though not the first to go,
pluto lost its planetary status 15 years ago
and not everyone agrees.
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“as a planetary scientist, I don’t know what else to call Pluto: it’s big and round and thousands of miles wide.’ alan stern
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credits: mental floss, jeopardy, getty images, courtney k
I think it is a planet
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it’s now officially a dwarf planet
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At least still a planet.
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At least –
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🥰
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I think the same
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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😀
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Great. Thanks
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yes
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4.5 billion years old and they still want it to sit at the kid’s table….
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clearly not everyone is happy with the choice –
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wow! did not realise it lost its planetary status!
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Oh yes!
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Something strange happened while I was reading your article Beth .. there was flash of lightning, and my computer backed out … Hmmm … I think the dark mythical god Pluto has struck out at my cosmic wave-lengths, in spiteful anger, while I was doing some research about the ‘Planet’ Pluto … this was very eerie Beth … And now I’m convinced … Pluto needs to reinstated as a Planet … NOW !! .. please ..
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That was a sure sign of it!
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Fascinating.
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It is a great debate
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Yes, Beth, I can’t shorten the saying in my heat to My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine. Has to have Pizzas at the end of it.
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In French we said: Mon Vieux Tu M’as Jeté Sur Une Nouvelle Planète: (Old Man, you have thrown us on a new planet) Where else will we be thrown?
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Now I can revolve around the sun in French today. Thanks, Dale!
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Yay Mark! 🙂
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So good
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🙂
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It’s messed up our long standing system )
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I thought Pluto was Mickey’s dog!
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He is!
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👍🏻
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I always thought…what does it matter? Another 100 years and it will still be there and probably called something else.
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No doubt
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Pluto needs a makeover, starting with a new name like Astrosun. Pick up a sponsor like Geico. Get Trump talking about evidence of voter Fraud in the Great Vaults of Astrosun….
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Ha! Rebranding
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I just think of them as really big rocks in space. I’m not messing with them!
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Hahahaha
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Hmm…it’s still true that the Disney dog was named after a planet. Now there’s controversy, but the whatever-it-is still has a name: Pluto.
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His name remains intact )
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Pluto will always be a planet to me. They found out it as mountains and all kinds of natural wonders. It’s a planet, lnot a mini or anything else. LOLOL I’m sticking by the wee thing.
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Me too!
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I’ve never accepted Pluto’s demotion to “dwarf planet.” I don’t care what the astronomers say.
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You and many others
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The first thing I thought of when I heard that Pluto was not going to be considered a planet was, “How many kids have I taught the list of planets over the years?” 😎
I’m a huge Evanescence (and Amy Lee fan), so I went chasing the quote down to see if there was another Amy Lee. I can happily verify that it was my cherished singer. https://www.knowyourquotes.com/I-Refuse-To-Accept-Pluto39s-Resignation-As-A-Planet-Amy-Lee.html
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Me too! And glad it is her too –
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Oh, not this again! 🙄
Always a debate-provoking topic, just like “is egg vegetarian or not.”
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It sure is-
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My third graders had just mastered their planets by making models, and reciting “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.”
Only to discover that she served nachos after all!
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Ha!
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I stand by Pluto as a planet, at least now its back to a dwarf planet. The Brontosaurus will always be my favorite dinosaur even though it got renamed as an Apatosaurus at some point for some reason I don’t care about. Hahaha. Do you remember the 1985 movie Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend? That was one of my favorite movies as a kid.
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I loved that movie too!
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I agree with everyone else who calls it a planet – why make a change? Give the little guy the respect it deserves!
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That’s right-
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it sounds like that scientist is describing Meat Loaf and how far his fandom reaches…
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ha! that’s it –
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👍
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Same.
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)))
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The Pluto saga is my ultimate proof that people are extremely reluctant to “unlearn” what they grew up “knowing.”
And yes, I’m firmly in the Pluto is STILL a Planet group!
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it’s a thing –
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I was so moved by Pluto’s relegation to minor planet that I wrote a poem about it, in the voice of the indignant former planet. which was published in a children’s magazine in Australia —
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how cool
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Team Planet Pluto
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❤
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I like the title/tagline Beth… Yes, first they made us memorize it all through school that it was a planet, then they are not so sure anymore!!😁
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Spot on!
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I was upset about the change in Pluto’s status. It negated something I had learned in school.
So, past education can become obsolete. It has, and will continue to do so. Computers were not part of my school life. When cursive writing stopped being taught, I thought lunacy. They are now bringing it back in places.
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We teach cursive at my school!
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Right on!!!!
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There used to be 13 planets? Who knew?
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Not us )
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Pluto is still a planet!
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