It's been almost six years since Pluto's demotion, but I am still so sad...I can't remember a time when I didn't know Pluto as our ninth planet. How long does it take an oldie like me to get over it?
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I miss Pluto dearly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8PS_G-7…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8PS_G-7…
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No. I am NOT.
I wish people would stop using Plut'os demotion as a starting point for online arguments. Let the scientists debate why the IAU violated it's own bylaws when that resoljtion was pushed through with only 4 % percent of IAU members approving the demotion.
"....RTHSKY // INTERVIEWS // SPACE By Adam Gorwyn FEB 18, 2010
Alan Stern: ‘A Chihuahua is still a dog, and Pluto is still a planet’
lan Stern: In fact, Pluto, and its cohorts, are planets. They have all the attributes of planets. Let me give you some examples. They have cores. They have geology. They have seasons and atmospheres. They have clouds. They have polar caps in many cases. They have moons. And I can’t think of a single distinguishing characteristic that would set apart Pluto and other things that you’d call a planet, other than its size. So I like to say, a Chihuahua is still a dog.
Dr. Stern talked more about the New Horizons mission, which he described as “a small, robotic space craft that’s making its way across the entire expanse of the solar system to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt in 2015.”
Alan Stern: We launched New Horizons to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt in January of 2006. It was the fastest spacecraft ever launched, and it has been making a beeline across the solar system for Pluto. The spacecraft is very healthy, but it still has five and a half years to go until we begin the Pluto encounter. It’s a very large solar system. So we travel about a million kilometers per day. And it takes about 3,500 days to reach Pluto.
Stern invoked the name of the famous astronomer Galileo when explaining why he thinks Pluto should retain its planet status.
I wish people would stop using Plut'os demotion as a starting point for online arguments. Let the scientists debate why the IAU violated it's own bylaws when that resoljtion was pushed through with only 4 % percent of IAU members approving the demotion.
"....RTHSKY // INTERVIEWS // SPACE By Adam Gorwyn FEB 18, 2010
Alan Stern: ‘A Chihuahua is still a dog, and Pluto is still a planet’
lan Stern: In fact, Pluto, and its cohorts, are planets. They have all the attributes of planets. Let me give you some examples. They have cores. They have geology. They have seasons and atmospheres. They have clouds. They have polar caps in many cases. They have moons. And I can’t think of a single distinguishing characteristic that would set apart Pluto and other things that you’d call a planet, other than its size. So I like to say, a Chihuahua is still a dog.
Dr. Stern talked more about the New Horizons mission, which he described as “a small, robotic space craft that’s making its way across the entire expanse of the solar system to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt in 2015.”
Alan Stern: We launched New Horizons to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt in January of 2006. It was the fastest spacecraft ever launched, and it has been making a beeline across the solar system for Pluto. The spacecraft is very healthy, but it still has five and a half years to go until we begin the Pluto encounter. It’s a very large solar system. So we travel about a million kilometers per day. And it takes about 3,500 days to reach Pluto.
Stern invoked the name of the famous astronomer Galileo when explaining why he thinks Pluto should retain its planet status.
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