because pluto is considered what they call an ice dwarf, it is one of thousands, and for pluto to be considered a planet, they would have to consider the other thousands, it is considered an ice dwarf planet, just to save the time they decided to remove it and give it its own classification
2006-12-15 16:53:41
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answered by Chev 1
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Why Did Pluto Disappear
2017-01-09 18:22:38
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answered by nanhey 4
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nicely for starters, Pluto is too small. interior the community the position Pluto lives? Planets are meant to be huge. The Jovian planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are 20 to three hundred circumstances the dimensions of the Earth, and Pluto is extremely small compared to the Earth, smaller than our Moon. kind of stands proud. And Pluto isn't made out the same cloth because the Jovians. the large planets are frequently large spheres of gas, usually hydrogen and helium. in all probability there are not any good surfaces, basically denser and denser gas all the way in. Pluto is a small good international of methane, water, carbon dioxide and ammonia ices, possibly somewhat rock and with a basically hint of ecosystem (that freezes out and falls as snow in her "iciness"). And third, Pluto's orbit is the most eccentric (oval shaped) and the most tilted to the airplane that some thing else of the planets orbit in. also, Pluto is locked in a resonance with Neptune's orbit and is derived in course of the solar than Neptune each from time to time. there have been theories that Pluto replaced right into a lost moon of Neptune yet that replaced into beforehand we got here across she a has one large moon (Charon) 0.5 her length (extremely a lot, this equipment is a double planet) and lately 2 different teeny-tiney moons. Pluto sounds like she cant be an ejected moon-she must have shaped on her personal and seems an element of an finished military of small icey-dwarf gadgets that circle basically outdoors Neptune's orbit in what's frequently occurring because the Kuiper belt. we do not understand of ways many or how large those gadgets would nicely be. not "planets" acceptable, hence the hot time period "dwarf planet" the position Pluto is king. yet I nonetheless imagine Pluto should be called a planet because of historic causes (got here across with the help of an American, financed with the help of Percival Lowell, Tombaugh's existence tale, and so on).
2016-11-30 20:20:55
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answered by ? 4
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This is an older article, so the description of what happened is what is probably taking place again.
Pluto's highly eccentric orbit makes it the eighth-most distant planet from the Sun for part of each orbit; this most recently occurred from February 7, 1979 through February 11, 1999. Pluto orbits in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune. When Neptune approaches Pluto from behind their gravity start to pull on each other slightly, resulting in an interaction between their positions in orbit of the same sort that produces Trojan points. Since the orbits are eccentric, the 3:2 periodic ratio is favoured because this means Neptune always passes Pluto when they're almost farthest apart. Half a Pluto orbit later, when Pluto is nearing its closest approach, it initially seems as if Neptune is about to catch up to Pluto. But Pluto speeds up due to the gravitational acceleration from the Sun, stays ahead of Neptune, and pulls ahead until they meet again on the other side of Pluto's orbit.
Try this site as well
http://www.answers.com/topic/pluto
2006-12-15 16:59:35
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answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7
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The object we call Pluto did not disappear. It is still up/out there.
What happened is that astronomers decided that it was too small to qualify for status as a planet, and so it has been re-defined as a "dwarf planet".
2006-12-16 00:19:59
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answered by Dave_Stark 7
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It's been classified as a dwarf planet, but there are hundreds [probably more like thousands, I'm not sure] of those so it's no longer 'special.' Tis now considered to be but a remnent of the earlier galaxy that never really became anything but a chunk of ice and rock orbiting slightly inside the Kiepler Belt.
2006-12-15 18:12:23
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answered by Me 2
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b4 i answered i did scroll down to peep for some details.....
well, it is rendered as an ice dwarf instead, because of the size..... but they left out one detial.....
the way pluto orbits.....
the orbit of pluto is diff. from the other planets.
it orbits around the sun slanted at the side, it cuts through neptune sometimes due to the slanted orbit shape.
it could b a moon of another planet but it won't b 4 sure as it doesn't circulate while orbiting the Sun.
hope this help.
2006-12-15 21:51:04
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answered by IceღFire Shawn 3
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It didn't disappear, it was just way to small to be considered as a planet out of the solar system, now it is in the dwarf-planet family with Xenas and some others.
2006-12-15 17:05:24
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answered by Freakish Gurl 1
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Pluto did not disappear it was sent away by a definition!
2006-12-16 01:54:29
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answered by Billy Butthead 7
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Pluto is no longer considered a planet, but it is still there.
Pluto anda few other objects in our solar system have been
classified one step down from "planet".
2006-12-15 16:53:57
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answered by les 4
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