Is it true they are going to remove pluto from our solar sytem? And my biggest ? is why the hell are they going to do this after what 70 something years of being in the history books. Makes no sense to me.
2006-08-25 04:27:44 · 16 answers · asked by starbuck 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes it really sucks Pluto is being murdered by scientist those sheiot heads!
2006-08-25 04:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by rookie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pluto is the beautiful God who is the guardian of Hell.
Ok Pluto in not beign removed from the solar system, only that it is not being considered as a planet any more.
The reason is the new definition that scientists have now agreed upon. Which says a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must "clear the neighborhood around its orbit." This is what resulted in Pluto losing its status as a planet.
While some scientists say that it is just a reclassification. While others call it a "sloppy definition", and that it must be worked upon better.
For now though, the school books will have to read as 8 planets and large heavenly bodies like pluto and Cheron
2006-08-25 11:49:38 · answer #2 · answered by Rabindra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's inevitable. It's clear that Pluto is just a member of a class of objects called Kuiper Belt objects. It isn't even the largest KBO.
If Pluto was a planet, then by some estimates there are thousands of "planets" that are going to be tracked down in the Kuiper Belt in coming years.
Ever hear of the Planet "Ceres"? No? For 50 years, Ceres was called a planet; now it's just the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered.
Pluto was the first member of the Kuiper Belt to be discovered. It held on to the title "planet" only slightly longer than Ceres. No one mourns Ceres now, do they? Pluto will have the same fate, and I'm glad. Makes much more sense.
2006-08-25 11:43:17 · answer #3 · answered by Zhimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto is not going to be removed from the solar system. It's just not called a planet anymore. You cannot physically remove bodies from the sun's orbit with our current technology. There are news articles all over the place about this. You can use a search engine to find out why. They redefined 'planet'. Pluto no longer counts.
2006-08-25 11:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THe scientists are forever changing history - sometimes for the better but most times for the worst. I personally do not want Pluto removed as a planet!@
2006-08-25 11:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makes no sense to me and neither did their reasons for doing this (seems that Pluto crosses the orbital path of Neptune) so I decided to call it a planet despite what nato-galactic chooses to call it.
Words don't appear on dictionary until "we the people" decide how a word is used in the real world so if we all keep calling it a planet, it's a planet.
2006-08-25 11:32:57 · answer #6 · answered by fuddlynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. the astronomers at the cosmology conference found too many objects orbiting the sun for them all to be called planets so the wrote a new definition of what a planet is and Pluto and Charon were kicked out along w/ other to be planets waiting in line :[
2006-08-25 11:41:00 · answer #7 · answered by cosmologist dude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. because it's smaller than the moon.
it has an irregular orbit. it sometimes will orbit at the other planet (such as uranus).
there's also lots of smaller planet between the uranus and pluto. removing of the pluto due to the wanted of exclusive of the smaller planet.
but it's really pity!
2006-08-25 11:39:08 · answer #8 · answered by Adrienne Golden Apple 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They already voted and removed Pluto, so yeah.
2006-08-25 11:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by Dawn Treader 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep,only 8 planets
2006-08-25 11:29:32 · answer #10 · answered by cookie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋