Why would they discriminate so? If women discriminated like that,,,, What would we call MEN who didn't measure up? Menoids? Mennettes? Just give 'em a number? Weep for poor Pluto......
2007-07-03 04:48:14 · 12 answers · asked by cme2bleve 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
For Pluto to continue to be considered a major planet, the total number of major planets would have to be raised to 11. Ceres and Eris would have to be considered major planets as well. In addition, Pluto and Charon are considered by many astronomers to be a binary planet system, since the gravitational barycenter of the two lies between the two, rather than within the larger of the two.
2007-07-03 05:02:30 · answer #1 · answered by JLynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Pluto's "feelings" were hurt by the whole thing. Seriously, though, eliminating Pluto as a planet is actually a major step in solidifying the definition of what a planet really is. Size is not the only issue. There is the question of how objects like Pluto form and why it has such an unusual orbit when compared to the planets in our solar system.
2007-07-03 13:11:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor pluto's still a planet in my book.
I don't get bent out of shape about semantics questions anyway. Pluto is what it is: a funny little rock with a friend in a big eccentric orbit. And nobody can take that away (without some serious firepower anyway).
2007-07-03 11:51:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Pluto is not big enough to stand up for itself among the gas giant bullies in the planet neighborhood, then it should stay safe in the Kulper belt nursery until it grows bigger. I don't feel sorry for the little wimp.
If you can't run with the big dogs, then stay on the porch!
2007-07-03 13:27:34 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but think of poor Eris. It's bigger than Pluto, but they would never let that be a planet. Now there's discrimination for you.
2007-07-03 11:59:11 · answer #5 · answered by Bullet Magnet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though feelings aren't really important in the Scientific Comunity, I have to say I agree. I really liked Pluto, and I am still waiting for New Horizons to make its closest approch in 2010...
2007-07-03 12:01:12 · answer #6 · answered by Lexington 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get over it, people! Did you cry when biologists decided that archaeobacteria weren't bacteria any more? Did you protest when oceanographers decided the Southern Ocean should be separate from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans? Science marches on! Get in step or get outta the way.
2007-07-03 12:12:18 · answer #7 · answered by Xerxes314 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always felt that Pluto got much more respect than Goofy.
But thats just me.
2007-07-03 11:56:09 · answer #8 · answered by marf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought women DID discriminate like that...
2007-07-03 15:42:01 · answer #9 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is not the reason it is not a planet. it is not a planet because:
-it does not have a normal rotation wave like the others
-and it is not a solid, meaning if we landed a rocket there it wolud just go throgh the planet!!!!!
and much more other reasons!
2007-07-03 13:19:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋