ROFL
He's just a planet whose intentions are good
Please don't let him be misunderstood
or mislabeled
Posted on 05/12/2012 3:44:38 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Me too.
Let’s call it Pluto II
The universe is expanding, so the Kuiper Belt just had to be let out a couple notches.
This little upstart is smaller than the last bozo we kicked out of the Solar System. Just let it try something funny...
...and in these uncertain economic times, can we really afford a new planet? I think not!
Yeah. These guys are channelling Zecharia.
Until we sure the borders around the solar system, these rogue planets are going to keep sneaking in here.
Me too. I had seen 8 of the planets, including Marcury, Uranus, and Neptune, and had only Pluto to go when they took away its ID card. It's like if you were running a marathon and they suddenly put the finish line at the 22-mile mark and congratulated everyone for running a marathon when they got to that point.
There's something the matter with the world when Barack Obama gets a Nobel Peace Prize and Pluto gets its planetary status revoked. It wasn't doing anything wrong--it was obeying the laws of gravity and everything. It's not fair.
I once got to hear the late Clyde W. Tombaugh give a talk, back when Pluto was a planet. Wonderful experience.
He was always so aloof, cold and distant. We hardly knew anything about him. No one could reach him.
Blaming the victim. That’s wassiss.
Good points, all.
If you’ve got your own moon, you’re a planet, dang it!!!
ping
Yes, the orbits of Sedna and the other Kuiper Belt objects have perturbations in them that you wouldn’t expect in the absence of the hypothesized new planet. In other words, presumably, a new planet can explain these strange orbits. We haven’t seen the new planet yet, but we can see the gravitational effects it’s having on the other objects near it. It’s not proof there’s a new planet out there, but it’s consistent with it. So they are looking, either to rule it in or rule it out.
His sister was my 5th grade teacher.
That’s no moon. It’s a space station.
According to the Wikipedia article on Pluto, Percival Lowell's widow Constance first proposed the name "Zeus" for the newly-discovered object, then "Percival," then "Constance." The name Pluto was first proposed by an 11-year-old English girl named Venetia Burney, whose grandfather's brother was the person who came up with "Phobos" and "Deimos" for the moons of Mars.
Tombaugh was in his 80s when I heard him talk, but he was full of passion and excitement about astronomy. If his sister was anything like him, you were fortunate to have her as a teacher.
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