wHats gOin oN wiTh pLuTo?!?

Question

everyone is still gonna think of pluto as a planet..i mean...its in every science book and even social studies book....wudda they gonna do...tell these little kids..oo yeaaa..its not a planet any more they changed their minds.

Answer 1

yeah thats crazy. Why take it out? It was fine being a planet. Its even in schools books & allt hat today. So what do they think taking it out is gonna do any good?

Answer 2

It's not like they are saying it does not exist. It is still there but under another category or bodies that orbit the solar system. The reason that they deleted it from the list of planets is because if pluto remained a planet they would have to include so many (not just three) other bodies that are around the size of pluto. The kid senerio, if pluto was kept would go around the lines of this, "we have managed to keep the status of pluto as a planet, but now you have to remeber 100+ more of it's buddies that have now to be called planets." Now that would be more confusing. The category that objects like pluto would be found under could then be introduce just like the states of matter. We don't just say, look kids, besides solids, liquids, and gases there are also plasmas, strange matter, superfluids, supersolids and so on and so forth...

Answer 3

I'm ok with 8 planets. Pluto is now the leader of a new classification of "smaller worlds" (dwarf) that we are only recently discovering in the "outer asteroid belt" (Kuiper). As time goes by, we'll find hundreds of them, but Pluto is #1. I hope the books will reflect that in the future.

Answer 4

It's more like what's going on with your keyboard.

But then again they're just chasing their tales over this. First they said there were 12, now they say there are 8, they'll never actually decide. I think eventually they'll just keep it at the nine since they don't know what to do with these things we call planets. For all we know the Earth may very well "unbecome" a planet the way they're going. For them it's like deciding between paper and plastic bags at the grocery store; it's ridiculous.

Answer 5

Eh,.. I think it's a bunch of bull$hit!

It wasn't hurting anyone being called a planet.

Many of these so called "kuiper belt objects" are NOT round. They're more or less potato shaped in one form or another. They're not planets.

Pluto has a moon, Charon (sp?). Many of these KBOs don't have companions or moons.

Just a bunch of over-intelligent people with WAY too much time on their hands.

If it's ROUND, circles the Sun in any type of stationary orbit, and isn't easily influenced by the gravitational wake of another heavenly body.... it's a planet.

Answer 6

Its cause they finally defined what a planet isand Pluto doesn't fit the bill. Its to small and its orbit over laps Neptune. We always knew it was to small. It just took the astrology people this long to figure it out.

Answer 7

This is good news for guys. Now they won't have to hear the insult "you're hung like planet Pluto" ever again.

Answer 8

Do you know there is a link on the yahoo home page that will take you to the news of the day. This is a pretty big story and it will still be there. Try reading up on your own. Trust me, there is a certain satisfaction when you do stuff for yourself.

Answer 9

It's not a planet anymore...it's a "dwarf planet". Congratulations on waking up from that coma this afternoon too. That must be great.

Answer 10

So if science makes a mistake, they should never fix it? Wow, that's going to make it tough to advance. I guess we should have left phlogistin and ether in all the textbooks? How about humors?