R.I.P. Pluto
Just how much do you have to suck to get kicked out of the solar system by a bunch of pocket protector wearing rocket scientists? Discuss.
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August 25th, 2006 at 6:00 am
I don’t know if I can ever think of it being anything but a planet in the line we had to memorize in school. Wonder what else they will change as we are able to see further out there?
August 25th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Now what will my very educated mother just serve us nine of?!
August 25th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
“Pluto and objects like it will be known as “dwarf planets,” which raised some thorny questions about semantics: If a raincoat is still a coat, and a cell phone is still a phone, why isn’t a dwarf planet still a planet?”
Exactly. Wth… I personally think this is a lame ruling on the IAU’s part. Why are we splitting hairs over what’s a planet?
IAU should be thinking about terraforming other planets. Or something similar since we’re killing this one.
August 26th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
My very educated mother just served us noodles!
As for “dwarf planet” being a planet: they screwed up there. The problem is, there are more chunks of ice out there beyond Pluto that, if Pluto is a planet, should also be called a planet. Memorizing 53 planets is not something even I would look forward to. I’d do it, just to be a showoff jerk, but I wouldn’t enjoy the memorization.
I can live with Pluto getting demoted, but frankly, this definition is half-arsed. Neptune has not cleared out it’s orbital neighborhood — Pluto’s still there — so it’s not a planet. Jupiter isn’t a planet because of the Jupiter trojan asteroids, and for that matter, neither is Earth!
Sigh.
August 26th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
That is so funny-I never would have thought of it like that.