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MIKE BURN
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 Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: Pluto loses status as a planet! |
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If you teach your kids, better get in touch with modern astronomy first! HAHA 
| Quote: | Pluto loses status as a planet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5282440.stm
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 13:34 GMT 14:34 UK
Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
About 2,500 experts were in Prague for the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) general assembly.
The scientists rejected a proposal that would have retained Pluto as a planet and brought three other objects into the cosmic club.
Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh.
The ninth planet will now effectively be airbrushed out of school and university textbooks.
"The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune," said the IAU resolution, which was passed following a week of stormy debate.
Professor Iwan Williams chaired the IAU working group that has been working over recent months to define the term "planet".
"I have a slight tear in my eye today, yes; but at the end of the day we have to describe the Solar System as it really is, not as we would like it to be," the Queen Mary University of London, UK, scientist told the BBC. |
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Rory Kings
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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What a daft bunch of Axxxholes, It still a huge mass and if it is not a planet it;s still abig bit of rock.
So just chuck it out the window and we have eight planets , what the hell place are we living in.
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I;m taking no prisoners.
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bbchris
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:24 am Post subject: |
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So why ISN'T it a planet anymore?
Just because some astronomers voted to make t not a planet? Or is there a more 'scientific' reason?
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AQUARIAN AGE
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Breaking News:
| Quote: | USA now counts only 7 planets (by Bill Board)
"Jupiter never was a real planet, in fact Jupiter never was real at all." Chief-astronomer Chen K. Dick from the Intelligent Design Institute Of Texas (IDIOT) said yesterday evening that a group of US and coalition scientists declared that the former planet Jupiter is to be wiped out from all school books in the willing world. Dick said that this has nothing to do with the fact that some hours before Scientists in Prague (Europe, old) had voted to strip Pluto, who was dircovered by American Clyde Tombaugh, of its status as a planet. Jupiter was known as a planet since the Roman Empire, which, for Dick, explains why this "falsity could stay in our mins for so long. These Romans were Old Europe, as Old Europe as you can get" |
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ianbal1
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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This is the scientific defenition regarding a planet.
| Quote: | (1) It must have enough mass and gravity to gather itself into a ball.
(2) It must orbit the sun.
(3) It must reign supreme in its own orbit, having "cleared the neighborhood" of other competing bodies. |
Pluto does not fit the last.........
This is because astronomers have discovered several new large rocks in the same orbit......... as I understand it, some are bigger than Pluto.
Therefore, it loses it's status.
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