POLL: Should Pluto's Planet Status Be Revisited?

[MeteorWayne]

Show me the maps.

 

[Skyskimmer]

Show me the maps.

Regardless a history major would never come in contact with this information. Astronomy isn't relavant to most history.

 

[bdewoody]

Show me the maps.

Regardless a history major would never come in contact with this information. Astronomy isn't relavant to most history.

One can't be interested in both? While in college I took courses in both astronomy and more in history. But I too would like to see the map, as I've never heard of any aincient star map showing a planet in Pluto's orbit.

 

[potawatomi13]

Pluto has always been a planet to me and always will be. Hopefully the stupidity of the 2006 "redesignation" will be overturned at last. I have always honored Clyde Tombaugh for all his hard work in discovering this planet and he should never be dishonored by demoting his planet.
Sincerely, William Lee Kohler

 

[MeteorWayne]

It would hardly be a dishonor to have discovered the first Trans Neptunian Object, the first Kuiper Belt Object, and the first Plutino, 70 years before the next was found.

 

[cosmerk]

If you denigrate Pluto you''l have the power of Disney to deal with, not to mention the Mouse.

 

[lorq]

Quite untrue. There are almost no objects larger than a few meters in earth-like orbits.

You have both ignored my point and made my point for me.

 

[Smersh]

I voted "yes" because I'm a traditionalist. Ever since I first became interested in astronomy back in about 1960 I had always known Pluto as the "9th planet" and of course it had been regarded as such ever since its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh back in 1930.

ENOUGH of this "dwarf planet" nonsense I say. It's ok for Eris etc because it's smaller than Pluto but as far as I'm concerned, I want Pluto back as a proper planet RIGHT NOW!!

Disgusted, (Tunbridge Wells.) :evil:

 

[bobbo19]

Show me the maps.

Regardless a history major would never come in contact with this information. Astronomy isn't relavant to most history.

One can't be interested in both? While in college I took courses in both astronomy and more in history. But I too would like to see the map, as I've never heard of any aincient star map showing a planet in Pluto's orbit.

Seems like a few people have called this guys bluff, ha!

 

[kk434]

People keep asking: Is Pluto a planet? Yes...No...Yes..No... The real question is if all the large KBO's are planets. It's Pluto talk 24/7 and no one is trying to anwser the KBO problem. If Pluto is a planet then Eris is a planet to, if the several large KBO's are planets is a even more difficult problem. I dont have a problem with Pluto's status , what bothers me is the low level of the Pluto discusion, lot of emotions very litle science.

 

[MeteorWayne]

Look at the number of posts in this thread. there's PLENTY of discussion, which I have always believed isn a good thing.

 

[bdewoody]

My final thought. Pluto is what it is regardless of how we define it. Pluto was NOT named after Mickey Mouse's dog contrary to popular belief. Walt Disney as far as I know had not even created that cartoon character when Pluto was discovered. Pluto is named after the Greek god of the underworld