Are you outraged by the demotion of Pluto from planetary status

Question

If so, are you just as outraged about the same thing happening to Ceres?

Answer 1

No and no (Ceres was actually promoted from asteroid to dwarf planet).  The new guidelines laid out for planets and dwarf planets makes a lot more sense than the arbitrary way of doing it before.  Pluto is a boring little ball of rock anyway.  It's basically no different than the moon, only much, much colder, and with much less mass.

I'd rather explore Neptune.

Answer 2

h**l yeah I am mad.  Now they want to call it a planetoid object?  Why?  Where do they draw the line between planetoid and planet?  I understand they are constantly rewriting astronomy books now because of the aquisition of technology and theorys constantly being proven wrong or right or being revised, but NOT Pluto!!  It wasn't hurting anything was it?  LOL!

Answer 3

No.  Pluto's status as a real planet has been in doubt for many years. Ceres was never considered a planet.

Xnighthawk, can't you just hear his doleful wail right now?

Answer 4

I got over it when Io, Europa Ganymede and Callisto lost their planet status and a new class of objects was created: "satellites".

Soon after, the Sun and the Moon lost their status, even though they each had been known as an "aster planetes" for millennia.

Then "they" went and counted Earth as a planet, even though we had never seen it move among the fixed stars.

By the time they got to Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, I was getting "blasé" about it.  One day you're a planet, then you're a minor planet and an asteroid to boot.

Pluto?  Schmuto.  It never lived up to its promise.  It is only 1/6 the mass of our Moon and she got the boot almost 400 years ago.

Answer 5

I was upset but I think that pluto should be changed because it makes more sense considering there are so many similar objects in pluto's orbit range such as other mini-planets and comets that you can't really call them planets.  

Answer 6

No, I am not outraged.

If anyone is outraged, then they need to get a life.  Pluto is still exactly the same as it was before it was "demoted".  The only thing that has changed is how it is classified.

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

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Answer 7

yes im devistated.. i think i might go hang myself because pluto isnt a plannet!!!! OMFG!! *cries* PLLUTTOOOOOOOOO!! **** dude no one cares

Answer 8

Personally, no I'm not. Although I feel kind of sad for the little guy, I can understand the IAU's decision to demote it. The simple truth is, either Pluto is demoted or we might as well add about 100 more planets to the solar system.

But hey, now a sub-classifaction of a planet is named after Pluto... "plutoid". Saturn doesn't have a planetary sub-classification named after it.

I really couldn't care less about Ceres.

Answer 9

lol old news... youve been plutoed for asking this!  

Answer 10

These questions are so sick.

Yes, I was outraged when they called my car a ford instead of car.

I was outraged when they called that piece of rock granite instead of rock.

I was outraged when they called my yard blue kentucky instead of grass.

I was outraged when the ranger called that thing a spruce instead of tree.

Dry your eyes and drop your baby blanket.

Classifying and subclassifying and reclassifying objects is the normal and essential process of science. It is the way science evolves and expands its knowledge base.

Maybe you liked it when everything in the sky was called a star because we didn't know about planets and moons and galaxies.

Grow up.

In the 1850s Ceres was called a planet. So I'm supposed to ***** that my great great grandfather called Ceres a planet so that's what it will always be??

It's called progress of information. If you can't accept it or it makes you cry then perhaps science isn't your forte.

Call things whatever you want to and don't bother to wonder why people look at you with a dumbfounded glance as they hide their snicker.

Answer 11

  No and good comment.

Answer 12

well I think we all been out in this season a while and I really think pluto just needs to talk it out with his other team mates and you  know just play a good game of planet wars

Answer 13

I am not pleased about it, but I'm not outraged.  I would have preferred to keep Pluto as a planet.  

Ceres seems to have done a lot of changing classifications.  It was first classified as a planet, then an asteroid, then a dwarf planet.  Somewhere in there, it was a minor planet, but I'm not sure at what point.

"The first named minor planet, Ceres, was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, and was originally considered a new planet. This was followed by the discovery of other similar bodies, which with the equipment of the time appeared to be points of light, like stars, showing little or no planetary disc (though readily distinguishable from stars due to their apparent motions). This prompted the astronomer Sir William Herschel to propose the term "asteroid", from Greek asteroeidēs = star-like, star-shaped, from ancient Greek, astēr = star."

"In late August 2006, the IAU introduced the class small solar system bodies (SSSB) to include most objects previously classified as minor planets and comets. At the same time, the class dwarf planets was created for the largest minor planets—those which have sufficient mass to have become more-or-less spherical under their own gravity. According to the IAU, "the term 'minor planet' may still be used, but generally the term 'small solar system body' will be preferred." Currently only the largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres, at about 950 km across, is in the dwarf planet category, although there are several relatively large near-spherical asteroids (Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea) that may be reclassified as dwarf planets in the future."

When the IAU created the new name Plutoid for Pluto-like objects in June, 2008, they didn't include Ceres.

"The dwarf planet Ceres is not a plutoid as it is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Current scientific knowledge lends credence to the belief that Ceres is the only object of its kind." Therefore, a separate category of Ceres-like dwarf planets will not be proposed at this time."

So, I guess that leaves Ceres as a dwarf planet, even though there is currently no dwarf planet classification.

Answer 14

Yes, I felt this bad about it.

For four score years or so Pluto reigned high.

Now, no longer a planet; just a dog in the sky.

Though still anastro, no longer a naught.

On Percivilles plate,he was but a Spot.

First noticed by Lowell, since Spot was a Rover.

Spot posed for his picture over and over.

This Doggie of Disney is still on display.

With a good scope you can see him by night if not day.

A Spot in the sky no plain eye can see.

A little excentric, but then so are we.

What happened to Pluto could befall Popeye of Bluto.

Ask not; ask not least it happen to thee.

                                                                           JE

Answer 15

No not at all.  I am completely outraged by the lack of science education in the schools today as evidenced by the repeated asking of such lamebrained questions as "was the moon landing a hoax?" and "will the world really end in 2012?".

Answer 16

No, Pluto had it coming and so does Ceres.

Answer 17

What Mark K said.  Ceres is just the biggest of the main-belt asteroids; Pluto is just a Kuiper-belt object.

However, I don't think the current definition is satisfactory.  Suppose we eventually find an earth-sized object way out in the Oort cloud, and figure out that it formed as a planet and then got almost ejected by passing close to one of the larger planets.  Or suppose it formed as a planet in another solar system, and then got ejected from that one and captured by ours.  I think such an object should be considered a planet, even if the distances were be too great for it to clear its orbital neighborhood with the orbits of ordinary Oort-cloud objects being perturbed by the gravity of other stars.

Answer 18

um...do you posses a brain?

ceres wasnt a planet. ceres has been promoted from a simple asteroid to a dwarf planet. in the years between 1801 and 1850 it was a planet, but then they classified it as an asteroid.

why are you angry that pluto isnt a planet? throughout the history of astronomy there have been 35 objects classified as planets, only 8 of those are still classified as planets.

if you want pluto to be a planet you have to accept at least 3 other planets. ceres (which for some reason you already think is a planet), eris, and makemake, which are all dwarf planets. more and more dwarf planets are added to list continually, so dont expect it to stay at that number. you either settle with 8, or you let the list grow and grow.