Re: Pluto
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Its kind of incredible they just discovered Pluto in 1930 and now 77 years later they are able to say its not to be counted in the solar system. I wonder if they will refine the whole system at some future time to include dwarf planets. Its interesting Pluto is not a moon. It belongs to some new classification. A "dwarf" planet.
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Nobody is saying its not part of the solar system. What they are saying is that it is more like a large asteroid than a planet. It's only 2/3 the size of the US, for cryin' out loud. No, it's not a moon, but neither is Ceres or the other, larger KBOs that have been identified. The question was never about Pluto, per se. It was about whether or not we expand or contract the definition of "Planet". If we expand it to include Pluto, then we have to incude several other objects in the definition. What is so offensive about science rethinking millenia-old definitions?
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