Pluto needs your assistance.

I feel the reverse. Less than 10% of the Earth's gravitation seems like a good cut-off point.

A lot of people may have purchased lots on Pluto last year in the midst of the real estate buying frenzy. Sorry, but many of these lots have now dropped in value since Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

So don't complain about it now.

Luhan

Hello Luhan,

Or just file for a reduction in property tax up there and that decision will be reversed in a jiffy 8-)

A sensible decision I thought. Much better than that idiotic idea originally proposed to introduce more planets, that was plastered all over the news for days. Pluto always was the odd one out, so bye-bye Pluto.

Dave :)

In other words, "dog" the astronomers to bring Pluto back home! Perhaps we could throw them a "bone" and allow them to consider Neptune-Pluto as a binary planet?

Are you sayng that those buyers are frozen out? You aer as cold as Pluto...

In message , dated Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Robert Baer writes

Neptune and Pluto aren't even close together when they are as close as possible. You need to see a 3D model of the system to see why.

It was originally suggested to call Pluto and Charon a 'binary planet'.

Stuff it up Uranus ;-)

In Oregon here that only works if you've had the property since something like

Next time a new planet is discovered, I'm getting in on the ground floor!

Luhan

"We" being the inhabitants of Pluto, expecting a precipitous decline in the outstanding property values currently enjoyed in your part of the solar system? I ask merely for information.

The correct approach to this problem is to de-define the word "planet" and remove the names from all the objects currently known as planets - since the first person to physically land on them will be free to claim them as sovereign territory and name them whatever they want*.

(*) I'm well aware that international convention disallows this. I'm also well aware that it is unenforceable. If there are commercially exploitable resources on the other worlds that can be used to generate profits on Earth, this convention will cease to exist.

Aww, so Ceres isn't a planet anymore? Pity...

Michael

If it's smaller than the Earth's moon or orbits another body in the Solar System, it is not a planet. Good a definition as any in my view.

Al

Bummer, logically speaking that means there are no planets.

Perhaps someone should re-think one this in case the Plutonions have some oil and we can invite them to join the EU.........

I just phoned them...

Ring ring, Ring ring...

'Hello'.

'Hello'.

'You've just been re-classified as not a planet'.

'Sucks to be where you are then'.

'Good point, bye'.

'Thanks, Bye'.

DNA

I would just like to point out that I accidently capitalised the B in that last bye and some of you might get the impression that they were being quite unfreindly but this was not the case.

DNA

The lest time I visited the Greenwich observatory, they had a number of older telescopes set up in the original observatory. Some of these dated back to the time of Newton. In the eyepiece of one of them, someone had placed a transparency of one of the Disney characters. This presented me (and others) the opportunity to look through id and exclaim, "Look, you can see Pluto."

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Where have I heard that before? ;-)

But seriously, if they haven't been able to discern yet whether it's spherical or not, then I'm ambivalent. I've heard rumblings that if you included Pluto, you'd have to include Ceres. Interestingly, I've just looked up Ceres, and it's apparently round:

So, I guess they said that If we continue to include Pluto, we'd have to include Ceres, and that would be even more confusing, since I've also heard that Ceres is someplace in the Asteroid Belt.

Maybe Pluto is a would-be comet from the Oort Cloud, that wandered a little too close to Neptune?

Thanks! Rich

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Then for heaven's sake let's have Xena as well!!

Somebody on TV said that Pluto wasn't a planet, because if you put it in the orbit of Mercury, it would just evaporate after a short time. I wonder what would happen to Jupiter if you put it in the orbit of Mercury?

-- John