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i thought now it was going the other way and pluto retained its status and was joined by other new planets as well ??
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| Posted: 10:19 - 25 Aug 2006 Post subject: |
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oh yer lol
I know Pluto was no a true planet, but i a few days ago on the news they were saying that they were going to vote to keep Pluto a named planet. either by reclassifying planets (and like i say bringing the number of planets to about 11 or 12)
or else simple keep it as a planet as an exception to the rule.
Pluto is unlike almost all other know asteroids in that it is round (meaning it has a large gravity force)
has moons, and it also has an atmosphere.
It is also the case that even a planet the size of the earth would probable fail to be recognized as a planet if it was orbiting out as far as Pluto does.
To be a planet it seems now you have to clear your orbit of other significant bodies. And even earth would struggle to do that in such a vast orbit.
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Look whatever these f**k wits now say, Pluto will always be referred to as a planet.
Who gives them the right.
Tw*ts.
Here's to Pluto
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| mondeokid wrote: | Look whatever these f**k wits now say, Pluto will always be referred to as a planet.
Who gives them the right.
Tw*ts.
Here's to Pluto
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It'll all come about again next year. The definition will be changed again.
The final vote has come under criticism because of the relatively small percentage of the 9000-strong membership who participated. Besides the fact that most members do not attend the General Assemblies, this lack was also due to the timing of the vote: the final vote was taken on the last day of the 10-day event, after many participants had left or were preparing to leave. Of over 2,700 astronomers attending the conference, probably over a thousand voted on the significant resolutions; on a vote on a subsidiary resolution, the first that required a count, only 424 votes were cast. There is also the issue of the many astronomers who were unable or who chose not to make the trip to Prague and, thus, cast a vote.
Within five days of the new IAU Planet Definition over 300 scientists signed a petition that opposes the new definition. Specifically it declares: “We, as planetary scientists and astronomers, do not agree with the IAU's definition of a planet, nor will we use it. A better definition is needed.”
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