Pluto. Screwed again.

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

You'll always be a planet to me pluto

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WASHINGTON - Pity poor Pluto, the puny former planet is facing yet another indignity. Demoted from planethood a year ago into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that it isn't even the biggest one of those.

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"This is sort of Pluto's last stand," joked Emily L. Schaller of California Institute of Technology, co-author of a report in Thursday's issue of the journal Science.

When the International Astronomical Union redefined planets last year, it created the new subcategory dwarf planets, and Pluto was thought to be the largest in that group.

Planetary astronomy professor Michael E. Brown and graduate student Schaller found otherwise while studying Dysnomia, the moon of Eris, another dwarf planet.

Using the Keck Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope they were able to calculate the movement of Dysnomia and, with that information, calculate the mass of Eris at 27 percent more than Pluto. But even though Eris tops Pluto, Earth is still 360 times more massive.

"Pluto and Eris are essentially twins — except that Eris is slightly the pudgier of the two," Brown said.

Eris, by the way, is named for the Greek goddess of, among other things, rivalry.

Jojobean · **Joined:** 04 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 22684

Well we know Pluto is a dog but what the hell is Goofy supposed to be?

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

Goofy is a dog, In fact he was originally named Dippy Dawg, in concept form. He went by George Geef in the 50s. Now he is named Goofy Goof.

Pluto is just a retarded, slave dog.

Chris · **Joined:** 11 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 21258

Rob Steinbrenner wrote:

Pluto is just a retarded, slave dog.

This is different from you...how?

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

I'm not a slave.

Evans · 02 Mar 2005

Sad though it might be I want to know more - where do I find out?

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

Well, that's the whole msnbc article

here's foxnews

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,282553,00.html

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

I have a plutonic relationship with most women.

They don't recognize me either.

Evans · 02 Mar 2005

I looked on Wiki - just to be a git... :-)

Interesting information...

That meddlin kid · 26 Mar 2007

Poor Pluto. For many years they thought it might be about the size of Earth. Then in recent decades as telescopes got better they kept having to revise estimates of its size downward. In the 1980s they were joking that it would eventually disappear completely. In a way it did....

Edward J. Cunningham · 24 Sep 2005

Rob Steinbrenner wrote:

You'll always be a planet to me pluto

Quote:

WASHINGTON - Pity poor Pluto, the puny former planet is facing yet another indignity. Demoted from planethood a year ago into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that it isn't even the biggest one of those.

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"This is sort of Pluto's last stand," joked Emily L. Schaller of California Institute of Technology, co-author of a report in Thursday's issue of the journal Science.

When the International Astronomical Union redefined planets last year, it created the new subcategory dwarf planets, and Pluto was thought to be the largest in that group.

Planetary astronomy professor Michael E. Brown and graduate student Schaller found otherwise while studying Dysnomia, the moon of Eris, another dwarf planet.

Using the Keck Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope they were able to calculate the movement of Dysnomia and, with that information, calculate the mass of Eris at 27 percent more than Pluto. But even though Eris tops Pluto, Earth is still 360 times more massive.

"Pluto and Eris are essentially twins — except that Eris is slightly the pudgier of the two," Brown said.

Eris, by the way, is named for the Greek goddess of, among other things, rivalry.

Unfortunately, Steinbrenner got things slightly wrong. Pluto is not smaller than Eris, but rather ERIC, or as it's official name 27POTUSA or 10CJOTUS or Tango Alpha Foxtrot Tango.

Frank Ono Saxon of NASA is amazed at what they've discovered so far. "At first, we thought Eric was an insignificant dwarf planet, but somehow that planetoid manages to gain more and more mass every year. It's getting huge! I know this sounds incredible, but within ten to twenty years Eric may become as big as one of the giant planets like Jupiter (code named Baker Yankee Romeo November Echo) and affect the gravitation of the entire solar system.

At Cape Canaveral in Florida, Linda notices more unique things about planetoid Eric. "We notice that Eric is generating its own frequency as it gains mass, and when we convert that frequency into sound, it's unlike anything we've ever heard. We've also noticed an increased number of satellites around Eric, and they seem to have....no, I can't say it!"

We will keep you updated with more news about Eric in the future...

Jeff · 05 Oct 2006

It's common knowledge Eric is larger than most plantetoids.

Marcus · 27 Nov 2004

They only teach Pluto as a Dwarf planet now in schools that's what my kids tell me.

Meg · **Joined:** 28 May 2007 **Posts:** 513 **Location:** Here

I like Pluto. I feel......sad.

Edward J. Cunningham · 24 Sep 2005

Jeff wrote:

It's common knowledge Eric is larger than most plantetoids.

I was trying to be polite. BTW, before anybody feels too sorry for Pluto...

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

It's just a disgrace

My very educated mother just served us nine ---------

Nine what? Nine what? Pickles? Pizza?

No. we're left hanging. She didn't even serve us Nothing. we never know and a rift opens in the space time continuum.

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

Pluto should never have been made a planet, it was made a planet with faulty information under bad guidelines about what defined a planet.

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

So let's redefine it

They're only fluid, ever changing words

I assure you to the average person alive now anyway, Pluto remains a plant. At least until we all die off

Sheesh, as a kid I hoped they'd discover a 10th one in the Solar System never thought they'd take away/

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

By the definition of what makes Pluto a planet there would be like 20 some odd planets in this solar system, including several asteroids, and random other fragments of crap.

I had friends in Elementary school who had trouble with nine, 20 some odd is too fucking many, besides, if we make everything a planet, it just won't be special anymore.

Pluto had to go.

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

I've redefined you as a mini-human being.

6 billion people minus one

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

By what definition did you use for this?

Rob Steinbrenner · **Joined:** 05 Jun 2006 **Posts:** 49778

"Every human being but Jacob Secrest is called a human being. Jacob is called a mini."

Pluto. Screwed again.

Who is WANline