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PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Pluto, beloved by some as a cosmic underdog but scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.
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<p>Not really a big deal, but it's almost 4 am, I've woken up and I can't get back sleep, and I'm bored.</p>
<p>Discuss, post a sarcastic reply, move off topic, fade into the abyss that is the back pages.</p>
<p>Jerks.....</p>
<p>I'm not happy.</p>
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That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.
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What there were Nine Planets!!!!!!:eek:</p>
<p>Wonderful! Now Sailor Moon is screwed up... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>How dare they strip Pluto of its hard earned and dignified title..... :(</p>
<p>Pluto was like the Rhode Island of planets anyways. Do you think that will happen next?? They pare down the number of states to like 45 or so? They combine the Dakotas into "Dakota" and they combine ME, NH, MA, CT, AND RI into "New England" all one state? It could happen!</p>
<p>This goes against everything I have ever known. Next thing you know, they'll be saying Santa Claus isn't real. What is this world coming to?</p>
<p>:( that ruins basically my entire childhood</p>
<p>now the saying is gonna be:
My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us NACHOS?</p>
<p>Well, you lose some and you win some. They did strip Pluto of its status as a planet, but they also added 3 more planets to our solar system. So we have 11 planets now. That's a pretty cool number.</p>
<p>but dont those extra planets have weird names? like CC-22 or some crap like that? how are elementary school kids going to be able to handle that?</p>
<p>i miss the simple days when pluto was the last one.</p>
<p>The eight regular planets are still the same, the small planets or whatever they are called are: Pluto, the asteroid Ceres, and some planet nicknamed "Xena"</p>
<p>...but I like Pluto. It starts with a P. We need a planet that starts with a P. The word planet starts with P, so there should be at least one planet here that starts with P.</p>
<p>whats the fascination with the letter P. Even though the definiton of a planet was revisited I think they should have left Pluto a Planet. Pluto has a moon what else does it have to do to have any friends. Those gas giants always ostrscized him now we are doing the same thing</p>
<p>All the Scorpios out there, me included, are screwed - Pluto was their ruling "Planet" :D</p>
<p>Wait, as of this morning they changed it back from 12 to 8. I think this is the better option - lose one rather than gain ten squillion, that is.</p>
<p>(Message from NASA to New Horizon: JK come back home!!!)</p>
<p>why do we have 2 of there threads??</p>
<p>Because this one was here first, and you started the other one. Oh well, at least we're giving Pluto its justice. :):):)</p>
<p>Losing Pluto has scarred me for life X(</p>
<p>this one was here first??! I looked all over the forum to see if there was, i must have missed this one lol</p>