Damn Plutons! More planets offically added to solar system

OOps. Subject to ratification later this month huh? Looks like I mis-read that but based on the new definition they will be ratified. I don't disagree with what they did. Now every thing will be called a planet but there will be different classes of planets. I kind of like the fact that they are better defining these things. With all the advancements we have made the definitions would need to be updated...or at least I think they would be.

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What I don't get is when you have two stars together, they get one name and call it a binary star. So I don't understand why when you have two planets in partnership (pluto/charon) it wasn't called a binary planet

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What I don't get is when you have two stars together, they get one name and call it a binary star. So I don't understand why when you have two planets in partnership (pluto/charon) it wasn't called a binary planet

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It is being called that. Anyway, the classification for such things depends on where the center of mass around which the bodies orbit is. If it is outside both bodies, it is a binary system. If it inside one of the bodies, it is a planet/moon system.

I've never really liked Pluto. I dun believe it should've ever been there in the first place. -__-

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what a stupid move... the only reason they are trying to change the definition of a planet, to include these small, cold, uninteresting masses is so that they can remove the guilt of wrongfully classifying pluto as a planet in the first place!!!

Really, Pluto is only just 800 kilometres wide, and a lot smaller than was first thought when they classified it as a planet... "Xena" or 2003 UB 313 as it was first named, is definitely larger than Pluto, as are at least 50 or so other celestial bodies (including Charon and Ceres - which is located in the asteroid belt between jupiter and mars) already discovered within our solar system, 12 of which are also being considered for "Planet" status.

Id hate to see the rhyme for remembering the names of planets reach a full paragraph in length... they should just remove Pluto from the definition of planet, and stick with the 8 planets we actually have.

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Yes, much agreed. I'm going to complain to my old science teacher and we can poke fun at it all day. :D

Size directly has nothing to do with it (Although your "800km wide" comment is about one third of its actual diameter); to be a planet a body must be large enough to be rendered spherical by gravitational effects, and not so large as to cause fusion to occur, among other criteria.

Xena.... warrior princess.

I rented part of the first season the other day, just for old times' sake :p <33 That show got really kooky some seasons in, though o_o

Anyyy wayXD I honestly don't care about the planets. I learned it and it was all spiff in elementary school but what good will it do me in life?^_^ *flies a spaceship to Neptune*

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Xena.... warrior princess.

I rented part of the first season the other day, just for old times' sake :p <33 That show got really kooky some seasons in, though o_o

Anyyy wayXD I honestly don't care about the planets. I learned it and it was all spiff in elementary school but what good will it do me in life?^_^ *flies a spaceship to Neptune*

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Well, extraplanetary expansion is the future of our species and all, soo...

I like the name Ceres :]

Not if I DESTROY everything first >:D! Besides there's no way we would want to go live in Pluto or Xena or whatever ;D

Soon we'll have 981 planets and then the little elementary kids will really have a time learning them :(

As has been said, we're adding more planets, but we're accommodating for it by categorizing them. Kids in the future will probably only be asked to remember the principal planets, not the dwarf ones.

Also, Joy, come on. You're not going to destroy anything and you know it. Let's just get serious here.

Just because I love pink and girly stuff and squee ^___^ and cry in Disney films and thought that Minority Report was a scary movie does not mean that I won't destroy the world.

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Also, Joy, come on. You're not going to destroy anything and you know it

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She destroyed my heart. But Ceres still loves me

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Size directly has nothing to do with it (Although your "800km wide" comment is about one third of its actual diameter); to be a planet a body must be large enough to be rendered spherical by gravitational effects, and not so large as to cause fusion to occur, among other criteria.

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whoops, should have checked that before i posted, dont know where i pulled that from... yeh, apparently its 2200 km wide. i still stand by my statement that it is too small (1000 km less in diameter than our moon!!)

Don't make fun on Neptune >=( And these new planets suck.

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Size directly has nothing to do with it (Although your "800km wide" comment is about one third of its actual diameter); to be a planet a body must be large enough to be rendered spherical by gravitational effects, and not so large as to cause fusion to occur, among other criteria.

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whoops, should have checked that before i posted, dont know where i pulled that from... yeh, apparently its 2200 km wide. i still stand by my statement that it is too small (1000 km less in diameter than our moon!!)

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so your saying if its smaller than our moon its to small to be a planet?