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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:37 am
by Elfgirl
What, not even if you're searching for klingons?

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:31 pm
by Tulizar
Well it's about time someone cracked the Uranus joke!

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:16 pm
by drew
Don't Pluto and Neptune cross paths during eachothers orbit? I ws under the impression that the switch lasts for about 7 Earth Years.
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:47 am
by sgt.null
How often do the orbits of Neptune and Pluto cross?
On JAnuary 21, 1979 Pluto passed inside the orbit of Neptune, and on September 5, 1989 it was at its closest distance to the Sun. Then in March, 1999 it will cross Neptune's orbit once again and resume its title as the farthest planet in the solar system. This situation will reoccur in the year 2236 and happens every 247 years.
Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:28 am
by drew
So that would mean that PLuto's and Neptune's Years are similar in length eh?
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:11 pm
by I'm Murrin
drew wrote:So that would mean that PLuto's and Neptune's Years are similar in length eh?
Neptune: 164.8 years
Pluto: 248.5 years
Completely different.
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:31 pm
by Cail
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:23 pm
by Sandgorgon rider
Yea! Pluto's been demoted. Go back to the hell from which you came!!
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:44 pm
by jwaneeta
Poor Pluto. Ripped off.
It's like that thing where that soap opera chick won Dancing with the Stars, but then they redid the finale and gave it to Elaine's boss from Seinfeld. Cruel, just cruel. What's this going to do to Pluto's self esteem?
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:55 pm
by dANdeLION
It'll make a comeback in 2015, when that satellite gets there; you just wait and see.
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:49 pm
by matrixman
I'm disappointed that Anderson Cooper hasn't interviewed any Plutonians yet. Oh, must be the transmission delay to and from Pluto...
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:41 pm
by drew
I just heard the news today..it'll be called a dwarf planet, along with Ceres.
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:44 pm
by jwaneeta
If Pluto has any backbone at all, it'll secede. This is the kind of affront no celestial body should be expected to tolerate.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:49 am
by Elfgirl
Hey I'm not giving up years of education!! There are NINE planets in THIS solar system, baby!
ploooTOH... plooooTOH...ploooTOH!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:23 pm
by dANdeLION
Next they're going to say Pluto is no longer a dog, and that's just wrong!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:31 pm
by Cail
As long as they don't say Bluto is no longer a Delta.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:24 pm
by danlo
TOGA!! TOGA!! It's all a plot to make money by the school textbook industry!

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:57 pm
by jwaneeta
danlo wrote:TOGA!! TOGA!! It's all a plot to make money by the school textbook industry!

*ponders* Maybe there's an upside to this after all.
No.
No. Je sui, je reste. It's an injustice, plain and simple - and doesn't even take into account all the planetarium docents who've grown old talking about Pluto and will have to relearn their monolgues in what should have been the restful golden twilight of their careers.
Fight the powah. I'm here for you, Pluto!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:12 pm
by aTOMiC
Dwarf Planets eh?
Pluto - Dwarf Planet
Neptune - Gnome Planet
Uranus - Gnome Planet
Saturn - Giant Planet
Jupiter - Giant Planet
Mars - Goblin Planet
Earth - Planet of Man
Venus - Elven Planet
Mercury - Balrog Planet
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:16 pm
by dANdeLION
I don't get it...shouldn't there be seven dwarf planets?