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Post by Misery on Aug 24, 2006 16:58:35 GMT -5
What about all the mnemonics? My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine... what? Won't somebody think of the mnemonics?! My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nicotine/Napkins/Narcotics/any other word beginning with N. It's really not difficult to fix.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 24, 2006 16:59:52 GMT -5
That isn't as cool. Don't be a party pooper.
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Post by M on Aug 24, 2006 17:00:14 GMT -5
Ever since fifth grade, I've been calling pluto not a planet.
My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Noodles.
Simple, guys.
[Edit] I started writign this before you replied, Misery ;-;
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Post by Brownie on Aug 24, 2006 17:09:39 GMT -5
But my mother isn't elegant.
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Post by M on Aug 24, 2006 17:23:46 GMT -5
Is she educated? Effective? Enlivened? Ecclectic?
I think some of those weren't words.
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Post by samreen on Aug 24, 2006 17:33:00 GMT -5
I miss having 9 planets already Even if I never liked the idea of Pluto as a planet in the first place.
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Post by twistedbrain on Aug 24, 2006 20:03:33 GMT -5
Some Polish scientists are not gonna convince me that Pluto is not a planet.
Pluto IS a planet, dammit!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2006 5:25:48 GMT -5
The thing that gets me... They said that if they let Pluto be a planet, they'd have to make some other stuff planets too. Well why didn't they do that? Are they just trying to make us mad?
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Post by PJ on Aug 25, 2006 6:12:39 GMT -5
Somehow, the loss of Pluto as one of our planets is depressing....
*saves it with super powers*
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Post by Wizz on Aug 25, 2006 9:03:02 GMT -5
What about all the mnemonics? My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine... what? Won't somebody think of the mnemonics?! Mine orignally used to be Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches Under Newspaper Piles.... But i dont know what to make it now.... Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches Under Newspapers just doesnt have the same ring.
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Post by Logan Moose on Aug 25, 2006 9:09:07 GMT -5
The thing that gets me... They said that if they let Pluto be a planet, they'd have to make some other stuff planets too. Well why didn't they do that? Are they just trying to make us mad? MVEMJSUN is easier to mnemonicise then MVEMJASHDSUNPSADJJKENKASLLLLLJDFF
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2006 12:15:34 GMT -5
Dr Alan Stern, who leads the US space agency's New Horizons mission to Pluto and did not vote in Prague, told BBC News: "It's an awful definition; it's sloppy science and it would never pass peer review - for two reasons.
"Firstly, it is impossible and contrived to put a dividing line between dwarf planets and planets. It's as if we declared people not people for some arbitrary reason, like 'they tend to live in groups'.
"Secondly, the actual definition is even worse, because it's inconsistent."
One of the three criteria for planethood states that a planet must have "cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit". The largest objects in the Solar System will either aggregate material in their path or fling it out of the way with a gravitational swipe.
Pluto was disqualified because its highly elliptical orbit overlaps with that of Neptune.
But Dr Stern pointed out that Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have also not fully cleared their orbital zones. Earth orbits with 10,000 near-Earth asteroids. Jupiter, meanwhile, is accompanied by 100,000 Trojan asteroids on its orbital path.
These rocks are all essentially chunks of rubble left over from the formation of the Solar System more than four billion years ago.
"If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn't be there," he added.
Stern said like-minded astronomers had begun a petition to get Pluto reinstated. Car bumper stickers compelling motorists to "Honk if Pluto is still a planet" have gone on sale over the internet and e-mails circulating about the decision have been describing the IAU as the "Irrelevant Astronomical Union".
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Post by descartes on Aug 25, 2006 12:15:48 GMT -5
And what about Charon? Pluto orbits Charon, and Charon orbits Pluto. And the person who discovered many of what are now called "Dwarf Planets" said that he was glad that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore, although he wouldn't be unhappy if one of his discoveries was named a planet. (He discovered Sedna and Xena, along with Xena's moon Gabrielle and a lot more)
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Post by Jenny on Aug 25, 2006 13:26:22 GMT -5
I shouldn't mind, because looking at how weird it was it wasn't much of a planet, but I do. *starts to cry*
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Post by Brownie on Aug 25, 2006 15:45:15 GMT -5
We talked about this in school. I mentioned the forum. The teacher was interested. -ewww-
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