Meenzer 15792 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/5282440.stm Officially demoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Un-American tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 It's always been the outsider. Poor Pluto indeed. Or should I say, poor bit of icey rock at the edge of the solar system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Did anyone else think this was going to be a thread about that Disney character? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Clyde Tombaugh is gutted tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31341 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Goodbye to the planet that never was. Thanks for the memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 It's always been the outsider. 184278[/snapback] Apart from when Neptune intersects its orbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol 0 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh. Erm, no it hasn't. There has always been a debate about it. It was only officially declared as a planet in the last 20 years. By the way - didn't they find that it had it's own moon? The problem being that neither the moon, or Pluto are actually visible to us through any telescope; it all looks like a big haze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46765 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I learned all this stuff from that Bill Bryson book. Astronomy was one of those things that just passed me by as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol 0 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I learned all this stuff from that Bill Bryson book. Astronomy was one of those things that just passed me by as a kid. 184296[/snapback] Reading it at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza 105 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Should be renamed Planet Sunderland tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Can't remember if I first heard about this on here but: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive is a good website if you are into that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46765 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I learned all this stuff from that Bill Bryson book. Astronomy was one of those things that just passed me by as a kid. 184296[/snapback] Reading it at the moment. 184298[/snapback] Good innit? As potted histories on all the stuff you really didn't give a shit about at schools go. Is that what's spawned the interest in the telescope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol 0 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I learned all this stuff from that Bill Bryson book. Astronomy was one of those things that just passed me by as a kid. 184296[/snapback] Reading it at the moment. 184298[/snapback] Good innit? As potted histories on all the stuff you really didn't give a shit about at schools go. Is that what's spawned the interest in the telescope? 184309[/snapback] Maybe. It's a fantastic book. Always been into the sciences anyway, but I'd have paid more attention at school if this book had been available back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 4181 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Hers a picture of the bubble nebula to cheer you pluto fans up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 The Eskimo Nebula is probably the most amasing thing in space like. I've got this canny astronomy book called 'Universe' which is canny technical and academical but it comes with a handy CD to pinpoint where you are and what you should be able to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Just seen on the news this morning that the way Pluto was downgraded was for lots of geeks in the astronomy world to put their hands up and vote yay or nay as to whether it should be so. Seems a bit unfair really! What would have been the harm in just leaving it as it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 The Eskimo Nebula is probably the most amasing thing in space like. I've got this canny astronomy book called 'Universe' which is canny technical and academical but it comes with a handy CD to pinpoint where you are and what you should be able to see. 184319[/snapback] You need a CD to tell you where you are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol 0 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Just seen on the news this morning that the way Pluto was downgraded was for lots of geeks in the astronomy world to put their hands up and vote yay or nay as to whether it should be so. Seems a bit unfair really! What would have been the harm in just leaving it as it was? 184729[/snapback] Maybe the fact that it's not "actually" a planet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Just seen on the news this morning that the way Pluto was downgraded was for lots of geeks in the astronomy world to put their hands up and vote yay or nay as to whether it should be so. Seems a bit unfair really! What would have been the harm in just leaving it as it was? 184729[/snapback] Maybe the fact that it's not "actually" a planet? 184995[/snapback] On the news they said if you include Pluto you have to include a load of other bits of rock/ice that are just as big, if not bigger, so it was simpler to just drop Pluto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Rumour has it that Renton's classification was the last straw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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