And not a dwarf planet.
2007-01-08 02:06:17 · 16 answers · asked by Steve B 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Pluto should not be considered a real planet.
Because it's too small and there are many other small objects in the Kuiper Belt.
ICE/COOLB...
You've heard it wrong. It never had two moons. A little time back scientists thought that an object called Charon is Pluto's moon and that Charon orbits pluto. But now they have come to know that Pluto and Charon orbit each other. So Pluto has no moons.
2007-01-08 02:47:42 · answer #1 · answered by tmprrlyTrysta 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The international Astronomical Union met in 2006 and desperate to reclassify Pluto (and the newly found Eris) as dwarf planets. For an merchandise to be a planet, it has to do here: a million. Orbit the solar... Pluto does this. 2. Be a sphere... Pluto is a sphere. 3. sparkling out its orbit... Pluto hasn't completed this. just to offer you an occasion, Pluto is in basic terms 0.07 cases as enormous via fact something of the cloth in its orbit. Earth, on the different hand, has a million.7 million cases the mass of the different cloth.
2016-12-12 06:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by sickels 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, yes. I believe all objects that orbit our sun solely and have enough mass (gravity) to create a sphere have the right to be planets.
Included are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Ceres, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris, and Quouar. There are still others in the asteroid and Kuiper belts.
Dwarf Planets should be moons -- objects that orbit planets and not solely the sun -- and other objects that do not have enough gravity to be spheres.
Included in this list are the Moon, Phobos, Deimos, Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, Triton, Miranda, Charon, and thousands of others.
2007-01-08 03:26:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's still a planet, but scientists have gotten more specific on the types of planets. I understand that people don't like change, but Pluto is still Pluto.
2007-01-08 02:14:03 · answer #4 · answered by aplusjimages 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Then you'd have to make other Kuiper Belt Objects "planets", scientifically speaking they deserve it just as much. And some asteroids like Ceres.
You'd wind up with many, many "planets".
2007-01-08 03:52:45 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah because we have been taught that pluto was a planet since when like second grade so i still consider it a planet
2007-01-08 03:03:36 · answer #6 · answered by jnthnswinimer 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it is too small to be considered a planet and is so far away so that's is why it is a Dwarf Planet.
2007-01-08 02:12:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
no the only reason it was called a planet in the first place was because the americans discovered it. (if it wasn't called a planet then technically america would not have discovered any in this solar system)
2007-01-08 07:46:36 · answer #8 · answered by supremecritic 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No because Pluto is a dog
2007-01-08 02:14:31 · answer #9 · answered by Hoopz C 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it's not fair that it got kicked out of the group..... but no one's going to change their mind just because I said so.
2007-01-08 02:14:31 · answer #10 · answered by Charlene L 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋