Pluto's no longer a planet!

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Shorts · #1 Unread post by **Shorts** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:17 pm

Uh, can I have those wasted school days back please?????

sharpmagna · Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:36 am

Yeah now I have to learn another stupid acronym for the planets

"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine planets"

Without Pluto, I nominate "My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nothing"

Andrew · #3 Unread post by **Andrew** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:45 am

Just wait, pretty soon they'll start adding more. Don't get too attached to your acronyms.

Shorts · #4 Unread post by **Shorts** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:51 am

No kidding, they mentioned something about "dawrf planets"....great!

CNF2002 · #5 Unread post by **CNF2002** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:33 am

Under the new proposed 'definition' of a planet, there would be literally hundreds of planets in our solar system, including that stupid potato shaped asteroid Celio (or whatever). I'd rather lose Pluto than have to memorize 200 more rocks that I will never visit.

GhosT RideR · Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:27 am

damn bastards....my whole life has been a huge lie!

#7 Unread post by **t_bonee** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:32 am

As an amatuer astronomer, good. It was a large asteroid, not a planet as initially thought. This is a good example of showing science as an evolving thing as opposed to something that is set in stone. As we learn more about something, we have to adapt and change as we do. This is a perfect example. As we've discovered larger objects in the solor system than Pluto, the scientific community has had to rethink Pluto's status and they got it right by declassifying it as a planet.

NorthernPete · Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:37 am

Now lets work on Mars...sitting up ther all smug and red......

CNF2002 · #9 Unread post by **CNF2002** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:38 am

t_bonee wrote:As an amatuer astronomer, good. It was a large asteroid, not a planet as initially thought. This is a good example of showing science as an evolving thing as opposed to something that is set in stone. As we learn more about something, we have to adapt and change as we do. This is a perfect example. As we've discovered larger objects in the solor system than Pluto, the scientific community has had to rethink Pluto's status and they got it right by declassifying it as a planet.

And its heading right for us!

#10 Unread post by **t_bonee** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:37 am

CNF2002 wrote:
And its heading right for us!

DUCK AND COVER!!