"In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) established a definition of a planet that required it to clear its orbit, or in other words, be the largest gravitational force in its orbit. ..."
1 posted on
09/10/2018 6:35:05 AM PDT by
ETL
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This composite image features Pluto and its largest moon Charon in enhanced color. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)2 posted on
09/10/2018 6:35:40 AM PDT by
ETL
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To: ETL
[ Researchers Say the Reason Pluto Lost Its Planet Status is Not Valid ]
What if we got Serena Williams to argue the case?
(sorry too easy)
They can’t change Pluto! It was on all the models of the solar system in 8th grade! You know, the one with the light bulb inside the Sun.
3 posted on
09/10/2018 6:37:32 AM PDT by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ETL
The IAU denied Pluto its planet designation because it was discovered by an American using an American telescope and modern calculations. `Now, that was back when Bush was president - it was really a protest against the Iraq Wars - but today, they will come up with some other excuse.
The thing is more of a planet than Mercury. Has bigger moons than Mars.
5 posted on
09/10/2018 6:43:30 AM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: ETL
All Pluto needs to get its status back is to learn how to say two words:
Me Too!
13 posted on
09/10/2018 7:31:49 AM PDT by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: ETL
Pluto was framed!
16 posted on
09/10/2018 8:56:46 AM PDT by
DannyTN
(uit)
To: ETL
An executive order could get Pluto back its planet status........
18 posted on
09/10/2018 9:04:33 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
To: ETL
I always thought Pluto got a raw deal.
19 posted on
09/10/2018 9:06:03 AM PDT by
SamAdams76
( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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.
22 posted on
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.
23 posted on
09/10/2018 10:10:51 AM PDT by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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