Pluto is one of 12 planets Huh?

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Pluto is one of 12 planets Huh?

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http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4459

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Pluto is one of 12 planets Huh?

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thanks for the link, going to have to memories the new order of planets now, lol

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lol thats great. I wonder how much money they spent researching just to figure out if pluto and it's moon is a planet or not. :lol:

But if the moon is rotation around pluto and not the sun, I dont see why they should call it a planet.

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the debate on what is classified as a planet was 'gravity' of course it had to circle a star but if the object had enough gravity to define it's shape, as a sphere, then it was called a planet.



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IabyeFh2lVE

this is what I think

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Hmmmm...who is to say what a planet really is?! :wacko:
Because some scientists all of a sudden just named them planets?! Or is there more to it than that?

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