Should Pluto Be Considered A Planet???

Answer 1

read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

no, pluto does orbit the sun, is ball-shaped, does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.), and is not a satellite so it is not a planet.

i have been waiting for this since i was about ten when i learned that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt "out of place". now that astronomers have found hundreds of other bodies with similar orbits, classifying "134340 pluto" as a planet is even more irrational. i feel somewhat satisfied, but i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary astronomers are satisfied that the definition is rigorous enuf. i can accept that the definition is flawed, but i can not accept that "134340 pluto" is a planet.

this was the right thing to do, believe me. this does not change anything about pluto or the solar system. this just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.

many astronomers consider pluto and charon to be a binary system, but two small bodies orbit that system. they are called nix and hydra.

incidentally, "134340 pluto" was never a moon of neptune. neptune did capture triton. this is why triton has a retrograde orbit.

Answer 2

you know, it's a good question because way back my primary school (this is serious back in the 70's - 80's), we were always asked to recite the planets (8 or 9), but Pluto is definitely the last one, and the farthest planet of them all (from the Sun, that is). but i recently heard or read from the news that now, it is being considered as just a Moon bec. of its minute size. Nowadays, we have super-duper, state-of-the-art telescopes to distinguish a planet from a moon. Well, to answer your question, Pluto was definitely considered a "planet" in our history for a long time. I can vouched for that from our Science subject.

Answer 3

No, it should not. Pluto is too small and its orbit is highly elliptical. Its orbit is outside of the plane of the solar system. Pluto is part of the Kuiper Belt, an area beyond Neptune that is full of small bodies of ice and rock. Pluto should never have been called a planet.

Answer 4

the science community has decided that celestial bodies, that originate from the Oort cloud, and have a path around the sun which is very different from planets that were created in the space nearer to the sun, should not be defined as planets.
Scientists estimate that Pluto is one of these bodies, but there are more of the same origin, and therefore Pluto is not considered a planet any more.

Answer 5

I guess no. Because previous researches state that pluto could have been a moon before but what knocked out of its gravitational pull to the position we know of today. Besides it's too small to be classified as a planet. It could possibly be the same size as any of the moons in our solar system. So, probably consider it as a dwarf.

Answer 6

Its now classed as a dwarf palnet, if a object is big enough that its gravity pulls it so its becomes a sphere like shape then it is a palnet or dwarf planet, this is the classified by the astronomical union in america

Answer 7

No, it's too small to be a planet, hence why it's now a dwarf planet.

Answer 8

yes it should be...we should not consider it as planet bcoz of its small size or as favorite but bcoz its a part of our solar milky way

Answer 9

Yeah, I think it's stupid they even de-graded it to a dwarf planet. Or whatever.

It's always been my favorite planet. ALWAYS WILL BE.

Answer 10

yes