What are your thoughts about Pluto not being a planet anymore?

Answer 1

Its sad. Now all text books/videos and other items that are used to teach youngster about our solar system, will need to be revised.

Answer 2

well it seems to me that the real question is not whether pluto was and or still is a planet, cause i think it still and always will be one. i think the real question is what size does something have to be to be considered a planet?

mercury is small compared to another planet like say jupiter or saturn or even earth, but its still a planet, pluto is just easy and convienent to knock off the list cause its at the end and they wont have to renumber 1-8

i thought that the solar system was made up of a star of some kind with other bodies, ie the planets, that revolve around it in orbits, isnt that what a solar system is, and moons are smaller planets that dont revolve around the sun but around the other planets,

now doesnt pluto fill that criterea of being a big rock that goes in circles around the center sun? just cause its small and really far away doesnt mean it isnt a planet, the basis that pluto is "far away" i think is really wrong as well, everyone knows how absolutely hudge the universe is, we have uncountable galaxy's that are more that trillions of miles apart, and we cant see where the universe ends, i know that our closest star is still crazy far away so i guess my point was that distance is completly relitive in space, i think in space terms pluto is pretty close to earth, because space and earth distances are vastly different in close and far away, we know this cause we use light years in space, 1 light year is ridiculasly far away

pluto is a planet, its small yes, in comparison to what jupiter? ok so is the earth but were not going to ditch our own planet now are we, and second, so what that its far away, in relation to what, how far brady can throw for a td?

Answer 3

Quiet down, children, quiet down. Class is in session. The drill is that as technology progresses, more and more is learned about our planet and the solar system. Early man was convinced that Earth was flat and that all the stars and planets revolved around Earth. Not until just recently, if you look at the entire scope of human history, did man accept the fact that Earth is round, it orbits the sun, and that the only objects that orbit Earth are the Moon and the junk mankind sends up there. What caused this epiphany of human thought? Advancements in technology and exploration of Earth. Man had no telescopes until sometime around the 17th century, give or take. Up until then, observations of stars and planets were done with the human eye, and little was known about them. After guys like Galileo started observing planets and stars with such tools, and began differentiating stars and planets and charting them, it became more clear how the planets moved, and where Earth stood in the scheme of the solar system. Not surprisingly, these guys were thought of as nutcases, because they challenged commonly-held beliefs held by the uneducated masses that made up humanity at the time. Earth was considered flat until guys like Columbus sailed past what was considered the edge and came back alive. Gradually, we have charted, studied, and classified everything we can see or measure. As new ways to study, observe, and measure objects both right here on Earth and in the solar system are developed, commonly-held beliefs that may have been perfectly valid 50 years ago are altered, disproved, updated, revised, or otherwise modified. The truth is, Pluto may never have been a planet in the first place, based on the criteria that was set forth to determine planethood, but based on the observations made years ago with what we would consider primitive tools, it was considered one. I personally think that all the diehard "Pluto is a planet" folks should consider themselves lucky that Pluto had planet status for as long as it did.

Answer 4

I'm going to take the stubborn/ignorant approach and say

"Bah, of course Pluto is a planet! Pluto will *always* be a planet! o.O I'm not going to listen to no scientists who have to go and change everything just because they know better!"

lol no not really like that.... I'm not hyped up about it or anything, I'll accept it, but at the same time I'll probably still call it a planet.... (Well it is a dwarf planet now right? so it's still a planet....in a sense.........) i mean who cares if it's dwarf or not ^_~

Answer 5

Actually, the question should say "What are your thoughts about Pluto not being CONSIDERED a planet anymore" because Pluto itself didn't change, just our classification of it.

I feel like I should just get used to a different set of info now. But science is science, & our explanations are constantly changing.

Cinderella, by saying "it was a shame that they had to declare that" do you mean that we should be left to our ignorance just because we got comfortable with our status quo???!!

Answer 6

I really feel sad because I grew up learning that Pluto was the 9th and coldest planet from the sun. Now, everything has to be changed. The solar system maps, the museums, the displays in NASA, etc. I think that it was just a shame that they have to declare this.

Answer 7

With all the problems on this planet, the announcement that Pluto is not a "planet" any longer is really insignificant to me.

Answer 8

Pluto will always be a planet as far as I'm concerned.

Answer 9

It feels funny not to think of pluto as a planet anymore. I dont know if i feel anything else....but whatever, one page less in everyones science books...

Also, we cant say that again...''My Very Excellent Mother Just Showed Us Nine (??????).....P is gone...

Answer 10

Weird.. pluto is like the hardest to reach planet and now it's no longer classified as one..

Answer 11

i'm still saying there's nine planets.If they thought Pluto was too small to be considered a planet then they should of never said it was one.