General Chat / 8 Planets

Pluto isnt a planet anymore:

http://news.yahoo.co...nolongeraplanet

kinda weird... yeah...

Well since Pluto is no longer a planet and has been re-classified as a "Pluto is a dwarf planet by the ... definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects" means that we now have Snow White and the 8 Dwarfs!

Look for Pluto to be Crumpy's pet at a disney park near you!

I was hoping we'd get 12. Ceres sounds cool, even if it is just a giant asteroid. Oh well. 8. Meh. No more Yuggoth or McPluto.

Also, whatever happened to Persephone? Or was that just some sci-fi author's wishful thinking? Not that it'd make much sense now.

I already see the earth going down in chaos because pluto isn't a planet anymore.
It'll even get worse than after the "Year-2000-Crash"!
OMG, We're all gonna die!!!!!!!!111!!

This is one of the most uninteresting interstellar news I've heard in a looooong, long time...
I wouldn't mind If they'd make a "gas pall" out of the planet jupiter -.-"

Jupiter is a gas ball.

It's just a good thing it isn't a sun.



Pluto being deplanetized IS big news. It'll take twenty years for California's schools to update their text books to reflect this change.

Jupiter is a gas ball.

It's just a good thing it isn't a sun.

Lucifer? Yeah, cause then some Europans would evolve, the monoliths would decide to kill us, and Halman would have to save Earth with a method later copied in Independence Day.

I'll miss the "considered as a planet Pluto"...I don't know, it's just strange. I have a doubt (maybe because of some language problems )...Pluto have never been a planet and astronomers discovered that, or Pluto isn't a planet anymore, because it got out of its orbit or what?

Edited by RCFanB&M, 24 August 2006 - 03:58 PM.

Nothing physical has changed. They just changed the definition of a planet, and Pluto no longer qualifies.

BTW, most scientists believe Pluto was a rogue Kupier Belt object that was captured by the sun's gravity. Meaning it didn't form with the other 8 planets.

Oh...I see.

i guess that would lend to its more eliptical orbit than the other planets.

anywho, yeah. not the biggest news, but i found it pretty interesting when i heard it on the news the other day.

lol "the other day."

it was decided yesterday... unless the proposition was pubicized "the other day" (and you were referring to the possibility of it being "deplanetized")

"deplanetized"

Someone trying to speak like Kumba?

I pretty much like the decision they made. Was time to make a decisions finally. They really had a problem since "Xena" was spotted.

lol "the other day."

it was decided yesterday... unless the proposition was pubicized "the other day" (and you were referring to the possibility of it being "deplanetized")

WHATEVER.
yeah that's probably it.

Haha, now even more of what you learn in school is bollocks.

Someone needs to start a Planetary Defense Fund and hire some lawyers. This is complete crap.

theyve been argueing about this for years. They reckon Pluto is just one of the biggest of Hundreds of Thousands of objects in the belt out there.

It still interests me how little we know about our own solar system.

well.... thats because we're dumbasses . i bet that NASA sattelite they lost a while ago has been taken apart by aliens and used as extra parts on their multi-dimensional toilet seats....

...what? why is everyone looking at me?? i was just using my imagination!!

theyve been argueing about this for years. They reckon Pluto is just one of the biggest of Hundreds of Thousands of objects in the belt out there.

It still interests me how little we know about our own solar system.

Sure we don't know a lot, but this one is just a definition of what we call a planet.

Reading "A Short Story of Time" by Stephen Hawking at the moment. Pretty similar to "The Universe in a Nutscale" (or whatever the english title was), but the first is the much better book as it explains more of the physical background. I should have just bought "A Short Story of Time" ... .

Really interesting to read what we know already, because there is a lot we know. I still wonder though if we will be able to explain everything arround us one day or no. Seeing what makes a good physical definition that would mean that we are able to look into the future aswell, so it is getting philosophical at this point.

Why is this all of a sudden news? So I guess they finally came to a consensus agreement and decided to call it a dwarf planet instead of just maybe a planet, that's nice and all, but it hasn't changed anything. The only thing it actually changed was the tradition of there being 9 planets. So it now sounds a little strange to say there are 8 planets and one prominent dwarf planet instead of 9 planets, but nothing else has changed. It's not like they suddenly discovered that Pluto doesn't exist. And from what I'd understood, all the legitimate astronomers figured out the whole dwarf planet thing years ago. That whole nine planet theory is practically as old fashioned as Newton's theory of gravity. That this is even news just smacks of the 'soundbyte'-ization of news media. It's only news when you've got an attention grabbing headline like "Only 8 Planets!" and a sensational quote to lead off with like "Pluto is dead" (right buddy, you're a regular Nietszche. I hate scientists who tell obvious mistruths just to make themselves sound clever. Makes me think they must be pretty crappy scientists)

But... but... now how will we remember our planets?

My Very Entertaining Mother Just Sold Us Nine...?