DOES ANY ONE NOW IF PLUTO IS A REAL PLANET?PLZ HELP ME I AM COMFUSED
2007-02-08 14:42:07 · 12 answers · asked by mischel123 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Officially, it's not considered a planet anymore, although some people still consider it a planet for sentimental reasons.
2007-02-08 19:42:08 · answer #1 · answered by ixfd64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was growing up back in the fifties and sixties Pluto was the furthur most planet. But it has become clear that Pluto is nothing more than the largest of the comets of the Kuiper Belt. In fact, there is a whole class of TNOs with similar orbitas which are called "Plutinos" - little Plutos - which, it seems, are similar to their big brother in all but their size. Many times in the past the status of Pluto has been questioned and now it is being questioned more insistently than ever. The proposal which is being debated is to downgrade Pluto from being the 9th planet, to being asteroid Number 10000. The rest of the TNOs would then be numbered from 10001.
2007-02-08 14:53:08 · answer #2 · answered by CatLady 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Pluto itself is still real - I've seen pictures of it in Astronomy magazine. It used to be considered a planet until astronomers found larger bodies even farther away than Pluto. Instead of calling Pluto and the new bodies planets, astronomers voted to call them dwarf planets.
2007-02-08 14:53:39 · answer #3 · answered by Twizard113 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason Pluto has been demoted is that the term "planet" has been redefined as a non-stellar body in orbit around a star that has sufficient mass and therefore gravity that it is approximately spherical, and is able to sweep it's own orbit of debris. Pluto isn't big enough to do the latter.
2007-02-08 15:59:41 · answer #4 · answered by Gary H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto was downgraded into the new term of dwarf Planet a while back. It is no longer a planet. If it kept it's planethood, they would have had to welcome 3 more planets into the solar system.
2007-02-08 16:24:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It got downgraded from planet status last year. It is officially a dwarf planet like Ceres and Eros.
2007-02-08 14:58:40 · answer #6 · answered by Tikimaskedman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is real but not a planet. It is a dwarf planet.
2007-02-08 14:45:41 · answer #7 · answered by Ah Boi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its the second largest dwarf planet in the solar system.
2007-02-08 14:52:57 · answer #8 · answered by kanlim 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was just recently discredited by NASA as a planet. So no it's not a planet.
2007-02-08 14:51:05 · answer #9 · answered by km43dragon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
none the less .....it has been classified a dwarf......but it is real & it is a planet...........down load celestia........it will take you there & give you all the information you need.
2007-02-08 15:05:12 · answer #10 · answered by slipstream 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋