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Pluto's no longer a planet!
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:17 pm
by Shorts
Uh, can I have those wasted school days back please?????
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:36 am
by sharpmagna
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"
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:45 am
by Andrew
Just wait, pretty soon they'll start adding more. Don't get too attached to your acronyms.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:51 am
by Shorts
No kidding, they mentioned something about "dawrf planets"....great!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:33 am
by CNF2002
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:27 am
by GhosT RideR
damn bastards....my whole life has been a huge lie!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:32 am
by t_bonee
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:37 am
by NorthernPete
Now lets work on Mars...sitting up ther all smug and red......
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:38 am
by CNF2002
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!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:37 am
by t_bonee
CNF2002 wrote:
And its heading right for us!
DUCK AND COVER!!
