What the Deal With Pluto?
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Pluto is Goofy's dog.\n\nHow can a dog have a pet dog?
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I quote : "Two small moons have been discovered orbiting Pluto, bringing the planet's retinue of known satellites to three and leaving scientist to wonder how it could be. ...The moons are catalogued as S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2 for now. Once they are confirmed, the discoverers will suggest names, to be approved by the International Astronomical Union."\n\nFrom: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_pluto_moons.html
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For the same reason Goofy (a dog) CAN talk and pluto (also a dog) can't!!!\n\n\n\nIT'S PRETEND!!!!!!
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Right now there are officially 9.  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.  An object larger than Pluto 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.
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No.\n\nIts likely even that Pluto will be relegated to being a Kuiper belt object rather than a plnet, leaving just 8.\n\nKuiper belt objects are regularly discovered.
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The tenth planet is like really great, thanks for asking.  He spins around and around and makes one revolution around the sun about once every several thousand thousand years.  Therefore you might call this tenth planet (he doesn't mind) a chunk of ice, and not really planet-like at all.  But wait, you're saying, Pluto is a chunk of ice and also a planet!  Well, Pluto actually (he's telling me now) doesn't even consider himself a planet, as he's really just a large ice-chunk in the Kuiper Belt.  The tenth planet (we'll call him "Frank", that's what he prefers) is a little peeved that Pluto gets a thousand-brother belt to wear and all he's got is the occasional through-comet.  We can't help you, Frank, I'm sorry.  We're like, a billion miles away.
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Well that is a very good question, and one that is being debated as we speak. We now know that Pluto is much smaller than we previously thought (it is a very small planet and a moon) And we have now discovered a very large asteroid that some people want to call planet 10. In fact some people want to reclassify Pluto as they think it is too small to be called a planet.\n\nThe problem is that there is really no "exact" definition of what a planet is. I mean obviously a large body that orbits a star, is part of the definition. but when you get to smaller objects in irregular orbits, are they planets? planetoids? asteroids? something else?\nSo as for how large does an object have to be?\nwe will have to wait for the IAU (International Astronomical Union)\nto come up with a rigidly defined definition.\n\npersonally, I say an object that has enough mass to cause gravity to shape it into a sphere and has its own atmosphere should be called a planet. But hey that is just my personal opinion.\ncheck out these articles.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/259767.stm\n\nhttp://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planet_denitions_030227.html
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Because yesterday evening Mickey Mouse has left Pluto outside of the house door and he has spent the whole night under the open sky. Pluto hadn't either a dog house to keep warm and now is cold because is completely frozen!!!\nIf you mean the other Pluto is very simple;it's cold because it's much too far from the Sun being the farthest away planet of our solar system. Also there is no activity in its inside and that's why ,on the whole, it's extremely cold.
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its probably half way to pluto by now. you could write the plutonians and ask them to email it back to you, this may take a few days though.
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There are alot of objects that exist beyond Pluto. Yet, at this point none of these is really large enough to be considered a planet. Check the source link for more info.
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Probably because, as many astronomers think, Pluto isn't really a true planet, but a huge asteroid that once had a very erratic orbit that has gradually stabilized over time.
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Yes, the general consensus appears to be that another planet has been found, which is currently designated 2003 UB313, it is about 2,800km across - a world of rock and ice and somewhat larger than Pluto. Scientists say it is three times as far away as Pluto, in an orbit at an angle to the orbits of the main planets. \n\nThough it should also be understood that the scientific community are also considering a redefinition of planet, which might reclassify not only this new 10th planet and Pluto has not being planets.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\nyou must be asking about "136199 eris", but it is not a planet.  it is about five percent bigger than "134340 pluto", but neither are planets.  the solar system has eight planets.  they are mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune.\n\n"136199 eris" and "134340 pluto" do orbit the sun, are ball-shaped, do not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.), and are not a satellites so they are not a planets.\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union decided that pluto should not be categorized as a planet.  i 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\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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Xena.  Planet Xena and her moon Gabriella.  I'm not even kidding, that's what they named it.  There is current debate as to whether or not it is actually planet because it is so small and so far out, but on that note there is also debate still going as to whether pluto is actually a planet or not.  Really, it all depends on how you define planet.  As far as I can tell, the debate is mostly due to how small they are as to whether or not they're actually planets and not just planetoids.
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There are still 9 according to the latests NASA reports. Although it has been found that there are several other small objects orbiting past Neptune that are similar in make up and size to Pluto- that pluto's categorization of planet will not be changed. That instead a number system is being talked about to go into effect that will number the bundles of pluto-like objects. Though again, pluto would not be changed. (First Source)\n\nIf it weren't for the stubborn desire to keep tradition- Pluto WOULD NOT be considered a planet, it just does not have the characteristics to make it one. But because tradition is very important in this society- Pluto remains a planet for now.
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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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I wondered that same thing.  According to my husband Goofy is not a dog, he's a Goofy.  I think he's a Disney creation.  And Pluto is a dog who's owner is a mouse.  Leave it to Disney and don't try to make too much sense of it.  Children's movies/cartoons rarely make sense.