Goodbye Pluto! Time to re-write the science books!

by **jay_a2j** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:27 am

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.

by **mightyal** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:33 am

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

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by **mightyal** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:35 am

ha ha that should say eight)

by **Bozo** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:20 am

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

by **kingwaffles** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:30 pm

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

by **Phobia** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:35 pm

didnt they find another planet last year?

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

that could being the number back to 9 again

by **vtmarik** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:58 pm

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.

by **wcaclimbing** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:03 pm

yay i am glad its only 8. now everyone will stop arguing about whats a planet and whats not
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by **qeee1** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:27 pm

I was a planet once...

by **johnnyrotten** on Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:42 pm

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

by **Caleb the Cruel** on Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:23 pm

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

by **carl** on Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:28 pm

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.

by **ZeoEmpire** on Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:28 pm

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

Icy Dwarf

by **P Gizzle** on Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:33 pm

how about My Very Educated Mother Just Sold Us Neckties?

by **Bozo** on Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:36 pm

i still prefer

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

by **P Gizzle** on Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:38 pm

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!

by **Econ2000** on Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:24 pm

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 )

by **reverend_kyle** on Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:58 pm

Pluto was the coolest

besides uranus.

by **wbar** on Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:06 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/science/space/25pluto.html?ei=5088&en=2a0d251eec414500&ex=1314072000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1156622744-Jt4fe/9rfmZBP9OK05iN4Q

by **Scarus** on Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:42 pm

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.....