As Bob Seger might have written: "Feel like a number, I'm not a number, I'm not a number, dammit I'm a planet." Poor Pluto:
Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.
On Sept. 7, the former 9th planet was assigned the asteroid number 134340 by the Minor Planet Center, the official organization responsible for collecting data about asteroids and comets in our solar system.
It's one thing to get demoted; this is downright cruel. On the very day Pluto was deplanetized, I saw a Web site offering a T-shirt that said this: "OK, all planets, take one step forward. Not so fast, Pluto." (That refers to the punchline to a funny joke about a military drill instructor who has had sensitivity training about how to break it to a recruit that his parents have died.)
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LMAO..."deplanetized"...I LOVE it!
(how sterile it sounds)
You just coined the NEWEST "buzz word" of the year...kudos!
B.G.
Pluto gets stripped of it's name because it is a "dwarf planet"?
Then logically, shouldn't we do the same to dwarf humans?
Pluto should be referred to as "planetarily challenged."
Pluto is a 'Dwarf ____' what? What was that word that came after dwarf that you used to describe Pluto? Oh, so it IS a planet!
wot r u on we learnt that pluto was planet and wot r u doing now. pluto rocks so f*** u scientists.
According to the defination of a planet, Pluto is one. Then, they add a stupid rule to prove it is not one.
The new standards dictate that, to be a classic planet, an object must be a celestial body orbiting the sun, with enough mass to allow itself gravity to form into a round shape.
In addition, its gravity should be sufficiently strong to prevent anything from floating around the planet. The term that the IAU used was