Pluto Stripped of Planet Rank

[JoStream]

You know back in school when I first learned about the solar system, Pluto was considered one of the nine planets of our solar system.

There wasn't really much known about it, and although over the years we've found out more, but not really that much either.

Now scientists have officially announced that Pluto is no longer a planet. It is only a 'dwarf planet', so make sure you get the semantics right on this one.

If you're wondering why, the scientific community agrees that in order to be a considered a "planet" a celestial body must be in orbit around a star while not itself being a star. Pluto was "disqualified" because its oblong orbit overlaps with the planet Neptune.

Pluto (DNQ) :p :D

[Chris]

Pluto (DNQ)


That's pretty clever. I think the sad part about this is that people actually debated about this for years about it's classification. I think these people need to get a social life, really...I just can't imagine debating that long and having so many conferences on whether we consider it a planet.. :) Now it's ruined my memorization of the planets in the solar system, sort of.

[Radar]

So that's what went wrong with my race picks. When I checked the position of the planets I included Pluto.:)

[F1 Today]

How am I going to remember the order now. It used to be:

"My very excellent mother, just served us nine pancakes."

She can't just serve us nine. This coming from the scientists that decided that we can no longer use the "l" to stand for litre. We have to use "dm3", because we may mistake the "l" as a "1".

[Chris]

How am I going to remember the order now. It used to be:

"My very excellent mother, just served us nine pancakes."

She can't just serve us nine. This coming from the scientists that decided that we can no longer use the "l" to stand for litre. We have to use "dm3", because we may mistake the "l" as a "1".

My very excellent mother, just sews ukranian neckties....okay, it was a valiant effort really, atleast I tried :D I'm not too sure what we can use now...crazy scientists with too much time on their hands.

[queen_dee]

How am I going to remember the order now. It used to be:

"My very excellent mother, just served us nine pancakes."

She can't just serve us nine. This coming from the scientists that decided that we can no longer use the "l" to stand for litre. We have to use "dm3", because we may mistake the "l" as a "1".


Well i came up with something you will all love and most probably start using and would make your life less complicated..I guess..LOL...well here is the sentence again that you are all debating what to replace.

"My very excellent mother, just served us nachos"

Voila :D

[JoStream]

Well i came up with something you will all love and most probably start using and would make your life less complicated..I guess..LOL...well here is the sentence again that you are all debating what to replace.

"My very excellent mother, just served us nachos"

Voila :D

Hehe :D nice one! You know I was thinking about this late yesterday (a fruit that starts with a 'n' or something) but I was too tired so I put it off to another day :rolleyes:

[F1 Today]

Well i came up with something you will all love and most probably start using and would make your life less complicated..I guess..LOL...well here is the sentence again that you are all debating what to replace.

"My very excellent mother, just served us nachos"

Voila :D

I've never seen nachos in England, the only place I've heard of them is The Simpsons "Nacho, nacho man. I wanna be, a nacho man etc..."

It is a good attempt though, but is there anything that's a little more British?

[camachf1]

A sad day when Pluto is no longer a planet.

[Ryan]

A sad day when Pluto is no longer a planet.

wow, thanks for bringing back a whole bunch of dead topics.

[saltysurprise]

wow, thanks for bringing back a whole bunch of dead topics.

Yeah, isn't he great?:rolleyes: Guess what he was after...

[EIR Loe.307]

That's pretty clever. I think the sad part about this is that people actually debated about this for years about it's classification. I think these people need to get a social life, really...I just can't imagine debating that long and having so many conferences on whether we consider it a planet.

This is what astrophysicists, and astronomers get paid to do.:thumbsup: