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Post by dpgunit on Aug 25, 2006 10:06:00 GMT -8
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Post by technohawk on Aug 25, 2006 11:08:48 GMT -8
I think they should have kept pluto as a planet, a kind of "grandfather" clause making it there because it's been a "planet" since 1930.
Plus think of how many science text books will have to be reprinted.
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Post by LostPeon™ on Aug 25, 2006 13:34:06 GMT -8
Plus think of how many science text books will have to be reprinted. Really, it's not an issue of textbooks being reprinted. Most are reprinted every few years, anyway. From small corrections to major errors, no textbook is ever perfect. That's why they cost so much, too. The textbook publishers make sure and keep costs up by selling new editions and supplements to fix errors. |
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Post by greeny on Aug 25, 2006 16:46:33 GMT -8
exactly. all i've known is pluto. the best... the brightest...
Obey your thirst: Pluto
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Post by ♦Whot♦ on Aug 25, 2006 18:11:42 GMT -8
Pluto is like a large moon..plus, it has it's own moon, charon, and both of them orbit around each other..so, like a twin star, I guess it's a twin moon?
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Post by mephistool on Aug 25, 2006 19:15:19 GMT -8
I think before it was called a binary planet.
I think space and stuff is so interesting. I just love it when things like this happen.
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Post by Prone on Aug 25, 2006 19:29:55 GMT -8
Man, this is retarted. I always knew that it was a planet, and how they are taking it's "rights" as a planet away from us? How basic! @.@
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Post by dxlightning on Aug 25, 2006 20:53:15 GMT -8
At least it's better than passing a law that'll give our solar system 50+ planets.
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Post by LostPeon™ on Aug 25, 2006 21:52:45 GMT -8
Nobody passed a law saying Pluto isn't a planet anymore. And nobody's going to pass a law saying there's 50 more planets.
It was just a convention of scientists that voted on a new set of guidelines as to what should be considered a planet.
One of those guidelines requires that the object clear the orbit of the next inner planet, which Pluto does not, with its eliptical orbit.
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Post by dxlightning on Aug 26, 2006 12:16:24 GMT -8
They were first considering a law about definitions which would have added 3 more planets, including xena and seres, but it would also have applied to 40 other planets, giving our solar system 52. They kicked that boy out the door.
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Post by LostPeon™ on Aug 26, 2006 17:51:19 GMT -8
Ok, you don't get it. They don't pass "laws" about this sort of thing.
It's just a bunch of scientists that get together at a convention and come up with a set of rules that they say will consitute the regulation of planets. Then, everybody just adopts those rules because those scientists are obviously smarter than the rest of us, so we should probably listen to them.
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Post by dxlightning on Aug 26, 2006 19:42:58 GMT -8
I apologize, I used the word "law" because I've seen it used in other discussions about this topic, and continued using it because I saw it being used again. I don't specifically mean a "law" law, but meant it as meaning that they were going to pass it as scientific fact.
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