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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 1, 2018 0:06:13 GMT
I say yes.
How do you feel?
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Post by MCDemuth on May 1, 2018 1:11:42 GMT
I'm sorry, but I have to say "NO".
I agree with the scientists... in the fact that we keep finding all kinds of different objects orbiting the Sun... And not everything that orbits the sun is a planet, such as THE ASTEROID BELT... Sooner or late you have to categorize them... And if Pluto is a regular planet, than there are hundreds of other objects out there that equally qualify too.
I know it sucks, but that is the way it has to be.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 1, 2018 2:08:15 GMT
Oh, definitely. A number of scientists have written (convincingly, I think) that the definition the IAU came up with is very problematic: under its definition, Earth couldn’t be considered a planet, as it doesn’t “clear its own neighborhood” (the criterion on which the IAU ruled Pluto a dwarf planet); according to Alan Stern, neither does Neptune.
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 1, 2018 3:13:18 GMT
I'm not interested in a plutonic relationship.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 1, 2018 3:21:23 GMT
I voted for pizza!!
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Post by ck100 on May 1, 2018 3:33:59 GMT
Sure, why not?
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 9:22:40 GMT
No
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Post by marianne48 on May 3, 2018 1:15:20 GMT
Yes; it's even got its own moon.
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 3, 2018 1:25:29 GMT
I'm sorry, but I have to say "NO". I agree with the scientists... in the fact that we keep finding all kinds of different objects orbiting the Sun... And not everything that orbits the sun is a planet, such as THE ASTEROID BELT... Sooner or late you have to categorize them... And if Pluto is a regular planet, than there are hundreds of other objects out there that equally qualify too. I know it sucks, but that is the way it has to be. Just grandfather Pluto in. The new guys are out of luck, but Pluto gets a token/honorary designation.
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Post by politicidal on May 3, 2018 22:35:56 GMT
I prefer pepperoni.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 4, 2018 4:13:57 GMT
Yes; it's even got its own moon. Yes; IF it's got its own moon then it SHOULD BE considered a planet.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 4, 2018 7:12:54 GMT
Yes; it's even got its own moon. Yes; IF it's got its own moon then it SHOULD BE considered a planet.Not necessarily, some very much un-planet-like asteroids also have moons.
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Post by MCDemuth on May 11, 2018 22:48:04 GMT
Yeah... Lots of Problems.
What if we found, another Earth, that DOESN'T "clear the neighborhood"... It would be hard to accept it as a "dwarf planet".
The Moon is not a Planet. A Moon orbits a Planet. Just add that criteria to the definition of a moon... This is like, how a "Square is a Rectangle, but a Rectangle is not always a Square."
No Matter what is officially is decided, I too, don't think I can accept 100+ objects in our solar system being called "Planets".
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Post by marsexplorer on May 14, 2018 3:01:16 GMT
Oh, definitely. A number of scientists have written (convincingly, I think) that the definition the IAU came up with is very problematic: under its definition, Earth couldn’t be considered a planet, as it doesn’t “clear its own neighborhood” (the criterion on which the IAU ruled Pluto a dwarf planet); according to Alan Stern, neither does Neptune. Could you please enlighten me on how the Earth doesn't clear it's path?
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Post by Nalkarj on May 14, 2018 3:09:34 GMT
Oh, definitely. A number of scientists have written (convincingly, I think) that the definition the IAU came up with is very problematic: under its definition, Earth couldn’t be considered a planet, as it doesn’t “clear its own neighborhood” (the criterion on which the IAU ruled Pluto a dwarf planet); according to Alan Stern, neither does Neptune. Could you please enlighten me on how the Earth doesn't clear it's path? According to the BBC: I should note, however, that I’m no scientist.
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Post by marsexplorer on May 14, 2018 3:43:32 GMT
Nalkarj I think that Dr Stern has an agenda considering his advocation of Pluto to be renamed a planet again. Any debris trailing a planet cannot be cleared when it doesn't get close enough to be under the gravitational influence of said planet. Also, near-Earth asteroids are dominated by Jupiter's gravitation not the Earth's. I guarantee that if any smaller body gets close enough to these planets they will be cleared by either absorption or ejected from it's path into a different orbit. I don't like the IAU's definition of what constitutes a planet and would like Pluto to be renamed a planet due to sentimental reasons, but I am only a small fish in a big pond.
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Post by MCDemuth on May 29, 2018 20:33:31 GMT
Maybe Pluto should be classified as something else entirely...
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Post by permutojoe on May 30, 2018 3:17:39 GMT
I'm sorry, but I have to say "NO". I agree with the scientists... in the fact that we keep finding all kinds of different objects orbiting the Sun... And not everything that orbits the sun is a planet, such as THE ASTEROID BELT... Sooner or late you have to categorize them... And if Pluto is a regular planet, than there are hundreds of other objects out there that equally qualify too. I know it sucks, but that is the way it has to be. Just grandfather Pluto in. The new guys are out of luck, but Pluto gets a token/honorary designation. Yeah "clearing the neighborhood" seems like a bit of an ex post facto overreach.
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Post by lava-rocks on Dec 4, 2018 3:03:25 GMT
Pluto IS a planet. It was a planet when I was a kid, and it hasn't changed. This debate is about some astronomers trying to be too clever for their own boots. It is like these college women who want to be called womxn or zu. I say they should all be beheaded. The women should, or else they should get a job and a life. They made one professor's life hell. The astronomers should just be whipped to within an inch of their lives.
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Post by maya55555 on Jan 21, 2019 20:45:23 GMT
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