The guest might not........but I will! (lol) Pluto does not fit the criteria for being classified as a planet, and to have it remain a planet would require the addition of literally HUNDREDS of "planets" to the solar system. It would be as if every single asteroid in the asteroid belt was called a planet. We tried that for a while but we soon found that there is way to much stuff floating around our sun for it all to be planets.
Bring on the downvotes!!
Indeed. I'm getting really fucking tired of that.
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He's Doctor Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
I said it before, I'll say it again:
He had nothing to do with Pluto. That was the International Astronomy Union. He was not on the voting board that made the decision.
http://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau0603/
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MY LIFE IS A LIE
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Well, when he came to give a lecture at OSU last November, he said that he did have a hand in "killing" Pluto.
If he actually said that, its because Science ruled that Pluto wasn't a true planet. As a scientist, he does belong to the Tribe of the Sane (aka, Science).
Why the heck would you want Pluto to be a planet?!
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WHY THE FUCK NOT
Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, & the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun. It is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet, after Eris, which sticks between Mars & Jupiter. Like other Kuiper-belt objects, Pluto is composed primarily of rock & ice & is pretty godamn small, approximately one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume, which is, again, pretty fucking small. It has an eccentric & highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU from the Sun. This causes Pluto to periodically come closer to the Sun than Neptune, but an orbital resonance with Neptune prevents the bodies from colliding.
In 2014 it was 32.6 AU from the Sun.
CLOSER THAN NEPTUNE.
Discovered in 1930, Pluto was originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun. Its status as a major planet fell into question following further study of it & the outer Solar System over the ensuing 75 years.
WHICH IS SO UNFAIR
PLUTO IS MY IDOL
The TNO and Dwarf Planet Eris discovered on 2005 is 27% more massive than Pluto and orbits at a distance of three times that of Pluto. NASA briefly called it the Tenth Planet. It's discovery is the crux of the matter that called the hand on what is and isn't a planet.
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Then there is the moon of Neptune Triton which is believed to be a captured KBO. It's also larger than Pluto as well.
Let me cheer you up a bit...
The New Horizons probe will do a flyby of Pluto on July 14th 2015... That's less than a year from now.
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We will finally get our first good look at that tiny little frozen world that is so far away that it takes light FOUR HOURS to get there. A trip that takes so long by robot probe that we launched it back in 2006 and used Jupiter as a gravity slingshot. That little 478 kilogram probe is traveling at a staggering 58,536 km/h, the fastest thing human have ever built. That's how important Pluto still is.
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Let me tell you something about that world, planet or not... it may hold vital clues to the formation of our solar system. A very, very important question to ask and answer.
PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET! It is classified as a "dwarf planet." So when it was reclassified, I learned about hundreds of new planets in our solar system. All of them named after FEMALE deities. Like Eris, Ceres, Vesta, & others. To greco-roman pagans, this was like finding out there really is a Santa Claus.
Bring on the downvotes!!
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He's Doctor Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
He had nothing to do with Pluto. That was the International Astronomy Union. He was not on the voting board that made the decision.
http://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau0603/
Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, & the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun. It is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet, after Eris, which sticks between Mars & Jupiter. Like other Kuiper-belt objects, Pluto is composed primarily of rock & ice & is pretty godamn small, approximately one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume, which is, again, pretty fucking small. It has an eccentric & highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU from the Sun. This causes Pluto to periodically come closer to the Sun than Neptune, but an orbital resonance with Neptune prevents the bodies from colliding.
In 2014 it was 32.6 AU from the Sun.
CLOSER THAN NEPTUNE.
Discovered in 1930, Pluto was originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun. Its status as a major planet fell into question following further study of it & the outer Solar System over the ensuing 75 years.
WHICH IS SO UNFAIR
PLUTO IS MY IDOL
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Then there is the moon of Neptune Triton which is believed to be a captured KBO. It's also larger than Pluto as well.
The New Horizons probe will do a flyby of Pluto on July 14th 2015... That's less than a year from now.
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We will finally get our first good look at that tiny little frozen world that is so far away that it takes light FOUR HOURS to get there. A trip that takes so long by robot probe that we launched it back in 2006 and used Jupiter as a gravity slingshot. That little 478 kilogram probe is traveling at a staggering 58,536 km/h, the fastest thing human have ever built. That's how important Pluto still is.
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Let me tell you something about that world, planet or not... it may hold vital clues to the formation of our solar system. A very, very important question to ask and answer.
Thank you, Smitty
"Students should care more about science," and
"Oh, you care about Pluto being a planet or not? Get over it."