bad news...Pluto kicked out of solar system

Leading astronomers declared yesterday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new Pluto guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.

It’s a decade-old controversy: Pluto is so much smaller than the other eight planets, so different in composition and in such a weird, tilted orbit that it doesn’t quite belong. But the discovery last summer of a new object, similar to Pluto but bigger, threw the whole thing wide open. If Pluto is a planet, so must 2003 UB313 be. If 2003 UB313 isn’t, Pluto can’t be. Simple as that.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

sorry nothing to do with the forum but important news that shouldn’t be…what next- the moon is NOT the moon???

As someone said Pluto is a Mickey Mouse Planet ;D it is now classed as a Dwarf Planet, there thay go again with the Disney references.

Instead, it will be reclassified in a new category of "dwarf planets," similar to what long have been termed "minor planets."

sad news for both of the great pluto’s >:(

Hi drhayden1,

All is being “dwarfed” down to cartoon size. When our planet becomes a “global village”, what’s in size. I would reacr with some sort of a polar shift if I was Pluto. The next scare there will be the “black sun”.

polonus

first 9 then 10 now 8

The next scare there will be the “black sun”.

thank polonus…scaring me “AGAIN” :o

actually Pluto is no “dwarf planet” class … or so called plutonian object :wink:

anyway real fun starts with non Sol system based planets

doesn’t matter-it just won’t be the same anymore ::slight_smile:

Hah…I was wondering where did my dwarf go ???..now i will just have to wait for some billion years to pass for the sun to become a dwarf ::slight_smile:
Dont get me wrong, i colect dwarfs ;D

Something is making me worried if we start to make science by polling … :-\ :cry:
Science goes on, goes further… but, should it be by voting? ::slight_smile:

hey snowwhite…things will get better in time ::slight_smile:

hey snowwhite...things will get better in time
Sooner or later....thanks for the dwarfs ;D

What … This is official news !?! Man … And I thought they were just going to add new planets to the list and not remove Pluto … And so its official now … ? I was born into the age of 9 planets, I would be happpy if they add planets, but it’ll be hard for me to accept that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore … I bet just because it was an odditiy, they kicked it out … Ugh … Come on, the conference ended just 2 days ago (today is the 27th) ?! Well, hope NASA wasn’t the one that voted it out, I mean, they practically praised it as the 9th planet.

Well, whether it was correct or not for the powers to be to do this there is a saying. “You can’t fight city hall”. At least we all know that Pluto is out there, that can’t be changed. :slight_smile: