Do astrologers still recognise Pluto as a planet and do they recognise Eris?
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Yes most astrologers do recognize Pluto as a planet. its effects has been tracked, while maybe not as powerfull in a person's chart as the first couple of planets. it is still there, in the sky and moving. if astrologers only used the planets, Leo and Cancer would be without a ruling planet, as the moon and sun are not planets, and we would not see Asteroids in some charts.\n\nAs for Eris, its a newly found planet, it took years to track Pluto's Effects. so give it a little time before its Effects are widely known and Astrologers begin using it in their charts.
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The International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer a planet.  Instead, they decided to classify it as a "dwarf planet" because it has not cleared its orbit of debris.\n\nSee the details below.\n\nRESOLUTION 5A\nThe IAU therefore resolves that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System, except satellites, be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:\n\n(1) A "planet" [footnote 1] is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.\n\n(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape [footnote 2] , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.\n\n(3) All other objects [footnote 3] except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".\n\n\nFootnote 1: The eight "planets" are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.\n\nFootnote 2: An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.\n\nFootnote 3: These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.\n\nRESOLUTION 6A\nThe IAU further resolves:\n\nPluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
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Pluto. \n\nThe International Astronomical Union (IAU), at a meeting in August 2006, voted on their first "official" definition of a planet. Based on this new definition, Pluto is no longer a planet. According to the IAU's definition, our Solar System has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In the new scheme, Pluto will be one of several "dwarf planets" in the Solar System; but "dwarf planets" are not considered true planets. THere is still a lot of disagreement within the community on the definition of a planet.\n\nHere's the definition of a planet (found at wikipedia): \n\nThe International Astronomical Union defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the Solar System,\n\n(a) is in orbit around the Sun; \n(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and \n(c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; \nor within another system, \n\n(Pluto fails to meet the third condition above)\n\n(i) is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; \n(ii) has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and \n(iii) is above the minimum mass/size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.
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Actually, the people who found it honestly want to have it called Xena.\n\nOn July 29, 2005, a Trans-Neptunian object called 2003 UB313 was announced, which on the basis of its magnitude and simple albedo considerations is assumed to be larger than Pluto. This caused its discoverers to call it the "10th planet" of the solar system, although there is no consensus yet on whether to call it a planet, and others consider the new discovery to be the strongest argument yet for demoting Pluto to the status of a minor planet.\n\nBut until then, it's being refered to as Planet X.
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In the last few years, there have been three bodies each reported as being a new tenth planet. Their provisional names are: 50000 Quaoar, 90377 Sedna and 2003 UB313.\n\nEach time a new planetoid discovery is named, it reignites discussion on whether Pluto itself, currently considered the solar system's ninth planet, is truly a planet at all.\n\nIn fiction, tenth planets are quite common: one of the most famous was created for the British television science fiction series, Doctor Who, in 1966. In that story, the tenth planet was Mondas, originally a sister planet to Earth, which somehow left our solar system for a while. To survive, the humans on the planet started replacing their body parts with cybernetics -- over time turning the whole planet's population into Cybermen.
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They aren't.  Of the nearly 200 stars that have been identified as having at least one planet, about fifteen are known to have more than one planet, including 55 Cancri, which has at least four..Our current problem is just being able to identify planets much smaller than Jupiter, although one about the size of our Moon has been identified as part of a system in orbit around a pulsar.  For a complete up to date list, go to wikipedia and enter "exoplanets" in the search box.\nYou may have been confused by some theories that stars with Jovian sized planets in very close orbits may not have more distant planets, but that has nothing to do with stability, and seems to be wrong anyway.
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My guess:\n\nIn Roman mythology Pluto is the God of the underworld, which is all cold and dark.  The ninth planet is also cold and dark.  Hence, the name.
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Scientists not only say 'there might be', they say it really exists! And they've already named it (I don't remember it's name because it's kind of stupid..). Also they guess it used to be a moon of Neptune (as Pluto was). If I'd been these scientists who discovered the planet, I'd call it Bridget (because it's unreachable as I am.. lol)
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The International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer a planet.  Instead, they decided to classify it as a "dwarf planet".\n\nSee the details below.\n\nRESOLUTION 5A\nThe IAU therefore resolves that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System, except satellites, be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:\n\n(1) A "planet" [footnote 1] is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.\n\n(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape [footnote 2] , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.\n\n(3) All other objects [footnote 3] except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".\n\n\nFootnote 1: The eight "planets" are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.\n\nFootnote 2: An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.\n\nFootnote 3: These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.\n\nRESOLUTION 6A\nThe IAU further resolves:\n\nPluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
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Possibly, as scientists have yet to make up their mind. One particular object, originally found in 2003 but confirmed two years later by Mike Brown (Caltech), David Rabinowitz (Yale University), and Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), has renewed the old debate about what constitutes a planet since it is at least 5% larger than Pluto with an estimated diameter of 2400 km . It currently has no name, but has been given the provisional designation 2003 UB313, and has been nicknamed "Xena" by its discoverers, after the television character. It has many similarities with Pluto: its orbit is highly eccentric, with a perihelion of 38.2 AU (roughly Pluto's distance from the Sun) and an aphelion of 97.6 AU, and is steeply inclined to the ecliptic plane, at 44 degrees, more so than any known object in the solar system except the newly-discovered object 2004 XR190. Like Pluto, it is believed to consist mainly of rock and ice, and has a moon . Whether it and the largest Kuiper belt objects should be considered planets or whether instead Pluto should be reclassified as a minor planet has not yet been resolved.
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Ten. A new planet has been discovered that is approximately the same size as Pluto. It has not yet been formally named. Check http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/newplanet-072905-images.html for more info:)
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Yes, Pluto is the Romans' name for the Greek god Hades, who was god of the underworld. The planet Pluto is cold, forbidding, and physically distant from us, which is fitting considering the personality of Hades / Pluto was similar.
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yeah i think they might be because what are the chance that we are the ONLY ones , and the real name for Xena is A20031 i think . but their still not sure if Pluto a planet now but that's for scientist to discover. It's only a matter of time before we go out to another arm of the milky way and find the one planet in that solar system ( were not the only solar system ya know ) that has life.
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no, astronomers are trying to define what a planet is, but it isn't easy.  many astronomers favor the reclassification of the bodies in the solar system into three groups, the rocky terrestrials, the gas giants, and the ice dwarfs.  there are four rocky terrestrials and four gas giants, but there are hundreds of known ice dwarfs. this is called the kuiper belt.  kuiper belt objects are bodies like pluto, quaoar, sedna, 2003 UB313, and 2003 EL61.  2003 UB313 (the official name of xena) is about five percent bigger than pluto, but pluto was the first kuiper belt object discovered.\n\nread this page:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
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Right now there are officially 9 planets. Depending on what we decide in the next year or so that number will change to 8, stay 9, go to 10, or even larger.  \n\nAn object larger than Pluto (2003 UB313) has been found, but we have not granted it official status as a planet. Don't expect this issue to be resolved any time soon, we've more or less "tabled" the issue until our general meeting in August, but there are a number of scientists in the IAU's Division of Planetary Sciences discussing this issue.\n\nRight now the newer astronomy textbooks generally have a section on "the planet controversy," and spend some time talking about all these newly discovered icy bodies.  They are all part of the Kuiper Belt, just like Pluto, and new books seem to be grabbing onto teaching about these objects much like the asteroids, addressing them as the left-overs of the formation of the solar system.  The Cosmic Perspective (a fairly decent intro astro textbook) for example has a chapter on "Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets and Pluto"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\nhttp://www.iau.org/fileadmin/content/pdfs/Resolution_GA26-5-6.pdf\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union reclassified pluto.\n\npluto does orbit the sun, is ball-shaped and is not a satellite, but it does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.) so it is not a planet.\n\ni have been waiting for this since i was about ten when i learned that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt "out of place". now that astronomers have found hundreds of other bodies with similar orbits, classifying "134340 pluto" as a planet is even more irrational. i feel somewhat satisfied, but i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary astronomers are satisfied that the definition is rigorous enuf. i can accept that the definition is flawed, but i can not accept that "134340 pluto" is a planet.\n\nthis was the right thing to do, believe me. this does not change anything about pluto or the solar system. this just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.\n\nthis same thing happened has happened before.  in 1800, an astronomer found a body orbiting the sun between the orbits of mars and jupiter and thought it was a planet.  astronomers finally stopped classifying them as planets after they found several other bodies with similar orbits, and no one thinks ceres, pallas, juno, and vesta are planets today.\n\nmany astronomers consider pluto and charon to be a binary system, but two small bodies orbit that system. they are called nix and hydra.\n\nincidentally, "134340 pluto" was never a moon of neptune. neptune did capture triton. this is why triton has a retrograde orbit
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Probably not.\n\nBut I volunteer Yoko Ono to be the first person on Pluto, regardless of planetary status.