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Too bloody right I'm upset!

Discuss...

:shrug: Bah, who needs planets.

It's a life changing event. and meh it's not really a planet.

Seriously, I don't care. However, everyone learns about the planet Pluto. It's weird if you think about it.

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its mixed emotions for me

i feel thompson will now take it out  there books

There are only a few interesting things about pluto, one of which is it's weird elliptical orbit, which is also one of the things which is against it being termed a planet. The other is that it's moon Charon is relatively large compared to Pluto. To the point where it was considered being termed a binary planet. Apart from that it's dullsville and is in fact smaller than some of the larger moons in the solar system. Some of which are much more interesting. For example one of Jupiters moon's Europa which is possibly our best chance of finding life elsewhere in our solar system.

stop copying and pasting.

I actually wrote all that Johno, you can tell by the misuse of punctuation and spelling mistakes. I've got a gcse in astronomy don't you know.

9 small planets in the milky way
9 small planets in the milky way and if one small planet should accidentally lose its status

Therell be 8 small planets in the milky way ....

Where will it all end?

my whole education was a waste of time

If im honest, i didn't read it, i saw about 7 or 8 lines of writing and thought you couldn't of wrote that. Im still not convinced....tell me more.  :P

I dont know that much johno, I only got a D.

shame....i nearly learnt something then.

I just saw a shooting star, maybe it was pluto dying

Poor Pluto....

now reverted to status of cartoon dog

It's been classed as a 'dwarf-planet' I think. Along with Ceres which is relatively much closer, making up a 1/3 of the mass of the main asteroid belt between mars and jupiter.

 I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, i wish, i wish you'd care.

me and kat do a beautiful duet of that song.

8)

Is this the beginning of the apocalypse? How long before earth is no longer a planet. I've always been told there were 9 planets and now they tell me it's all lies. I don't think I can believe anything any more.

 Happily my 1964 Patrick Moore book, Astronomy  pointed out that Pluto's status was to say the least curious.....either a rogue satellite of Neptune or an object, effected by something as yet undiscovered in the Kuyper Belt.

 So this doesn't altogether arrive as a surprise to me.

Think it was a close call between saying it was a planet and reclassifying lot's of others. they decided against that because the clever scientist people reckoned we could end up with about 50 planets.

It should never have been remained a planet for so long anyway. One of the reasons it did is because it was the only one discovered by an american and they get a bit upset about stuff like that.

hmm.. are posts have similar points but form different angles mr smeeton. I was always taught that pluto's status as a planet was dubious(sp?) at best. I just took ages to type my last response.

 Yep Percival Lowell's (he of canals on Mars) observatory at Flagstaff Arizona....Don't forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

Fair enough if it was discovered by an american, it was clearly a shit planet all along. Thank fuck it's gone. Watch out neptune though, they'll be coming for you next.