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   Kosaka Jinnai said, 6 months ago

   I can understand why.

   I always believed that Pluto is a planet and I still say it is.

   And anyone who disagrees is an uneducated halfwit.
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   Paul Smith said, 6 months ago

   Where I live it is still a planet, the state legislature passed a resolution.
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   The J.A.M. said, 6 months ago

   Now they’re in trouble…
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   Superfrog said, 6 months ago

   It’s a Mickey Mouse planet.
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   Radish said, 6 months ago

   We have an infestation of asteroids bigger than Pluto.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

   Beside the exercise in ego that demoted Pluto and the other 3 new planets discovered, the handful of astronomers who managed to take over the IAU’s board never thought about the public reaction.

   Instead of excitement over tenth, eleventh and twelfth planets, two of which are Mercury-sized or larger, we have have a new arbitrary and capricious category and thus 4 “Trans-neptunian objects”.

   Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

   So, no excitement over newly-discovered planets, and thus no new grants ,no new donations, no new demanding we go out there and find out what they are like.

   One wonders how much that little stunt cost astronomy.
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   psychlady said, 6 months ago

   Pluto has always been a planet!! Why change it now???
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   jeffc42 said, 6 months ago

   It must take Pluto a while to travel through space, since that decision was reached several years ago.
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   J. Short said, 6 months ago

   You call yourself a planet?
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    Doctor Toon said, 6 months ago

    Maybe now that Disney has bought the Star Wars rights they can clear up the dispute about Pluto
    

    
    Disney has a vested interest in Pluto
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    Davepostmp said, 6 months ago

    @Radish

    Pluto is more than twice the diameter and a dozen times the mass of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt(Wikipedia). So…I don’t think so.
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    Have Mop Will Travel said, 6 months ago

    @

    Good point. The earth was always the center of the universe, why change it now?
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    What-D-Hey said, 6 months ago

    How did he get here? Did he use Orbitz?
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    Rx71Wm29 said, 6 months ago

    Is that Mike Brown answering the door?
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    What bothers me is that the IAU did not vote on the other major sized solar system bodies, and just “grandfathered in”: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, as fully fledged Planets without voting on each of them, based on the definition of a Planet. Only Pluto had to pass the definition and a vote to be classified as a Planet or not. Rumor has it that Dr. Neil Tyson was the main arguer against Pluto. Mike Brown was not part of the committee that made the decision but he was and still is against Pluto being classified as a Planet.
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    Colonel Claus said, 6 months ago

    I’m just thankful Clyde isn’t here to see this foolishness
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