Pluto may yet lose planet status

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Astronomers lean towards eight planets
19:39 22 August 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Stephen Battersby, Prague

Astronomers responded with hostility to a plan to admit three new planets, including Pluto's moon Charon, into the solar system.

Finally, astronomers could be homing in on a definition of the word planet. After a day of public bickering in Prague, followed by negotiations behind closed doors, the latest draft resolution was greeted with a broadly friendly reception.

If accepted on Thursday, it would be bad news for Pluto, which would no longer be a full-fledged planet.

The crucial change in "draft c" is that a planet must be the dominant body in its orbital zone, clearing out any little neighbours. Pluto does not qualify because its orbit crosses that of the vastly larger Neptune.

http://www.newscientistspace.com/art...t-planets.html

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Micky Mouse is reported to be furious

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Pluto stripped of planet status

Micky Mouse is reported to be furious

Astronomers say Pluto is not a planet
AP - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.

Sheesh after 76 years I hope we are sending a nice pension!

Goofy.

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I heard Uranus is getting nervous- oops- I think I heard it again.

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So they named it a puppy?

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Yeah, my son came home last term from school and said it was a mistake that Pluto wasn't a planet all along because they overestimated its size as well. Interesting stuff. Even Xena is bigger than Pluto.

#meant to say that Pluto was not a planet all along.

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Yeah, my son came home last term form school and said it was a mistake that Pluto was a planet all along because they overestimated its size as well. Interesting stuff. Even Xena is bigger than Pluto.

Sure, she even had her own TV series.

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But I bet that Pluto has appeared more times in the movies and on TV.

I'd make another comment about Uranus, but this is not SNL.

Sure, she even had her own TV series.

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Pluto is now not a planet maybe earth is next or have we visited that planet through the eyes of someone far away. Like Saturn, or Mars.