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Leading astronomers have declared that Pluto is no longer a planet, approving new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. The International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.
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This is the best possible solution. The alternative was to declare there was 12 planets which would be lame given that the last four all had very excentric orbits like an asteroid and not a planet.
The sucky part is now there are no American discovered planets in the solar system. If they went up to 12 planets then the US would have had 4 discoveries to its credit. Still, this is the best solution.
So why were there a bunch of news stories a week or so ago, saying that the decision was that Pluto and a couple of other bodies were official planets?
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Originally posted by techumseh
So why were there a bunch of news stories a week or so ago, saying that the decision was that Pluto and a couple of other bodies were official planets?
From the article in the OP it says that there were two proposals. The first would have made all pluto called all pluto like bodies planets and the second would have designated pluto sized bodies as dwarf planets. The IAU decided to go with the second.
This is a ridiculous debate about semantics anyway.
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THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF
It is more properly a Kuiper belt object. But still, I'd have preferred to see it grandfathered in. It's been a 'planet' for so long now, it's part of the collective culture.
Originally posted by Oerdin
Did somebody say Pluto?
Hmmm...I guess he really doesn't look like a planet afterall....
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