We just lost a planet! Pluto is now gone! What do you think?

I still consider it a planet, however it does make sense to create a good definition for the planets in the solar system. With the way that the definition reads though, one could also conclude that Neptune is also not a planet because it has not cleared Pluto out of its path. I wonder if the scientists ever really thought about that. If you get rid of Pluto according to the new definition, you should also have to get rid of Neptune. So in actuality, there may be only 7 planets!

There goes the planet rhymes:

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

I think your right, it's bored scientist. However they do make a point, pluto is not much of a planet. There are most likely 100's of pluto sized objects out beyond pluto's orbit and it's hard to include it just because it was the first one discovered. However is it really worth changing all our text books and such? It wouldn't seem so, but people will be around for a long time (maybe ehh) and we have less than a 100 years of text books to change, and most of all we can still call it pluto:). The biggest thing is to remember that to call it or don't call it is still just a name and really doesn't matter.

maybe we need a new classification for some planets.. Pluto should stay on the books just re-classified as a different type of planet...science is always going to change...i feel that education needs to do AN ABOUT FACE and what must be taught is.. is that science is not a sure bet (final word).....now that would open a whole new can of worms when teachers are grading exams...a student might have found a website or know someone that is better informed then the answer key on a given exam!!

What this has to do with evolution i do no longer understand. Pluto would desire to no longer have been "taught in colleges for hundreds of years" through fact it wasn't got here upon until 1930. on an analogous time as its orbit became into very distinctive from the different planets it became into classed as a planet at that element. technology has pushed the obstacles of our know-how further and we've extra advantageous telescopes now. further our bodies orbiting the sunlight have been got here upon further out than Pluto in what's declared as the Kuiper Belt. certainly one of them, Eris, is extra desirable than Pluto. The worldwide Astronomical Union had a decision. the two upload those our bodies to the checklist of planets or create a clean class, dwarf planet, to place them in. that's what surpassed off and Pluto became into lined interior the gang. The asteroid Ceres became into additionally lined because it equipped the factors. the different dwarf planets are fairly Makemake and Haumea. there are a number of extra gadgets interior the Kuiper belt and the dwarf planet checklist would desire to be as much as fifty interior of many years and that's obtainable there would desire to be 2000 gadgets orbiting the sunlight previous Neptune. the two we've a planet checklist that no schoolchild will ever keep in mind or we team the trans-Neptunian gadgets, alongside with Pluto, in yet another class. If data exhibits evolution to be incorrect, that's going to be thrown out yet there is none that does that. each and all the data we've, and that's overwhelming, exhibits evolution to be superb.

I think they shouldn't have done it! I mean in schools all books have the planet Pluto in them. Now their all wrong, and schools arn't gonna buy new books for that. And now the acronym for the planets can't be "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza's" It has to be something like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos"...ya know...

I am bummed because I stood in the room where Pluto was discovered and saw the plates they used to gather the images and the telescope used as well. It was a really good story and this will hit that small observatory with regard to tourism.

That's science for you. Here today, gone tomorrow!

The conservation of matter became the conservation of Mass because we found a Positron.

Newton's LAWS of physics ONLY apply at speeds not approaching light, after they who knows!

Freud is now a witch doctor.

I can't wait for them to ban Darwin from the text books, because I favor religion.

Remember, they pay someone at Cal Tech $100,000 a year to say: The big one is coming! Can't say when. Can't say where!

Everything I learned in Science from 1957 to 1970 is out the door!

I was the ONLY one in the room who laughed when the host of "Stuff" this show on PBS, once said: I learned electronics.... three times!

No one understood the joke execept for me, because I was a student of tube electronics!

Well, I can say this. As a former practicing Astrologer I never gave Pluto any credibility.

How come my life on earth is effected even if the Pluto is axed out. I think they should ax out all other planets too, so we save Nasa's big budget, and pay more attention to this wonderful beautiful planet called EARTH.

Fifth graders who are required to memorize the planets just had their task made about 11% easier.

Then again, everyone remembered Pluto. It was always Uranus and Neptune where I lost my way...

Pluto is still a planet to me because every one calls it a planet and no scientist id going to change that. lol