What will we do about this old "remeber your planet" sayin now that Pluto is not a planet? My very educated mother just served us nine pickles. What are we going to say now? Can we just stop at nine?
2006-08-29 16:20:36 · 24 answers · asked by annie red 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Okay, I appreciate your resonses but try reading the entire question, there is more than one. Also before you claim its a planet, ( which I agree it is) but check out the latest news.
2006-08-29 16:41:53 · update #1
Mickey Mouse's pet.
2006-08-31 07:05:50 · answer #1 · answered by The Mick "7" 7 · 18⤊ 0⤋
The scientists of today cannot make up their overly educated minds. Pluto is not a plant nor a moon but called a dwarf planet. What does that mean? Apparently it is a planet but too small to be a true planet so they created a new term.
And do you realize it will take a couple of years for all the schools to replace their science books with new ones that no longer list Pluto as the 9th planet, let alone the cost to the taxpayers.
2006-08-29 16:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by banananose_89117 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, we went from nine to ten to eleven and now it's eight. Back to eight to be accurate. This started with the discovery of an object 1.5 times the size of Pluto (tagged with a name from a TV show) beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. This lead to a proposal to drop Pluto from the list, which caused a look at the problem that there is not a firm definition of the word PLANET. So, after a rather interesting get together of astronomers, they defined it as a sphere with a round orbit (more or less) and suddenly we have ELEVEN planets as Ceres in the asteroid belt belt between Mars and Jupiter qualifies. This was amazing in that they did it in less than a year and with what seemed to be complete agreement. Someone apparently had second thoughts. Or may not have been invited to the party. Thus we have a newer new definition which goes back to getting rid of Pluto. So until they work this out you have a choice of eight, nine, ten or eleven.
2006-08-29 22:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by Draken 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that if you class pluto as a planet, then all the other 'yet be discovered' objects, further out than pluto are all going to be classed as planets too and then we'll have 50 or so planets. Are you going to try and remember all of those?
Who cares wehther its a planet or not. If you've studied hard at school and remembered all the planets in order well done but in the end it's not really going to affect anyone is it. Nobody's going to cancel their trip to pluto now its had its status stripped.
2006-08-29 16:30:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its funny how till now they deem Pluto is not a planet cos its too small to be one!! Didn't scientists discover that all this while? I really don't know wats gonna happen to the education we have received so far about having nine planets. Perhaps they should just leave it alone for the time being and still deem Pluto a planet, abeit the smallest one.
2006-08-29 16:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by Des T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything massive that moves around a star anywhere in the universe is a planet. And anything that moves around a planet is a satellite.
I don't care what IAU says Pluto is a Planet and anything beyond pluto which rotates around the sun in an orbit (however eccentric it may be) without any marked change in its physical characteristics is a PLANET.
IAU is not a senate but a body of scientific disposition. Let them live up to it.
2006-08-29 22:29:12 · answer #6 · answered by CARLOS_TINCO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, Pluto is just a huge snowball on the fringe of our solar system. It was a mistake to call it a planet in the first place, but then, in the 1930s when it was discovered, not much was known about the Oort Cloud and other leftover junk from the formation of the solar system.
2006-08-30 05:20:49 · answer #7 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto is decidedly not a moon because it is not a satellite of any other body. It was called a planet since its discovery in the 1930s. It has its own orbit and dominates its place in space. A conference of astronomers was recently held where they demoted Pluto to the status of planetoid because its orbit is not circular but eliptical going inside Neptunes orbit at one point. Also, because three other masses were discovered being about the same size as Pluto, they had to either grant all of them planetary status or call all of them planetoids, which is what they did.
2006-08-29 16:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by rac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will always be a planet to me. Pluto was mentioned as a planet on Star Trek which takes place in the future so they must decide to make it a planet again sometime ;)
2006-08-29 16:27:33 · answer #9 · answered by mynameisdennis 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is really odd that they can just up and say ok well Pluto is no longer a planet sorry all these years of education and theories and practices are wrong but hey when we figure it out we'll get back to you. Stupid really
2006-08-29 16:25:14 · answer #10 · answered by ploobis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe your very educated mother can start serving Nestle Crunch bars.
2006-08-29 16:44:29 · answer #11 · answered by EQ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋