SAVE PLUTO!!!!Pluto should still be a planet shouldn't it???

Question

this vote by the IAU is totally bogus!!!!!Pluto is a panet and they know it!We should start the Save Pluto Foundation shouldn't we?

Answer 1

Yes, I agree and I dislike the IAU's decision.

Here's a site to save Pluto as a planet, sign the petition at http://pleasesavepluto.org/

Answer 2

I am an amateur astronomer for 20 years. I have also discussed this subject with other amateur and professional astronomers in the past .

It have been known for decades that at some point Plutos position of a planet would be in Jeopardy. It was going to happen when another Pluto size object was found in the Kuiper belt. Pluto is a Trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the Kupier Belt. For years astronomers have known this, it has just kept planethood because no others were know. Yet we all knew that it was just a matter of time. So Pluto is has it has been known by professional and amateur astronomers for years a TNO.

Pluto is different then other planets in quite a few ways. First Pluto is on in inclination to the planetary plane. That is high compared to the “real” planets. The other 8 planets lie on roughly a plane as you compare their orbits around the sun. Pluto is inclined on this plane by about 16 degrees. Pluto also have a very eccentric orbit, it is such an ellipse that it is closer to the sun for a short period of it orbit (this is many years) then Neptune it this is the reason why it’s a “trans-Neptunian “ object and not just a Kuiper belt object. Also Pluto is very small, when compared to all other planets then Mercury. Had Pluto been found to be a planet on size alone the argument might have been made that out own moon “Luna” is also a planet as the moon orbit’s the sun and not the earth, we only put a small scallop in it’s orbit so tha at some points it’s close the to the sun then the Earth and at other points it farther. Because of Plutos Size, orbit outside the planetary plane, and eccentric orbit Pluto has always been an “odd ball” planet. If Pluto had been found to be a planet along with all the other several hundred predicted objects yet to be found similar to Pluto, we would probably have to make a sub group of planets that describe the first 8 as they do have additional charticersiats that make the similar that other Kuiper belt and Trans-Neptunian objects don’t have.

I have always thought the professional astronomers who wanted Pluto and other Trans-Neptunian objects to be classified as plants all had a desire or at least the opportunity to discover a new planet. As defined now the chances of a new planets being discovered are very remote

Answer 3

I am astounded at the massive ignorance of anything to do with space, shown on this board. So, why is it that people who have no concept of the makeup of the Solar System are so upset about a simple re-classification. It happens all the time in the classification of animals and plants.

So, why is everybody so upset. It's really a joke.

It is not a planet. If it remained a planet, we would have to start calling hundreds, perhaps thousands of other objects planets, as they are discovered in the outer regions of the planetary system.

The fact is that many astronomers have had doubts about Pluto's status right from its discovery in 1930.

It is just the silly public that can't stand change. Science changes all the time, as new discoveries are made. That is what is good about science - it always seeks to add to knowledge in stark contrast to religious fanatics who can't get past texts written millennia ago by people who had no idea what the Earth looked like, let alone the rest of the universe.

Pluto exists. It is the same physical body it always has been. It has simply been re-classified in the light of new discoveries. That is what science is all about.

Answer 4

Why should it matter? What Pluto is called does not change anything about what it is.
If you look at the "orginal" other planets, you have some constants: the first 4 -- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, are all rocky, have essentially circular orbit and are revolving around the Sun close to the ecliptic. The gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are very big, gaseous, have essentially circular orbit around the Sun and the plane of their orbit is close to the ecliptic. Pluto is a small chunk of ice, its orbit is not circular, it even at time gets closer to the Sun than Neptune does, and its orbit is very inclined. That means it does not fit in either the first or second category.

Call it what you want, and the astronomers call it what they want.

Answer 5

I don't know, but if Pluto has a atmosphere of any type, unlike our moon, then it should be a planet, that my definition, but i dont know if pluto has one or not.

But I can accept the Drawf statist, as long a planet is next to it, I mean think about it, there are human Drawfs, in fact TLC,and Discovery loves pointing that out (Shortest ppl, small world), but there still humans, nothing changed but the name

Same thing with these new fruits, that everyone keeps pointing out, that once would be considered vegetables, cucombers, tomatos, and now the oily flesh of the avacado, if its not sweet, in my opinion, its not a fruit

Answer 6

Who cares. It's not like you are going to visit Pluto and it will still be there.

Answer 7

What clasifys a planet

Obits around a star(sun)

Must have it's own obit

Has an astmoshphere of some kind

Must be round

Answer 8

Oh sheesh people, give it up before you even begin. Or maybe go join the Flat Earth Society...after 400 years, they still cling to their fantasy.

Answer 9

It is still a planet. They classiffied it as a "Dwarf Planet". Personally, I don't really care what kind of planet they call it, it's still a planet.

Answer 10

No, its not that serious...now our planet can be one of the great eight!!!