bye bye pluto (16 Viewers)

[AbuGadanzieri]

bye bye pluto your not a planet

what you think

please discuss

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/5282440.stm

 

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[V]

oh noo.

 

[Zé Tahir]

A co-worker said something funny:

"America is so fucked up, now we even decide what's a planet and what's not"

:rofl2:

 

[ReBeL]

I also have a slight tear in my eye today because I never thought scientists are naive enough to think about such a rediculous thing...

What if it is a planet or not??

 

[Espectro]

Quite franqly... Who cares?

 

[ReBeL]

And nice title for the thread, Abu...

I thought this Pluto was one of our Primavera players??

 

[swag]

The astronomers really could care less. It's a social construct more than anything. But IMO, it never deserved to be called a planet to begin with. You put that thing near the orbit of Mars, it would burn off to be less than a tenth of its size and it would grow a tail like a comet.

As if it wasn't confusing enough that sometimes it's the furthest planet from the sun, and sometimes it's Neptune...

 

[Gill_juve]

Quite franqly... Who cares?

lol nice way of putting it

 

[flieeeekke]

Quite franqly... Who cares?

I DO! bring back pluto!

 

[GordoDeCentral]

so where does Charon fit in all of this?

 

[swag]

so where does Charon fit in all of this?

I think it's classified just like Pluto: a dwarf planet. Charon and Pluto are also, in effect, classified as a double object -- like a double star -- since the center of orbit between Charon and Pluto is really located between the two objects. Even if they still (errantly) call Charon Pluto's "moon".

 

[GordoDeCentral]

in this case i will still "errantly" hold there are 9 plantes in the solar system

 

[ReBeL]

so where does Charon fit in all of this?

I'm so eager to know the reason of your interest in it:undecide:

 

[GordoDeCentral]

I'm so eager to know the reason of your interest in it:undecide:

as cheesy as it sounds but i ve always been fascinated with the heavens

 

[pavelnedved]

nice sig man

I'm feeling with you.

 

[flieeeekke]

yeah, im joining your sig campaign

 

[pavelnedved]

yeah, im joining your sig campaign

Naaah ... I honestly don't think that Pluto feels bad about all this right now. After all, he's still hanging in there.

 

[malducato1]

R I P pluto you'll be missed, everyone should buy a forty and pour some out for pluto.

 

[IlDivinCodino]

for a moment i thought Walt Disney is gonna suspend Pluto since its being way too illogical for a dog being bossed around by mice

 

[mikhail]

I think it's classified just like Pluto: a dwarf planet. Charon and Pluto are also, in effect, classified as a double object -- like a double star -- since the center of orbit between Charon and Pluto is really located between the two objects. Even if they still (errantly) call Charon Pluto's "moon".

Yep. Cool animations to demonstrate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter#Animations