What do you think about Pluto being voted out of the Planetary Status?

Question

Pluto was voted by the scientists that it is no longer a planet. It seems peculiar to me because it has been a planet since approxiamately 1936, and what is the big deal? Why did they go to so much trouble over this? Does anyone know? Would you care to explain it to me?

Answer 1

I am quoting a part of my answer,to a question on astrology.

"When I was doing my research in 1996 about the planetary classifications in the Indian astrological system,there were very strong references saying that there were actually only eight planets and the ninth was only a "Nilal grakam"(Roughly translated it would mean a shadow planet),but it still had to be considered for purposes of predictions.
I could not understand why such a classification was made.But now we see Pluto being brought down from the status of a planet.
Now it makes sense."

Most of the,"Mythological stories"in the scriptures of the Hindu religion can be easily related to science.

I have not acheived a substanstial level, in my research on the Bible and the Quran,(which I see has abundant information and knowledge,as I expected they would),therefore I am not using verses from them.

I believe,a very long time ago,there was a high level of scientific knowledge and advancement.At some point there was a total wipe out (may be a nuclear holocaust and floods sometime later),and only a few survived.
These survivors had lived with advanced technology but didn't have any such technology to carry forward or didn't want to carry forward.But stories of technological advancements were passed down through many generations.As people started spreading again,different versions of these stories were written down,at different locations.

These are the scriptures we have,which seem like predictions for the future,but are actually memories of their distant past.

I know I have deviated too much.But it never hurts to know another's ideas.
You may take it seriously or just ignore it or hey make fun of it.

Answer 2

I think... the trouble with it is that the people don't like the changes, if tomorrow somebody comes to you and say: nothing is real, all is a big fat lie, maybe you belive it or don't, but if you believe it all will change, you family, your friends, everything. Maybe for you that Pluto don't be a planet anymore don't mean anything, but think about the older peole, all the life they know that above in the sky are eight planets. One day maybe a scientist'll tell us that the moon is only a rock floating in the space, and personally i still thinkig that it is our moon, not a rock.

Answer 3

Probably because the little rascal isn't any bigger than our moon!

Plus, it has an erratic orbit, that brings it past Neptune at times, so it can be considered just an asteroid by all scientific groups.

The only big hullabaloo was that way back when, it was "amazing" that we could even "see" Pluto, with the primitive devices that we possessed. Now that we have Hubble, we can see more galaxies and phenomenas that pale in comparison, and so, the scientific yahoos, decided it was time for a reevaluation of long standing venues and pluto lost in the final equation.

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 4

Pluto will always be a planet as far as I'm concerned. Or a Disney dog.

Pluto was discovered by Dr. Clyde Tombaugh in 1928, by the way.

Answer 5

I'm not about to let a self appointed panel of book worms and a geek tell me that they have the power to change the solar system to there liking. If they want there names in the annals of history than do something constructive. I will ignore there findings to the full existent of my ability's.An hold Pluto in it's rightful place in the immediate cosmos.

Answer 6

Astronomers do not want to be forgotten so they make a controversy out of nothing.