And I know Neptune's orbit diverges because of this crossing, as that was how Pluto was discovered.
Neptune isn't a planet either! We're not going to have any left!
2006-08-25 01:13:41 · 15 answers · asked by johninmelb 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Scuse my slightly random apostrophication.
2006-08-25 01:19:20 · update #1
You're talking out of uranus!!!!
2006-08-25 01:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by juliamc 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pluto is a planet, cause its orbiting the sun, and hasn't p!ssed off from our solar system yet. Some one somewhere is just being bliddy pedantic.
What about that guy's theory that Venus isn't a planet either. It was pulled into gravitational orbit some way or another, and started off as a comet or something huh??? (oh, he wrote a book on it, can't think of his name)
2006-08-25 01:20:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never seen Pluto and nor have you. We've only got the astronomers' word for it that it exists.
If the astronomers now want to come up with a definition that the things in solar orbit named after Roman gods are planets and those named after Mickey Mouse's dog ain't, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
2006-08-25 01:32:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
but can't it be that now Pluto's not a planet, it's just some object which passes through Neptune's orbit? (thus securing Neptune's planetude? or whatever...haha)
of course, that would mean that, yes, Neptune WASN'T a planet back when we said that Pluto WAS.
but that was very sad news for me. Pluto was my favorite planet.
2006-08-25 01:17:45 · answer #4 · answered by answers, answers 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pluto is not losing its status as a planet due to anything to do with it's orbit. It has to do with the stregth of its force of gravity, due to its size. Other heavenly bodies generate more gravity because they are larger. THey are dropping pluto but adding three others.
2006-08-25 01:20:42 · answer #5 · answered by Alex H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, since Neptune has not cleared it's orbit of objects.
(one of the new rules) AND its orbit crosses another objects orbit, then Neptune can't be a planet either....
2006-08-25 01:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're right, this is all getting kind of ridiculous isn't it? Dwarf planets?!??! What so urgently needed to be changed? I think the astrophysicists and astronomers are running out of things to do because none of the space programs have a budget; therefore we are left with no data from the great beyond!
2006-08-25 01:20:11 · answer #7 · answered by skyvaulter 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neptune has a normal orbit .... Pluto is the one that has the odd tilted strange funky orbit.
2006-08-25 01:20:12 · answer #8 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pluto has benn reclassified as essentially a minor planet. Neptune is still so large this won't arise.
2006-08-25 06:30:44 · answer #9 · answered by cognito44 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pluto is a planet because we say so. Ignore those scientists.
2006-08-25 01:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Scientists are protesting about this now and want Pluto reinstated (only a day after it was demoted!) Click on the link below.
2006-08-25 01:18:48 · answer #11 · answered by martpd 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋