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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on May 12, 2018, 05:03:46 PM
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Take that Neil DeGrasse *expletive deleted*bag! Hahahahaha!
Because of all the exoplanets being discovered, it looks like "planet" may be redefined (again), bringing Pluto back into the fold. It was interesting to read that the redefinition that kicked Pluto out was hastily drawn up by only 4% of the Astronomers at that particular IAU meeting, apparently because they all wanted to go home. :laugh:
Anyway, (hopefully) welcome back Pluto! I was on your side the whole time!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/07/yes-pluto-is-a-planet/?noredirect=on
https://www.space.com/40550-pluto-planet-debate-flares-up-again.html
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From what I heard, there are other objects they have found that are bigger than Pluto. How many "planets" do we have?
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From what I heard, there are other objects they have found that are bigger than Pluto. How many "planets" do we have?
57...... oh wait... that's states!!!
bob
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From what I heard, there are other objects they have found that are bigger than Pluto. How many "planets" do we have?
If Pluto is back to being a planet (I never acknowledged that it wasn't), then what about Transpluto? Sedna? Chiron? Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Ceres?
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If Pluto is back to being a planet (I never acknowledged that it wasn't), then what about Transpluto? Sedna? Chiron? Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Ceres?
I don't care about all those, I want to know where Planet X is so we can get Godzilla and Monster Zero to fight!
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If Pluto is back to being a planet (I never acknowledged that it wasn't), then what about Transpluto? Sedna? Chiron? Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Ceres?
I think it's imprtant to recognize that the way [some]astronomers refer to these planets is hurtful. They call them "dwarf planets." I thought society had long ago recognized that calling people "dwarfs" is demeaning, insulting, and hurtful, and that the more appropriate terminology is "little people." So those who refer to these planets as "dwarfs" are just being racist, and should be shunned.
If they aren't full-fledged planets, then they're "little planets."
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in the end, it's all semantics. Ceres and Pluto continue to swing around the Sun.
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From what I heard, there are other objects they have found that are bigger than Pluto. How many "planets" do we have?
Quaor and Sedena are roughly the same size as Pluto, and there could be hundreds, maybe thousands of similar size objects out in the Kupier Belt and Oort Cloud, some bigger, some smaller. Some of these newly discovered Plutonians have moons like Pluto does too. Besides the other criteria for "planet-ness" of orbit circularity, clearing its orbit of competing bodies, being in mostly the same plane of the ecliptic, it was the the probability of many icy dwarves which did the most to demote Pluto.
Because if Pluto is a "planet" then our Solar System could conceivably have a thousand "planets".
Then there is the issue that there is likely a "planet 9" out there, anywhere from Earth-sized to Neptune-sized, based on the gravitational disturbance of the Plutonians and comets we've detected.
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Then there is the issue that there is likely a "planet 9" out there, anywhere from Earth-sized to Neptune-sized, based on the gravitational disturbance of the Plutonians and comets we've detected.
That's the one that is sometimes referred to as Transpluto.
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That's the one that is sometimes referred to as Transpluto.
Ah. So planet Jenner?
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Pluto, a PLANET??!! Not any more!!! [tinfoil]
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Pluto, a PLANET??!! Not any more!!! [tinfoil]
Great, now we have more little Plutonians out there and Iran will have an easier time making nukes.
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Simple: Anything with less than the mass or diameter of Pluto is not a planet. Anything with a mass or diameter equal to or greater than Pluto is a planet.
Terry, 230RN
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Great, now we have more little Plutonians out there and Iran will have an easier time making nukes.
Don't worry about that. Planned Plutohood will take care of it.
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Don't worry about that. Planned Plutohood will take care of it.
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Pluto may or may not be a planet but Uranus is a gas giant.
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Pluto may or may not be a planet but Uranus is a gas giant.
https://metro.co.uk/2017/04/11/hubble-just-spotted-something-massive-coming-out-of-uranus-6567896