Damn Plutons! More planets offically added to solar system

[ValkyrieWing]

o_O

WOW.

NASA must be bored.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

This is the International Astronomical Union, not NASA.

[starseeker]

I'm just glad that they're sorting out the mess of what a planet is or isn't.

[Moon Rabbits]

I really don't care how many more planets there are, I'm still probably only going to remember the original 9.

I can, however, see myself telling children of the future stories about the good ol' days when there were only nine planets and the Cosby Show reruns were still on TV and that's the way we liked it.

[CloudDragon]

I'm about to take an Astronomy class this fall. I know we'll be talking all about this stuff.

[Vincent Valentine]

Haha, this will screw over all the astronomy books.

I honestly can't see all these sticking, or even being remembered a few years down the line by astrologers and the public alike. It just sounds to me like some guy trying to make a quick name for himself by ambiguously coming up with new planets that aren't even technically real planets...

[Odaisé Gaelach]

While they're adding new planets to the solar system, why don't they change the name of Uranus, to stop that stupid joke once and for all?

[Christmas]

Sooner or later they will find the planet where JENOVA came from.

[feona17]

Man everyone needs to stop obsessing over the Xena name. I'm absolutely sure it has nothing to do with the show from the 90s. If they want to add more planets to our so called solar system, let them. If they want to classify pluto, ceres, charon and "xena" pluton planets, they can. This is still all up in the air as well it's not official. Anyway, some people need to just relax. Planets are... planets. We happen to live on one and there are others like it in space. Whoa, huge crisis there. :rolleyes2 It's not your job, nor is it mine. It's upto those in the committee to decide.

[chronic_Maniac]

Sooner or later they will find the planet where JENOVA came from.

yippie!!

[Blitz Ace]

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.

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!!)

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

... well, IMO yeh. i reckon they should have some size minimum, (not just talk about whether it can keep itself in a spherical shape), and stop worrying about the small things far away in our solar system which no ordinary person will probably ever know or care about. they can classify them as plutons or dwarfs or whatever, but not planets.

or they could just leave it as it is. as aisle_s said, most people will prob only ever remember the original 9 planets.

While they're adding new planets to the solar system, why don't they change the name of Uranus, to stop that stupid joke once and for all?

good point, they should

[starseeker]

While they're adding new planets to the solar system, why don't they change the name of Uranus, to stop that stupid joke once and for all?

It's named after a Roman deity, can you suggest a replacement?

[bipper]

Xena? That is sad. Whatever happened to the good old days when planets were given cool names like Uranus? I say before these planet names are ratified, we put Marick in charge of renaming em. (all).

Bipper

[Lost Number]

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0608/16planets/

[bipper]

I bet you feel like an ass

I should add that these 'planets' have yet to be officially ammended.