Don't say shit about the Ninth Planet!

[CaptainKirk]

I don't care what those assholes at the observatories and space labs say!

Pluto IS a planet, DAMN IT!



Discuss.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Well, it is big enough to have its own moon.

 

[gravyrug]

Well, it is big enough to have its own moon.

Eris is bigger, though. If you count Pluto, you've got to count all the other dwarf planets out there.

 

[phrodeau]

Astrologers consider Pluto as a planet, but they consider Ceres a planet as well.

Also, they told me that I would receive great fortune back in October, and I'm still waiting.

 

[MatthewVett]

It's too small. If the choice is between 8 or a few dozen after we're done finding all the other dwarf planets around, I'll stick to 8. Besides, it doesn't even have a piece of music written by Holst! That's the true measure of a planet: either having a Holst, or having a piece of music written by Holst.

 

[CaptainKirk]

Eris is bigger, though. If you count Pluto, you've got to count all the other dwarf planets out there.

I looked this up. He's right; Eris is 25% more massive than Pluto... and it isn't named after a cartoon dog.

They're considered 'Trans-Neptunian Objects'. I would be highly insulted by that after being down-graded from 'Planet' status.

 

[phrodeau]

It's too small. If the choice is between 8 or a few dozen after we're done finding all the other dwarf planets around, I'll stick to 8. Besides, it doesn't even have a piece of music written by Holst! That's the true measure of a planet: either having a Holst, or having a piece of music written by Holst.

Holst has been given an appendix.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/679827.stm

I've heard it - it's pretty cool.

 

[CandiCame]

Eris is bigger, though. If you count Pluto, you've got to count all the other dwarf planets out there.

Yup.

 

[CaptainKirk]

It's too small. If the choice is between 8 or a few dozen after we're done finding all the other dwarf planets around, I'll stick to 8. Besides, it doesn't even have a piece of music written by Holst! That's the true measure of a planet: either having a Holst, or having a piece of music written by Holst.

I never liked that moniker either: 'dwarf' planet. Sounds a bit discriminatory... and not very flattering.

They make it sound like worlds populated with gnomes and smurfs.

 

[trysail]

Tinkerbelle is nekkid !!​

 

[Sean Renaud]

Goddamnit. James, sorry your wrong. We know the Moon isn't a planet and Earth is. Clearly the Scouts didn't know what was up when they picked rocks.

 

[blackleggings]

I don't care what those assholes at the observatories and space labs say!

Pluto IS a planet, DAMN IT!



Discuss.

Because you are Captain Kirk, I would assume you know the difference between a planet and a random frozen rock floating in space.

 

[mark197205]

Because you are Captain Kirk, I would assume you know the difference between a planet and a random frozen rock floating in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

 

[CandiCame]

Tinkerbelle is nekkid !!​

That's sailor Pluto.

Goddamnit. James, sorry your wrong. We know the Moon isn't a planet and Earth is. Clearly the Scouts didn't know what was up when they picked rocks.

How the fuck is Chibi-Moon not "Sailor Earth"? In a monarchy, if your dad is the guardian of Earth, when you become a sailor scout, you would think that you would be become Sailor Earth, not Sailor Moon #2.

And also, why the fuck WASN'T he Sailor Earth instead of Tuxedo Mask anyway? The Star Scouts change sex when they transform. What's so great about him that he gets to keep the dick?

 

[1sickbastard]

Well, it is big enough to have its own moon.

Actually, Pluto has five moons.

 

[1sickbastard]

I looked this up. He's right; Eris is 25% more massive than Pluto... and it isn't named after a cartoon dog.

They're considered 'Trans-Neptunian Objects'. I would be highly insulted by that after being down-graded from 'Planet' status.

The cartoon dog was named after the dwarf planet, not the other way around

 

[1sickbastard]

I don't care what those assholes at the observatories and space labs say!

Pluto IS a planet, DAMN IT!



Discuss.

Just because that's what you were taught growing up doesn't mean it's right.

From the first, Pluto has had a issues with it's classification as a 'planet', mostly because it's orbit is off the solar plain and falls within the orbit of Neptune at times.

I think the IAU made the right call in nailing down the current definition of 'planet' and excluding Pluto.

 

[Sean]

Astrologers consider Pluto as a planet, but they consider Ceres a planet as well.

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I always wonder what they considered it before 1930.

 

[doctor_insanus]

 

[CaptainKirk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

[slaps forehead] "Again with the Klingons?"