Pluto may lose its "planetary" status

If they decide to keep Pluto, then they should include the other Kuiper belt objects that are larger or the same size as Pluto, effectively giving us many planets.

As it stands, since Pluto is more a part of the Kuiper belt, then it should be demoted from a planet. The Kuiper belt houses many icy rocks, almost like the Asteroid belt, but we don't include those as planets.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by kat

I'm going to miss Pluto though.

Why? Where's Pluto going?


This whole keeping Pluto a planet and adding many more is just making the issue extremely confusing. They should make a more proper categorization of planets. Maybe small planets half the size of earth are to be called dwarf planets or something. I don't know. Science can come up with some pretty uninteresting names.

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Originally Posted by Aoie_Emesai

About the Pluto being classifyed off as a planet, we might as well say The Rockies isn't a mountain range and it's a big rock. The scientists can classify Pluto how they want, but until it's stuffed in the textbooks and everyone of this generation (????-2006) dies off, it won't do them any good, bu tonly for specific scientific discussion, like in Astronomy of something of that nature. It will still be pluto until we totally forget it.

That's fucking bullshit logic right there. Just because of what's been drilled into our heads in school we should retain and never get new information or discover new things? By that logic evolution would never come around because it was taught that God made everything as everyone would have to die who believed that in order to accept it.

There is such a thing as textbook revision and it will become revised in the newest edition if such a school elects to purchase it if they have the funds.

You can learn a lot from you own and not from school textbooks, which are often biased and only cover part of the picture.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

Does Pluto have an atmosphere? I mean, given that they'd established Charon is a satellite, I can see why it couldn't be a planet. Part of the definition of a planet, if I remember correctly, is that it has to have atmosphere. Thus, these asteroids and moons that people may have wanted to become planets due to their size just don't fit the criteria.

Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere and it's still a planet.

I like this new definition and this new ruling.


Boofucking hoo textbooks have to be rewritten. Big deal it happens all the time. Jesus I hope you people aren't serious about your precious memory. Memory is flawed, and besides, learning and discovering new things is fun.

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