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Jax430
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Pluto is no longer a planet!
CNN Breaking News:
-- Leading astronomers say Pluto is no longer defined as a planet, The Associated Press reports.
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
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Melbernai
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
So what is it?
And was it always not a planet? Or did it change or something?
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Sad to say that my 6 year old told me that it's a moon I think of some other planet.... I ws like...wow! 
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SweetestOfPeas
J'taime Paris!
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
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johnsae
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
nice
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ssbride05
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
wow!! Very interesting!!
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:50 AM |
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ssbride05
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by LadyLainez
Sad to say that my 6 year old told me that it's a moon I think of some other planet.... I ws like...wow!
awww what a smart little cookie! 
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:50 AM |
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BabyAvocado
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Did they finally make a decision or are they still debating it? This has been going on for awhile.
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:50 AM |
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Jax430
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Jackie
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by Melbernai
So what is it?
And was it always not a planet? Or did it change or something?
My DH follows this stuff very closely. Basically, there was never a real definition for a planet, and there was a big meeting to discuss it over the past couple of weeks.
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MegZee
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
they said if they called it a planet, they would have to add other planets to the solar system. id rather drop pluto!
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:51 AM |
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Goldi0218
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
What would Interplanet Janet say now?
My fave line was "Pluto little Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun!"
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:53 AM |
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tourist
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by Jax430
Posted by Melbernai
So what is it?
And was it always not a planet? Or did it change or something?
My DH follows this stuff very closely. Basically, there was never a real definition for a planet, and there was a big meeting to discuss it over the past couple of weeks.
SO does mine! 
Sandra, they have agreed on a definition for planets within our solar system, not for all planets in general, which was the original goal.
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Stefanie
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Looks like they need to rewrite all the science textbooks now...
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:54 AM |
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tourist
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by Stefanie
Looks like they need to rewrite all the science textbooks now...
And in the future kids will never use, "My very educated mother just served us nine pickles!"
What will she serve now?
Nuts? Nothing?
Message edited 8/24/2006 9:56:19 AM.
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janet
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by Goldi0218
What would Interplanet Janet say now?
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My fave line was "Pluto little Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun!"
ok now i know where that "name " came from
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:56 AM |
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BabyAvocado
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Yeah I read the article...Dh and I have been following this debate for awhile now.
A decision had to be made though so either Pluto was going to get the boot or we were going to have to add quite a few planets to our solar system.
Personally, I would have preferred more planets! And the gas giants should get the boot before Pluto because you can't even land on them! 
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:57 AM |
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Elbee
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Well I guess "My very excellent mother just sent us nine pizzas" no longer works to remember them. 
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:57 AM |
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Jax430
Hi!
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
From CNN.com
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.
The new definition of what is -- and isn't -- a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.
Pluto is no stranger to controversy. In fact, it's been dogged by disputes ever since its discovery. (Watch why some think planet size doesn't matter -- 3:39)
Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh of Arizona's Lowell Observatory, Pluto was classified as a planet because scientists initially believed it was the same size as Earth. It remained one because for years, it was the only known object in the Kuiper Belt, an enigmatic zone beyond Neptune that's teeming with comets and other planetary objects.
Pluto got an ego boost in 1978 when it was found to have a moon that was later named Charon. The Hubble turned up two more, which this past June were christened Nix and Hydra.
But in the 1990s, more powerful telescopes revealed numerous bodies similar to Pluto in the neighborhood. New observations also showed that Pluto's orbit was oblong, sending it soaring well above and beyond the main plane of the solar system where Earth and the other seven planets circle the sun.
That prompted some galactic grumbling from astronomers who began openly attacking Pluto's planethood.
At one point, things looked so bad for Pluto, the international union said publicly in 1999 that rumors of Pluto's imminent demise were greatly exaggerated and there were no plans to kick it out of the cosmic club.
A year later, the Hayden Planetarium at New York's American Museum of Natural History was accused of snubbing Pluto by excluding it from a solar system exhibition.
Pluto took another hit after Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology discovered 2003 UB313, a slightly larger Kuiper Belt object. What's the point, some astronomers wondered, in keeping Pluto as a planet?
Its future brightened earlier this year, when NASA sent the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto to get a closer look at the ball of rock and ice. The Hubble has managed to glimpse only its most prominent surface features; New Horizons, if all goes well, will arrive in 2015.
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| Posted 8/24/06 9:59 AM |
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Shanti
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by Jax430
From CNN.com
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.
The new definition of what is -- and isn't -- a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.
Pluto is no stranger to controversy. In fact, it's been dogged by disputes ever since its discovery. (Watch why some think planet size doesn't matter -- 3:39)
Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh of Arizona's Lowell Observatory, Pluto was classified as a planet because scientists initially believed it was the same size as Earth. It remained one because for years, it was the only known object in the Kuiper Belt, an enigmatic zone beyond Neptune that's teeming with comets and other planetary objects.
Pluto got an ego boost in 1978 when it was found to have a moon that was later named Charon. The Hubble turned up two more, which this past June were christened Nix and Hydra.
But in the 1990s, more powerful telescopes revealed numerous bodies similar to Pluto in the neighborhood. New observations also showed that Pluto's orbit was oblong, sending it soaring well above and beyond the main plane of the solar system where Earth and the other seven planets circle the sun.
That prompted some galactic grumbling from astronomers who began openly attacking Pluto's planethood.
At one point, things looked so bad for Pluto, the international union said publicly in 1999 that rumors of Pluto's imminent demise were greatly exaggerated and there were no plans to kick it out of the cosmic club.
A year later, the Hayden Planetarium at New York's American Museum of Natural History was accused of snubbing Pluto by excluding it from a solar system exhibition.
Pluto took another hit after Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology discovered 2003 UB313, a slightly larger Kuiper Belt object. What's the point, some astronomers wondered, in keeping Pluto as a planet?
Its future brightened earlier this year, when NASA sent the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto to get a closer look at the ball of rock and ice. The Hubble has managed to glimpse only its most prominent surface features; New Horizons, if all goes well, will arrive in 2015.
Interesting
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Goldi0218
My miracles!
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by janet
Posted by Goldi0218
What would Interplanet Janet say now?
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My fave line was "Pluto little Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun!"
ok now i know where that "name " came from
Janet have you been teased at the hands of School House Rock?
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| Posted 8/24/06 10:01 AM |
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Goldi0218
My miracles!
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
I guess that is one less wire hanger and styrofoam ball at next year's science fair!
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| Posted 8/24/06 10:03 AM |
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LIBOUND
Texting king
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Wha' you talking bout Wilis..
I thought Pluto was Mickey's dog. Image Attachment(s):
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| Posted 8/24/06 10:04 AM |
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Moehick
Ready for the sun!
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Ahh thats the good thing about science...forever changing and growing....hopefully this means new science textbooks in school
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| Posted 8/24/06 10:04 AM |
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LIBOUND
Texting king
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Re: Pluto is no longer a planet!
Posted by Goldi0218
Posted by janet
Posted by Goldi0218
What would Interplanet Janet say now?
IMAGE
My fave line was "Pluto little Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun!"
ok now i know where that "name " came from
Janet have you been teased at the hands of School House Rock?
Now I can't get the song out of my head..
Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl..
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