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Planet destroying
Aug. 24th, 2006 03:06 pmPluto no longer a planet!
The IAU approved a resolution stating that a Solar System Planet must be large enough to be approximately round and have cleared its neighbourhood. This includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. A 'dwarf planet' only has to be approximately round and includes Ceres, Pluto, UB313 and any other approximately round Trans Neptunian Objects. Pluto is therefore not a planet but a 'dwarf planet'.
Yaaaaaaaay! It never had a snowball's chance in hell, really. I've been saying for years it shouldn't be a planet. They should have read my thesis dammit, and all this would have been sorted out years ago.
UPDATE - *squeeeeeeep* Just noticed this - Professor Iwan Williams chaired the panel that destroyed Pluto's planethood. As in, the examiner who vivaed me for my PhD. He has read my thesis quite thoroughly indeed. I'd like to think it was me who pursuaded him to drop Pluto as a planet, but surely this is wishful thinking. In any case, you should all start blaming me for losing the planet Pluto now. Or something! eeeeep!
In other news, I'm pretending to cope with life surprisingly well. Everything you need to know is in all those posts I can't write. Meh!
Still, life goes on, and there are things happening. I have to figure out what manner of prettiness to wear to the wedding tomorrow, and am still out of ideas. Then there wil be castles and curling and other goodness, which are always good distractions *nods*. I'll be drowning my sorrows and dancing my tears away at Feeling Gloomy on Saturday, if anyone fancies joining me.
The IAU approved a resolution stating that a Solar System Planet must be large enough to be approximately round and have cleared its neighbourhood. This includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. A 'dwarf planet' only has to be approximately round and includes Ceres, Pluto, UB313 and any other approximately round Trans Neptunian Objects. Pluto is therefore not a planet but a 'dwarf planet'.
Yaaaaaaaay! It never had a snowball's chance in hell, really. I've been saying for years it shouldn't be a planet. They should have read my thesis dammit, and all this would have been sorted out years ago.
UPDATE - *squeeeeeeep* Just noticed this - Professor Iwan Williams chaired the panel that destroyed Pluto's planethood. As in, the examiner who vivaed me for my PhD. He has read my thesis quite thoroughly indeed. I'd like to think it was me who pursuaded him to drop Pluto as a planet, but surely this is wishful thinking. In any case, you should all start blaming me for losing the planet Pluto now. Or something! eeeeep!
In other news, I'm pretending to cope with life surprisingly well. Everything you need to know is in all those posts I can't write. Meh!
Still, life goes on, and there are things happening. I have to figure out what manner of prettiness to wear to the wedding tomorrow, and am still out of ideas. Then there wil be castles and curling and other goodness, which are always good distractions *nods*. I'll be drowning my sorrows and dancing my tears away at Feeling Gloomy on Saturday, if anyone fancies joining me.
