who thinks that pluto was wronged, and deserves to be back in the planet family?

Answer 1

pluto is not a planet, but pluto orbits the sun, is round, does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.), and is not a satellite so it is a dwarf planet. this does not change anything about the solar system or pluto. it just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.

this same thing has happened before. beginning in 1800, astronomers found a few bodies orbiting between the orbits of mars and jupiter, and they finally stopped calling them planets after the fourth discovery. 150 years from now, no one will think of "134340 pluto" as a planet. very few will even know we called "134340 pluto" a planet.

i have been waiting for this since i was about twelve. i feel somewhat satisfied. i knew that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt illogical and "out of place". this was the right thing to do, believe me. i don't understand why so many are having such a problem with this.

i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary scientists are not satisfied that the definition is rigorous enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Answer 2

Pluto, the last planet to join the heavenly pantheon, became the first to leave it. The status of Pluto had been under discussion for some time, but with the discovery of 2003 UB313, nicknamed Xena, the question became acute, for it seemingly had as much right as Pluto to be called a planet.

On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union surprised the world by voting in a new definition of planet, one that would exclude Pluto and bring the total number down to eight. (There had previously been been strong speculation that the redefinition would bring the total up to 12 instead of down.)

Pluto was instead classified as a dwarf planet, along with Ceres and the aforementioned Xena. The main difference between a dwarf planet and the real thing is that the dwarf variety has not cleared the area of its orbital path.

This redefinition met with a wave of protests from those who wanted to see the ninth planet grandfathered in, including but not limited to supporters of the late Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. His widow, however, said he would have been accepting of the IAU's decision since "he was a scientist" and understood that astronomers had to take into account newly discovered objects in the Kuiper Belt (where Pluto is located).

But opponents of Pluto's demotion remain unconsoled and have generated a thriving industry in T-shirts, mugs and other memorabilia. Among the many slogans of this movement was one which played on the mnemonic for the names of the erstwhile nine:

Answer 3

I do. The scientistt are horrible. Why would they do that? Some other scientist that support the planet even have museums dedicated to the small icy planet. They should keep it because it is still a planet even thought it is small. All planets are rocks, so why are they planets but not Pluto. Is it because Pluto is small? They are discriminating against those who are smaller. Darn scientist. Well I hope that the scientis reconsider their decision and bring back the extremely weirdly elliptically path small icy planet named Pluto.

Answer 4

Pluto could have easily remained a planet. Classic 9 planets and anything else could have been categorized into "minor" and "dwarf" planets. For a object being discovered in 1930, I wouldn't have second guessed it being a planet. All it took was for it to cross paths with Neptune to eliminate it. Without a greater understanding there is nothing to understand.

Answer 5

I need the materials of Pluto to make a multi generational inter galactic space craft, and that takes the materials of a small planet. Yes I think Pluto was wronged.

Answer 6

I definitely think that Pluto got a raw deal and should have never been kicked off our solar system the way it was

Answer 7

As a planetary scientist, I am very pleased at the sudden interest in the Solar System this 'controversy' has generated.

Maybe the next time government funding gets low, we'll give Neptune the axe!

Answer 8

Human beings are crazy ! Why cant they leave pluto alone ? What has pluto done to you humans eh?

Anyway pluto is a non-sentient (insentient) object and hence it wont know if it was wronged

Answer 9

Mercury is the smallest now.

You can say My very educated mother just served us nachos or
Maybe Very Enraged Men Just Shouldn't Usurp the Ninth
or Mr. VEM J. SUN

It is and always was a comet... part of the Kuiper belt. We needed to stop calling it what it wasn't.

We gave it a special name, dwarf planet.
Science changes, get over it.

Answer 10

Me! I am Scorpio and Pluto is my planet. Those bloody scientists! Arghhh! Thinking about it makes me angry! Haha. Pluto was my favourite planet, and will always be.