2006-08-25 04:45:51 · 24 answers · asked by silversurfer1278 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I don't think it was really necessary to do it... after all these years of considering it a planet.... why screw with the galaxy>? lol...
2006-08-25 04:48:51 · answer #1 · answered by Ms Fortune 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very smart. when they discovered those additional heavenly bodies that look like very small planets, they had to add these to the already existing 9 planets, because they are like Pluto, but now they decided that Pluto is not a planet so that the others cannot be planets. I agree very much with this because the other 8 planets are big and beautiful! Pluto was more of an ugly rock!
2006-08-25 04:52:25 · answer #2 · answered by Vendetta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do think it was dumb even more after reading an article on yahoo, many of astronomers (though some are happy about it) are not pleased and have started a petition to have it reinstated. They said of 10 thousand astronomers at this convention only 4% actual voted since it was done on the very last day and many had already departed. Pluto seems to have been hijacked. I still considered Pluto a planet regardless if it gets reinstated. Their calling them Dwarf Planets.
I personnel think this should have been able to be voted by all the astronomers and not just a small percentage and I think common folk should have been able to give their input after all this is our Galaxy too
2006-08-25 04:55:33 · answer #3 · answered by Spread Peace and Love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's in a name? Is Greenland an island or a continent? Are HIV and SIV different virus species or different subspecies? Is a androgene insensitivity pseudohermafrodite a male or a female?
It's not about how we classify it, it's about what we know about it, which is fortunately a lot more than just a yes/no answer.
We always knew that it was something in between a planet and a comet. What more do you wanna know? Pluto is Pluto just as it always was.
2006-08-25 04:58:44 · answer #4 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely smart yaar. There are lots and lots of similar type of bodies that revolve round the sun. Do u think that it's possible to name them and change the count of the planets of out solar system everytime we make such discoveries. The other reason I support this decision is that pluto is found to pass the track of neptune. So, I think that it's really smart.
2006-08-25 05:01:55 · answer #5 · answered by Jithu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was dumb because they thought it was a planet at first and now their claming it to be something else. I think they should just let Pluto be called a planet.
2006-08-25 04:49:21 · answer #6 · answered by Shay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the whole 'too small and not rounded, oval odd-longed shape' speech was really a way to remove another planet because they didn't feel like going out there and testing it for whatever. They are trying to remove a planet that was discovered 76 years ago!!
God bless!!
2006-08-25 04:50:02 · answer #7 · answered by inlovew/jesus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have ONE major reason it was DUMB:
the discoverer of Pluto is dead. but his widow is still alive. she's 93 and now feels her late husbands work is nothing now.
way to go NASA- gang up on an old 93 year old woman who's glory has been nabbed out right below her feet. really classy.
and what was the rush ? couldn't wait another year or two till she croaked.
2006-08-25 06:21:46 · answer #8 · answered by sparkloom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was dumb. Planets don't care WHAT we think. They will still be there, planetizing themselves around the Sun.
2006-08-25 04:56:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smart. It takes attention away from all the evil going on in the world and focuses people outside our world for, at least for a minute.
2006-08-25 04:49:03 · answer #10 · answered by Zebra4 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.
2006-08-25 04:47:35 · answer #11 · answered by anitahooker_transvestite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋