B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 01, 2015

me too.

Any wanderer is a planet. Moons, suns, asteroids. A better division would be rocky vs gaseous, a combo platter being most livable.

It has MOONS dammit! How can it have moons and not be a planet? It will always be a planet to me.

Planet, defiantly, definitely a planet!

I personally don’t see what the big deal is. It is just a name – a category. There are so many other things in this world that are so much more important why get upset what a big rock that no one has ever really seen is called? Sheeesh !

It seems to me that if they call it a Dwarf Planet, they’re conceding that it’s a planet. Just one with little people on it.

Clifford D. Simak wrote the truth about Pluto long ago, in his short story “Construction Shack.”

I went through this emotional turmoil when then said the Sinclair dinosaur (the Brontosaurus) doesn’t exit but was two dinosaurs mixed together. No, there will always be the Sinclair dinosaur (and the one Fred clid down in the opening scene). .

Mickey had to rename his dog also.

Actually, Pluto will always be Mickey’s dog to me.

The problem is we invented the word planet when our knowledge of the universe was minuscule, and the word WASN’T really defined because it was “obvious” what a planet was. As our knowledge has exploded in the last few decades astronomers felt compelled to come up with a definition. Unfortunately it left Pluto out. But the same kind of problem exists lots of places where there’s a wide variation in size. For example – ask yourself the difference between an “island” and a “continent”. Why is Australia a continent, but Greenland is only an island? What would happen if we discovered a landmass between Australia and Greenland in size?

Dwarf planet, I’ll just occasionally leave off the dwarf part when referring to it.

It is a what? … Dwarf PLANET. Humm … still a planet.

Our solar system has NINE (9) planets. Has all of my life and will as long as I live.

Must be none of the decision makers had property there.

Outdated mnemonic: Many Very Eminent Men Just Seldom Use New Paperclips

once pluto was declared a ‘non-planet’ it could be put on the planet endangered list and funds could be obtained through government research to prepare a landing in 2045. if enough representatives will vote to pass the HR6798502 bill (to be voted on by the house in july of this year) than funding to bring back soil samples from the ‘non-planet’ pluto will be obtained and mankind can verify once and for all if pluto should remain on the planet extinction list.it is soooo exciting to see science and government work together again to study the effects of climate change on our earth and how pluto being a non-planet will effect that.the leading agency representatives involved in the reduction of pluto’s standing as a planet are positive that their assessment of the situation will prove true and that between now and 2045 the government funding should provide them with a comfortable living allowance, sorry i mean research/development funds to be able to carry out their objective.please note verification website below:

http://anotherslownewsday/publishsomethingcontroversial/sowecansellblogspace/0034572

My Very Elderly Maiden Aunt Just Served Us Nine Pizzas, in case you were wondering where the asteroids live.

i thought Pluto was reinstated???

Poor little Pluto!

So misunderstood…

Pluto passes two of the three tests for a planet: it orbits the sun and it is more or less spherical. I won’t debate exactly how “round” a body has to be to be considered spherical. An American football (fully inflated) is more of less spherical.

Where Pluto fails the test, is that it has not cleared its orbit of other bodies.

By this assessment, Neptune is not a planet. I shares orbital overlap with Pluto.

Even the Earth isn’t a planet. We have an asteroid that sort of orbits / tags along with Earth in a weird corkscrew type trip around the sun.

Pluto is a planet, it has it’s own seperate orbit on it’s own plane to the eliptic. But the pluto is not a planet is from the same the science is settled school as the global cool, uh, I mean, uh, global warm, uh, one more tim, climate change. Yeah that,s what we mean, climate change.

Signalman — tried to reply but wouldn’t take. Wanted to say that some asteroids have captured along the way. Ostensibly, a moon does not define a planet.

Signalman — tried to reply but wouldn’t take. Wanted to say that some asteroids have captured along the way. Ostensibly, a moon does not define a planet.

Signalman — tried to reply but wouldn’t take. Wanted to say that some asteroids have captured along the way. Ostensibly, a moon does not define a planet.

We love you, Pluto

R.I.P. Norma Jeane Mortenson

6/1/1926-8/5/1962

We’re just a month away now from Pluto finally getting its closeup.

Yep, always a planet to me too. Off the subject, I always wondered why Goofy could speak but Pluto couldn’t.

Do you realize that Pluto has yet to make a full orbit around the sun since it was discovered?

Well, if you want to bring up the Pledge in a discussion of whether things are better in their original form, let’s go back all the way to how Francis Bellamy wrote it: “At a signal from the Principal the pupils, in ordered ranks, hands to the side, face the Flag. Another signal is given; every pupil gives the flag the military salute — right hand lifted, palm downward, to a line with the forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all repeat together, slowly, ‘I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.’ At the words, ‘to my Flag,’ the right hand is extended gracefully, palm upward, toward the Flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side.”

Just goes to show you… Science is fickle! I’ve “heard” that in some schools the Science Books are ring binders…

Sounds like the encyclopedias in the USSR, apparently…

Or was that China? :)