itt: we mourn the loss of pluto

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

so long good friend

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[danteBirosel 5,000+ posts]

i remember talking about this controversy in astronomy class. They took out pluto because they found a better planet and they rather drop the last planet (pluto) and replace it with the new planet they found. I dont know, if that's correct but thats wat i heard clearly from myteacher.

Dante

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

So far they have not announced a replacement for Pluto, nor are there any other Planets in our system. There are some big ass moons, but no other planets so I am not sure what your prof is talking about

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

so there are only 8 planets now?

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

ya, down to 8

Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Earth, Uranus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

pffft pluto

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

so there are only 8 planets now?

depending on who you talk to

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

so im guessing nothing is official

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

No, Its official. Pluto got its ass kicked outta the club.

 

[cleanerupper 10+ year member]

It's all about Planet X biaattch.

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

It's all about Planet X biaattch.

I thought they found 3 more...

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

ow ow owwww

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

wOOt!

Necro FTW!

Pluto 4life

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I guess I need to find my first lounge thread now

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

I have no clue what mine is.

Probably something dumb.

 

[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?!"