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That is so huge. Thank you so much for the posting.
So is Pluto a planet again?
Sure looks like a planet to me!
It is a plutoid or a dwarf planet.
Cool! Its a planet! I wanna move there soon. Im sick of Earth, people here have gone nuts… One small worry though, if the rapture takes place on Earth, will i be…left behind?? ;)
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be an astronaut more than anything, (didn’t get motion-sick back then =-p ) and this just stirred that part of my brain XD
Wait – Didn’t Vatican II abolish Pluto as a planet?
I think we should rename the dwarf planets Goofy and Pluto. The worlds would be a much happier place.
Someone more knowledgeable than myself about such things just directed my attention to the Wikipedia article, “Clearing the neighbourhood”, with reference to one of the three criteria in the 2006 IAU (re)definition of a Solar system ‘planet’: “Clearing the neighbourhood around its orbit”. It draws upon a BBC News article (linked there) according to which, Dr. Alan Stern (described as “currently leading the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto”) said, “It’s an awful definition; it’s sloppy science and it would never pass peer review” in part “because it’s inconsistent” and pointed out that “Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have also not fully cleared their orbital zones”, adding “If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn’t be there”.
What I didn’t like about the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet is that there was no change in the information we had about Pluto; instead, they changed the definition of “planet” to leave Pluto out. I’m a lawyer, so in the law we would consider that an ex post facto law! Not to make light of what is a serious debate, but it also reminds me of the redefinition of marriage we have seen. We always knew what marriage was, and now a fashionable whim purports to require us to rethink everything we know?? By the way, when the New Horizons set out for Pluto, Pluto was a planet and by the time it got there it was not. I suppose science is different. Someone posted a valid thought elsewhere, about science being about discovery and change–the courage to let the chips fall where they may. They pointed out that there’s a history of demoting planets, that I was not aware of. But the sentimental part of me saw the heart-like formation on Pluto and it made me think of the time when Pluto was Pluto and marriage was marriage. :)