itt: we mourn the loss of pluto

[BringDaBoom 10+ year member]

Reason why Pluto was dismissed is because it's orbit. The way it orbits, astronomers were able to deduce that it did not form normally like the other planets (I.E. a mass left over orbiting after the sun ignited, that cooled and thus became a planet.)

Pluto's orbit suggests it is either an escaped moon, or an object from the Kiper belt (Large belt of rocky and icy bodies orbiting beyond pluto) that got hit by another object knocking it closer and into an orbit.

Plus there are bodies in the Kiper Belt that are larger than pluto, but they aren't planet's.

Pluto has been categorized now as a dwarf planet: too small to be a planet, too big to be an asteroid.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Disney executives will be in shambles due to this //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Electrodynamic 10+ year member]

Isn't there a voyager on its way there now (was launched a while ago) to take pictures of the now ex-planet? Kinda crappy to waste all that money on an information mission for something that we just dismissed as a planet.

I thought this thread was about the Disney character at first and I was thinking "WTF?!"