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Published: 2006-08-24 23:36:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 5462; Favourites: 412; Downloads: 13
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Today, Thursday the 24th of August Pluto was downgraded from planet status to "Dwarf Planet" status. I myself am very upset that 2500 scientists, less then five percent of Astronomers, can make this big of a decision.I refuse to call Pluto anything but planet number nine. Sorry purists but Pluto will live on as a planet.
Please use this, or if nothing else favorite it if you aren't a paid member. Give Pluto the love it needs!
Read about it here, at CNN.com: [link]
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No, it isn’t if Pluto was a planet children in school would now have to learn 13 or even 14 planets, within a few decades they would’ve to learn several hundred. So no it isn’t a planet
even if that was not enough of a reason, Pluto is by definition not a planet
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I'm going to need to draw myself an Anti-King-Triton stamp.
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You should read "How I killed Pluto and Why it had it coming" by Mike Brown. It is a good read.
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I so agree with Pluto being a planet! I thought I was alone!
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The reason why they said it wasn't neccesarily because it doesn't have an atmosphere. Sooo...Mercury isn't a planet either. I think they shouldn't have a say that Pluto isn't a planet.
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No, that wasn’t the reason, where did you even get that absolutely idiotic idea from
secondly Mercury has an atmosphere, it is so thin it might as well not exist, but it’s there
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that wasn't the reason why. it was that the definition of a planet covered three things: it is in orbit around the Sun, gravity has shaped it into a sphere and that it has cleared out it's orbital neighborhood. the latter meaning it has become gravitationally dominant, and there are no other bodies of comparable size other than its own satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence.
Pluto does not qualify as a planet because it has not cleared its orbital neighborhood; this is because its orbit goes through the Kuiper Belt, an area at the very edges of the Solar System that house many comets, asteroids, other small planet-like bodies and lots of debris left over from the creation.
because it has not cleared it's orbital neighborhood, it must mean that it's too small to be able to do so. thus, Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet.
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I'm so using this... Pluto will always be a planet to me. It's "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies" not "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing".
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God, damn it! It is!!!
It's my astrological enemy No 1 and deserves respect. I want it back
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Heck yeah Pluto's still a planet! I don't care what the fancy scientists said.
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I totally agree!! Ceres is small too and THAT'S a planet?!
These scientists, man. They're so fucking stupid.
This is why my avatar is of Pluto.
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PLUTO IS THE BEST PLANET. T-T *like two years late commenting*
Except for Uranus. I feel obliged to like Uranus because apparently one of its moons has my name. XD;
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But Astromoners found other objects like it. If Pluto is a planet, then there's tons of other stuff out there that we have to give that title to.
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Ironically it's not a matter of science.... Pluto as a planet is part of our culture!
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AAAAAAAAAAAH. I'M STILL IN DENIAL TOO. PLUTO IS A PLANET!!!!!
Into my journal this goes. Thanks!
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Pluto...Ceres...Eris...Haumea...Makemake...poor things. Cast into the depths of obscurity by astronomers and scientists worldwide.
It just seems wrong to me.
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D< The song they taught me in Pre-K said Pluto was a planet, so therefore it is!
I think it's ridiculous that they actually wasted their time with something so stupid. @__@ I mean, everyone still calls it a planet, regardless.
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Wait a second... you would rather listen to the word of scientists from almost 70 years ago who had never been into space and had only the simplest telescopes over the word of modern scientists who not only have high-power electric telescopes, but are able to clearly see things beyond this galaxy?
Honestly, the scientists made a mistake. Are you people still upset about their discovery that Earth isn't the center of the solar system? Seriously people.
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I appreciate your opinion, thanks for commenting.
Personally, and I can only speak for myself, I was rather annoyed at the fact that only 3-5% of astronomers were actually involved in the decision. (Sorry, if that's not quite right. My source links have gone down since I last looked at all this about two years ago so I'm running on memory.)
Another thing to keep in mind is that when it was found that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe there were plenty of people who were upset, rather rashly so. As time passed though people understood the reasoning more. The same thing will happen with this. People in general just don't like change.
Thanks again though, I can understand where you are coming from.
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To be honest, the thing I really find odd is that people are angry at today's scientists for saying that Pluto is not a planet, when in all logic they should blame the ones who made the mistake in the first place.
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My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
These scientists are crazy if they think they can take out Pluto as a planet and take out the "pizza" in the mnemonic phrase that we all know since elementary school. Without Pluto, what's there "nine" of"? NOTHING. Pluto is still a planet in my eyes, no matter how small it is.
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"My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Noodles."
Who would be able to eat 9 pizzas? Unless they're very small.
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"My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos."
Ha! Ha! Nachos for lunch!
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At my house, we get nachos for dinner. :3
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Nachos for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
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I can already hear me say "As I was your age, Pluto used to be a planet..."
... and I'm only 18.
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Pluto IS a planet and those scientists can just stfu. I pretty much had a fit when I learned about this issue. xD I am very fond of the lights in this stamp. Nice work on it!! <3
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it. :3
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I'm making a T-shirt: "PLUTO: It's still a planet."
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Lmao, my Science Teacher refuses to give it up either -- she was like "Screw it guys, I'm teaching you about Pluto anyway."
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Pluto is still a planet....I'm going to use this one please...
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I learnt my damn planets and Pluto was one of them >>
therefore by my almighty powers it is a planet *throws things* XD
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I don't care WHAT they said.
PLUTO WILL AND IS FOREVER GONNA BE A PLANET!!!!
And anyone else who says different will get smacked in the face with a fish.
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i agree
this is my point
pluto is a dwarf PLANET
its still a planet
but a small one
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