It's not fair what they're saying about pluto, it's been a planet for hundreds of years and it orbits around the sun therefore it's a REAL planet.
2006-08-24 17:27:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Sunset > Excellent analogy, to me it'll remain a REAL planet forever. There's a petition going on at http://pleasesavepluto.org/ which opposes the IAU's silly decision. Help sign it and make a difference.
2006-08-25 10:17:54 · answer #1 · answered by go2_planet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pluto has not been know for 'hundreds of years', and it orbits the sun in an atypical way.
It had long been clear that Pluto, discovered in 1930, stood apart from the previously discovered planets. Not only is it much smaller — only about 1,600 miles in diameter, smaller than the Moon — but its elongated orbit is tilted with respect to the other planets, and it goes inside the orbit of Neptune on part of its 248-year journey around the Sun.
It does not qualify under the following definition.
A planet must meet three criteria: it must orbit the Sun, it must be big enough for gravity to squash it into a round ball, and it must have cleared other things out of the way in its orbital neighborhood. The last of these criteria knocks out Pluto and Xena, which orbit among the icy wrecks of the Kuiper Belt, and Ceres, which is in the asteroid belt.
There is no such thing as a REAL planet and other things. There are planets as defined above, and other things, like pluto as a dwarf planet. It still has the word 'planet' in its name..., just a dwarf planet.
sigh. Dwarf people. If you read what you wrote...dwarf PEOPLE... the title still includes the word 'people'! Therefore they are people, just dwarf ones....
2006-08-24 17:39:55 · answer #2 · answered by nnjamerson 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOl, thats a really oggd question, and funny beyond words. Seriously, ur a genious for thinking that one up. I'm gonna go with they're not real people, only because my best frined of 15 years (since I was 2, now 17) just stabed me in the back for some guiy who's broken her heart 3 times. And Pluto is a planet idc wtf anyone says.
2006-08-24 17:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by theonewhoguides 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luckily enough the IAU (International Astronomical Union) does not classify humans.
2006-08-24 17:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by Pyramider 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does that mean that my penis is now a "dwarf planet"
2006-08-24 17:35:29 · answer #5 · answered by Rockford 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question just shows vast amounts of ignorance on the asker's part. And anyone that thinks this question is clever has joined in the ignorance. Pathetic. nnjamerson has it right.
2006-08-24 17:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by kacole6 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
dwarfs are people....there are just once of God's punch lines.
2006-08-24 17:36:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very good question.
2006-08-24 17:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by crazy s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they could coin a new word like planetlet etc
2006-08-24 17:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by RAMA K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A hot dog is hot, however, not a dog. Discuss.
2006-08-24 17:33:13 · answer #10 · answered by Locke15 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋