Since there are only 8 planets in our solar system..?
Question:
Should Pluto have been downgraded?
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Today kids are not taught that Ceres was once a planet, before it got downgraded to the newly created category of asteroid in about 1850. So I suspect that in 100 years the whole Pluto thing will be forgotten in the same way.
no, There are 9 planets in our solar system, but the 9th one doesn't have a name.. yet! Pluto is still a planet, and it is in the Sun's orbit.
Yes the school curriculum is being changed to teach an 8 planet system..;whether Pluto will get a mention or not I couldn't say...why it was downgraded god knows...apparently size does matter.
It depends upon the guys who decide what to teach in different syllabuses.
They named the last planet Xena but not much is known. Children in school will have to learn that Pluto is a planet until the curriculum changes. Later they will know Pluto as a dwarf planet
The kids who went to school in the 1960s were taught that the surface temperature of Venus is about 130 degrees F. Astronomy changes as knowledge improves. It's part of the scientific process.
It is actually 9 planets because pluto is not a planet and the new planet Xena is our 9th planet.
Xena is now called Eris. Neither Pluto nor Eris meet the latest criteria for "planet" status, since neither "clears its neighborhood."
Well, uh... no. Pluto will still be taught to people for the next 20 or so years... then new textbooks will be more affordable and then those textbooks will exclude Pluto... it's a shame, really. Pluto should still be here, by all means.
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