I searched the fora and didn't see this topic started yet, so...
We now only have eight official planets.
So, you know, all this time Pluto's been tooling around, taking advantage of all the benefits of being a planet when it didn't deserve those benefits! Pluto is a fraud!
Anybody really care?
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We now only have eight official planets.
Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the small, distant world demoted to a secondary category...
Pluto, which was discovered in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh, will be referred to as a "dwarf planet"...
The scientists agreed that for a celestial body to qualify as a planet:
About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the small, distant world demoted to a secondary category...
Pluto, which was discovered in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh, will be referred to as a "dwarf planet"...
The scientists agreed that for a celestial body to qualify as a planet:
- it must be in orbit around the Sun
- it must be large enough that it takes on a nearly round shape
- it has cleared its orbit of other objects
Anybody really care?
<shameless self-promotion>Git yer "Pluto is a Fraud" t-shirts right here!</shameless self-promotion>
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