Is Pluto a planet? You decide '06.

robeiae · Aug 24, 2006

Piss on the IAU.
AW should determine whether or not Pluto is a planet.

Read this.

My opinion:

It's round and it orbits the Sun. It's a planet.

whistlelock · Aug 24, 2006

No. It should never have been classed as a Planet. It's far more ice than rock.

IT CROSSES NEPTUNES ORBIT!

It's a overly large comet/asteriod.

Doesn't Disney Land have parking lots bigger than Pluto?

Stew21 · Aug 24, 2006

yes it is. My 3 year old has a model of sun and planets and can recite them. It's really cute ... Earth is Earf, Venus is Beanus, Uranus is Earnest, and and Pluto is his favorite to say probably because he knows he is saying it right...hell yes, its a planet.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Aug 24, 2006

It was a planet long before I was born. That's good enough for me.

moth · Aug 24, 2006

It's a KBO.

Peggy · Aug 24, 2006

Both Pluto AND Xena are planets.

Forbidden Snowflake · Aug 24, 2006

It is a planet.

Unique · Aug 24, 2006

Go ahead. Pull it out of the sky and see what happens.
Double dog dare ya.

MidnightMuse · Aug 24, 2006

It's a Planet, I say! A PLANET !!!

louisgodwin · Aug 24, 2006

Double planet

Trans-Neptunian Object

*sigh*

This is ridiculous. Pluto and Charon have two moons orbiting them. I say let them keep their status as one planet.

maestrowork · Aug 24, 2006

What do we care? In a million years we'll all be dead and Pluto will still be there.

Unique · Aug 24, 2006

maestrowork said:
What do we care? In a million years we'll all be dead and Pluto will still be there.

Basically -

Bret · Aug 24, 2006

A major news story here in Norcal.

"What are teachers going to say to their students? What about the text books? How will parents explain this to their kids?"

Serious. These were posed as real life or death questions on the areas leading news radio station (KGO) today.

persiphone_hellecat · Aug 24, 2006

Astrologists everywhere are totally messed up now. And remember, if they can do it to Pluto, nothing is safe -- not even Uranus.

A. Hamilton · Aug 24, 2006

here's a more recent story about it.
personally, i'll never think of it as anything but a planet.
if we all decide it's a planet, does that make us dissidents?

Unique · Aug 24, 2006

"I'm embarrassed for astronomy. Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted," said Alan Stern, leader of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute.

I'm a scientist but I'm willing to bargain. We'll stop calling Pluto a planet when people stop calling spiders insects.
From a scientific aspect, Jupiter and Saturn are too big to be called mere planets. They should have their own nomenclature. :wag:

Hooray for dissidents!

billythrilly7th · Aug 24, 2006

whistlelock said:
It's far more ice than rock.

Why do you hate ice?

If Pluto loses the terrorists win.

Thank you.

louisgodwin · Aug 24, 2006

A civil war between Plutonian fundamentalists and Charon-ite insurgents is imminent.

Can someone send Jimmy Carter?

nancy02664 · Aug 24, 2006

Doesn't matter to me what we call it -- I just think we need to blow it up. Mankind hasn't blown up any really cool stuff lately...

poetinahat · Aug 24, 2006

Unique said:
"I'm embarrassed for astronomy. Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted," said Alan Stern, leader of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute.

Reality TV has SO much to answer for.

persiphone_hellecat · Aug 24, 2006

Maybe we can just adopt Pluto and call it Earth Lite or something. I feel really sorry for it.

dpaterso · Aug 25, 2006

Our Inner Planets and Gas Giants were formed from cosmic material within our Solar System. They're our planets. They are of our atoms. Then Pluto wandered along and camped on the border. Refusing to adopt the same orbital direction as our other planets. Making frequent incursions into our territory without so much as filing an alien visa application. This is intolerable. Yet 95 percent of the astronomy community couldn't care less. The parallels are obvious.

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billythrilly7th · Aug 25, 2006

Illegal planatation. I like what I'm hearing. Go on...

dpaterso · Aug 25, 2006

All I'm saying is, Pluto is... purple, and we're... green. And mixing those two together gets you a kind of dirty brown, not that there's anything wrong with earthy autumn colors.

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trumancoyote · Aug 25, 2006

**** yeah it's a planet. Pluto's too goddamn cool to not be a planet.

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