what is the new name of pluto?

Answer 1

it's been givin a number134340 and it is a dwarf planet

Answer 2

Pluto

Answer 3

Bill P is repeating misnformation that is now circulating, that Pluto is now just a number. That is not the case. It has gained a number, It has NOT lost its name,

What I think you have picked up as new is that it now has a number (134340). It can now be referred to either as Pluto or as 134340 Pluto.

If I can explain what the number is and why Pluto has been given one?

The Minor Planet Centre at the Smithsonian Institute catalogues all minor planets with orbits that are sufficiently well charted that they can be predicted with some certainty. It takes a while to appear in the MPC catalogue after a new object is discovered.

The catalogue was started when the asteroid 1 Ceres was discovered in 1801, followed by 2 Pallas in 1802, 3 Juno in 1804 and 4 Vespa in 1807, We now know of more than 338,000 asteroids but only about a third of these have catalogue numbers and only a tenth of those have names. So like stars in star catalogues, astronomers refer to many of these nameless objects by a number alone, But they won't do that to Pluto. As it is not nameless.

Planets, however, do not have a number and do not appear in the Minor Planet Centre catalogue. On 24th August 2006 Pluto was demoted from planet status to dwarf planet status.

That is why it did not have a number before now, and why it has now been given a MPC number.

Pluto has NOT had its name taken away from it. This is an emotive twist that has been put on the facts by people who think it was "unfair" to demote Pluto, and this rumour is clearly spreading, like misinformation has a habit of doing!

134340 Pluto, 1 Ceres and 136199 Eris are all now classed as Dwarf Planets.

1 Ceres was previously regarded as a planet from its discovery in 1801 for more than 50 years, until it too was downgraded (like Pluto has now been downgraded) to an asteroid (a category that did not exist when it was discovered as it was the first one to be found),

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Pluto is NOT the first solar system object to be stripped of planet status. That distinction goes to Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, and the first asteroid ever discovered. When it was discovered it was called a planet. After many more "planets" were discovered in roughly the same orbit as Ceres, it was decided that Ceres and the rest were not planets after all. This was back in the 1800s, of course, so no one remembers it.

Answer 6

Pluto has the same name it is now considered a planetoid or dwarf planet because it no longer meets all the three criteria to be a planet

Answer 7

Pluto now has a prisoner number and will known as "134340 Pluto" as long as it is chained to a solar system that convicted it of being small and unusual. This notation will now appear beneath its mug shot.

Answer 8

The former planet has been dubbed asteroid number 134340 to reflect its new status as a "dwarf planet."

But that doesn't mean people will start referring to Pluto differently.

"There is no intention of changing the name," IAU President Catherine Cesarsky said. "The number assigned is just for tables."

Answer 9

Pluto, same name,just not considered a planet now. Still Mickey's dog.

Answer 10

Pluto is pluto
a number added.
in its existence contravesy is on (much ado about nothing)

Answer 11

pluto- the name didn't change