Pluto is Safe!

Post by **danlo** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:48 pm

So...that means Pluto is now Dopey?

(The IAG is discriminatory just because someone from New Mexico discovered it!!!

)

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:59 pm

I would think, that after this base demotion, Pluto would now be Grumpy.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:10 pm

Post by **Elfgirl** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:05 am

OK, so let's just say that Pluto is now the Disney planet, and get on with more important issues like, what is Pixar going to produce next?

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:10 am

the SgtNull story.

Post by **Kil Tyme** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:24 pm

What happened in the last week? First the big news that stated the AU folks put the solar system at 12 planets, adding Charion, Ceres and Xena. Now a week later we are down to 8 planets, making those 3 and Pluto the new term "Plutons". What happened? Is this the same organization who just made a U-turn on their decision from last week or did a different group decide this?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:41 pm

They added an extra criterium to the definition when it came to voting on it. The definition they agreed on is exactly the same as the one proposed last week except for that one detail, and it just happens to prevent Pluto et al being called planets.

Post by **jscottnelson** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:14 pm

I find it interesting that this topic has taken up so much time among astronomers. I suspect a conspiracy among text-book makers and people who develop museum exhibits must be behind the movement! Think of all the things that now will have to be revised!

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:38 pm

planet
The recently adopted IAU resolution states that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:
A "planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape2 , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.
All other objects3 except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".
So by this official definition there are exactly eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto, Ceres and 2003UB313 are "dwarf planets" with a potentiall large number of additional object falling into this category in the near future.

Post by **Elfgirl** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:34 am

I suggest we all just email the astronomical head honchos with the following epithet..."Stick Pluto up Uranus"...

Post by **sgtkafka** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:13 am

My
Very
Educated
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nothing?

Post by **Elfgirl** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:52 am

Many Voters Expected More Judicious Standards. Utter Nonsense Prevailed!

plooTOH plooTOH ploooooTOHHHHH!!

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:58 am

bravo.

Might
Vixenish
Elfgirls
Merely
Justify
Sawyer
Undoing
Nighties?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:11 pm

www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn984 ... urore.html

Post by **Elfgirl** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:58 am

sgtnull wrote:bravo.

Might
Vixenish
Elfgirls
Merely
Justify
Sawyer
Undoing
Nighties?

ohhhh YESSS!!!!

(only one problem with that...I don't wear nighties!!)

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:47 am

i'm expecting an avalanche of reponses to that tidbit.

Post by **Elfgirl** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:06 am

Oh well, he can undo....whatever! Whenever!

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:43 am

and so this thread regenerates into Sawyer pron, the worst kind.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:19 pm

I think you meant to say 'degenerates'.

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:15 am

degenerates, dies and regenerates?

fruedian slip maybe?

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