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On August 24th, astronomers held a debate on whether pluto should be a planet or not


Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet.

"Pluto is dead," said Mike Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology


The resolution
The decision establishes three main categories of objects in our solar system.

Planets: The eight worlds starting with Mercury and moving out to Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Dwarf planets: Pluto and any other round object that "has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite."
Small solar system bodies: All other objects orbiting the sun.


anyways, Pluto isn't a planet any more. thought i should let you know. biggrin and Click Here if you want to read the rest of the article.

Yeah, I think at least 50% or more should vote for it to be offical... 5% probley isn't a whole lot of people.


This I found interesting:
• Pluto's day: 6.4 Earth days.
• Pluto's year: 248 Earth years.
• Average distance from sun: 3.7 billion miles, or 5.9 billion kilometers.
• What's in a name? Pluto is also the name of the Roman god of the underworld. It was suggested by many people, but credit was given to an 11-year-old girl from England.

hm. On the article of the site url link given. It says 12 planets. I don't get that.

Can someone explain? Is a dwarf planet a planet? And why have I never heard of Charon or etc? lol

Charon is one of the planets moons.

Don't worry, it's not final, yet. In fact, they are thinking of adding several more celestial bodies to the planet list....that's why the number 12....it's a big debate. Won't be over for awhile.

I saw that in the article too, guese not.

Harhar.

But, you never know!