Sildegaar Report post Posted August 25, 2006 Article in English Article en Francais Very strange how some things seem granted and absolute ... and in just a few seconds it all goes to dust ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ville-v Report post Posted August 25, 2006 (edited) Who cares? Btw: (posted just to annoy you, you will never understand it) Edited July 6, 2007 by ville-v Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scarr Report post Posted August 25, 2006 so how big is pluto Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ville-v Report post Posted August 25, 2006 ~2000km (smaller than our moon) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sildegaar Report post Posted August 25, 2006 Who cares? Btw: [finnish comics] You care obviously ! And since I don't read/talk/undesrtand Finnish, you might have to translate that for me and a 'few' others, so that we can all laugh together ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LabRat Report post Posted August 25, 2006 I can envisage the future: Now: "When I were a lad all this was fields" When we get all grizzled: "When I were a lad we had 9 planets in the solar system" Pluto is a planet, it has been a planet officially since it was first observed in the 1930s and no jumped up pencil pusher is going to throw *me* in prison for supporting the rights of the minority. A moon is something that orbits a planet. Does that mean that satellites should now be called moons? By the moronic logic that makes pluto no longer a planet I think that we should have hundreds of new moons, including the ones that the Man thinks we don't know about.. Free the Planetoid One! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Happy_G Report post Posted August 25, 2006 pluto will always be a planet in my book, and they have classified it as a dwarf planet now, does that not still have planet in its name? so even by their standards its a planet.......just a small one, sometimes i wish our sientests really knew what they were saying. i heard on the news "Pluto is no longer a planet, it is now a Dwarf planet" kinda an oxymoronic statement since its new classification has planet in it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evalin Report post Posted August 25, 2006 (edited) Meh, so it's not a Classical Planet anymore. It's all terminology, definitions of objects get tweaked from time to time. The only difference between the Classical Planet and Dwarf Planet is section c of the definition, having to do with it's orbit around the sun. It's still classified as a planet, it's just that they say our solar system now had 8 Classical Planets. Edited August 25, 2006 by Evalin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparhawk Report post Posted August 25, 2006 Bah, I've always loved Pluto to be a planet. Not Ceres and Xena though, Ceres would be so battered and hard to find admist it's non orbiting buddies. If Earth was as small as Pluto they would have to both be called planets. But isn't Sedna still able to become a planet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sistema Report post Posted August 25, 2006 What the heck is Pluto???.... And Earth?? o.O No idea where you all are from, but I'm sure it's not Draia... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arnieman Report post Posted August 25, 2006 Hmm, was this topic moved here? Sistema's post seems to make me think so... then again, why do we all speak English/Polish/other Earth languages on Draia? Shouldn't we all have to learn gnomish or something? To me, it seems odd reclassyfying Pluto now. We know it's a body that orbits the Sun... I've heard it got reclassified because it'd orbit crosses Neptune, and it's small. So, every parent that has a midget kid that crosses a bigger kid of theirs can now "reclassify" their child and say, similar to the news on Pluto, that the midget kid isn't theirs? Then again, how many parents have midget kids... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tanyia Report post Posted August 25, 2006 (edited) From what I've heard, Pluto's classification has been a topic of debate since the 90s, but they're just now changing it. I feel a nostalgic loss, 'cause I always thought Pluto was the cutest planet but...then again...they've reclassified planets before (e.g. 1 Ceres). Shame all the pretty solar system posters have to be trashed now...or are they now historical documents? Ebay, in 50 years, here I come!!!!~!~ OK, maybe I need to stop drinking coffee... Edit: And, actually, why do we need to be so sad? We're getting new planets, after all Although, seriously, I don't see why it's such a big deal. It's not as if these definitions are hard-coded. A celestial body is what it is, what does it matter what we call it? Edited August 25, 2006 by Tanyia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sistema Report post Posted August 25, 2006 Ceres is between Mars and Jupiter, right? And and here's something you'd like to see =] Errr... wait a second, I meant this one: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kat Report post Posted August 25, 2006 i was also a bit dissapointed when the guy on the news was like, "Pluto is not worthy to be called a planet. It is just a big block of ice floating in space. There is no context in that." Well, aren't like most of the planets just a big blob of dust and rocks? So, should they be worthy to be called a planet? I mean, i rather ice than dust cuz dust makes me sneeze Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tanyia Report post Posted August 25, 2006 Lol Sistema, nice pic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparhawk Report post Posted August 25, 2006 Yep Siste, it's after mars in that asteriod belt. Btw, I live on the North part of Draia. So it's not my fault if you guys are pagan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chosenflea Report post Posted August 30, 2006 Does anyone know the real diffrence between a planet and a dwarf planet?cuz it just seems like a new term that destroys posters. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buchaille Report post Posted August 31, 2006 This will cause some confusion in the world of classical music. Presumably Gustav Holst's version was correct all along . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/679827.stm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjersey Report post Posted September 1, 2006 good news for pluto http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...15&from=rss Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sildegaar Report post Posted September 1, 2006 Anyway ... scientists are just trying to make things fit in a box. But the result sounds odd. I think Eternal Lands is much more realistic :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
auror Report post Posted September 1, 2006 Well anyway I never thought that pluto should be a planet it is in the Kuiper Belt (a field of asteroids orbiting beyond Neptune) and pluto just happens to be one of the bigger objects.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atlantis Report post Posted September 28, 2006 when I was your age, pluto was a planet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ville-v Report post Posted September 28, 2006 when I was your age, pluto was a planet When YOU were my age, they hadn't even found Neptunus yet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites