> Pluto No More!!!!!

Pluto has just been removed from the list of planets in our solar system!!!!!


Check this out:Pluto No more

It was known long back that plutos orbit overlaps neptunes, so it took long time to make this decision...Also how does that put pluto out..... ...Hmm science books will have to be updated...

Edit: Its still a planet coz iot meets the main criteria...but it will now not be a classical planet like the other 8....it will be known as dwarf planet...

Got a mail abt this... new rule to be qualified as planet is defined as "A celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a...nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit"
So Pluto is disqualified...

Tough luck pluto... Woof Woof

Arent both neptune and pluto crossing each others orbit

well a comets crosses lot of orbits... but i guess the bigger celestal body takes the fame

now,will pluto be deemed a Comet status?

High time, the mistake has been finally corrected.

So instead of increasing no of planets to 12 they did the right thing by reducing it to 8.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/0608...060821-11.html
Pluto gets the boot as the planet count drops - space - 24 August 2006 - New Scientist Space

Good. One less planet to mug up in school

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