Pluto No longer a Planet!

[gran guerrero]

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Pluto, a planet since 1930, got the boot because it didn't meet the new rules, which say a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must "clear the neighborhood around its orbit." That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.

Pluto and objects like it will be known as "dwarf planets," which raised some thorny questions about semantics: If a raincoat is still a coat, and a cell phone is still a phone, why isn't a dwarf planet still a planet?

Under the new rules, two of the three objects that came tantalizingly close to planethood will join Pluto as dwarfs: the asteroid Ceres, which was a planet in the 1800s before it got demoted, and 2003 UB313, an icy object slightly larger than Pluto whose discoverer, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology, has nicknamed "Xena." The third object, Pluto's largest moon, Charon, isn't in line for any special designation.

The shift will have the world's teachers scrambling to alter lesson plans just as schools open for the fall term.

"Eight is enough," he said, jokingly adding: "I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto."

so now what happens to the ""My Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas"

[Pressure Drop]

pluto was a disgrace to planets

my posts in this thread sums up my feelings on the matter

http://www.trenchwars.org/forums/sho...ighlight=pluto

luckliy the world listens to my opinions cuase i'm so right

[genocidal]

Pluto was always my favourite, I'm distraught. =(

[Squeezer]

A sad day for Disney fans around the world.

[Jeenyuss]

saturn is my favorite planet :wub:

[Denon]

I like Uranus.








I guess someone had to say it, might aswell be me.

[Vatican Assassin]

Ya they WANT you to forget about Pluto, 'til its too late. Why do you think its name after the God of Hell. As soon as we begin to let down our guard, Pluto will strike!

[Vehicle]

My
Very
Eager
Mother
Just
Saw
Uraguay's
Nads

[Superted]

My Very Excellent Mum Just Served Us Nine.

[FalseFlag]

The decision was the right one. There dozens of pluto like bodies out there all with irregular orbits, what are you going to do, make those all planets? No of course not, the right decision is to just boot pluto and call those things something else.

[FalseFlag]

Venus and earth were twin planets. Jupiter and Saturn; Uranus and Neptune were also twin planets at one time. the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter where a planet should be were twin planets that exploded. The small planet Mars was a moon of them which took a beating on one of its sides during the incident which is why one of its sides is battered and the other smooth. Mercury is also an escaped moon, probably from venus or venus-earth. The twin planets are all of the same approximate size and type.

[Bioture]

I fail to see the importance in all of this.

[Jeenyuss]

t0ne

[Miku19]

What's funny about all of this is that Xena's moon is named Gabrielle.

Astronomers are such nerds. :detective

[Vehicle]

What's funny about all of this is that Xena's moon is named Gabrielle.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Lucy Lawless was fucking crazy.