2006-10-04 06:57:29 · 9 answers · asked by Randy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pluto Not a Planet, Astronomers Rule
Mason Inman
for National Geographic News
August 24, 2006 (Updated 3:30 p.m. ET)
Pluto has been voted off the island.
The distant, ice-covered world is no longer a true planet, according to a new definition of the term voted on by scientists today.
"Whoa! Pluto's dead," said astronomer Mike Brown, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, as he watched a Webcast of the vote. "There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."
In a move that's already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten, Pluto will now be dubbed a dwarf planet.
But it's no longer part of an exclusive club, since there are more than 40 of these dwarfs, including the large asteroid Ceres and 2003 UB313, nicknamed Xena—a distant object slightly larger than Pluto discovered by Brown last year.
"We know of 44" dwarf planets so far, Brown said. "We will find hundreds. It's a very huge category."
A clear majority of researchers voted for the new definition at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, in the Czech Republic. The IAU decides the official names of all celestial bodies.
The tough decision comes after a multiyear search for a scientific definition of the word "planet." The term never had an official meaning before.
2006-10-05 03:53:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the recent school shootings are linked to some type of mind control experiment. Look @ the guy in colorado..."Sexually driven"....and the same thing with the amish school shooting "sexually driven"...It wouldn't surprise me if in the next few weeks ther were at least 2 more such incidents that were 'sexually driven' that ended in the deaths of girls under 18....You might think I'm nuts, but just watch the news and see what happens.......No, Pluto had nothing to do with it.
2006-10-04 14:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by Tom I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely!
Everyone over the age of 19 is just Postal over the fact they were taught Astronomy all wrong and are now taking it out in teacher, principals and students!
2006-10-04 14:27:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but it did have an effect on Congressman Mark Foley wanting to molest young boys.
2006-10-04 14:15:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sort of like the butterfly effect or something?
2006-10-04 14:00:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, God's pissed that His Creation was "de-planetized"
2006-10-04 13:59:53 · answer #6 · answered by Kenny ♣ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's gotta be what's wrong with this world.
=)
2006-10-04 14:11:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What, like, "you kill kids, no more 9th planet for you!"...?
2006-10-04 14:07:19 · answer #8 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah,thats it
LOL
2006-10-04 13:59:26 · answer #9 · answered by jen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋