Our "new" solar system. Who here likes the new proposal of 8 planets?
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but now what is this?? they disregard those altogether and even poor old pluto is ditched from the gang, i mean wouldnt u like to have 12 planets in ur system? I mean its just cool to think about it.
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Eight, twelve or fifty. The amount of planets really doesn't concern me. The idea is to have a proper definition of what constitutes a planet. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all travel on the same plane known as the ecliptic. Pluto's orbit is about at a 20 degree tilt off the ecliptic. Pluto(which I define as a Kuiper Belt object) resembles the orbit of a comet and not that of a Planet. Charon is a tag along KBO with Pluto and 2003 UB213 (Nicknamed "Xena") is also a KBO. Now, Ceres I think could possibly be classified as a planet but I still think that, given it's proximity, it is just a very large spherical asteroid .
Wonder if Disney is going to have to rename the dog.
i just wish people stop talking about it already
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i think it is stupid all they did was call pluto a dwarf planet...gee whats the difference??..i think we should be worrying more about the war, and about finding cure for diseases then spending millions on finding out and naming pluto a dwarf planet
Perhaps it boils down to the definition what a planet or a "dwarf planet" is. Definitions can be fairly arbitrary at times.
Eight planets is perfect. Four terrestrial, four gas giants. Icy rocks that happen to be large aren't exactly interesting.
I don't really care either way I mean how much does this change our lives?
Well, as long as i don't have to remember any new planet names and order, I'm fine with it. Still kind of sad to see Pluto go though. I remember in grade school we did an astronomy project, and my favourite was Pluto because it was so distant and mysterious.
I need to call My Old Science teacher and make him Redo My Grade!
Put's is back to the year 1900.
Hey, why don't they DOWNGRADE the rings of Jupiter and Urnaus and say they are ONLY rings if you can clearly see them from the Earth through a telescope!
Call them ringlettes that can only been seen on close approach!
Divorce is always so hard.
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