Astronomy & Space - August 2006

What is your opinion on a long-debated object since it's discovery: Pluto. Is this celestial object from the vast reaches of the kuiper belt a real planet, or just meteorite in the bast reaches of space?

Read this for more information:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060824/sc_space/breakingnewsplutodemotednolongeraplanet

Please provide any factual evidence possible, as I am searching to finally cap this debated discovery. Please, try not to offend others. Vent as much as you want, and explain as much as you want.What is YOUR opinion? That means to try to use originality, and site ALL sources if used. I am hoping for this to be a great debate, and please, put time into your answers. Please no simple "no"s and "yes"s. Thanks!

2006-08-24 04:46:36 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

they just voted making pluto not a planet anymore.... do you think this is a good thing or not?.....its going to mess up current text books.....and my very educated mother just served us nine pies..

2006-08-24 04:42:00 · 9 answers · asked by ♥Brown Eyed Girl ♥ 5

2006-08-24 04:29:46 · 6 answers · asked by KnowItAll 1

2006-08-24 04:28:10 · 12 answers · asked by dartmouth_09 1

2006-08-24 04:25:53 · 8 answers · asked by LP 2

I can't remember...

2006-08-24 04:11:20 · 36 answers · asked by The Mole 4

I'm just wondering, because I can see the planet, I just cannot get a good sight of the whole ring aroung it.

2006-08-24 04:08:53 · 4 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4

My brother told me he saw on the news that mars will be closer to the earth than it's ever been in 5,000 years on Saturday, August 26, 2006. He told me the news said it would look as brilliant and large as the moon to human eyes, my parents also saw this on the news. I looked this up on the internet to try and confirm this but all the articles I've found are out-dated. I heard this is old news and mars came it's closest to earth about 3 years ago, although it didn't appear as near as the moon. Anyways... Has anyone heard what's really going on?

2006-08-24 04:08:29 · 10 answers · asked by Agnostic 4

The IAU members gathered at the 2006 General Assembly agreed that a "planet" is defined as a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

This means that the Solar System consists of eight "planets" Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. A new distinct class of objects called "dwarf planets" was also decided. It was agreed that "planets" and "dwarf planets" are two distinct classes of objects. The first members of the "dwarf planet" category are Ceres, Pluto and 2003 UB313 (temporary name). More "dwarf planets" are expected to be announced by the IAU in the coming months and years.

http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0603/index.html

2006-08-24 04:06:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I,ve read about it in "The brief History Of time" and also in a fiction story. Can you tell me something about it?

2006-08-24 04:04:55 · 14 answers · asked by neha 2

and will it ever die off? what sustains it? how deep is it?

2006-08-24 04:01:08 · 5 answers · asked by Notorious4knowledge 1

2006-08-24 03:47:41 · 8 answers · asked by ? 3

2006-08-24 03:47:25 · 5 answers · asked by mdom616 1

This is from a recent yahoo news article.

"Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "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."

Am I the only one who sees the problem with this reasoning? Doesn't neptune's orbit therefore ALSO!?! cross with pluto's...and wouldn't that disqualify it as well?

2006-08-24 03:47:12 · 17 answers · asked by jackgaliciamd 2

pluto is removed frm the list of the 9 planets.It was one of my prediction.But what will be the next step of scientist to reconsider our solar system.what abt Xena,sedna,charon,ceres.????????

2006-08-24 03:45:34 · 10 answers · asked by ADITYA S 2

2006-08-24 03:45:32 · 20 answers · asked by ? 3

Now that pluto is not a planet, how will they re-do this acronym? I was taught this many years ago in the 5th grade. Any ideas?

2006-08-24 03:37:33 · 12 answers · asked by TM 4

The answer may surprise you as its not what you learned in grade 5

2006-08-24 03:31:38 · 10 answers · asked by cbmaclean 4

Perhaps you know that the eggheads from the Astronomical Society met in Prague... and about an hour ago declared what is and what is not a planet. Poor little Pluto didn't make the cut.

What do you think of this uprooting of a fundamental bedrock of our sense of our local reality? Will science start unravelling? Will they tell us that the sky isn't really blue? Or does anyone really care?

What will happen to Astrology?

2006-08-24 03:30:38 · 10 answers · asked by wakeupandbefree 2

Confused! The impression I got from Astronomy blogs and sites was that the IAA had indeed confirmed Pluto was a planet (Indeed, I asked a question about the implications of this)
Now this from yahoo news
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/24082006/325/pluto-stripped-planet-status.html
What's going on?

2006-08-24 03:22:04 · 11 answers · asked by Avondrow 7

I mean what if we are just living on billions of trillions of willions of black/light holes trying to eat each other?

2006-08-24 03:19:13 · 5 answers · asked by magpiesmn 6

Has the planets got any far away from sun in all the years since the solar system was formed?

2006-08-24 03:09:32 · 5 answers · asked by deb b 1

2006-08-24 03:08:10 · 3 answers · asked by goring 6

2006-08-24 03:05:54 · 2 answers · asked by goring 6

2006-08-24 03:03:39 · 8 answers · asked by christyb_26 1

So Pluto has been officially demoted. If it's no longer a planet.....what is it?

2006-08-24 03:01:06 · 9 answers · asked by fendor 2

It feels as if who cares! How do you feel?

2006-08-24 02:54:35 · 9 answers · asked by bsc_student_08 2

Compared to the speed of light, supposed to be a constant, common matter flies at a comparative snail's pace. But these, and others, such as those analyzing the Hubble telescope's deep space pictures, are thinking they are peering closer and closer to the actual Big Bang that began the universe. If it happened some two-dozen or so billion years ago, how do they think they can get a glimpse of that far long past event?

See the news link concerning the Atacama Large Milimeter Array radio telescope being built in Chile. Project objective comments are made by Dr. John Richer at Cambridge, an ALMA sponsor.

2006-08-24 02:50:39 · 4 answers · asked by Rabbit 7

CNN.com: 'Pluto gets the boot'
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

2006-08-24 02:47:19 · 4 answers · asked by bsc_student_08 2

And don't say it is Mickey Mouse's dog.

2006-08-24 02:46:05 · 202 answers · asked by Anonymous