Did you know Pluto is no longer a planet?

[KEishin]

No, it didn't fall out of the sky.
The International Astronimcal Union today decided aginst planet status for Pluto.

So what, you ask?

Come on over to the Astrology forum and join the discussion!
http://www.mysticwicks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12

[MoonDragn]

Yup, you're the 5th thread on this board LOL.

[BlueEyedWolf]

:sadeyes: Sad isn't it! It'll never be the same. :sadman: Wahhh!!!:wah: I liked it being a planet.

[Theres]

:sadeyes: Sad isn't it! It'll never be the same. :sadman: Wahhh!!!:wah: I liked it being a planet.
i've got 12 planets just like it in a tray in my freezer (okay, they're a little smaller).

[Cynyr]

Personally, I don't care about all the intellectual mumbo jumbo about this decision. To me, and no, I'm not a scientist and it doesn't matter, Pluto will always be a planet in our solar system; as long as it's a celestial body orbiting our sun, has mass and poles and a gravitational influence on any surroundings, it's a planet. So what they gonna do at the planetariums? put masking tape over the pluto image and pretend it's not there? Seems you got some folk out there who don't make any significant contributions to science, so they gotta go and politicize, quantify and qualify the planets, redefine the term and to make sure they got the whole world's attention, they go and terminate one of our beloved planets. Because why - the political reasons I state notwithstanding - because it is the outer most, has an eliptical orbit that crosses Neptune's or Uranous's I forget which one. Why didn't Mercury get the boot? Because, it's the first body in the planetary line up and the so called committee would loose it's credibility, but to me it has already. They're aren't done, watch and see what else they redefine and reclassify - the definition of 'star' of which our sun will not be one; the definition of 'life-sustaining' of which our earth is but will Mars; it has water and bacteria? The definition of 'moon', ours is among the largest but it's very big for a moon, so isn't it a 'dwarf planet' now?

{sigh}

[CzechWoods]

and i thought Pluto was a yellow dog .......

[Wolf tracks]

It's all semantics. Maybe it's all about selling new revisions of old astronomy books.

[Xentor]

Did you know Pluto is no longer a planet?

Come on over to the Astrology forum and join the discussion!
http://www.mysticwicks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12

Yes, I did know, since there's a couple of threads on this topic all over the board :boing:

[StormFire]

ive known for quite some time. no one really makes a big feal out of it but relly, it's a huge deal. now theres only 8 planets.wtf is up with THAT?! ....where do all the dogs come from then? lol