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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pluto's lost status disappointed some schoolchildren and had space museum curators scrambling but in the words of one teenager, "It's one less planet to memorize."

Quinn Huebner, 15, was visiting the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum on Thursday when he and his family from Mazomanie, Wisconsin, learned international astronomers had decided Pluto was no longer a planet.

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" UPDATE: Instead of exiling Pluto from planet status, the International Astronomical Union is proposing to expand our solar system by three more planets. These new members of our solar system include an asteroid and Pluto's largest moon. Is this overkill? Tell us what you think. "

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"Is this overkill"??

What the hell? The guidelines for a planet are in place, if something fits the requirements, it's a planet. They can go stuff "overkill".

debeaxcc wrote:" UPDATE: Instead of exiling Pluto from planet status, the International Astronomical Union is proposing to expand our solar system by three more planets.

They officially decided it is not a planet, and good riddance too.

Wow so this means we now have 8 planets!

They officially decided it is not a planet, and good riddance too.

Not that it matters, people are going to think of Pluto as a planet regardless.

krod wrote:

They officially decided it is not a planet, and good riddance too.

Not that it matters, people are going to think of Pluto as a planet regardless.

I have to agree with you. Time for the mass brainwash machine to come into action.

It does sound kinda weird though when you say them out loud.

Mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus (hehe), neptune.........

I think it's just strange, we know pluto as a planet for so many years and now suddenly they decide it's no longer a planet... What will they do next year? Say the moon is a planet??

Honestly i think this is really silly. You would think those scientists would have better things to do. Honestly who cares if Pluto is a planet or not. There are more worth while research to be done, like cures for all those diseases present. Because then they would actually have something better and more rewarding to work towards.

Hehehe but just imagine all those books that now has to be republished with this new decision. Just silly in my opinion.

I'd love to see astronomers trying to cure cancer


Classifying the world around us is not to be undermined.

Samppa wrote:I'd love to see astronomers trying to cure cancer

hahaha true that ... but i guess they can always try

in 100,000,000 years when the news reaches pluto it will be shocked

shadowlabs wrote:From Reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pluto's lost status disappointed some schoolchildren and had space museum curators scrambling but in the words of one teenager, "It's one less planet to memorize."

Quinn Huebner, 15, was visiting the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum on Thursday when he and his family from Mazomanie, Wisconsin, learned international astronomers had decided Pluto was no longer a planet.

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I got two things for this article; Pluto is no longer a plant and the young visitors hearing the news "did their best to cope with this demotion."
I wonder if the author researched enough to know any reasons why Pluto no longer fits the definition of a planet.
Anyways, I'm surprised that it took them so long to figure this out.

Blergh wrote:Honestly i think this is really silly. You would think those scientists would have better things to do. Honestly who cares if Pluto is a planet or not. There are more worth while research to be done, like cures for all those diseases present. Because then they would actually have something better and more rewarding to work towards.

Hehehe but just imagine all those books that now has to be republished with this new decision. Just silly in my opinion.

These scientists are not the same kind of scientists that try to cure diseases. While you may consider it a waste of time, I think its worthwhile when someone disproves a long-lasting belief about our solar system...we used to believe earth was the center of the universe ffs!

Do you really think these people really are wasting everyone's time with research that has no reward? If so, are you one of these scientists helping to cure all those diseases?