The Pluto Scandal
How many planets are there?
Have a good think, and while your at it, you might want to consult the International Astronomic Union. The reason? Today at a meeting of the union it was voted that the former planet, Pluto, be demoted form its title to the less prestigious of "Dwarf Planet", leaving our solar system with 8 planets.
This move has been talked about and debated for years and the Astronomical community has finally removed Pluto from it's historical status as a planet.
"This is about definitions of planets as we observe them today," Richard Binzell a member of the union said today. Essentially, due to Pluto’s size and consistency of mainly ice, it falls out side of the category of "Planet".
So next time someone asks you how many planets there are, you might have to check the definitions first!
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Pluto... Planet no more
This move has been talked about and debated for years and the Astronomical community has finally removed Pluto from it's historical status as a planet.
"This is about definitions of planets as we observe them today," Richard Binzell a member of the union said today. Essentially, due to Pluto’s size and consistency of mainly ice, it falls out side of the category of "Planet".
So next time someone asks you how many planets there are, you might have to check the definitions first!
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Maybe Earth should abdicate in protest, then Pluto and us can start up our own club!
Of course, we are all wondering: where does this leave Mickey Mouse? In the gutter, where he belongs.
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an extra planet, it was called Planet X ... and now they say pluto is leaving because it is an ice ball shape not a planet...
Anyway, astrology is the miuch debatble science .... the scince of the unknown ... u study the vague of space ... nothing is permenant correct
May be sun decide to move too ....
Remember when they said mars will hit earth ... it was about the 1998 or later ... they predict it is the end of the world , however, God proved
them all wrong by changing the course of mars & making it Slip a side not to hit Earth....