do you ever get tired of people asking why isn't pluto a planet?

Answer 1

as an astrophysics major, i am in whole-hearted support of having reclassified Pluto, just because people were calling it a planet didn't make it one by the definition of a planet. Either we had to change the definition of a planet or oust Pluto from the roster . . . mathematically it was just a hunk of rock orbiting with several larger hunks of rock but when it was named as a planet we didn't know this . . . we thought it had its own orbit like the eight remaining ones . . . people need to get over it -- it has almost no relevance to anything in your life

PS i resent the pencil pusher remark, in the interest of having valid classifications and ways to study and explain what is beyond earth, it is important to be able to revise your previous ideas to form more accurate understanding of the different sorts of bodies in the sun's gravitational field

Answer 2

No, what i get tired of is a bunch of pencil pushing astronomers that have so much time to sit around and try to tell me what to call something!

Answer 3

its defined as a minor planet. no, I don't get tired of it. What I get tired of is "THEM" changing the definition of a planet on me.

Answer 4

Yes, I actually wrote a paper and a speech on that topic. It just doesn't cut it!

Answer 5

Yes if they fail to understand. The point is It doesn't matter. Its entirely convention.

Answer 6

Sometimes...but as I never really feel like going into a detailed explanation of it I just sigh and let it go...

Answer 7

I thought was a horse-cow-dog-man hybrid.
Is that goofy?

Answer 8

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

NO!