do you agree or disagree with the fact, that pluto is not a planet anymore. explian why you agree or disagree with the fact.
2007-01-20 12:07:53 · 11 answers · asked by Countess Blavinskeya 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Pluto is still a planet it is just classified as a drawf planet.
2007-01-20 12:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by futureastronaut1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In science a name can carry a lot of information. If I say something is a solid, liquid, or gas you will immediately know a lot about that object. If I call something a star or a black hole you would know what I was talking about. But until recently there wasn't a clear definition for a planet. We basically defined a planet by naming the planets in our solar system. This was not a useful scientific definition. Last year astronomers decided to create a better definition. A meaningful definition. And it just happens that Pluto was removed from the list of planets because of this definition. It is not the first an object has been removed from the list of planets in our solar system.
I agree with the move to standardize the definition of planet. I'm may not agree completely with the new definition, but I can accept it.
2007-01-20 20:50:48 · answer #2 · answered by sparrowhawk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't agree bacause even though pluto is small and looks like a ball of ice it should be agreed as a planet. Pluto is orbiting around the sun and every planet there is orbits. If pluto is a "Drawf planet" now it is not fair
2007-01-20 21:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by pratyasitstha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disagree, a dwarf planet should be still considered a planet. There is no way in the english language for an adjective to change the basic meaning of the noun.
Example: Our sun is a dwarf star, but it is still a star.
2007-01-20 21:44:07 · answer #4 · answered by k_man_su 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto no longer fits the definition of 'planet'. Therefore, Pluto is not a planet. End of story.
2007-01-20 20:50:49 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
planet, dwarf planet, etc. i'm old school, pluto is a planet...the guys with all the important letters after their names can just cram it.
2007-01-20 20:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever it is, I can't wait for the New Horizons probe to get there in 2015 and send back some pictures.
2007-01-20 23:17:12 · answer #7 · answered by janikdotcom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree. a PLANET is something that orbits around the sun. and pluto is not in orbit
2007-01-20 20:21:58 · answer #8 · answered by Fausto 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope , becuze it is just a giant floating glacier in space ...... and further more a glacier is a piece of ice not a planet well u know its not really rocket science or nothing but w/e...
2007-01-23 22:19:49 · answer #9 · answered by oscar s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They found out the guy who discovered it just had a smudge on his lense. It was just a smudge. Or maybe a small smudge, like a "smudgeoid". He said he's sorry.
2007-01-20 21:31:32 · answer #10 · answered by baron_von_party 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋