Pluto's no longer a planet!

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Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:57 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.

so refreshing to know that the alternative fuel problem is solved and all the scientists have nothing to do but look up in the sky and decide that pluto aint a planet.like somebody gives a dam.

flynrider · Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:16 am

Bummer

. When I was a kid, I was an amateur astronomer and used hang out at the local university observatory where Clyde Tombaugh (the discoverer of Pluto) was running the big telescope. Funny thing was that half the folks that showed up on open house night at the observatory had no idea that this guy had discovered a planet.

bcarlson · #13 Unread post by **bcarlson** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:25 pm

As long as my taxes don't go up or there are any more laws passed, they can pretty much call Pluto whatever they want to. I mean, if this is all they got to argue about on the news I'd say we're doing pretty good right now (but we're not).

Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:17 pm

This means my whole life has been a lie.
What else did they make us study that has or is about to be nullified?

Shorts · #15 Unread post by **Shorts** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:54 pm

blues2cruise wrote:This means my whole life has been a lie.
What else did they make us study that has or is about to be nullified?

Exactly. If enough of this "reversible" knowledge is found, it could be enough through my elementary, junior high and high school career that it affects those numbers on my report card. Now what?

Well, maybe that all evens out since regardless of those gpa numbers, I did get into college then managed to graduate....

"Lies, all lies!" -Frow, Austin Powers 2

#16 Unread post by **t_bonee** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:45 am

9000white wrote:
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.
so refreshing to know that the alternative fuel problem is solved and all the scientists have nothing to do but look up in the sky and decide that pluto aint a planet.like somebody gives a dam.

And what are you doing to help the fuel problem? Thats what I thought. Quit yer bellyaching, I hear enough from my kids.

Kal · #17 Unread post by **Kal** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:39 pm

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.

Jules would like to say....

The realization that Pluto is much smaller than originally assumed and shares many properties with Kuiper belt objects led to a lot of media speculation in 1998-1999 that Pluto was about to be stripped of its planetary status, and become officially classified as just another Kuiper belt object. However, the International Astronomical Union acted to quash this rumour, and on the basis of historical precedent Pluto will continue to be listed as a planet for the foreseeable future. Yes they have agreed to start using the term Dwarf planet (but why not, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are known as giants) and 2003 UB313 will be classified under this too probaby. It does mean we still get to call Pluto a planet, even if the best photo we have of it looks like a disco ball!

Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:36 am

And what are you doing to help the fuel problem? Thats what I thought. Quit yer bellyaching, I hear enough from my kids.[/quote]

well if you must know i am working on a teleporting machine like the one used in Star Trek.

Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:42 am

9000white wrote:And what are you doing to help the fuel problem? Thats what I thought. Quit yer bellyaching, I hear enough from my kids.

well if you must know i am working on a teleporting machine like the one used in Star Trek.[/quote]

So you finally decided to convert that old shine still into something else?

CNF2002 · #20 Unread post by **CNF2002** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:47 am

fireguzzi wrote:
9000white wrote:And what are you doing to help the fuel problem? Thats what I thought. Quit yer bellyaching, I hear enough from my kids.
well if you must know i am working on a teleporting machine like the one used in Star Trek.

So you finally decided to convert that old shine still into something else?[/quote]

I suggest renting "the Fly".