Why did they want to bang the poor moon and why is Pluto no longer considered a planet!!!?

Question

the SMART1 or whatever thing... so what happens after that, they spent a lot of money on it so what will it do?

Im against them kicking Pluto out of the solar system!!! for what reasons???

Answer 1

I think they said something about pluto being too small. They want to make one of it's moons a planet. Crazy isn't it after all these years. They should just leave it alone.

Answer 2

Well, they haven't booted Pluto from the Solar System. I think it's even still called Pluto! It's just a matter of classification, really. There has to be an arbitrary line drawn somewhere to define what is a 'planet', what is merely an 'asteroid' and what is a 'satellite'. The line got a little hazy with bodies around the size of Pluto and there was an attempt to make a sensible classification. Pluto, in any case, was classified as a planet less than 100 years ago and before people knew any more about it than that it was a very small, very distant body that appeared to follow the rules for planets at the time.

The point of the re-classification is that any new bodies discovered even beyond Pluto as our knowledge of what comprises the Solar System increases can now be given their correct status.

I don't know what you mean by 'bang the poor moon'. Earth's moon is still a satellite of the earth

Answer 3

They "banged" that spaceship into the moon to see what would happen to all the space dust that came off of it.
See, there's this theory that someting (maybe an asteroid) once hit earth and all the dust and rocks and things that where blown off, clumped together and formed the moon.
If the dust from this crash clumps together and forms a small lump of a satellite it proofs that theory correct.
Pluto is to small to be a proper planet, and is a sort of semi planet now, like the moon.
Hope all this helps.

Answer 4

A better question: who gives a damn?