there is no longer 9 planets

Originally posted by Lodui

Awwwww, WTF?!! Thanks for posting that.

 

actually, Pluto is mostly ice, methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide....... but they do think it might have a rocky core

 

Maybe bush will send troops to pluto and "liberate" it

 

liberate it from the degrading demotion?

 

well i know i'd pitch a fit and probably blow something up. like the earth's moon. that'd show the IAU.

 

wow this is generating quite a controversy......... I think there are those that believe in perserving history and keeping pluto as a planet..... just because it has been a planet for 76 years.....

 

madcrappie,

Whatever happened to the CalTech discovery of a tenth planet which they (meaning nerds) codenamed Xena after the tv show Xena, Warrior Princess (btw If any of those nerds even saw a pussy they'd probably faint) but that's beside the point......

If their proven correct then we're back to 9 planets



Hotwater

 

I heard about this over a year ago.

 

keeping it simple? if they now have two different categories (planets and dwarf planets) how is that more simple?

 

how could you have heard about this over a year ago???????????/ it just happened. they voted on it just today.

 

that "planet" falls under the same category as pluto. its pretty much the same makeup as pluto. there were 3 more "planets" that the IAU was going to name as planets, and that included xena.....

 

in order to be classified as a planet according to the IAU, it has to have a regular orbit, much larger than pluto, and have at least some of a gravitational pull........

 

I don't know but I'm not lying. Maybe I just heard someones opinion or something though- like before it was official?

I know I heard though a long time ago that by definition and criteria Pluto is not a planet because I remember telling people about it.

 

well, yeah, theyve been contemplating it since the 90s.......... but now its official, and the former planet will be removed from textbooks........

I guess the widow of the discoverer of pluto is all shook up about the news....

 

it's totally gonna screw up the mnemonic device...

 

what mneumonic device was used for the planets??

 

i can't remember.

 

here's the old one: My Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles

Stephen colbert's new one: My Very Educated Mother Just Said "Uh-oh! No Pluto!"

 

I never learned the planets through a mneumonic device........

 

Or..."My Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nothing"....