Pluto a planet?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by gismo1554, Aug 14, 2006.

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Is Pluto a planet?

  1. Yes

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  2. No he's a dog

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  3. No

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  4. Maybe

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  5. Does it really matter

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  1. gismo1554

    gismo1554 New Member

    OK so at the moment there is a debate going on as to whether Pluto is a planet or not. What do people think?
     
  2. gismo1554

    gismo1554 New Member

    lol loving the fact someone actually voted for 'Does it matter'.
     
  3. Jorden

    Jorden New Member

    lol well thanks for that, cuz it was me!
     
  4. gismo1554

    gismo1554 New Member

    Classic.

    For anyone else ;) Pluto is now definately a planet and we are likely to have at least 4 more because Pluto is classed as a Plutonum (I think that's right) and there are a few more around the same size that are now going to become planets such as one of Pluto's moon (Charis I think) and the one that was nicknamed Zena but hasn't been officially named (discovered last year or the year before)
     
  5. doowop

    doowop New Member

    yay i learned something!!
     
  6. monkian

    monkian New Member

    i like Ceres his sister type planet! the could give pluto (the dog) a friend!!!!!!

    i love the metro...ha ha ha... how will i live without it in Disney?!?
     
  7. gismo1554

    gismo1554 New Member

  8. gismo1554

    gismo1554 New Member

    OK now I'm annoyed because Pluto is now officially not a planet(last weeks announcement Retuers said was advanced and not the official),

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    Leading astronomers have decided that Pluto should no longer be classified as a planet. The decision means that the Solar System has been reduced from nine planets to eight. The International Astronomical Union made its decision after a week of heated debate at a conference in Prague.

    They approved new guidelines which define what a planet actually is.

    The new definition is: "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."

    Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.

    It has been put into a new category of 'dwarf planets'.

    When the debate started a week ago, there were proposals to reaffirm Pluto's status and make planets of its largest moon, as well as two other objects.

    However, the asteroid Ceres, which was a planet in the 1800s before it got demoted, 2003 UB313, an icy object slightly larger than Pluto, and Charon, the largest of Pluto's three moons, will not become planets.

    Pluto was first classified in 1930 and at the time was thought to be bigger than Earth.

    The eight planets which make the grade are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
     
  9. monkian

    monkian New Member

    well he will always be a planet to me!
     
  10. easy_15

    easy_15 New Member

    What does it matter? it is still there and well never be there so.... he has got us an advantage....

    pluto is a dog to me... and the best dog...

    by the way... if pluto is a dog,.... then what is goofy?
     
  11. gismo1554

    gismo1554 New Member

    Very odd the whole Pluto and Goofy thing and I agree what is Goofy/why can't Pluto talk and walk on 2 legs?
     

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