Wither Pluto?
Aug. 14th, 2006 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kedamonoAccording to a Wired news story, nearly 2,500 astronomers from 75 different countries are going to do something that most people
thought has been done already: Come up with a definition of what constitutes a planet.
Oh, and if Pluto is one or not.
The fate of Pluto as a planet or as a big assed Kuiper Belt object, rests in their capable hands and the battle lines have been drawn
already with both pro-Pluto-as-planet and con-Pluto-as-planet camps.
I for one like the idea of defining different types of planets, which would make Pluto an "Ice dwarf planet".
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/space/0,71589-0.html
thought has been done already: Come up with a definition of what constitutes a planet.
Oh, and if Pluto is one or not.
The fate of Pluto as a planet or as a big assed Kuiper Belt object, rests in their capable hands and the battle lines have been drawn
already with both pro-Pluto-as-planet and con-Pluto-as-planet camps.
I for one like the idea of defining different types of planets, which would make Pluto an "Ice dwarf planet".
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/space/0,71589-0.html
