Comments on: Pluto is NOT a Planet

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:03:50 +0000

Well actually NASA didn’t decide that. The decision was from a vote by the International Astronomical Union.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:02:44 +0000

OMG! I hate how NASA randomly decided that Pluto is not a planet anymore!!!!!! F*** that!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:24:10 +0000

I like, and agree with that last comment. 100%….. way to go stephen =)

By: Stephen Uitti

Stephen Uitti — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:06:13 +0000

I have no doubt that the newly accepted definition for ‘planet’ will have to be revisited. Some poeple objected to the first draft as ‘too complicated’. Some objected that ‘it will be difficult to determine the size accurately’ or some such. Well, given that ‘clearing the orbital space’ requires knowning all of the junk that’s there, just knowing the size seems easy. Further, given that some 10,000 objects cross Earth’s orbit, it seems to me that we’ll soon realize that Earth isn’t a planet after all. I look out my window, and Earth is looking pretty flat.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:36:05 +0000

They should just leave Pluto a planet. When you were in school you were taught that there were 9 planets not 8. How is the poem that was made up for you to remember all the planets ( My Very Educated Mother Just Sold my Uncle Neds Parrot) going to sound.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:45:21 +0000

Hey young feller (Slapinions) long time no hear. I FINALLY did figure out where to make the change so comments are bigger.

By: Slapinions

Slapinions — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:50:46 +0000

BTW – any way to increase the font size of the comments? I had to copy and paste the text to read it. Still love the site Tom

By: Slapinions

Slapinions — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:49:43 +0000

I’m on the fence. On one hand I applaud a serious attempt to define once and for all (!) what a planet ‘is’ . . but . . .a)I grew up with 9 planets and unscientific or not I wish it to stay and b)if it orbits the sun, has a moon of its own, and is bigger than a mountain, shouldn’t it be classified as a planet, dwarf or not?

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:40:55 +0000

It just seems odd to me that we are spending time looking for planets orbiting other stars (at last count about 200 have been found), but astronomers decided to remove one orbiting our own.

Yes, there is much eccentric about Pluto’s orbit, but there is also much eccentric about Jupiter’s rotation, Uranus’s orientation to the Sun, and much eccentric about Earth’s lifeforms … and some of them even have PhD’s.

By: Joshua Milller

Joshua Milller — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:17:09 +0000

“Clyde Tombough must be turning in his grave right now!”

Unlikely. His widow was quoted as saying he’d probably have accepted the decision. His last words on Pluto were, “It’s there. Whatever it is. It is there.”