You just heard about the Pluto thing? It happened almost a year ago!
At the time, I was living in the town where Pluto was discovered, and no one there could accept it. However, Bill Nye had been saying for years that Pluto shouldn't be a planet, and being an avid watcher of "Bill Nye the Sceince Guy" when I was younger, the man could say just about anything and I would believe it.
the simple fact is that this 3rd criteria is suspect. you can apply it to jupiter for gorram's sake!
i think it has more to do with the fact that pluto is very, very far away and now we as a race have more powerful technology to see further than pluto (cheers hubble!) we've found other objects in pluto's vicinity that are larger. we can't make them planets so we have to downgrade pluto and create a whole new sub genre. size, with the americans it's all about size *sigh* xx
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At the time, I was living in the town where Pluto was discovered, and no one there could accept it. However, Bill Nye had been saying for years that Pluto shouldn't be a planet, and being an avid watcher of "Bill Nye the Sceince Guy" when I was younger, the man could say just about anything and I would believe it.
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i think it has more to do with the fact that pluto is very, very far away and now we as a race have more powerful technology to see further than pluto (cheers hubble!) we've found other objects in pluto's vicinity that are larger.
we can't make them planets so we have to downgrade pluto and create a whole new sub genre. size, with the americans it's all about size *sigh*
xx
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