Plutos gone

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pumpi76 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:42:58 GMT

I dont' know but i want pluto back...I grew up with pluto...The solar system without pluto is not the solar system...

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Reply #4

dvdiva — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:34:59 GMT

Pluto would be clasified as a dwarf planet like large asteriods (Ceres) or other large Kuiper belt objects past Neptune. No word yet if it gets switched to little person planet later. Considering Pluto is smaller than our moon and most of the moons of Saturn it's not surprising that it got bumped. When it was discovered it was though to be a single object which would have kept Pluto a planet but since it was discovered to be a binary planet it's actual size is much smaller than initial estimat... [ More ]

Reply #3

kkkathleen — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:25:07 GMT

You were close. It's been downgraded to a planetoid. I'm not big into astronomy, but this was the first I ever heard of a planetoid.

Reply #2

Todd — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:09:43 GMT

That's an excellent question (your first one especially). I wonder the same thing. Is there anyone with the lowdown on this?

By the way, it's a mystery why they called Pluto a planet in the first place. Based on its skewed and very elliptical orbit it was clear that Pluto was not formed by the same matter and forces that created our solar system. The theory is that it was like a giant asteroid that was captured by our sun's gravitational field sometime after the creation of the solar syst... [ More ]

Reply #1

Rick G — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:08:23 GMT

John, they call it a big rock that's way far away.

But seriously, they should use the same criteria as they do for other planets in other solar systems...the symbiotic gravitational relationship between star and planet. Right now, Neptune would be the end zone using that criteria.

Plutos gone

JAP69 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:30:16 GMT

How did the decision of pluto not being a planet any more affect astrology?

What do they call Pluto now?

An asteroid or sumptin