2006-08-30 02:12:17 · 13 answers · asked by putrid 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Indeed, I don't know what the fuss is all about. So we remove a planet from the solar system. Life goes on.
2006-08-30 02:16:30 · answer #1 · answered by Lyvy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Does it ACTUALLY matter? You can't even see Pluto without a very powerful telescope. If Pluto is a planet, so is Charon, Ceres and numerous other bodies in the solar system. Pluto was only originally classed as a planet because astronomers thought that Pluto and Charon were both Pluto, making it about the same size as Mercury.
2006-08-30 09:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh, for the love of....
Every speck of dust, every hydrogen atom, every electron that is within the Sun's magetosphere is part of the solar system.
Pluto has just been reclassifed (along with a few other objects) in order to bring more clarity into the definition of the word "planet" which used to ba vague at best. Here's a novel idea - though what you call is important for scientists (to ensure they are all apeaking the same language), otherwise it doesn't really matter what you call Pluto - a planet, a dwarf planet or a smegging cosmic starfish!
2006-08-30 09:17:13 · answer #3 · answered by evil_tiger_lily 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How the heck are you going to remove it? Its probably quite heavy and may not want to leave. Now if you want to change its status that's another story. It probably should not have been called a planet to begin with, primarily because it is way off of the common planetary elliptic?ecliptic?Sp? and its orbit causes it to come within Neptune's distance from the sun. I think those two facts are what primarily caused the Astronomical study group to change it to a dwarf planet. Of course, if I were a member of the small folks group I would be somewhat put out about the name selections.
2006-08-30 09:32:27 · answer #4 · answered by DanielofD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planet is only a name, a category devised by us humans to systematise astronomical data. It makes no difference whether Pluto or for that matter Jupiter or Earth is considered a planet or not.
2006-08-30 09:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's okay; it'll take the astronomers years to get all the way out there, and many more years to actually remove the planet.
2006-08-30 15:57:08 · answer #6 · answered by laura palmer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pluto will have to accept the reality. Sometime in future it miht come again
2006-08-30 10:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by GUK 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They did it anyway without asking me(lol) but for me I think it is kinda weird! I mean I grew up knowing it as a planet and now my daughter comes home and tells me it is not??
What changed? Nothing except men's minds!
2006-08-30 09:23:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't really care...I mean, who cares if there are 9 or 8 planets? It doesn't affect our lives, anyways?!
2006-08-30 09:18:50 · answer #9 · answered by alandicho 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if y playing` the game of I dare U... and it was your turn...PeAcE
2006-08-30 09:21:26 · answer #10 · answered by michael looooou 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋