is Pluto Really A Planet?

[2NaFish]

Maybe Pluto isnt a plaent because it has an odd orbit

nope, its not a planet because its gravitational pull doesnt drag along its debris or some shit. it has the correct shape and orbit to be a planet but falls down elsehwere making it a dwarf planet.

As mundane as this is its actually quite important, as up untill now we've never actually laid down the rules as to what makes a planet which is odd as its something we as humans love to do. everything is described and categorized from its qualities.

[Elrothiel]

Nah... orbit shape has nuthin' to do with it, it just puts it in a class of its own! Its still a planet though!

I'm sticking to what I said before... if it orbits the Sun, and it has a moon of its own, and its not man-made, ITS A PLANET!! And its bloody gravitational pull means NOTHING. Anything that far away and that small can't have a particularly strong gravitational pull unless it spins at an incredibly fast rate... and I don't know if Pluto does or not... its orbit would suggest that it perhaps doesn't spin that fast... Seriously, it takes about 250 years for Pluto to complete its orbit! So... a Pluto MONTH would be... 20 years, 8 months, and 3 weeks. (long live the calculator!)

[Megaguns]

pluto: MVEMJSUNP. yup its a planet all right!   

[2NaFish]

Nah... orbit shape has nuthin' to do with it, it just puts it in a class of its own! Its still a planet though!

I'm sticking to what I said before... if it orbits the Sun, and it has a moon of its own, and its not man-made, ITS A PLANET!! And its bloody gravitational pull means NOTHING. Anything that far away and that small can't have a particularly strong gravitational pull unless it spins at an incredibly fast rate... and I don't know if Pluto does or not... its orbit would suggest that it perhaps doesn't spin that fast... Seriously, it takes about 250 years for Pluto to complete its orbit! So... a Pluto MONTH would be... 20 years, 8 months, and 3 weeks. (long live the calculator!)

by your definition nearly every asteroid in the asteroid belt and the kuiper belt is a planet.

whats the point in categorizing things if it includes everything?

[Elrothiel]

2naFish, do asteroids have moons of their own and their own separate orbit? No. Does Pluto? Yes.

[2NaFish]

yes, hundreds and hundreds in the kuiper belt do. not sure about the asteroid belt as i've never studied that but i'd assume so.

[Markus Asraelius]

Excellent points Skeba.

I just saw on the news that Pluto has a strange orbit and that's why it has lost it's status as a planet.

[Slipdisc]

that's why it has lost it's status as a planet.

Finally somebody has put that lying megalomanic bitch in its place...

-PEACE-

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

this news reminds us that we make the truth.

[gun]

The argument really came into play when the two "new" planets were going to be classified as planets proper.  Pluto has been defined as a planet since the 30's so we all kind of hate to see it go but in reality it is a good call.  Otherwise our solar system would soon have dozens more planets added to it in the near future.  The line had to be drawn somewhere.   On the bright side that's one less thing kiddies will have to remember in Science class now. 

[JohnMorrison73]

haha lol lmao

[Lucky]

The argument really came into play when the two "new" planets were going to be classified as planets proper.? Pluto has been defined as a planet since the 30's so we all kind of hate to see it go but in reality it is a good call.? Otherwise our solar system would soon have dozens more planets added to it in the near future.? The line had to be drawn somewhere.? ?On the bright side that's one less thing kiddies will have to remember in Science class now.?

yeah, but Pluto was the one we all learn easy, because of it's goofy name.

[jabba2]

Pluto is smaller than Earths moon btw, so it is a tiny planet.

[SLCPUNK]

This is good news, now I can finally go back and adjust my 6th grade science test score.............

[mr.leaktastic]

yes..yes it is..
despite what those cocks up there who decide what is what..I think it is..

[KIKO2K6]

That is not a trouble PLUTO istil a DOG.

[MJ23]

I have a book called something like "The Encyclopedia of Astronomics" (do not bash me, I have the German issue). It is from 1989 and even then the astronomic society thought that Pluto is NOT a planet, nor was Charon considered as Pluto's moon. They classified Charon as moon but they treated Pluto and Charon as a double object.
I still regard Pluto as the 9th planet because I am used to it.
I also remember that there is some discussion about other objects in the solar system. For example: Deimos and Phobos (Mars' moons), some moons of Jupiter and Saturn (every bloody 5km-piece of rock is called moon, but Pluto is not a planet )

I know that some people are thinking of Pluto being a captured planetoid by Neptune's orbit, but who cares? I don't.


P.S. I am used to talking and writing English, but some technical terms may went totally wrong.
Maybe next time I will write technical stuff in German

[Jim]

The real question here has little to do with Pluto itself!, but relates to other like bodies of rubbish that may, at this point or somewhere in the future, fall under the same bracket, that is into the same category by virtue of having the same properties, and therefore in themselves become a planet!

As such our Very Easy Methods, for just Speeding Up Naming Planets, would become defunct!, and children would have to learn longer, more complex, xylophone inclusive rhymes or such.

I'm all for dismissing that out-dated piece of shite, he's only the god of the underworld anyway.

[the dirt]

That is not a trouble PLUTO istil a DOG.

Beat you to it buddy.

[bazgnr]

I can't wait to explain all this to my students in two days...sigh.