Who thinks pluto should still be a planet, and why?

Question

It's nothing but an ice cube, why should it be a planet?

Answer 1

i don't know who does, but i don't.

http://www.iau.org/fileadmin/content/pdfs/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf

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. astronomers then added numerals to the names, and pluto recently got its numeral. 150 years from now, no one will think of "134340 pluto" as a planet. very few will even know we classified it as a planet. "1 ceres" and "136199 eris" are other dwarf planets.

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.

Answer 2

No Pluto should not be a planet, it should be a giant sized ice ball with a few rocks thrown in. Sooner or later Pluto will get smashed by some othe giant sized ice ball out there in the Kepler belt and then where will we be? But on the other hand Jupiter should not be a planet either. Jupiter is a very small brown dwarf, failed star with no rocky core or real surface. Jupiter is Hydrogen gas all the way down to the center. It might be highly compressed metalic hydrogen, but hot enough to stay in a plasma gas state. Saturn on the other hand is a first class planet, Rocky core, bunches of atmosphere, super fine ring system and moons to fit any occasion. We need to scratch Mercury too. Too small, too hot, not a long enough year for a decent football season. Earth on the other hand needs to be reclassified as a dangerous unihabitable planet due to the sever infestation of stupid apes that walk upright, wear phony skins all the time and waste all their free energy worring about how politically incorrect Survivor Cook Islands is.

Answer 3

Much to my surprise, the International Astronomical Union has indeed voted on a resolution that defines exactly what a planet is and Pluto no longer qualifies. This means that Pluto is indeed not a planet any more and that our solar system no longer has the nine planets I learned about as a kid, but only eight!

Don't worry, though, Pluto is now to be known as a dwarf planet, so it's not been completely ejected from our solar system, just relabeled. The eight planets in our solar system are now, in order from the Sun outwards, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

As The Planetary Society explains, "a “planet” is now defined as a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."

"A dwarf planet, according to the new definition, is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite."

Got it?

There are now three dwarf planets in our solar system, so Pluto isn't alone. It's joined by the asteroids Ceres and Xena (aka UB313), though more than a dozen are on the IAU's dwarf planet watch list, if you can believe it.

One key reason that Pluto has been given the boot is because its orbit is not in the same ecliptic plane as the rest of the planets and isn't circular as are the planets, but is rather "eccentric". Indeed, at certain points in its orbit, Pluto is actually closer to the sun than Neptune.

Answer 4

Personally, I think Pluto should be a planet. There was only one problem though: If Pluto is a planet, the anything bigger than it would have to be a planet too. And since 2003 UB313 (or Eris as it is officially known now) was considerably larger than Pluto, it would have to be classified as a planet also. With this in mind, I understand why the IAU came to the decision that it did, although I tend to disagree with it. What's the problem with having 10 planets (or 12, or whatever it would've been)?

Answer 5

Pluto should not be a planet, and it should have never been classified as a planet. Just look at the orbit of Pluto, the eight planets all have similar types of orbits, and Pluto is not even close. Pluto was formed completely different than the eight planets..

Answer 6

I am acctually writing a paper about this as we speak. Pluto does not 1 of the 3 criteria that makes a Planet. It orbits the sun, yes ; It has a sphirical orbit, yes; but it does not clear debris out of its way. So according to the ISU it can no longet be a planet. But i belive under the circumstances, it should be grandfathered in.

Answer 7

I think it should still be classified as a planet. Why?

It orbits the sun. It has three moons.

Arguing that Pluto is not a planet is similar 1) to arguing that Mercury is not a planet because it is too close to the sun and 2) to arguing that Jupiter is not a planet because it's not rocky enough.

Answer 8

Because 850 members of a 10,000 member club got together for some weekend fun and reclassified it and they do not represent a majority of anything. It really doesn't matter whether it's called a planet or not but, it will cost millions of dollars to an already strapped educational system to correct and reprint text books. The money is better spent on almost anything other than the weekend folly of some star gazers.

Answer 9

pluto should still be considered a planet because in my case after 12 years of learning it was a planet I am indifferent to change. leave poor little pluto alone maybe it's going through its ice age stage

Answer 10

I think Pluto must still be regarded as a planet because if it changes the entire bokks in our country will change and it takes a lot of time to do it.