intelligent and thoughtful Pluto lovers, please read this comment?

Question

The purpose of the IAU meeting is NOT to find a scientific definition for a planet. Science does not NEED a definition. No matter what we define Pluto, it will still be out there, unchanging. Rather, the meeting is to find a cultural definition because our culture has embarked on us a belief that everything must be defined, everything must be SOMETHING and i think the astronmers failed to realize this...

Answer 1

Maybe. I suspect they are doing this in the hope that they will be able to justify their existence. In a few years people will realize that the new definition prevents the possibility of recognizing a true binary planet pair as 'planets'. Morons. They will then have to adjust the definition again and then they'll look stupid, and people will think why are we paying these twits to be a name registry service anyway? We let other organizations regulate domains on the web - why not stars and astronomical bodies - it's not as though they cannot use the internet to maintain a simple thing like a database for looking up stars and planetary bodies. So what if we have to list hundreds of small bodies as 'planets' why would that be a problem? Too much work? Lazy farts with no vision do not make good astronomers in my opinion.

Answer 2

I surely completely Agree with you ..

I had that mixed feelings when I read about Pluto not being a planet anymore. However, Pluto will always travel in it's irregular orbit around the sun such like any other planet. It will always be our beloved nano planet.

Redefining Pluto means nothing to me, and means nothing to Pluto itself. It's just our subjects definition obsession that is taking us too far away from logic.

Answer 3

Well yah Pluto is the same as a week ago we just say its not a planet because we think we make up the rules. Wich is not true because Pluto is still in space the same as it was.

Answer 4

seriously, i feel somewhat vindicated. i have known since i was about twelve that pluto does not have the physical and orbital characteristics set by the major bodies in the solar system. later, after the discovery of hundreds of other bodies with orbits similar to pluto's, i knew this was inevitable. the international astronomical union corrected the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially. this does not change anything about the solar system or pluto, but it does change the language to fit observation. this means that anything that has a similar orbit to a bunch of other bodies is a dwarf planet. pluto and charon are considered a binary system.

(1) A classical planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.

(2) A dwarf planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.

(3) All other objects orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies".

Answer 5

I actually hate Pluto and everything about it. I hate plutonium. I hate pluto the dog. I hate the Greek god it was named after. It will be a great day in my life when they define that LYING MIDGET as a ball of space dust! I trusted Pluto and it lied to me and told me it was a real planet. I lost my love of astronomy because of that liar! Death to Pluto!

Answer 6

I love pluto. It is still a planet in my heart.

Answer 7

yes we all realize that Pluto is still physically there,were jsut upset that its not a planet anymore.

Answer 8

I think they just should have left it a planet. What would it have hurt?

Answer 9

To me it will always be "the little planet that could"!