2006-08-24 07:35:03 · 36 answers · asked by . 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
According to some international cabal meeting in Czechia, it isn't. I think they should continue the dismemberment of the solar system by voting that Mercury isn't a planet either. (It's more like a moon than anything.)
2006-08-24 07:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by Ѕємι~Мαđ ŠçїєŋŧιѕТ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto is now a dwarf planet. It is not and cannot be considered a planet after the definition of a planet came through.
In the link below is a home page of International Astronomy Union. There you will find what is going on with all the solar news.
2006-08-24 07:39:51 · answer #2 · answered by angel20072002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a planet. It has been all these years and has been taught that way for well over a hundred years. Why change it's title now. Are we now to learn that we have 8 planets and a what? Are we now to learn that "Many Very Eager Men Just Sit Until Night......what? A planet by any other name is still a planet.
2006-08-24 07:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by James B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto is no longer classified as a planet, because a planet must "clear the area in the neighborhood of its orbit." Pluto crosses the orbit of Neptune, although they can never collide. Therefore, it is classified as a "dwarf planet", neither planet nor asteroid.
None of my remarks here are to be interpreted with reference to Pluto the cartoon dog.
2006-08-24 07:39:03 · answer #4 · answered by telcontar328 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stupid americans made me believe that Pluto was a planet all this time.
2006-08-24 07:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course pluto is a planet, them jerk off scientists are always trying to change things. My teacher told me Pluto is one of the 9 planets they are not going to change it now just because they think they can!!!
2006-08-24 07:41:42 · answer #6 · answered by chawinters22 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Negative, As of 10 ET this morning Pluto is no longer a planet. it is however a Plutoid, or Minor planet.
2006-08-24 08:26:13 · answer #7 · answered by Sniper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because we must not forget that in the year 1930 when it was discovered at that time it was notified that it effects the revolution path of neptune, so it has something which posses some effect on the other planets. and shows its potential to be an planet.
2006-08-24 07:39:37 · answer #8 · answered by Something Dangerously Exciting 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not any more. Some scientists got together and decided it wasn't a planet, and demoted it to Dwarf Planet, along with Ceres, based on various factors, like size and orbit.
There's a news article about it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5282440.stm
2006-08-24 07:37:12 · answer #9 · answered by mikah_smiles 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it is a small planet away from the sun that is covered in ice and is the last planet in the solar system
2006-08-24 07:37:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋