2006-09-19 12:10:37 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If you don't like my question go fornicate a porcupine.
2006-09-19 12:30:28 · update #1
http://www.iau.org/fileadmin/content/pdfs/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto
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.
2006-09-19 13:45:31 · answer #1 · answered by warm soapy water 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If that is the case should the asteroid Ceres get a funeral too? Pluto isn't the first object in our solar system to be demoted from planet status.
2006-09-19 20:29:03 · answer #2 · answered by ryoko_13_darkfall 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why should Pluto get a funeral when we are on the verge of including 3 more plantes?
2006-09-19 19:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by chumbawamba 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
IT HASNT DIED!!!!
IT'S JUST BEEN DEMOTED TO THE STATUS OF MINOR PLANET!!!!
And no, i wont go fornicate a porcupine, you will!
2006-09-20 08:57:07 · answer #4 · answered by Eddy G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah! lets bury the the pluto here in the planet earth
2006-09-19 19:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by mawi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah, and have it hosted at pluto. then we can send all the losers who are sad about pluto rightfully not being a planet to it, and rid earth of all the weaklinks of the world
2006-09-19 19:52:54 · answer #6 · answered by Adam 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No,
It is still part of our solar system, in the Milky Way, and in the universe. Think of it as a name change.
2006-09-19 20:16:35 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because there would be nothing to bury. Plus it still exists its just not a planet.
2006-09-19 20:16:22 · answer #8 · answered by academiafreak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto is in doggie heaven!
2006-09-19 19:14:01 · answer #9 · answered by scoop405106 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think so.....thats so stupid, they should jus leave it the way it was. we all grew up knowing pluto was a planet and now it is erased...RIP pluto
2006-09-19 19:15:52 · answer #10 · answered by *<i:o) 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋