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FUCK PLUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DarthSikle said:
Bastards. What the fuck is a "trans Neptunian Object"??
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Any object that orbits the sun beyond Neptune.



I'm glad Pluto had been demoted. It's quite clearly part of the Kupier Belt and thus is not a solitary body. If we kept Pluto we would have to increase the number of planets in the Solar System into the possible hundreds once the Oort cloud and Scattered Disk had been taken into account.
 
Mentalist said:
Any object that orbits the sun beyond Neptune.



I'm glad Pluto had been demoted. It's quite clearly part of the Kupier Belt and thus is not a solitary body. If we kept Pluto we would have to increase the number of planets in the Solar System into the possible hundreds once the Oort cloud and Scattered Disk had been taken into account.
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Why does that paragraph get me all hot and bothered?
 
Instead of speculating, and coming to dumb conclusions, NASA needs to send a satilite out there to Pluto and study it better, and close up like they did with Uranus and Neptune.
 
Captain Jack said:
Instead of speculating, and coming to dumb conclusions, NASA needs to send a satilite out there to Pluto and study it better, and close up like they did with Uranus and Neptune.
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It's not really a dumb conclusion. The problem before was that there was no real definition of what a planet was beyond some simple guidelines.

Pluto is not alone. It is part of a population of celestial bodies. This sets it apart from the planet definition. A planet is alone in it's orbit of the sun except for any moons it may have. Since Pluto is part of the Kupier Belt as can be seen from the fact that there are objects in the same vicinity slightly smaller than Pluto (Quaoar, 2004 DW, Varuna), and then even a larger number slightly smaller than that, and then on down it really isn't a planet. If it was to be classified as such you'd have to add Sedna, Quaoor and Varuna just for starters, and it just ends up becoming overly complicated, when by removing Pluto you get a far better and true definition of what a planet is.

You keep Pluto and you have to add any sizeable object that orbits the sun. Since populations like the Scattered Disk, Oort Cloud and Kupier Belt are crammed with objects such as these the potential number of planets could rise by hundreds just because of Pluto. Better to demote it and redefine. It was the smart way to go.
 
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