Pluto IS a Planet.

[Geoff Barnes]

Don't know if this has been seen elsewhere but I happened upon it accidentally this evening whilst web surfing...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7394833/Is-Pluto-planet-NASA-chief-Jim-Bridenstine-says-be.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

[xtreemchaos]

its never been anything else to me Geoff, I don't take what scientist say unless my life depeneds on it thay change there minds more times than a nun in a cake shop 😀. charl

Edited August 31, 2019 by xtreemchaos

[alan potts]

I think they only took it out because Holst didn't write music for it, always has been a planet for me too, wish I knew which speck of light it was on sub or indeed with the 18 inch.

Alan

[ringz]

Even Partick Moore said it wasn't a planet and he was a friend of Clyde Tombaugh 🤣

 

[maw lod qan]

Yes, always been one for me as well and I too would like to at least capture it as a speck in at a widefield.

[johnturley]

How many objects would you classify as being planets if Pluto was classified as a planet again.

You would have to include Eris (whose discovery was partly responsible for Pluto's declassification) and possibly also Makemake and Haumea, and with new discoveries the list would continue to grow.

You have to remember that when Pluto was first discovered it was thought to be around the same size as the earth, this later got revised downwards to around 3,600 miles in diameter (still larger than Mercury) and more recently to around 2,000 miles (smaller than our moon).

John 

[Mr Spock]

There are quite a few objects larger than Pluto. If Pluto is a planet, then they must be too.

[Stu]

Someone posted this on FB in answer to a similar question. Whilst emotionally I still think Pluto should be a planet, and it likely always will be to me, logic says it should have some other designation.

[RT65CB-SWL]

On 31/08/2019 at 13:31, alan potts said:

I think they only took it out because Holst didn't write music for it, always has been a planet for me too, wish I knew which speck of light it was on sub or indeed with the 18 inch.

Alan

The Planets Suite or The Planets [Opus 32] was composed between 1914 and 1916. Pluto was discovered in 1930. Gustav Holst, however expressed no interest in writing a movement for Pluto. He had become disillusioned by the popularity of the suite. In 2000, composer Colin Matthews, wrote a piece and dedicated to Imogen Holst, [Gustav's daughter], and called it 'Pluto, the renewer'.

Edited September 1, 2019 by Philip R

[Alien 13]

I would be happy if our Moon was classified as a planet....

Alan

[Rob Sellent]

Many, many years ago in a small town by the sea a little boy memorised a little mnemonic: My Very Early Morning Jam Sandwiches Usually Nauseate People. It's stuck in my mind ever since and all these years later I really wouldn't know what to do if I got rid of people

[Ags]

I am sure lots of people complained when Ceres was demoted from planet status (150 years ago). But it looks like zero people care now...

Bridenstein's argument is simply "I was taught it's a planet so it's a planet." That is not a very robust way of thinking about anything! And since when does the latest NASA appointee get to decide such a matter? It's for the IAU to decide.

Edited September 1, 2019 by Ags

[AngryDonkey]

Has this not been discussed before? 🤣

[DaveS]

Yes, and will be again. And again, and again..... 🤣

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

If Pluto is a Dwarf planet, shouldn't Jupiter be called a Troll planet?

I'll get me coat (the one with "Thud!" in the pocket please)

[DaveS]

But where's the Diamond?

[Ruud]

A dwarf rabbit IS a rabbit!

 

 

 

Edited September 2, 2019 by Ruud

[Gina]

That looks very cute.

[AngryDonkey]

4 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

If Pluto is a Dwarf planet, shouldn't Jupiter be called a Troll planet?

A.E. Pessimal will not allow it! 🤣

[LukeSkywatcher]

18 hours ago, Gina said:

That looks very cute.

Looks like one half of a pair of slippers.

[michaelmorris]

On 02/09/2019 at 06:32, AngryDonkey said:

Has this not been discussed before? 🤣

ad nauseum.

[Stub Mandrel]

It's a non-question.

The line between planet and non-planet is an arbitrary construct whose value is enabling humans to classify non-stellar objects for the purpose of studying them.

I would say division into gas-giants, ice-giants, rocky bodies with active gelology, static rocky bodies and comets  would be more likely to be useful but even taht woudl have some ambiguities (like the asteroid that changed colour by out-gassing like a comet).

[Stub Mandrel]

On 02/09/2019 at 14:32, Ruud said:

A dwarf rabbit IS a rabbit!

 

 

 

That's a tribble.

[Gina]

Didn't think tribbles had ears!  No sign of eyes either as I recall.

[Gina]

1 minute ago, KevS said:

Ah yes...  That's Pluto!  Doesn't look much like a planet.

Edited September 5, 2019 by Gina