I recently heard that they discovered hundreds of Pluto sizes “planets” beyond Pluto, so they had to decided do we add 100 more planets or just demote Pluto to planetoid and ignore the rest
Well, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet doesn’t really have anything to do with the scientific method. “Planet” is a manmade concept, we just changed the definition for that classification to avoid having to add the dozens of bodies we discovered since Pluto that would have also met the old definition.
This was my first thought as well!
Pluto is a great test for what types of person someone is.
If someone says Pluto is still a planet. They have a personality where they are immovable and can’t accept scientific change.
If they do say pluto is a new kind of dwarf planet they arw more accepting of new information and belive in the scientific method.
It’s a great quick test when meeting news people.
So presumably NASA is anti-science ?
Because they have redetermined that Pluto is a planet.
I recently heard that they discovered hundreds of Pluto sizes “planets” beyond Pluto, so they had to decided do we add 100 more planets or just demote Pluto to planetoid and ignore the rest
Yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)
Eris? Didn’t Sephiroth kill her?
Well, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet doesn’t really have anything to do with the scientific method. “Planet” is a manmade concept, we just changed the definition for that classification to avoid having to add the dozens of bodies we discovered since Pluto that would have also met the old definition.
PLUTO IS A PLANET!
I thought it was Mickey Mouse’s dog 🤔!
IT’S BOTH AT THE SAME TIME
What? As in Schrödinger’s cat? Interesting!
Why does a mouse own a dog? And how come the mouse is also friends with another dog? What’s going on there?
Ok Jerry.
Eh, it’s more like our definition of what a planet is changed. I still think of Pluto as a planet.
It’s a planette