pluto isn't a planet anymore!! they said it was too small. isn't that wrong!?
why did they decide this?? i ♥ pluto. well, not really but still. i think it should've stayed a planet. what's your opinion?
2006-08-24 13:25:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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
2006-08-24 13:28:06 · answer #1 · answered by Scott A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-08-24 20:27:02 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are dumb, pluto is smaller than moons. What were they thinking? What are you thinking? I'm not writing Pluto on my tests anymore. Pluto is not a planet.
2006-08-24 20:39:31 · answer #3 · answered by Kitty/Penguin Jillian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recently they found two other small bodies in our solar system that would qualify as planets if Pluto was qualified. It was easier to disqualify Pluto & the other two as planets than it was be to add two more planets to our solar system.
2006-08-24 20:37:15 · answer #4 · answered by No More 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better cameras in space the little planitoid does not effect gravitation on other body's and is elliptical in orbit. They were right. Baldar the cone head says "In Rimulac er France we have a word for this phenomenon it is called earth" And who are Earthlings to give words to the heavenly body's anyway. The Vulgan construction fleets need to remove this planet for a cosmic expressway bye.
2006-08-24 20:38:13 · answer #5 · answered by John Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems like once a planet always a planet. I don't see how just because they want to say it's too small, that makes it a non planet.'
2006-08-24 20:31:41 · answer #6 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok why is Pluto a dog and Goofy is a freind?
This means that I can go back to my third grade teacher and say "LOOK I WAS RIGHT!" and get that test score adjusted.
2006-08-24 20:33:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me Pluto is a dog. A very nice dog. Let it be.
2006-08-24 20:27:40 · answer #8 · answered by pappy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What difference could it make in your life. It is still there no matter what it is called. We could call it a pumpkin and it still would be there. Why should this bother you?
2006-08-24 20:35:12 · answer #9 · answered by mr. Bob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No that's fine. History in the making.
2006-08-24 20:30:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋