The Planet Pluto (Page 2): Years ago Sister Rose Irma taught me that Pluto was a planet and if it is not you will have to answer to her. I will not..

Amielee Loc: Eastern Washington State

Years ago Sister Rose Irma taught me that Pluto was a planet and if it is not you will have to answer to her. I will not..

Anhanga Brasil Loc: Cabo Frio - Brazil

JohnSwanda wrote:

The cartoon character was name after the planet, not the other way around.

Rick-ws Loc: Seattle or North Idaho

ecommons wrote:

It was really a Mickey Mouse decision by a bunch of Goofy scientists to demote it

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Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

ecommons wrote:

It was really a Mickey Mouse decision by a bunch of Goofy scientists to demote it

hookedupin2005 Loc: Northwestern New Mexico

Who really cares? I'm not heading that way anytime soon, so I don't.

gener202002

Architect1776 wrote:

Thank God it is a planet again.
Stupidity has been debunked giving us back Pluto.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/pluto-is-it-planet-after-all.htm

A rose by any other name!

To me whether you call it a planet or anything else, it still does the same thing in the sky, so I have always had trouble understanding why anybody cares.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

gener202002 wrote:

A rose by any other name!

To me whether you call it a planet or anything else, it still does the same thing in the sky, so I have always had trouble understanding why anybody cares.

So who gives a crap if we call the sun a sun, or anything else. Why not call a bird a cow? What difference does it make?
Who cares it is just a stupid name randomly selected by some long dead clown who believed a name meant something
Oh well, who cares about a name.

gener202002

Architect1776 wrote:

So who gives a crap if we call the sun a sun, or anything else. Why not call a bird a cow? What difference does it make?
Who cares it is just a stupid name randomly selected by some long dead clown who believed a name meant something
Oh well, who cares about a name.

This is not a matter of calling Pluto something else besides Pluto. That is the equivalent of your analogy. Planets are planets. The sun is a giant ball of energy in the sky. In other languages they have different names for it. It doesn't change anything. Pluto is what it is. The sun is what it is. It acts like a planet, circling the sun. It does what planets do. Changing its name to anything else doesn't change what it is. How does a planet do anything different than an astroid that circles the sun except be bigger? Not much!

Does a rose change if you call it "la rosa?"

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

gener202002 wrote:

This is not a matter of calling Pluto something el... (show quote)

Thus Pluto is a planet.

bob44044 Loc: Ohio

jerryc41 wrote:

Sorry, but it's still classified as a dwarf planet... (show quote)

It's a planet.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

bob44044 wrote:

It's a planet.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Architect1776 wrote:

Thank God it is a planet again.
Stupidity has been debunked giving us back Pluto.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/pluto-is-it-planet-after-all.htm

This is another reason for the post.
There is a back story on Pluto and its discovery.
https://www.space.com/human-computer-elizabeth-williams-pluto-discovery.html

d2b2 Loc: Catonsville, Maryland, USA

Toment wrote:

When stuff like this happens, I usually look for the money...... Somebody probably got a lot of money for publishing a paper debunking Pluto as a planet!
Welcome back Pluto!

You could say that about damned near every medical advance!

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

Architect1776 wrote:

Thank God it is a planet again.
Stupidity has been debunked giving us back Pluto.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/pluto-is-it-planet-after-all.htm

It's a planet. I am about 2/3 of the way through a book on the mission to Pluto, "Chasing New Horizons." It's one of those books that you don't want to end. I am a "space geek" and if I had not become an aerospace engineer, a good possibility would have been astronomer or astrophysicist. However, this is a book I think anyone would enjoy. It's rated 4/7 of 5 at Amazon BTW.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

DJphoto wrote:

It's a planet. I am about 2/3 of the way through a book on the mission to Pluto, "Chasing New Horizons." It's one of those books that you don't want to end. I am a "space geek" and if I had not become an aerospace engineer, a good possibility would have been astronomer or astrophysicist. However, this is a book I think anyone would enjoy. It's rated 4/7 of 5 at Amazon BTW.