25 Aug 2006

Pluto is out

Pluto is not a planet anymore.

With all due respect to the scientific community, I think these “historic new guidelines” don’t quite matter to the common folks.

Apart from the fact that kids now will have one less planet name to remember. Unless of course, the textbooks started mentioning Pluto, Ceres and 2003 UB313 as “dwarf planets” (as suggested by the scientists), which would mean more names to remember.

Oh well. Named after the god of the underworld in Roman mythology, Pluto has really been now relegated to underworld.

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Chloe said on August 26th, 2006 at 1:13 am

I was rather upset to find out that Pluto had been removed. I’m sure my high school Physics teacher would be feeling the same – he made a big impact on our school with space and the such. Now the acronym “My Very Energetic Monkey Just Showed Us Nine Planets” is no more. What did my monkey just show everyone that related to the number nine? We’ll never know.

Kishore said on August 26th, 2006 at 4:40 am

Yeah, it’s rather sad in a way, but it is not as if they wiped it away from the solar system physically :D

It is now called a “dwarf planet”. Still, the scientists confuse us by saying that a dwarf planet is not a planet. Irony.

Figure it out.

Ed said on August 27th, 2006 at 4:14 am

Pluto or should I say, Hades of the underworld now has one more reason to despise the living. Seriously, after being monotonously drilled with ‘There are nine planets in the solar system, there are nine planets in the solat system yada, yada’... it’s going to be hard to get that belief out of my system.

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