Why is Pluto Not a Planet?

"-but the deed is done and there is no going back now."

Actually, I think Harvard is leading the charge to reinstate Pluto's status as a planet as of late last year.

Probably not much point to it. There is now about 10 years worth of kids who have been taught there are eight planets. Since the logic for relabeling Pluto was relatively sound, it's hard to justify changing it back. The future belongs to the young. Although I don't still don't approve the original act.

"Science advances one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck

What's 10 years, there were like over 50 years worth of kids that were taught that there were 9 planets.

Anyways.... The way it is now, since nobody wants to hurt others feels, (I.e. To be politically correct :/) they'll have subclass of planets, which I beleive because of this, they already do have.

I think they should grandfather it in. ;-)

If Pluto is re-instated, then all the other planetoids should be included as well, at least as long as they (1) orbit the sun, (2) have a shape that is more or less defined as something other than a potato, and (3) more or less have cleared out space dust around them or their orbit. I personally would like to witness Pluto scourging the Kuyper belt and gobbling up some of the bigger asteroids there. Not first-hand mind you, I only watch this stuff on TV.

But it makes a difference to us, and personally, I care more for the difference it makes in human thought and reasoning than I do for the difference it makes for the Mi-Go.

References (for those who don't know their Lovecraft):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_in_fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuggoth

It could make a difference..... If value is found on Pluto, and if technology is advance enough to retrieve this value. Classification may mean a lot to who can claim it.... Was I thinking out loud again....

Yes but you would not call the bean counters and lawyers as that, but something more like Ort litigators, or Ort counters, not in that order.

Suppose at least some of the major bodies in the Ort Cloud came from interstellar space... and that somehow they contained a higher precentage of something useful, like Lithium or Tritium, or even Helium 3. These might be worth more (at least the last two) than their mass in gold). For that matter, we don't know how easy it would be (if extended power was available such as nuclear fusion) to actually go there, and have robots mine the core of the frozen worldlet for all manner of precious metals to be found there.

Here's a minor planet that's apparently inhabited. (They left the light on.)