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It Happening: Experts say Pluto should be called a planet again
Posted by weagle99 on 9/10/18 at 7:00 pm653
I’m on Team Pluto. Even if ego driven Mike Brown is against it. Kids and the general public like Pluto and astronomy, space, etc. needs all the good PR it can get.
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Metzger, who is lead author on the study, reviewed scientific literature from the past 200 years and found only one publication -- from 1802 -- that used the clearing-orbit requirement to classify planets, and it was based on since-disproven reasoning. He said moons such as Saturn's Titan and Jupiter's Europa have been routinely called planets by planetary scientists since the time of Galileo.
"The IAU definition would say that the fundamental object of planetary science, the planet, is supposed to be a defined on the basis of a concept that nobody uses in their research," Metzger said. "And it would leave out the second-most complex, interesting planet in our solar system." "We now have a list of well over 100 recent examples of planetary scientists using the word planet in a way that violates the IAU definition, but they are doing it because it's functionally useful," he said. "It's a sloppy definition," Metzger said of the IAU's definition. "They didn't say what they meant by clearing their orbit. If you take that literally, then there are no planets, because no planet clears its orbit."
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This post was edited on 9/10 at 7:02 pm
re: It Happening: Experts say Pluto should be called a planet againPosted by OysterPoBoy on 9/10/18 at 7:01 pm to weagle99
re: It Happening: Experts say Pluto should be called a planet againPosted by DavidTheGnome on 9/10/18 at 7:02 pm to weagle99
Nah. This is some scientists just looking to get their name out there for fighting the good fight. Pluto doesn’t fit the idea of the actual planets of the solar system. It’s just a matter of semantics though, the universe doesn’t care what we call it.
A band I used to jam to in college wrote a song about it a long time ago
Pluto is a planet - 2 Skinnee J's
Pluto is a planet - 2 Skinnee J's
re: It Happening: Experts say Pluto should be called a planet againPosted by DavidTheGnome on 9/10/18 at 7:06 pm to Powerman
Haha I remember them, check out Sugar and Candy. 91.1 (greatest station ever before becoming 91X) used to play it
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re: It Happening: Experts say Pluto should be called a planet againPosted by Powerman on 9/10/18 at 7:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Haha I remember them, check out Sugar and Candy. 91.1 (greatest station ever before becoming 91X) used to play it
I've heard all of their stuff
I was such an old school fan I had some shite on a bootleg cassette in high school
re: It Happening: Experts say Pluto should be called a planet againPosted by PhilemonThomas on 9/10/18 at 7:20 pm to Powerman
They put on a great show. Really a ton of fun. Seent then at the Varsity back in the day.
re: It Happening: Experts say Pluto should be called a planet againPosted by Bestbank Tiger on 9/10/18 at 7:38 pm to TigerCub
Anyone who says Pluto isn't a planet can meet me at Sonic.
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