I'd love to know who or what company said the final no it's not a planet !!!
wouldn't that be interesting info .
I think it's a really ridiculous and IMMATURE decision .
Stupidest thing astro people did !
2006-08-24 09:35:43 · 9 answers · asked by spaceprt 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Pluto still is part of the Solar System, just as Ceres and Vesta and Halley's comet are parts of the Solar system. It is just that none of them (Ceres, Vesta, Halley's Comet and Pluto) are real planets.
2006-08-24 09:47:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pluto is very much part of the Solar System, even if it isn't called a planet.
Everything that orbits the sun is part of the Solar System. We simply have to accept the fact that the family is growing substantially.
The problem with Pluto that nobody seems to be emphasising, is that it is now known to belong to a growing number of discovered small bodies that orbit from near Saturn's orbit right out to way beyond Neptune. If, and this is the cruncher, you call Pluto a planet, you are going to have to call a mounting number of other similar size objects planets as they are detected over the next years and decades.
So, instead of having to remember the names of 9 planets, kids twenty years from now would probably have to remember the names of several hundred planets. It would be worse than asking them to remember the names of the almost hundred planetary moons in the Solar System.
That would be silly, because these new objects are not planets. And so neither is Pluto.
Even right after Pluto's discovery in 1930 it was in question as whether it was a real planet. It was only the exicitement and the hype of discovery, mixed with the fact that it was the only body of its kind known out there that it was accepted as a planet - more by the public than the astronomers.
It is not a planet. It does not fit the profile of 4 rocky inner planets, and 4 gaseous outer planets. It has a very wonky orbit like many other asteroidal and cometary bodies, and it has been argued that it has so much water ice that if it was swung nearer the sun, it would develop a tail and look every bit like the comet it probably once was.
So, don't worry. The Solar System is getting bigger, not smaller
2006-08-24 17:02:46 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yow. There are so many errors in that question I dont' know where to start.
No person or company decided anything about Pluto. The International Astronomic Union, which is a group of leading astronomers (the guys who KNOW about this stuff) made the decision that Pluto is not a PLANET anymore. They did not decide it isn't part of our solar system. They simply re-defined what a planet is, and Pluto does not fit the definition.
(We adults call it "ridiculous and immature" when uninformed individuals express opinions on matters they do not understand.)
2006-08-24 16:36:53 · answer #3 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The IAU (International Astronomical Union) decided this. However, I fail to see how a two year debate over the qualities that define a planet can be immature. Without a specific definition for a planet, any object could be classed as a "planet." And although pluto is not considered a planet, it does fall under the new class of heavenly bodies called dwarf planets.
2006-08-24 16:55:26 · answer #4 · answered by J to the P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.
2006-08-24 16:37:16 · answer #5 · answered by sexylittlemisstweetybird83 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There have always been 9 planets out there and whoever the idiot was that decided that Pluto isn't a planet after all these years is more stupid that I give credit for.
2006-08-24 16:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by ps4478 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The person is some really old dude in Prague in the Czech Republic. CBS did an interview with him several weeks ago. Want a physical description? Imagine an old prune that wears a monicle.
Good thing there is no such thing as astrologer beauty contests. Ick!
2006-08-24 16:39:38 · answer #7 · answered by Oklahoman 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mickey Mouse decided. He was jealous because there is no planet named "Mickey". It's a Disney thing.
2006-08-24 16:38:18 · answer #8 · answered by EMAILSKIP 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Funny...I'm thinking the same, about why it's bothering you so much. GOI.
2006-08-24 16:41:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋