Pluto is Gone!

Published on November 8, 2005 By foreverserenity In Astronomy

Gone, kaput, pulled!

Pluto is no longer a part of the Solar System!

Are they nuts?! That’s what I heard recently while listening to the news on the television. (I was too busy to sit and watch so I listened instead)

I grew up reciting the names of the planets in the Solar System, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto…[I’m missing two I know], during my Primary School (Elementary in the US) years they had to be recited in order of discovery too, but not for this blog!

It’s being yanked because there are now five other moons out there that is larger than Pluto.

So it’s too pint sized? How un-PC is that?! Axed because another has taken its spot!

Bye, bye Pluto…at least Mickey Mouse still has your namesake as a pet!

[BTW, there is a new discovery, scientists thinks there are now three moons on Pluto. Does that mean it might be granted its status again?….enquiring minds want to know! For now, they’re investigating this.]

I couldn't find an exact link but this link will give some information.

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Comments (Page 1)

Dr Guy

on Nov 08, 2005

Look inward child!

You missed Mercury and Venus, the planets closer to the sun than Earf!

Dan Kaschel

on Nov 08, 2005

I wuv pwuto...

Dan

on Nov 08, 2005

Pluto would still be considered part of the Solar Sytem, just not as a major planet but as a trans-neptunian Kuiper Belt object. Kind of like an asteroid, I guess. Personally, I still think it is a major planet. The debate has been going on for a while among astronomers.

Dr Guy

on Nov 08, 2005

That may be, but Goofy and Mickey are not at all happy!

Phoenixboi

on Nov 08, 2005

Pluto gone ... and the centre of our galaxy a big ole black hole.. kind of sucks really

UBoB

on Nov 08, 2005

Mickey must be mortified.

Dr Guy

on Nov 08, 2005

Reply By: UBoB

Reply By: Phoenixboi

Reply By: Dr. Guy

Ok, who is going to play the straightman! I always have to!

Grumble, ok, I will again!

Tova7

on Nov 08, 2005

AT least you get to keep URANUS.....

uDigItTheMost

on Nov 09, 2005

--AT least you get to keep URANUS.--

--Bye, bye Pluto…at least Mickey Mouse still has your namesake as a pet!--

Reminds me of a joke, FS

Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were getting a divorce,
and the judge says, "I'm sorry Mickey but you can't divorce Minnie just because she's crazy."
So Mickey says, "I didn't say she was crazy I said she was effing Goofy."

foreverserenity

on Nov 09, 2005

Look inward child!You missed Mercury and Venus, the planets closer to the sun than Earf!

I know I missed two of them, just couldn't come up with the names. Oh could I forget Venus - a.k.a. the love planet! {at least that's what Hollywood says!}

I wuv pwuto...

me toof Dan!

Personally, I still think it is a major planet. The debate has been going on for a while among astronomers.

I do too and so do lots and lots of people. After all, we're so used to it being there!

That may be, but Goofy and Mickey are not at all happy!

At least they should be glad their four legged friend didn't meet the same fate!

kind of sucks really

Yep Phoenix....in a big way! I did get the pun though!

Mickey must be mortified.

Mortified, petrified....can't think of another word that ends with 'ified' just to keep the ball rolling, hahaha!

AT least you get to keep URANUS...

Heehee....she said ur anus!

Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were getting a divorce,and the judge says, "I'm sorry Mickey but you can't divorce Minnie just because she's crazy."So Mickey says, "I didn't say she was crazy I said she was effing Goofy."

I'm trying to get it but I'm soooo lost.

uDigItTheMost

on Nov 10, 2005

--I'm trying to get it but I'm soooo lost.--

awwww, FS

Replace the word "effing" with THE bad word for fornicating. So see the judge thought Mickey meant Minnie was crazy but Mickey meant something else.

Hope that helps!!

foreverserenity

on Nov 10, 2005

I'm trying to get it but I'm soooo lost.--awwww, FS Replace the word "effing" with THE bad word for fornicating. So see the judge thought Mickey meant Minnie was crazy but Mickey meant something el

Oh I did get that part...effing, the act, etc. what I didn't get was the joke! I'm sorry UDigit, not that you're not a funny person, I just didn't get that joke.....my loss! Oh btw..."THE bad word for fornicating"? the act itself in a healthy relationship isn't bad, so just use it, i.e., "THE word for fornicating"...without "bad"! I know, I know, I'm being picky because after all it is a word used in cussing someone out or swearing...but you know, sometimes we have to say what we mean!

Dr Guy

on Nov 10, 2005

Oh I did get that part...effing, the act, etc. what I didn't get was the joke!

Saying someone is fricking goofy is the same as saying they are crazy. Mickey told the judge that Minnie was boinking Goofy, and the judge thought he was saying she was just crazy.

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 10, 2005

Yeah, Pluto is gone, but we DO have six Great Lakes now (my personal position is that the same spurious arguments used to make Lake Champlain a Great Lake could and should be used to make Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago a Great Lake...and anyone saying that the reason Champlain got it and Winnebago didn't is because Champlain has a monster has never been face to face with a full size sturgeon...but I digress).

Dr Guy

on Nov 10, 2005

same spurious arguments used to make Lake Champlain a Great Lake

When did this happen? Since we have Chessie down here, can the Chesapeake Bay be the 7th one then?

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