Pluto Demoted: No Longer a Planet in Highly Controversial Definition Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer SPACE.com 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
Capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved today to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is being billed as a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences. But already the decision is being hotly debated.
Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet.
"Pluto is dead," said Caltech researcher Mike Brown, who spoke with reporters via a teleconference while monitoring the vote. The decision also means a Pluto-sized object that Brown discovered will not be called a planet.
"Pluto is not a planet," Brown said. "There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."
The vote involved just 424 astronomers who remained for the last day of a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague.
"I'm embarassed for astornomy," said Alan Stern, leader of NASA's New Horizon's mission to Pluto and a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute. "Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted."
"Damn the astronomers, I proclaim Pluto a planet, who's with me?"
I am totally with you 🙂 It seems from the article that the astronomers don't know what the helll they're doing. I guess it comes from being in a science that still has ton of questions unanswered. They embarass themselves - 70 years Pluto's a planet, now it's not.
I say we proclaim it, and send Tom there 🙂 LOL
"my aries co-worker not so happy when i suggested it"
I wouldn't imagine he'll like it, that would only be one more reason for the aries to feel militant towards us. lol They're fine people to fight with, but they just don't understand strategy the way we do, thanks to Pluto 😉
"I hope your screen name hasn?t foreshadowed our fate..."
Nah. We are the regenerative sign of the zodiac 🙂 I just find it interesting that of all planets, ours' is the one with all the controversy 😉
Ladies and Gentlemen even though Pluto is "Regarded as NOT being a plant" it's still holds a lot of power over the hman race here on earth, if this planet was not in our solar system the Earth would undergo great changes. Pluto is the yang energy..we need both yim and yang for the correct balance.
yes, I know Pluto will still rule Scorpio....but dinky— I have, however used this line today- "I'm sorry, my brain was downsized along with my planet. I can't help you right now"...
That was fun. Anyone else have pluto-loving one-liners? I'm shopping around for some.
That has always been my favorite planet ever since I was a little girl. And you know what, in my mind this is still a planet. It's still going to be there and it's still a planet. Pluto is still Pluto. Pluto is not dead, it will strike back and soon they will realize they made a mistake.
"hay i understood it, and i'm aint' an genius no way"
Really? Than will you please explain why the demoted rank of pluto suddenly mean we have *nothing*? Why should astronomy affect astrology? And even if it does, we'll still have an asteriod Mars, how is that nothing?
You don't have to answer that, as we both know you just made an idiotic comment in order to insult me, you pathetic wanker.
"hay you guys are lucky, taurus / libra gem /virgo technically only have half a rulership"
Well, at one point the Zodiac only contained 10 signs, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio were all combined as one, so when Scorp and Virgo were split up and Libra inserted between to "balance" some planets had to be shared. 🙂
i heard a lady on the news say pluto was always a weird one cuz it was shifty and travelled in a weird elliptical pattern...i guess that does kinda represent you guys though...
i really don't see how scorpio could really equally 'share' mars with aries. aries are truly and purely 100% mars all the way around.
now, i could see you guys having a small portion of mars as a ruler, but no way in hell we could ever be equally influenced.
that said, sorry for your luck with pluto. but whatever pluto is, asteroid, planet whatever, i know that something out there is definitely influencing you guys to be the way your are...
First: Collect all those 400 with something more scientist in one ship and blow up their arse all over Solar system with plutonium from Pluto to show them what does mess with a planet.
Second: Conquer Mars with Tactical Nuclear Devices. Bloody but fun. You can use Neptune as your temporal base of operations. Also we can find you some agents from Jupiter for your Tact OPS.
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Capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved today to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is being billed as a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences. But already the decision is being hotly debated.
Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet.
"Pluto is dead," said Caltech researcher Mike Brown, who spoke with reporters via a teleconference while monitoring the vote. The decision also means a Pluto-sized object that Brown discovered will not be called a planet.
"Pluto is not a planet," Brown said. "There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."
The vote involved just 424 astronomers who remained for the last day of a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague.
"I'm embarassed for astornomy," said Alan Stern, leader of NASA's New Horizon's mission to Pluto and a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute. "Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted."