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Researchers Say the Reason Pluto Lost Its Planet Status is Not Valid
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| Sep 10, 2018
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Posted on 09/10/2018 6:35:05 AM PDT by ETL
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To: ETL
I don't know why the others weren't coming through for you.
They appear for me when I go to the thread as well a in my comments section. I'm wondering if you're being sensored.
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posted on
09/10/2018 9:23:32 AM PDT
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DannyTN
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To: ETL
I agree the IAU was wrong in their reasoning, they got it right in the end.
Pluto isn’t a planet. If anything, it’s a large Kuiper belt object, if not just a couple of failed comets.
In reality, the Sun actually only has one Planet, Jupiter. The rest are mere specks in comparison and don’t really count. You can dump all of the extra matter (excluding the Sun) in the solar system into Jupiter and it wouldn’t change things.
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09/10/2018 10:07:55 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: ETL
Rubbish article.
The new distinction is between major planets and dwarf planets.
The goal of the distinction was to prevent our students from being drowned in planets
So we have 8 major planets.
And a bunch of dwarf planets - Pluto being the head of the group.
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posted on
09/10/2018 10:10:51 AM PDT
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Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: Robert A Cook PE
Again, Pluto is still a planet, just not a major planet.
The current list of dwarf planets is:
The five dwarf planets:
Ceres as seen from the Dawn spacecraft. It is the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt.
Pluto as viewed by New Horizons space probe on July 13, 2015.
Eris and its moon Dysnomia viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Makemake and its moon S/2015 (136472) 1 viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA artist’s impression of Haumea.
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09/10/2018 10:15:11 AM PDT
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Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: scrabblehack
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09/10/2018 12:35:55 PM PDT
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Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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09/30/2018 12:23:43 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet. |
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09/30/2018 12:44:03 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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