Poll: Pluto, is it still a planet?

[DanielPowell33]

What do u think.....

EDIT: The other thread with the same name f'ed up and erased my poll, so i posted this new one.

EDIT 2: WOW, I cant belive how close the poll is, I thought it would be overwhelmingly yes.

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE : Hooray for necros!

 

[HardRockSamurai]

umm, so you made a double thread huh?

 

[Ancientgamer]

If the scientists say it's not a planet, then it's not a planet. It's not like this is a subjective thing.

 

[Torque669]

I think it is. But why didnt you do this in first place instead of making a whole new thread?

 

[blaze96]

If the scientists say it's not a planet, then it's not a planet. It's not like this is a subjective thing.

Pretty much. When the scientists say there are thousands of other objects that are or pretty much are Pluto, we either have thousands of planets or Pluto isn't a planet. I prefer eight to thousands.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Of all the things Scientists could have done, they sat around debating whether the PLANET PLUTO (clue in the name) that everyone has agreed is a PLANET for decades and decades is actually a planet.

All of the 'scientists' involved at that meeting should be taken out and summarily executed. How much time did they waste that they could have spent doing something useful to arrive at a conclusion that no-one but themselves argees with?

 

[KSarty]

If the scientists say it's not a planet, then it's not a planet. It's not like this is a subjective thing.

I think in opposite of this statement. It is a giant land mass orbiting our sun that is capable at times of having its own atmosphere. That says planet to me, regardless of what scientists say. And seriously, these scientists have nothing better to do than debate whether or not Pluto should be categorized as a planet when we still can't get past our own moon?

 

[wilted_orchid]

I just did my GCSEs and they actually had to write on the Physics paper, "Consider Pluto a planet," so I'm just doing what AQA told me when I say yes.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

as I posted on the other one...

I prefer to think of it as a planet.
that way it can become a Fortress-World instead of a Fortress-Dwarf/Midget/Whatever

what sounds more Deadly?
diving towards an armed and armoured planet?
or running at some midget wearing plate-mail with a couple of flint-locks?

 

[Melon Hunter]

I would rather think of Pluto as a planet really. It has enough mass to retain an atmosphere and a spherical shape, and it has a moon (which is more than you can say for Mercury and Venus), although I guess it was originally counted as a planet as it just so happened to be that icy body out of thousands that was found.

 

[Sharpeye42]

its somewhere between a planet and a moon, since it has its own orbit it should be classified as a planet but because of its size its not quite a planet.

 

[New Troll]

I still think of Pluto as a planet because it was a planet for a good majority of my life and frankly, I don't really care.

 

[Ancientgamer]

If the scientists say it's not a planet, then it's not a planet. It's not like this is a subjective thing.

I think in opposite of this statement. It is a giant land mass orbiting our sun that is capable at times of having its own atmosphere. That says planet to me, regardless of what scientists say. And seriously, these scientists have nothing better to do than debate whether or not Pluto should be categorized as a planet when we still can't get past our own moon?

Okay, what about the other 8,000 "giant" land masses orbiting our sun that are at times capable of having atmosphere? Aren't those planets? Pluto isn't a planet it's just a big hunk of rock and ice. It's less that a fifth the size of our own moon. Again, this isn't subjective.

Also, nice red herring, but how astronomers spend their time (which I'm actually pretty sure you know nothing about) really as nothing to do with this argument.

 

[KSarty]

If the scientists say it's not a planet, then it's not a planet. It's not like this is a subjective thing.

I think in opposite of this statement. It is a giant land mass orbiting our sun that is capable at times of having its own atmosphere. That says planet to me, regardless of what scientists say. And seriously, these scientists have nothing better to do than debate whether or not Pluto should be categorized as a planet when we still can't get past our own moon?

You have a very insular way of thinking. We would have far too many 'planets' if we allowed every giant rock the status. And the scientist do have much more important things to do than debate Pluto as a planet; which is why they decisively named it NOT one without opposition.

We have made it past the moon, by the way.

It is not as if they had to get this out of the way before they could move onto other things. How does agreeing that Pluto is not a planet forward the scientific community? Nothing is gained from this declaration, therefore it is a waste of time.

Only with unmanned craft have we made it past the moon. Even when we successfully send humans to Mars, it would still be far too early to be considering Pluto.

Okay, what about the other 8,000 "giant" land masses orbiting our sun that are at times capable of having atmosphere? Aren't those planets? Pluto isn't a planet it's just a big hunk of rock. Again, this isn't subjective.

Sure, why not? Part of my point is asking what does it matter? Is there really any difference between considering all of them to be planets and considering none of them to be planets?

 

[Bigeyez]

Of all the things Scientists could have done, they sat around debating whether the PLANET PLUTO (clue in the name) that everyone has agreed is a PLANET for decades and decades is actually a planet.

All of the 'scientists' involved at that meeting should be taken out and summarily executed. How much time did they waste that they could have spent doing something useful to arrive at a conclusion that no-one but themselves argees with?

Except that there are satelites of jupiter and saturn with your same description. Not to mention that Pluto is smaller then most of them including our own moon. So instead of calling all of those planets we decided to take Pluto out of the planey classification. It's that simple. The current interpretation of what a planet is doesn't fit Pluto, period.

As far as people agreeing on something for decades and decades that doesn't matter. Definitions and classifications change all the time.

Bottom line: We either would add hundreds of "Planets" into our description of the Solar system or we accept that Pluto isn't a real planet.

As far as "no-one but themselves argees with" goes the only people up in arms over this are people who 1) aren't scientists and 2) can't get over the fact that stuff changes.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

Just because a bunch of scientist wasted time arguing about somthing stupid doesn't mean im going to change what I learned as a child.

Next their going to change Jupiter from a Planet to an uformed star and personally I wouldn't give two shits if they did but that doesn't mean I'll agree.

 

[Bigeyez]

If the scientists say it's not a planet, then it's not a planet. It's not like this is a subjective thing.

I think in opposite of this statement. It is a giant land mass orbiting our sun that is capable at times of having its own atmosphere. That says planet to me, regardless of what scientists say. And seriously, these scientists have nothing better to do than debate whether or not Pluto should be categorized as a planet when we still can't get past our own moon?

You have a very insular way of thinking. We would have far too many 'planets' if we allowed every giant rock the status. And the scientist do have much more important things to do than debate Pluto as a planet; which is why they decisively named it NOT one without opposition.

We have made it past the moon, by the way.

It is not as if they had to get this out of the way before they could move onto other things. How does agreeing that Pluto is not a planet forward the scientific community? Nothing is gained from this declaration, therefore it is a waste of time.

Only with unmanned craft have we made it past the moon. Even when we successfully send humans to Mars, it would still be far too early to be considering Pluto.

Whats gained is a better classification for the term Planet. That may not seem much to you but it IS a gain.

As for your original post. He answered it very much like I would. An no these sicentist have don't really have much better to do then discuss classifications because thats their job. All thse people do is work with space and classifications...

Okay, what about the other 8,000 "giant" land masses orbiting our sun that are at times capable of having atmosphere? Aren't those planets? Pluto isn't a planet it's just a big hunk of rock. Again, this isn't subjective.

Sure, why not? Part of my point is asking what does it matter? Is there really any difference between considering all of them to be planets and considering none of them to be planets?

To you it may not matter because you just Joe-sixpack. To an average person it doesn't matter. But to a person in the scientific field classification changes affect everything they do. It's why we have different terms for everything in the universe. Calling everything a planet doesn't help us understand what these things are. Imagine that we called every single insect on the planet "Bug" and nothing else. Or we had no terms for species of dogs and just called all dogs "Dog". We classify things to help differetiate(sp?) and understand them.