RedSky - 17/8/2006 4:41 AM Quotepunkboi - 16/8/2006 10:36 PM Err, you DO realize that the IAU DID designate Pluto and everything else beyond it "Plutons", right? Um, well... yes. That's why I said it... as in: OK, call them Plutons if you must. But that designation should not have been given the full status of "planet", but "minor planet" instead.
punkboi - 16/8/2006 10:36 PM Err, you DO realize that the IAU DID designate Pluto and everything else beyond it "Plutons", right?
Err, you DO realize that the IAU DID designate Pluto and everything else beyond it "Plutons", right?
Planet, minor planet... They're both planets. Technicalities sure are annoying
Give it another billion years of slowly spiralling outwards, and bingo, we will have to re-write the textbooks again...
RedSky - 23/8/2006 9:12 PM Thursday is D-Day for Pluto. ... any bets? I'm thinking deadlock... no decision. http://skytonight.com/news/3707031.html[/QUOTE]I supported the 12-planet concept...but I've read reports about the IAU going with the 8-planet/Pluto-as-a-dwarf-world resolution. Which, in my opinion, is WEAK.I wanted to see Ceres as a planet
I supported the 12-planet concept...but I've read reports about the IAU going with the 8-planet/Pluto-as-a-dwarf-world resolution. Which, in my opinion, is WEAK.
I wanted to see Ceres as a planet
RedSky - 24/8/2006 6:12 AMThursday is D-Day for Pluto. ... any bets? I'm thinking deadlock... no decision.
MarkD - 24/8/2006 1:48 PMCeres is tiny isn't it? I also began wondering what of Pluto-Charon? One problem people have is the orbit of the double planet compared to the rest of the solar system. Pluto-Charon's orbit is not in line with the rest. This is also why many go so far as to not add the double planet to a solar system display.
Michael Brown argued that Pluto and similar bodies didn't deserve planet status, saying that would "take the magic out of the solar system."
What the heck is this, Harry Potter? I'm disappointed.
rsp1202 - 24/8/2006 11:07 AMNASA just spent several hundred million bucks on New Horizons to explore a dwarf planet. Time to re-target to Vulcan.