Pluto update
Aug. 23rd, 2006 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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According to the latest news it looks like Pluto may be denied planet status after all. Rah!
One of these things is not like the others:
ciphergothAccording to the latest news it looks like Pluto may be denied planet status after all. Rah!
One of these things is not like the others:
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Date: 2006-08-23 11:58 pm (UTC)(Though I feel obsessively obligated to point out that we have plenty of named non-planets. And we are already starting to use non-Greco-Roman names, e.g. Sedna and Quaoar. Btw, the story of Sedna is a fascinating one, and I recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in mythology...)
Personally, I don't much care whether Pluto is a planet or not, though I fervently hope that whatever is decided is a logically consistent rule -- that is, if Pluto *is* a planet, then Ceres and UB313 (and probably Sedna and Quaoar) should be as well. I'll only be upset about Pluto being both a planet and a Kuiper belt object if the definition prevents other KBOs (or asteroids) from being planets too. I'm happy with eight planets, or with 12, or 53, but nine planets is a silly number.