" solar system. So with the present statement of a cleared neibourhood, some of the dwarf planets could be intruding ( ... )