should pluto of stayed a planet?

Question

i think it should of done. what do u think?

Answer 1

When Pluto was discovered there was some concern about its size and orbit

In the eighties it was discovered to have a very large moon that meant (almost the same size as itself) which had led to an over estimation of Pluto size. So it was even smaller.

In the last ten years we have discovered number of bodies of about the same mass (and in some cases more) as Pluto in the same region of space and with the same Icy composition. It became clear that Pluto belong to a group of objects which were not planets. As a result Pluto was down graded to a dwarf. I don't think that is far enough and it should just be considered a kuiper belt object.

In the 1800 hundreds Ceres, which is now an asteroid, was discovered and classified as a planet. Once it was realised that a large number of objects were the same in size and orbit as Ceres it was reclassified as an asteroid.

We now have a better understanding of the outer solar system. This greater knowledge has led us to realised that we were mistaken to to conclude Pluto was a planet. Should we now admit our mistakes and correct them?

FYI Surveyor

Pluto is not a rocky object and so cannot be an asteroid

Answer 2

Yes, Pluto should have retained it's title of "planet" since it has been this all this time. This is just another example of a choice few (in this case one spoiled so-called scientist throwing a temper tantrum) dictating to a group what must be and the so-called ruling group giving in to the spoiled one just to shut him up. Pluto will always be Pluto...and not some numbered rock. Besides, who are they to say a planet HAS to be a certain size. That's like saying a man isn't a man unless he is a certain size. In otherwords...hogwash and poppycock (a fave saying of a high school English teacher). I for one will NOT "correct" someone who names Pluto as a planet. Besides, what is this bright boy going to say now that the Hubble has taken pictorial proof of many other "planets" in our little corner of the heavens? Keep Pluto in the list of planets...someone is going to have to retract his answer soon enough.

Answer 3

No. Pluto and its "moon" Charon are just big snowballs on the fringes of our solar system in a region called the Kepler Belt. Pluto doesn't fit into either of the two categories of planets, the small, rocky planets in the inner regions of the solar system, nor the large, gaseous planets of the outer regions of the solar system. It is a small, insignificant chunk of ice that doesn't fit with either of the two established planet classes found in our solar system.

Answer 4

I think you mean:

"Should Pluto have stayed a planet?"

If that's what you're asking... .NO.

Pluto has been found to be just a large asteroid in a recently discovered asteroid belt. There is so much information available to you here on the Internet if you really want to know more about it.

Answer 5

Pluto will always be a planet in my heart!!! I think they should of voted on it because I don't think most humans would of thought it was such a big deal to remove it from the planet list... I wonder if we could petition to get it back on the list..

Answer 6

I think Pluto is better off as a Disney character myself.

Answer 7

No-one on this site has ever been to Pluto. No-one has ever seen it except as a pixellated blur on television. We've only got the astronomers' word for it that it exists.

If the world's astronomers have decided that it's not a planet, good luck to them.

Answer 8

Of course it should, if it was seen by an old telescope when it was discovered then it's a planet after all the earths the odd one out, its got destructive life forms!

Answer 9

i think we should start a petition to get pluto re instated as a planet.

Answer 10

There is a lesson here, if you're small you don't matter. Soon, midgets won't be considered real people.