How do u feel about the downgrading of pluto?

Question

as u all know pluto no longer has the privilage of being one of the solar system planets , due to its small size its now classified as a dworf planet ,,also the name "pluto" has been replaced with a number : 134340 !!

Answer 1

What?!?! Pluto's name has been replaced by a number: 134340?!?! What the ****?!?! I didn't know that. Pluto has always been my favourite planet. And I am Scorpio. Pluto is my planet. I ddon't feel happy that the scientists downgraded Pluto. For so many years, Pluto has been classfified as one of the nine planets in our Solar System. Then all of a sudden, after how many years... They realized that Pluto didn't meet any requirements to be considered as a planet?!?! What the hell! Arghhh! Talking about it makes me angry! Haha. We should have a petetion. In school, my teacher helped us remember all the nine planets with this sentence: My very efficient mother just served us nine pizzas. So, without the "pizzas", what is the sentence? I'm so sad about this.

Answer 2

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.

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 happened in the mid 1800s. beginning in 1800, astronomers found a few bodies orbiting the sun between the orbits of mars and jupiter. they finally stopped calling them planets after the fourth discovery. they gave the first one discovered, "1 ceres", the number one. no one 150 years from now no one will think pluto is a planet, and very few will even know we called pluto a planet. this does not change anything about the solar system or pluto. the iau has given pluto its number. "134340 pluto" is the official designation.

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 3

Charon is no more a moon of Pluto as both are about the same size and thier gravitational pull towards each other is almost equal so there is no clear "boss" who gets over the other.. hence the de-classification. But i doubt this will bring in any changes to the way ppl have been taught and kids will be taught in near future ..

Now if you take out Pluto out, that makes Mercury the smallest planet out of the remaining eight.. It will take some time to get accustomed to it.

And im just curious how ppl might have reacted the very first time when someone told Earth was not the center and we merely revolving around the Sun which was superior to our planet .. no wonder why the killings. And that "downgrading" was more humiliating than this one lol.

Answer 4

The problem is that similar planets as Pluto have just been discovered.
So, either these 'new' planets' would have been added to the solar system (including Pluto) -the solar system would then be composed of 11 or 12 planets, or they would not have been added, but in this case Pluto not too, because it belongs to the same family of planets.

So either our solar system is composed of 12 planets with Pluto and the new ones, or of 8 without them, but not of 9 ! The 1st option has been retained

Answer 5

Initially I felt a bit sad because I was used to it as a "real" planet.

But the fact is that, when you realise it is smaller than our own Moon (diameter onlu 2/3rds that of the Moon, mass only 1/5th), it just does not make sense to have it be a real planet.

And then it gets even worse when you realise that the newly baptised "Eris" (ex "2003 UB 313" or "Xena"), has a diameter about twice that of Pluto, and a mass about 9 times larger. And that another recently discovered object, "2005 FY9", is about 5x more massive than Pluto. And that there may well be other such large objects out there.

So in the end, I feel fine - it sounds like it was a proper decision to make.

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Answer 6

Bloody hell. those people who dangle to outdated recommendations, make claims that Pluto is what they are asserting it fairly is for no reason than they are asserting so no rely what those greater knowledgeable than they'd desire to declare. under the outdated device of classification we had twelve trans-Neptunian gadgets and various of different asteroids due for classification as planets (1000's are estimated via cutting-edge theories). some thing had to alter for astronomy to progression as a technology in this actual field. No new classifications would desire to comprise Pluto and exclude the others devoid of being thoroughly arbitrary, and that would not be clinical. a sort of gadgets, Eris, is unquestionably greater suitable than Pluto. No, the IAU had to make the determination to alter the classification of a planet. One grew to become into made, and Pluto did not make the minimize. it incredibly is that. And too experience sorry for an inanimate merchandise billions of kilometres away that not purely would not yet can't supply a damn approximately its substitute in designation is merely pitiful.

Answer 7

I think it's a shame, because Pluto even has its own moon, Charon. Besides, what else are we going to do with "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" without the Pizzas O_o?

Answer 8

You must accept Scientific facts, but I know many of us hate not to consider Pluto a planet. With time, we'll get over it.

Answer 9

Pluto has been known to us for quite a while so obviously, it feels a bit strange to have it downgraded. But, on the other hand, if it wasn't, we would have other lots asteroids called 'planets'...

Answer 10

I think it's great. Pluto has an eratic orbit and is not nearly as large as the planets. I think planetoid is a great name for objects like that.