Should Pluto regain its planet status

[miketx]

Pluto should be the 9th planet.

/thread

If you are aliens coming in for a visit, Pluto is the first planet.

 

[miketx]

For a long time, we had no formal definition of what a “planet” actually was. We had come to0 be aware of nine objects in our solar system which we called “planets”. We were also aware of many, much smaller objects, such as asteroids, comets,and such, that we did not consider to be “planets”. But we didn't have a formal definition of what exactly constituted a “planet”.

With such technological advances as the Hubble Telescope, we became aware of dozens of objects in our solar system, larger than Pluto.

With the awareness of these other objects, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union met, finally, to come up with a formal definition of just what exactly constituted a “planet”.

The definition on which they finally settled includes these three criteria…

1. is in orbit around the Sun,
2. has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape), and
3. has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit.

Pluto does not meet that last requirement. A competing proposal had only the first two requirements. That definition would have included Pluto, but it would have also included dozens of other now-known objects, and unknown many more yet to be discovered.

There really isn't any rational way to include Pluto in the formal definition of a “planet”, while excluding the dozens of other recently-discovered objects.

So if their are bigger objects then Pluto, how did he find Pluto and not the rest, with out powerful telescopes?

Pluto came late , what was it 1912 when discovered?

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Pluto was discovered based on anomalies in Neptune's orbit. Neptune's orbit was not following the path that it should have been according to orbital mechanics understood at the time. This could only be accounted for if another planetary object was exerting its gravitational influence on Neptune.

 

[miketx]

No. Pluto will never be a planet again. Time to get over it....

What if it signs a paper agreeing not to vote for Trump again?

 

[ReinyDays]

Pluto was discovered based on anomalies in Neptune's orbit. Neptune's orbit was not following the path that it should have been according to orbital mechanics understood at the time. This could only be accounted for if another planetary object was exerting its gravitational influence on Neptune.

Turns out we were completely wrong about an undiscovered gravity source beyond Neptune ... pretty much dumb luck Pluto was in the area where we suspected such ...

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

What if it signs a paper agreeing not to vote for Trump again

Then i will upgrade Pluto to star status.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Can't we at least call it a planetelle?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

3 Pluto haters, fucking lowlifes

 

[22lcidw]

Perhaps it should have been grandfathered in.

 

[skye]

In all honestly

I would not give a shit about Pluto status.

 

[Hossfly]

On FNC today they had a banner running that said Pluto was going to be re-instated as a planet and that the international group who downgraded the status was wrong.

 

[skye]

As long as Mercury is retrograde...nothing will happen.

lol

 

[Hossfly]

PLUTO

 

[Dogmaphobe]

In all honestly

I would not give a shit about Pluto status.

Well, that's easy for you to say.

You're a heavenly body.

 

[skye]

In all honestly

I would not give a shit about Pluto status.

Well, that's easy for you to say.

You're a heavenly body.

ohhhh thank you

 

[james bond]

Just to bug the Democrats. Sure, why not. They don't like Thomas Kincade either.

 

[Likkmee]

Pluto should be the 9th planet.

/thread

Thats right. It should also be inhabited and become another Plutocracy.

 

[Hossfly]

Pluto should be the 9th planet.

/thread

Thats right. It should also be inhabited and become another Plutocracy.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

I think Pluto should regain it's planetary status since it has a moon and that the tenth planet should be named Micky.

*****CHUCKLE*****

 

[Erinwltr]

Can't we at least call it a planetelle?

Sounds like a fancy French sauce. "Would you like some Planetelle on your Pâté and Croissant?"

 

[Confounding]

Pluto should have been grandfathered in. It was a worthy planet.