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Pluto a planet or a giant mass of space debree. Please post your opinions

#16 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ Darkness

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 05:01 AM

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Eh, it's not like they actually changed Pluto. They just changed what its called. It would be like if the US suddenly called itself Bloffestan one day. That doesn't change the land, or the people, or really anything... It's just called something different

I don't see why people care at all.

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#17 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ Aaron

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 10:19 PM

But, it is not a planet. So that makes it a weenie.

#18 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ Neraphym

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 11:52 PM

Pluto is a n00b planet.

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#19 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ ©allum

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Posted 24 May 2007 - 05:25 AM

QUOTE(Darkness™ @ May 22 2007, 05:01 PM) ${lang:macro__view_post}$

I don't see why people care at all.

Not really the same. It'd be the same if the US was to be classified as a dwarf country.

#20 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ Rylkan

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Posted 05 September 2007 - 07:20 PM

Well, a couple of things to keep in mind (though I cannot remember the exact criteria placed forth for the definition of a planet). I personally do not believe Pluto to be a planet.

First off, though it is massive enough to form a spherical body under it's own gravity, it is a very low mass object, sharing more similarities with objects we already define as planets.

Second, the highly eccentric orbit. Pluto has an orbit that is far from being close to a circle (though no orbit is a circle, they are quite close, with mercury being the most eccentric, which isn't saying much) and the fact it is at a very steep angle to the plane of the solar system.

Third, There are many objects, Kupier Belt objects, that share many of the same qualities as Pluto, physically.

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#21 ${lang:macro__useroffline}$ miaka5

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Post icon Posted 07 September 2007 - 02:14 PM

is gotta be round, cleared the neighborhood in its orbit, and orbit the sun o.o basically waht you said. i agree it shouldnt be classified as a planet, but what abotu all the placemats with pluto on it~!