Is Pluto a planet after all?
Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Is Pluto a planet after all? Is it important?
In the classical world there are seven planets, the moon and sun among them. (the others being Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn).
Pluto, Neptune and Uranus don’t count because they are not “classical”. They weren’t discovered yet.
There was also a time when Venus not a planet. She was two stars: the morning star and the evening star.
It seems strange to me to change the status of a planet to dwarf planet, but then again, why would you cling to Pluto being a planet? Only because “it’s always been a planet”? Times change and with that the way we regard the world.
So it’s not a valid reason to keep on calling Pluto a planet.
Anyway, it seems the dispute continues… Is Pluto a planet after all? – space – 27 July 2009 – New Scientist
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