Poll: Pluto, is it still a planet?

[lacktheknack]

I find it hilarious how many people are saying "BUT I LEARNED THAT IT WAS!"

It isn't, and as a five-year-old, I kept annoying my kindergarten teacher by asking why it was a planet if it was smaller than our moon. It just makes sense that it isn't.

Besides, it doesn't fit the definition of a planet: "A planet is a celestial body that controls its orbit by taking up the majority (80%+?) of the mass within it". Pluto doesn't fit.

 

[lacktheknack]

i should know this, witha qualification in astronomy >-<.I think its at least a Dwarf Planet, but a planet none the less. Well what do you class as a planet. I class something a planet if it has a celestial body in its orbit. Except stars, cuz i know they're not planets.

It doesn't work that way. A planet is a celestial body that has taken control of its orbit around a star (see my other post). Pluto is only a dwarf planet, not a major one.

And a dwarf planet is not the same as a major planet. There are thousands/millions of dwarf planets.

 

[DragonBorn96]

i should know this, witha qualification in astronomy >-<.I think its at least a Dwarf Planet, but a planet none the less. Well what do you class as a planet. I class something a planet if it has a celestial body in its orbit. Except stars, cuz i know they're not planets.

It doesn't work that way. A planet is a celestial body that has taken control of its orbit around a star (see my other post). Pluto is only a dwarf planet, not a major one.

And a dwarf planet is not the same as a major planet. There are thousands/millions of dwarf planets.

I'm well aware of that, thats why I said thats what "I" class as a planet.

 

[lacktheknack]

i should know this, witha qualification in astronomy >-<.I think its at least a Dwarf Planet, but a planet none the less. Well what do you class as a planet. I class something a planet if it has a celestial body in its orbit. Except stars, cuz i know they're not planets.

It doesn't work that way. A planet is a celestial body that has taken control of its orbit around a star (see my other post). Pluto is only a dwarf planet, not a major one.

And a dwarf planet is not the same as a major planet. There are thousands/millions of dwarf planets.

I'm well aware of that, thats why I said thats what "I" class as a planet.

...What was that qualification you were talking about?

 

[DragonBorn96]

i should know this, witha qualification in astronomy >-<.I think its at least a Dwarf Planet, but a planet none the less. Well what do you class as a planet. I class something a planet if it has a celestial body in its orbit. Except stars, cuz i know they're not planets.

It doesn't work that way. A planet is a celestial body that has taken control of its orbit around a star (see my other post). Pluto is only a dwarf planet, not a major one.

And a dwarf planet is not the same as a major planet. There are thousands/millions of dwarf planets.

I'm well aware of that, thats why I said thats what "I" class as a planet.

...What was that qualification you were talking about?

An astronomy qualification. Why?

 

[lacktheknack]

i should know this, witha qualification in astronomy >-<.I think its at least a Dwarf Planet, but a planet none the less. Well what do you class as a planet. I class something a planet if it has a celestial body in its orbit. Except stars, cuz i know they're not planets.

It doesn't work that way. A planet is a celestial body that has taken control of its orbit around a star (see my other post). Pluto is only a dwarf planet, not a major one.

And a dwarf planet is not the same as a major planet. There are thousands/millions of dwarf planets.

I'm well aware of that, thats why I said thats what "I" class as a planet.

...What was that qualification you were talking about?

An astronomy qualification. Why?

How very vague.

Which qualification? By who? For what? I'm actually curious.

 

[serenityzero]

Pluto is no longer a planet no matter how anyone "feels" about it. It's not a matter of debate when the definition of a planet has been changed. If mammals somehow no longer included cats for some very good reason and the definition of a mammal precluded that possibility, then no cats would be mammals despite anyone's opinion or sentiment. Pluto is no longer a planet.

Or conversely, we might think of it this way. Instead of arguing that Pluto is still a planet, perhaps you should be arguing that Eris and Ceres ARE planets, as they are now all classified as the same. Since I doubt anyone would because they have no attachment to Eris and Ceres as "planets," the argument is defeated from the other end as well.

 

[DragonBorn96]

i should know this, witha qualification in astronomy >-<.I think its at least a Dwarf Planet, but a planet none the less. Well what do you class as a planet. I class something a planet if it has a celestial body in its orbit. Except stars, cuz i know they're not planets.

It doesn't work that way. A planet is a celestial body that has taken control of its orbit around a star (see my other post). Pluto is only a dwarf planet, not a major one.

And a dwarf planet is not the same as a major planet. There are thousands/millions of dwarf planets.

I'm well aware of that, thats why I said thats what "I" class as a planet.

...What was that qualification you were talking about?

An astronomy qualification. Why?

How very vague.

Which qualification? By who? For what? I'm actually curious.

Astronomy in general, we covered Stars,Magnitude,PLanets,Moons, the colour spectrum linking with radiation aswell as magnitude. We did a week on the Sun including things like features and it nuclear fusion. Quite a lot. Also some history on famous astronomers.

 

[Emissary Laito]

I do have one, a teacher selected the top students in science at the time. This was at the start of my Year 9. We went through it for a year, for it was proper course, coursework and all. Took my exam July of last year, passed with a B and became the youngest person in our school ever to achieve a qualification in Astronomy ^-^ Edit: This was meant to be quoted to the post above me

Was going to google-search you to find out if that was true, but I cant be bothered now. There's like 97 schools in your city >.>

What was it anyway? GCSE?

 

[DragonBorn96]

I do have one, a teacher selected the top students in science at the time. This was at the start of my Year 9. We went through it for a year, for it was proper course, coursework and all. Took my exam July of last year, passed with a B and became the youngest person in our school ever to achieve a qualification in Astronomy ^-^ Edit: This was meant to be quoted to the post above me

Was going to google-search you to find out if that was true, but I cant be bothered now. There's like 97 schools in your city >.>

What was it anyway? GCSE?

A Gcse course, apparentely according to our teacher, the hardest course to take.

 

[icyneesan]

I really don't care but if I had to pick I'd say No just because I know it will upset more people :3

 

[BRex21]

Okay, this its not a planet its a dwarf planet thing makes sense, but only if you really know about astronomy, and in our education system Pluto should still be considered a planet.
What they dont tell you is that it is part of an asteroid belt meaning it does not meet all the qualifications of a planet.
however it only fails to qualify because of the things around it and i say that this is racist, so i vote yes, Pluto is still a planet.

So kids should be taught incorrectly?

Man, the education system is bad enough already >.>

And if it was a planet, it would have cleared away all the things around it. So... more a case of losing its status because its incompetent then because of racism

;-]

I'm sorry, i worded that badly, How our education system teaches astronomy, Pluto still should qualify as a planet. We don't ever hear about Eris or Orcus and we dont hear about any sort of asteroid field other than between Mars and Jupiter. Based on what we would learn in highschool Pluto is a planet.
I personally think that the "dwarf planet" classification is pointlessly complicated as it isn't a dwarf planet because its smaller than other planets its a dwarf planet because there is other junk around it, meaning if there were a few nice sized rocks in earths orbit, that didn't contact our gravitational field, we wouldn't qualify as a planet either.

 

[Emissary Laito]

A Gcse course, apparentely according to our teacher, the hardest course to take.

I apparently cant leave this be. Damn my curiosity. x.x
Which school do you go to?

 

[blankedboy]

It's a planet just as much as the other 4-6 or whatever dwarf planets lying around are.
Speaking of which, CERES IS THE BEST PLANET EVER AND NASA NEED TO STOP DOING FUCKING WEATHER REPORTS AND SEND A PROBE THERE ALREADY

 

[phatty500]

hey they told me all through elementary school that its a planet. in my opinion they're not allowed to just change their mind.

 

[Dexiro]

Why are people so unwilling to accept that Pluto might not be a planet anymore? It's not as though it affects your life in any way, and "it's what I learnt when I was a kid" doesn't cut it. Infact if you're using logic like that you need to punch yourself a few times.

Wikipedia tells me that it's classified as a dwarf planet, a binary planet or maybe a kuiper belt object.

Whatever it is it falls under the same category as these other 7 planets:

I thought that image was quite interesting :3

 

[DragonBorn96]

A Gcse course, apparentely according to our teacher, the hardest course to take.

I apparently cant leave this be. Damn my curiosity. x.x
Which school do you go to?

Our school is now called Torbridge High. We just got a whole new name and building.

 

[Stammer]

HOLD EVERYTHING!!!!

There's a planet called "Makemake"? lmao

 

[Adam Young]

Pluto is a fifth the size of the moon, other objects, which are currently not considered planets, would need to gain planet "status" if Pluto were and planet...and there are quite a few Pluto-sized objects out there. Also, it hasn't cleared it's orbit, and appears to be a captured ball of mostly ice.

NOT. A. PLANET.

 

[Emissary Laito]

I'm sorry, i worded that badly, How our education system teaches astronomy, Pluto still should qualify as a planet. We don't ever hear about Eris or Orcus and we dont hear about any sort of asteroid field other than between Mars and Jupiter. Based on what we would learn in highschool Pluto is a planet.

So... it should be a planet because people are taught wrongly?

I personally think that the "dwarf planet" classification is pointlessly complicated as it isn't a dwarf planet because its smaller than other planets its a dwarf planet because there is other junk around it, meaning if there were a few nice sized rocks in earths orbit, that didn't contact our gravitational field, we wouldn't qualify as a planet either.

But if there were any, they'd have been wiped out long ago. The solar system isn't new, the Earth has had plenty of time to crash into any of them. If they're outside our gravitational range... well then, they're not really in our orbit are they?