Pluto Loses Planet Status

[A Gower Guy]

Well I am getting used to the solar system being defined as this

The Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

and

The Dwarf Planets: Ceres, Pluto(/Charon?) and 2003 UB313

No doubt the defination will modify again in the future

Edited August 27, 2006 by button-wales

[pinball wizard]

Well I am getting used to the solar system being defined as this

The Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

and

The Dwarf Planets: Ceres, Pluto(/Charon?) and 2003 UB313

No doubt the defination will modify again in the future

Pluto will always be a plant to me!

[pottyprof]

Pluto will always be a plant to me!

same here..

hmm.. just wondering if anyone has any data linked to a possible planet that could be 180 degrees from our planet in the same orbit..?? always rumours.. read the books etc..

Edited August 28, 2006 by pottyprof

[Roger J Smith]

Now Ceres will be all snooty with the other asteroids, "I'm a dwarf planet, you're still just asteroids," and on it goes.

[Blackie]

Pluto will always be a plant to me!

Daisy? Tulip? Rhododendron? Maybe a little weed, because it has been "weeded out" of the planets list by the astronomy world. Or perhaps a thorn bush because it has been such a thorny issue. I can just imagine Charlie Dimmock waxing lyrical about Plutoniensis Floribundum - and adding a water feature on it!

Could be the basis for a new slant to this thread. If planets were plants, what would they be? I think Venus would be Deadly Nightshade. Beautiful, exotic but highly toxic. Any other suggestions?

Edited August 28, 2006 by Blackie