I Mean C'mon It's Been Discovered 76 Years Ago? You Can't Just Break Tradition. . . I DOn't Think This Is Right!!!
2006-09-14 15:56:39 · 17 answers · asked by Aye Nikki Beezy 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
i was wondering about it too. i think, since no living astronomer able to confirm or verify if pluto is an actual planet that they decided to remove it. is it being too far away that is why they thought it that way? what will happen to the written facts on all those science book stating pluto is the smallest planet in our solar system? who will succeed that now? i think if no one can check out other and confirm they are planet, they will start eliminating it too? by the way, who decide that? .
2006-09-14 16:19:49 · answer #1 · answered by salome 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, new discoveries indicate that if we kept Pluto as a planet, and changed the definition of a "planet" to include Pluto, then we would have to add three more planets. It was either 8 planets or 12 planets, so I guess we are breaking tradition either way.
2006-09-14 16:03:09 · answer #2 · answered by johnj1017 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you live long enough stuff like this happens all the time.
Maybe by the time you've been living 76 years they will find a new planet....and Pluto will just be a memory.
2006-09-14 16:03:16 · answer #3 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They changed the desciption of what a planet was, so now Pluto is called a "Dwarf Planet" which is a new classification scientists came up. It is one step above an asteroid because it has moons.
2006-09-14 16:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by Delta Charlie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they can. They finally agreed on a definition of what constitutes being a planet. Pluto didn't quite muster up. So now, it is merely a dwarf planet. Perhaps they can rename it after another Disney character, perhaps Sleepy.
2006-09-14 16:01:39 · answer #5 · answered by Trip S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well they took the "saint" from Christopher so I guess if they want to take the "planet" from Pluto they will. And for the record, I agree with you 100%.
2006-09-14 16:06:06 · answer #6 · answered by Val 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a trans-plutonian kuiper belt object....not a planet.
If someone saw a baseball floating in orbit and named it as a planet,
DOES NOT mean it IS a planet.
No matter how long we thought it was.
Just because we spent years being ignorant does not mean our kids
have to be the same way.
UNLESS we want to keep them stupid JUST BECAUSE ITS TRADITION.
Tradition nonwithstanding, we dont loe it any less, we wont quit
sending it christmas cards, Its just an old friend that we keep
embarrasing ourselves in front of by calling him by the wrong
name.
We just decided to classify it the way it is.
2006-09-14 16:09:59 · answer #7 · answered by Ron K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto can still remain as part of our Guest Planet Program.
2006-09-14 16:05:09 · answer #8 · answered by nothing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's still there. It is still named after Mickey Mouse's dog, Pluto. What's the big deal?
2006-09-14 16:05:24 · answer #9 · answered by oklatom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nobody took it away, they are just calling it something else for now, it will be renamed as a planet when we find life on it.
2006-09-14 16:12:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋