YAPlutoT - Oh what a mess this is

[silverpig]

Link @ BBC

It's funny. I've got a degree in astrophysics and I find the entire thing to be stupid. Pluto will still be there no matter what we decide to call it. I actually really did like the definition tabled earlier which would have us sitting at 12 planets, and find it much more scientifically sound than the definition that was voted upon.

Oh well.

 

[FoBoT]

did we need another pluto sucks thread?

 

[Aquaman]

Pluto will always be a planet for me

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

how big are the other planets that you would include in our solar system?

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Cattlegod]

we should delete all the planets and just refer to them as "orbiting mass"

 

[Alienwho]

I'm an old man and set in my ways. I grew up with pluto being a planet and nobody is going to change my mind.

 

[DurocShark]

I always thought the rules should be as follows:

If it orbits the Sun and not another celestial body, has its own atmosphere, then it's a planet.

 

[Kadarin]

Whatever definition ends up being used, I believe that Pluto should be grandfathered in as a planet.

 

[imported_LoKe]

I'm so glad school's done and I don't have to fail any tests because of all this crap.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Whatever definition ends up being used, I believe that Pluto should be grandfathered in as a planet.

That's probably the most reasonable solution.

It's all a pointless argument anyway, it doesn't make a damn bit of difference what we call it.

Viper GTS

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
how big are the other planets that you would include in our solar system?

Cheers,
Aquaman

I guess for now I'd go with the 12 previously stated, but it is pretty arbitrary.

 

[Queasy]

Did the astronmers look like this?

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I always thought the rules should be as follows:

If it orbits the Sun and not another celestial body, has its own atmosphere, then it's a planet.

I guess Mercury wouldn't count then. And what constitutes an atmosphere? Mars has one but it's extremely thin, yet Pluto probably has outgassing and helium wouldn't have a non-zero vapour pressure at Pluto's temperature, so there's gas there...

What if the Earth's moon was larger to the point where the point we both orbited was in between the two bodies? Both would be going around this center of mass.

 

[Baked]

Nerd fight in astronomical scale this is.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I always thought the rules should be as follows:

If it orbits the Sun and not another celestial body, has its own atmosphere, then it's a planet.

I guess Mercury wouldn't count then. And what constitutes an atmosphere? Mars has one but it's extremely thin, yet Pluto probably has outgassing and helium wouldn't have a non-zero vapour pressure at Pluto's temperature, so there's gas there...

What if the Earth's moon was larger to the point where the point we both orbited was in between the two bodies? Both would be going around this center of mass.

You're right ab out Mercury. And I'm not arguing...

And the moon wouldn't be a moon would it? We'd be twinned planets.

 

[uhohs]

pluto will always be a planet for me, or else the sailor moon universe gets messed up.