Conquer Club

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.

Rather than saying goodbye Pluto, say hello to Charon, Ceres and Xena. The solar system now has 12 planets not 9 (or .

ha ha that should say eight)

I thought they ruled a few days ago that it was a planet did they change the definition of a planet since then?

I believe it has been given the status of Dwarf Planet.

didnt they find another planet last year?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005 ... lanetx.htm

that could being the number back to 9 again

Mercury through Neptune are planets. Pluto, Ceres, Charon, and "Xena" are now called Plutons, which is bad because a pluton is a geological term for a common type of rock formation.

yay i am glad its only 8. now everyone will stop arguing about whats a planet and whats not
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I was a planet once...

Yeah qeee was a real fat bastard; all those toe-wrestling matches with me really shed the pounds off though.

i don't care if it's not technically a planet anymore
at this point in time i still consider it to be one of the nine

this completely screws over all of the acronyms for the nine planets.

eg- My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

i've been racking my brain for a new one since i heard the news.

kingwaffles wrote:I believe it has been given the status of Dwarf Planet.

Icy Dwarf

how about My Very Educated Mother Just Sold Us Neckties?

i still prefer

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.
But it's good your trying

thanks! i prefer having 9 planets anyway, and there's a dwarf planet called, like, XG 9800 or something of the sort. Try comin up for an acronym with that as a Planet!

i really could care less on wats a planet and wats not im just glad that no one will argue anymore



PS my IQ is 141( I took an official IQ test )

Pluto was the coolest


besides uranus.

The thing that interested me about this is that the guys who decided this are all heavyweight academic professors and whatnot. Of course, now, all the textbooks, for all the schools, all over the world, will have to be rewritten.....


Hmmmm......wonder who will do the rewriting? Why the academics of course. These guys just basically guaranteed tripling their income for the next several years.

I can see them all at the Astromers Convention now. Running out of money to spend on booze and whores..... Hmmmmm....What we need is a new source of income.....

I am planning to become an Astronomer, want anything changed?

Can you make the sun revolve around the Earth again?

No I can not, the Earth hasn't have enough gravity to do so.

onbekende wrote:No I can not, the Earth hasn't have enough gravity to do so.

awww man...*goes off to cry in the corner* if i was an astronomer i would give it more gravity! just cuz i felt like it.

As Astronomer you can't give something more gravity.

But I as CEO of JF then I can, when do you want it to happen?