Pluto loses staus as a planet

[flammableBen]

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.

[Reg Smeeton]

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

 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.

[sonic youth]

me and kat do a beautiful duet of that song.

[Reg Smeeton]

me and kat do a beautiful duet of that song.

[Ben Wah Balls]

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.

[Reg Smeeton]

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.

[flammableBen]

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.

[flammableBen]

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.

[Reg Smeeton]

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.

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

[Ben Wah Balls]

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.