http://www.headsetoptions.org/2006/08/24/good-ol%e2%80%99-pluto/ Web Design, SEO, WordPress, Etcetra Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.headsetoptions.org/2006/08/24/good-ol%e2%80%99-pluto/#comment-422 Adrian MacNair Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:10:34 +0000 http://www.headsetoptions.org/2006/08/24/good-ol%e2%80%99-pluto/#comment-422 I believe we can call it a dwarf planet as they are calling it now, and include other such small planetoids or largish material from the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud in a planetary chart. I always had issues with Pluto being smaller than Titan and our moon, and the fact that Charon is more a binary planetoid than a satellite. Pluto's very odd orbit also indicates it was captured from beyond the Kuiper Belt as it drifts in beyond Neptune's orbit at Perihelion, but is a distant 6 billion kilometres at aphelion. I believe we can call it a dwarf planet as they are calling it now, and include other such small planetoids or largish material from the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud in a planetary chart. I always had issues with Pluto being smaller than Titan and our moon, and the fact that Charon is more a binary planetoid than a satellite. Pluto’s very odd orbit also indicates it was captured from beyond the Kuiper Belt as it drifts in beyond Neptune’s orbit at Perihelion, but is a distant 6 billion kilometres at aphelion.

]]> http://www.headsetoptions.org/2006/08/24/good-ol%e2%80%99-pluto/#comment-394 hso Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:13:53 +0000 http://www.headsetoptions.org/2006/08/24/good-ol%e2%80%99-pluto/#comment-394 I think it’s unfair in a sense because according to the new definition of a planet, Neptune is not a planet either, yet it keeps its status. I think it’s unfair in a sense because according to the new definition of a planet, Neptune is not a planet either, yet it keeps its status.

]]> http://www.headsetoptions.org/2006/08/24/good-ol%e2%80%99-pluto/#comment-383 TheBizofKnowledge Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:39:34 +0000 http://www.headsetoptions.org/2006/08/24/good-ol%e2%80%99-pluto/#comment-383 I just read on another blog that only about 300 of a possible 2,500 astronomers voted on the planetary definition proposal. Maybe they'll have another go at it, given the way the public is reacting. I just read on another blog that only about 300 of a possible 2,500 astronomers voted on the planetary definition proposal. Maybe they’ll have another go at it, given the way the public is reacting.

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