Why was planet pluto omitted from our solar system?
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The definition of a planet, approved after a heated debate among 2,500 scientists from the International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting in Prague, drew a clear distinction between Pluto and the other eight planets.
The need to define what is a planet was driven by technological advances enabling astronomers to look further into space and measure more precisely the size of celestial bodies.
The scientists agreed that, to be called a planet, a celestial body must be in orbit around a star while not itself being a star.
It must be large enough in mass for its own gravity to pull it into a nearly spherical shape and have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.
Pluto was disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's. Xena also does not make the grade of being a planet, and will also be known as a dwarf planet.
"It's an issue mainly for the public, not really for scientists. Some people may be upset, but we've long regarded it (Pluto) as a minor planet," said Richard H. Miller of the University of Chicago.
Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, overseer of science investigations on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, called the reclassification rash and illogical. "I think people are going to consider Pluto a planet regardless," he said.
It's a distraction from Nasco and NAFTA!
cause its too small to be a planet, its smaller than our moon
it wasnt considered a planet coz it was technically a dwarf star or something. hope that helps :P
For crapping on Jupiter's livingroom rug!!
It refused to chip in on beer during the last poker game.
It's too small to qualify as a planet in the new definition astronomers just developed.
they had a long debate, and figured if we used the criteria to classify pluto as a planet, we would need to add 53 more planets by the same criteria
I think it had something to do with why he is the only animal character on Disney that doesn't wear clothes?
It's a joke. I know you mean the planet. I just don't care.
It's still in our solar system. Some astronomers decided it is to small to be called a planet,voted on this issue and presto one planet disappeared.
an object to be known as a planet should follow the to conditions:
1. it should revolve around the sun
2. it should have its own orbit
the planet pluto doesn't follow any of these conditions
there4 it is omitted.
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