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I was more impressed with all the information you had remembered, dates and all!
Who else is excited about Pluto?
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classic33
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Downgraded to a Dwarf Planet less than six months after the New Horizons probe was launched.
Profpointy
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Yebbutt, are all the other dwarf-planets, many bigger than Pluto, also planets then ? There are thousands of 'em after all
Profpointy
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They weren't known about when I was a boy.......
Ah I see. In your scheme each of us has a different number of planets according to when we were born.
I rather like that.
Bit of a challenge for today's youngsters - especially if they have to learn all the names, presumably of the form KBO123 or whatever.
classic33
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Yes, by some margin as well.
Done using only one colour as well!
10,505 words compared to the previous longest of 4,297 words
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classic33
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How about the countdown clock/counter being set for the 14th July, 13:49 BST. The time at which New Horizons will pass within 10,000 kilometres of Pluto.
Carrying as it passes the ashes of the person who discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh. Travelled 4.8 billion kilometres in Nine & half years.
Carrying as it passes the ashes of the person who discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh. Travelled 4.8 billion kilometres in Nine & half years.
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Jimmy Doug
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I don't know why the number of planets there could be in the Solar System causes so much angst. It was one of the reasons, if not THE reason, why Pluto was demoted in the first place. So what if there are a million planets going around the sun? It's only because we all grew up thinking that there were nine planets plus the asteroids that some people have problems accepting that there could be more. The thought that Pluto, Sedna, Eris, and all the other spherical objects that we're yet to discover and find names for are planets is no more difficult for me to accept than the idea that all the zillions of stars in the night sky are suns. The universe is big, after all: it contains a lot of stuff.
Fnaar
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MIss Goodbody hasn't been the same since she heard about "a heavenly body passing close to Uranus"
classic33
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Another 107 objects have the status "Possible Dwarf Planet", with a further 428 "Maybes" waiting in line.
sidevalve
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Don't worry - most of the little dears are more worried about what colour their next mobile phone will be.
Profpointy
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Don't think that's right.
KEEF
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I visited Pluto in 1967 I flew there after taking some vitamins I was quite surprised I can tell you.
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Jimmy Doug
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[QUOTE 3718571, member: 9609"]the other big anomily with Pluto is that it doesn't follow the same plane across our skies as all the others, it seems to have an entirely differant orbit.[/QUOTE]
That's not true. Pluto's orbit is highly elliptical - so much so that it can actually be closer to us than Neptune. But what's really strange about Pluto is its inclination. Whereas the other planets trace their orbits on a plane, Pluto orbits at an angle. But IMO Pluto's strange orbit isn't a reason to call it something other than a planet. I mean, the British drive on the other side of the road compared to most other countries, but that doesn't mean that the British don't belong to the class of objects we call 'people', does it?!
That's not true. Pluto's orbit is highly elliptical - so much so that it can actually be closer to us than Neptune. But what's really strange about Pluto is its inclination. Whereas the other planets trace their orbits on a plane, Pluto orbits at an angle. But IMO Pluto's strange orbit isn't a reason to call it something other than a planet. I mean, the British drive on the other side of the road compared to most other countries, but that doesn't mean that the British don't belong to the class of objects we call 'people', does it?!
