So Pluto isn’t a planet? What the hell?
I thought it was pretty simple. If an object is roughly spherical, has it’s primary orbit around the sun and isn’t a known ejected moon, then it’s a planet. This would mean you’ve got at least 12, including Sedna and Xena.
But Pluto being ejected from the planets simpley because it’s moon Charon is almost the same size as it is, is insane!
It’s not as if anyone’s going to pay any attention outside the scientific community. Everyone else is going to continue using their own definitions. Muppets!
But the really sneaky thing was the voting. Less than 25% of the members were able to attend and only those there on the day were allowed to vote. Most of the NASA people were flying back at the time, so missed it, and those there were dominated by the anti-Pluto crowd.
Nasty…
As one poster said: Call Pluto an asteroid and it’ll start behaving like one. It had a picture from Deep Impact, with the asteroid hitting the Earth.
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