Re: Overall disappointing...


wiiwiillwiin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Today in science class my teacher said that Pluto was no longer
considered a planet. Being practically the only one educated in the
recent IAU things going on, and ,in fact, looking forward to Ceres and
Charon becoming a planet within the next week, initially didn't believe
it. I thought that their scale was overall practical and that a
biplanetary system was quite intrigueing. lol... At the first of the
class everyone looked at me all wierd for not believing the report and
thinking that the teacher had read it all wrong. But, at the end,
everything was all explained to me and finally made me look sane to a
certain extent :-P:
The teacher read the report from fox news online or something and
stated that "This was interestingly preceded by an attempt to add two
other celestial bodies to our list of planets." I now feel like I am
the only one disappointed... I mean I grew up with Pluto and though it
is considered a "mini-planet" (or whatever stupid name they devised)
now, it will be wierd to see neptune at the end of the list, Though I
wouldn't have minded at all to remember Charon and Ceres....
Totally disappointing :'( can anyone give me some consolation and
inform me why exactly the tables were turned so quickly?

The reason was that science and logic trumped sentiment and tradition.

When I was a kid (60's and 70's), Pluto was the last frontier in the
solar system. It was thought to be much larger, and alone. Now we
know it's one of hundreds of Kuiper Belt objects and not even the
biggest.

I'd suggest that today's dreamers turn their imaginations to Sedna.
Waaaay out there, not well understood, and (so far as we know right
now) all alone.

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/

.

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