yep it's an ignorant new definition - probably juvenile assholes arguing for dominance
Pluto rounds out from it's own gravity and orbits the sun, even on it's own 17 degree offset plane...
Ignorance is the new science
Pluto is a Planet!
Benjamin Jackson
Carter Young
it's not really ... clear....which way one - should go
Cameron Ross
Yet the barycenter of Pluto and Charon is outside of Pluto, and that's part of the reason why Pluto isn't considered as clearing it's orbit.
Could be better off calling it a binary dwarf planet.
Sebastian James
This has nothing to do with hating science. Scientists do not have monopoly on defining language, and I'm not denying any scientific discoveries. You guys are so entitled, I am in my full right to say Pluto is a planet and you have no basis to say I'm wrong.
Pluto did not change when the new definition of planet was made, Pluto is still the same it has always been, and if you want to, you can include what Pluto is and was in your definition of the word "planet", and no one can tell you you're wrong.
Connor Wright
the sun-vs-planets barycenter spends much of its time outside the sun, except for the times when jupiter and saturn are at opposite sides canceling each other out
Elijah Allen
>I go with the "spherical but too small to be a star" definition. However, if there are multiple bodies which fit that definition but are gravitationally bound, only the most massive one gets to be a "planet". That eliminates moons and Trojans. Should serve unambiguously until someone finds an extra-Solar binary (like Pluto and Charon, but too equal in mass to be sure which is which.)
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I accept that amendment. Don't worry about the issues of potential double planets. If we find any, we can just call them that, and neither is a moon.
Oliver Hall
OK. et me know when it becomes a problem. It seems like an issue that would not last long.
William Lee
>Words can only man one thing.
Jacob Young
>This definition is made up.
They all are.
By definition.
Dumbest post I've seen today.
Scientific definitions are as open to modification as any other. When the IAU revised the definition of "planet" and Pluto as excluded, di they "hate science" too?
Levi Thomas
I don't see "did the planet clear it's orbit" as one of the requirements for being a planet. You just made up a requirement and then added it to a list and then called that list stupid because of the item you added.