Pluto loses planet status

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by ryanknapper

Gas price hike excuse #426236.

That made me snort Cherry Coke through my nose. Ow. But funny.

[Ichabod]

Originally Posted by ezmeray

aw, i loved pluto.. so did like everyone, now those little things they teach kids to remember the names of the planets in orderr are going to be wrong too.. you know like.. hmm, waht was the one i learned.. oh, right, My Very Educated Mother Just Brought Us Nine Pizzas... umhmm, how lame is that i remember that? really..

Remember this one?: King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti

[kayjay]

They should dump Saturn for being a fat bastard. This is discrimination against small people.

[arcatacat]

Originally Posted by jcro21

fuck thats not cool. i remember there was this one episode of the magic school bus where they went to all the planets, and the one redhead nerd kid took his helmet off on pluto and almost died.

So are you saying that Pluto is your version of a red-headed step-child? Just to be cast off without any remorse? For shame.

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by kayjay

They should dump Saturn for being a fat bastard. This is discrimination against small people.

Jupiter is way fatter.

[benjita]

Originally Posted by devilishone

Pluto DID NOT lose its planet status and we're getting 3 new ones to make your password longer Fuck...

Actually, they decided against that. That proposition was taken off the table quite quickly.

This is the article I read:

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...cvqh=itn_pluto

"The decision on Pluto at a conference of 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries was a dramatic shift from just a week ago, when the group's leaders floated a proposal that would have reaffirmed Pluto's planetary status and made planets of its largest moon and two other objects."

They were going to make a planet of a MOON? I don't think that'll fly.

"Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."

Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's."

I need to hurry and write a science book. Now's the time to make the money.

From http://www.spaceweather.com/:


"To be a planet, the assembly ruled, a world must meet three criteria:

(1) It must have enough mass and gravity to gather itself into a ball.

(2) It must orbit the sun.

(3) It must reign supreme in its own orbit, having "cleared the neighborhood" of other competing bodies.

So, e.g., mighty Jupiter, which circles the sun supreme in its own orbit, is a planet--no adjective required. Pluto, on the other hand, shares the outer solar system with thousands of Pluto-like objects. Because it has not "cleared its own neighborhood," it is a dwarf planet."

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by benjita

Actually, they decided against that. That proposition was taken off the table quite quickly.

The funniest thing about this story is that you just know thousands of high school teachers across the country are just creaming their pants now that they have something partially interesting to talk about in class.

[Lesser God]

Hell, let's call Earth "Terra" while we're at it.

[kayjay]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

Jupiter is way fatter.

Oh, yeah, i knew that. I fucking knew that.

[devilishone]

Fuck sake, oh well, I sit corrected again, fucking google, I should use it some day ;])