there is no longer 9 planets

in our solar system.

pluto has been demoted by the astronomers union......

because of its irregular orbit, and its much smaller than even some moons in the solar system......

they recently discovered more bodies in our solar system, and were going to name those planets, but the IAU wanted to keep things simple. instead of having 12 planets (they discovered 3 more bodies that orbitted the sun) they thought they should really classify what a planet is, and all the other bodies that orbit the sun would be called dwarf planets.....

but take what you learned in grade school, now there are only 8

 

They need a disclaimer in school books. What you learn today may not hold true in 10 years.

 

Oh this is soooooo not fair! I've seen how all the other planets have laughed and laughed... and Jupiter just keeps mooning me (60 times at last count)- hey, dwarf planets are planets too! Just because my orbit is irregular! Does anyone know how difficult it is to get a freaking laxative out here????

I suppose I should have known something was up.... other planets get named after Greek gods and whom do I share my moniker with?? a friggin Disney dog- and not even the one that talks! I'm going to petition the astronomer's union not only to reinstate my planet status but to rename me- after the Disney dog that DOES talk! Everyone ready yourself for the re-emergence of the planet Goofy!

 

lol stinkfoot, that was good!

 

HeeHeeHeee...Ahahaha! Thanks...needed a good giggle!

I hope they just keep on discovering more...There's tons of controversy over dark matter right now too. Fascinating stuff! :sunglasse

 

pluto is a god, actually.

 

yeah, but I dont think there will be more than 8 planets.......

I think they did this to keep from new planets getting discovered...... where would it end?? they wanted to keep it simple..... I mean, they could have added 3 more planets, which would have made 12, and Im sure eventually they would find more....

 

well yes, we know this, but we are humouring the situation

 

Yes but you can't expect a lowly dwarf planet to know that!

 

lol. my heart breaks for the lonely little planet that couldn't. i was really rooting for pluto.

 

Well the IAU says pluto is a planet bitch.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060816_planet_definition.html

There are 12 planets. Suck on that crappie!

 

It doesnt mean shit what you call it. All that matters is its mass and the parameters of its orbit around the sun.

 

Wait, they did say 8 now.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/24/content_5003641.htm

Why does the IAU keep fuckin' with my heart.

 

Mickey misses his pet Pluto, he said he was really goofy, but Minnie assured him he was probably off sniffing Uranus.

 

nope, there arent 12 planets, the scientists voted on it.

there are 8 proper planets, and the rest of them are just dwarf planets that orbit the sun

 

exactly. thats what Im talkin about.

they wanted to keep it simple.

where would the planets end?? theyd be naming every body that circled the sun as a new planet, and all these scientists would be scrambling to find even more planets, and name them after themselves....... pluto is just a cold rock that is orbitting the sun.....

 

BTW
Thread title should read -
there ARE no longer 9 planets!

 

Also this week in science:

Evolution no longer an appropriate field of study for grants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/w...fe61534e0cf171&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

They blame it on a clerical error, but this seems kinda suspicious coming out of the Bush white house.

 

that's some crazy stuff. I've only been out of highschool for 10 years and already there's so much that we've discovered about our world and how history has changed with new discoveries... crazy shit.

But what's more of a pain in the ass is that too many kids in school are using VERY outdated textbooks and are not being updated on the information.

 

The new object, temporarily named 2003 UB313, is about three times as far from the Sun as is Pluto.

"It's definitely bigger than Pluto," said Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy. The object is round and could be up to twice as large as Pluto, Brown told reporters in a hastily called NASA-run teleconference Friday evening.

His best estimate is that it is 2,100 miles wide, about 1-1/2 times the diameter of Pluto.

One of many?

The object is inclined by a whopping 45 degrees to the main plane of the solar system, where most of the other planets orbit. That's why it eluded discovery: nobody was looking there until now, Brown said.

Some astronomers view it as a Kuiper Belt object and not a planet. The Kuiper Belt is a region of frozen objects beyond Neptune.

Pluto is called a Kuiper Belt object by many astronomers. Brown himself has argued in the past for Pluto's demotion from planet status, because of its diminutive size and eccentric and inclined orbit.

But today he struck a different note.

"Pluto has been a planet for so long that the world is comfortable with that," Brown said in the teleconference. "It seems to me a logical extension that anything bigger than Pluto and farther out is a planet."

Offering additional justification, Brown said 2003 UB313 appears to be surfaced with methane ice, as is Pluto. That's not the case with other large Kuiper Belt objects, however.

"This object is in a class very much like Pluto," he said.

NASA effectively endorsed the idea in an official statement that referred to 2003 UB313 as the 10th planet.

Yet in recent years, a bevy of objects roughly half to three-fourths the size of Pluto have been found.