1) I'm getting tired of all the Pluto questions that are readily answered on any online news source.
2) Why do we insist on calling it "demotion?" Is a planet somehow better than a nonplanet? It is just getting the name consistent with the 100s of other bodies much like it in the solar system. If I were Pluto, I'd like to be named consistent with my peers.
2006-08-24 16:41:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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2006-08-24 16:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How was it wrong to dismiss it? By setting pluto in a class of dwarf planets, rather than the classical planets, Pluto is no longer cluttering up the solar system.
I would like to have seen Pluto stay, but I understand why it wasn't included in the solar system as a planet.
2006-08-24 23:47:13 · answer #2 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If consistency were the concern, they would have made up a new term to fit their new definition and left history in tact. Instead, they decied to equivocate and try to force the world to follow.
Revolt I say! Revolt against the self appointed authorities of language wearing robes and white wigs! Make them pay in shame for their attempted coup of language!
2006-08-24 23:47:17 · answer #3 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planets are better than nonplanets.
Pluto is MORE than a dog.
2006-08-24 23:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by Spelunking Spork 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who cares - i would still call it a planet!!
these scientists cant make up their mind, first they were thinking of adding 3 more objects as planets to our solar system, and now they excluded Pluto.
why the hell they decide everything for us if they cant make out what it is in actuality??
2006-08-25 00:01:02 · answer #5 · answered by Caprisco 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was wrong to dismiss it and it's interesting to debate about it .
2006-08-24 23:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by spaceprt 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋